Wildman's ninja blade

[Wildman]

Soon to be released. It's an improved version of the akavri ninjto model I made long ago, actually started it at same time as that one as an alt texture but I just didn't finish it. Anyway heres some pics.

niskope render
i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/treyleavens/wm_ninjablade-render.jpg

in game screenshots
i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/treyleavens/wm_ninjablade-ingame.jpg

It's has 3 different versions, a one handed balde, 2 handed blade, and a shield.

The havok is wonky on the shield mesh so I used the sword mesh for the world ground mesh, so the shield world mesh is sheathed.


edit:
heres a temp download.

www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=67BF657F1D359E9C

[RedFender]

I like the texture on the tsuba (tsuka? i mean the guard, not quite sure ive got my terminology correct) and the handle. very nice and dirty. and the black hand is a very nice little detail. im interested to see the normal map for the tsuba (you know what i mean).
what material were you going for on the sheath? it looks reptilian to me. i dont know if you were planning on adding reflections but with a good reflection map that would look really cool.
anyway nice work Wildman.

[Wildman]

Thanks

I cheated on the textures and used the blade texture from the akavri longsword and the sheath and hand are from the dark brotherhood male armor texture. The texture is somewhat stretched a little on the sheath as it wasn't made for that, but looks okay I think, I'm lazy

The only texture thats actually mine is the grip, which is a photoshopped edit of a photo of some cloth. I re-used it from my morrowind ninja-to model.

I believe the tsuba texture was used originally by Barbarus (sp?) in morrowind. I'm not sure how well my normal maps are, theyre the first actually working normal map I've made.

I don't think I'll add a reflection, I want a stealthy weapon and I'm not sure how to add reflections anyway, aside from screwing up my normal map by forgetting the alpha channel LOL

[RedFender]

well you pulled it all together into one nice little package
you could probably alleviate some of the stretching on the sheath by adjusting the uv map a little, although it seems too look ok to me in the render, and i thought it was some sort of reptile skin!

[ibis]

This is wicked looking! The temporary download seems to have expired. Have you uploaded it to anywhere else now? I hope so, I'd sure like to get my hands on it.

*Palms get sweaty just thinking of grasping the cold, cruel metal and the nonchalant grip.* Awesome!