[WIP]Magmadeep, Two-Handed Axe

[Bloomfalls]

I'm deeply sorry for the delay, but I've been caught by work and couldn't focus on this. Anyway, usually these posts end up with "sorry I won't be doing this" but in my case it will be ending with "Anyway, here's the axe":





Texture was 100% hand-painted (NO photos, NO images or external textures used) in a 1024*1024 diffuse map. Tried to mimic as close as possible Blizzard's style.

About 2 hours work on the model, 10 hours on the texture spread through some days.

As always, C&C appreciated. Will be working next on specular and luminance maps, and maybe on a normal map even though WoW doesn't support it (just for fun).

[Tocasiar]

Now this really looks nice, great job there. I wish I could draw like that. =D

[Bloomfalls]

And to answer the posts:

Concept looks quite nice. I'm interested to see where you end up with this.

Also, do you have an plans on what weapon you're going to replace it with or are you just going to release it as it's own model and let other's choose which weapon they want switched.

No plan yet. Once I finish all the maps I'll work on get it in-game.

Is this going to look like glass on fire or something with a burning animation? does seem obvious but just asking to know for sure looks amazing though can't wait to see how it develops.

I have no clue right now how animations behave in-game or if that's possible

Bloody awesome concept. You reckon that if I'd chop off your hand and eat it I will inherit your painting/drawing-pwrz?

Nooo leave my hands alone!

Looks wicked. Is it going to be really really big or is the handle just on the short side?

Really big.

Hey awesome looking BUT MAKE IT SHARP blunt objects arent axes

sorry but that really bugs me somehow

Haha I guess that ended up as a "no". Anyway it's a Warcraft thing... I always thought swords and axes in Warcraft didn't need to be "functional" (most of the time they aren't) because it's their energy and magic that causes most damage.

The longer you stare it, the more details you see! Hope the 3D Object will be as awesome as the Sketch!

I hope you enjoyed.

[ero-sennin]

Wow... +Rep! The model is even hotter than the concept!

Get it?... Hotter?...Magma?...

I'll just go stand in the corner...

[Bloomfalls]

Thank you very much!

Here's the model with specular map:

[Horneyyy]

This looks epic. GEIF INGAME MODEL NAO!!! :P

+Rep

[Reflection]

Model with specular map surely looks extraordinary. Awesome work!

[Goshujinsama]

alright.

first of all WoW doesn't support anything besides diffuse maps, so paint the lightning into your texture instead of using specular maps (you could just bake your texture as it is now). if you want to make curtain textures glow or see through that can be done by hex editing, but that is not my department. Also wow doesn't support smoothing groups. So if you use maya set all the edges to smooth and in max give them 1 smoothing group. If you don't do this your model will have dirty black shading errors.

anyways i use 3ds max for exporting.
you need to install neodex mdl exporter. This is found on hiveworkshop or wc3c
The mdl is converted to M2 by using tigu's mdl/mdx to m2 converter. unfortunately the neodex installer still lacks a few lines of code needed for a proper convertion. like giving the proper texture path and some other things i can't think of right now.

ill make a blog post soon about this but if you get to the point that you converted your model to mdl tigu can probably help you out with it aswell.

if you model still happens to crash,or get all screwed up ingame its probably because of some minor errors within the model. Triangulation is pro tip before exporting bto ;D

anyways hope this help. model looks pretty ace. hope you get it to work, would be nice to have another decent 3d artist on here ;D

[newtech]

Wow this is very good! Id like to run around with my warrior with an awesome axe like that one! : D

[Mondays]

Amazing! Great work man.

[adren4lin.]

Absolutely awesome. o_____o

[Bloomfalls]

Final version released, thread here: http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-...anded-axe.html