[WIP] Poison Axe-ish

[Sarcoptes]

Oh hai.
I spent some work on this thing today. I'm still learning 3dsmax and I'm not even close to Bloom's or Goshujin's skills.

Basically, It's an idea for a staff / axe I got the other day, scribbled it down on paper and well yeah.

I'm bad at photoshop, so I need to get the epic photoshop skills to make good textures, I still try to make textures to improve my skills but yeah.

About it: The blade is supposed to have some kind of poisonish effect, Theres a tube leading from some kind of poison gland, injecting the blade with this. Other than that, its just a normal low-poly handle.
The blade itself is low/med poly - the tube is high though and the gland is lowpoly with a turbosmooth - making it med poly.

P.S I would appreciate feedback on what I can improve on it, and for future stuff :P

- to the pics! (Excuse me if they become large or something.)
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Model with Edged Faces:


Top Blade Render:

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Thanks.

*Edit1*
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Updated:
Worked a bit on it today.
Re-did the tubing (Only 6-cornered now, the first was 18-cornered), larger and not as long. Lengthened the handle and moved it up aswell as making the edges of it a bit wider than the center of it, textured everything - But I'm not happy about the texture of the handle, will re-do it later on.
Render:


PolyCount (760 if you can't see it, the other with long tube had around 2500ish, kind of an improvement :P):

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*Edit2*
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Fixed handle texture with something newish. More feedback would be appreciated

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*Edit 3*
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Added cloth to the end:


Full render with cloth:

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*Edit 4*
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Fixed blade hanging from nothing to being connected. Although not sure on if it fits or not.
Also *facepalm* 3ds max Crash, unsaved changes... sigh.



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Cheers.

[diviee3]

Nice, custom models ftw. Even though you're still beginning with modeling, I can say that the journey will be hard but very much worth it. +rep to keep you going

[schlumpf]

The helix is not fitting at all, imho. Also, its too high poly and too thin.

[Sarcoptes]

@diviee3: Thanks, I will move on with more stuff.. I have posted my older stuff on my deviantpage :P

@Schlumpf: Yeah, I thought about the helix being too much "outstanding" by being pretty large, thin( as you said), long and high poly when the other objects are low poly.
When I made it I was just thinking of some kind of tube, and a simple particle effect that would be blue-ish that kind of held the blade up.

Thanks for replies and feedback \o

[Zantas]

For some reason this looks like a new type of bong for me, never the less it can look really cool on the end result, keep up!

[Pinkhair]

I agree with the tube- being so thin, you could have it be a square or even triangular cross section and it wouldn't be noticeable in-game. You could even just make it a simple 2d triangle strip probably.

[Sarcoptes]

@Zantas: Lol :P, And yeah, I will continue ^^

@Pinkhair: Fixed the tube now, and its 6-sided now instead of original 18 or so sided.
Also, put pictures in spoilers now, so they wouldn't take so much space.

Would appreciate more feedback - thanks for the feedback sofar!

[Pinkhair]

Could use some sort of connections between the pieces- they seem to just be sorta floating there.