Wip Short Sword

[valiance]

This is the first model on my own no tutorials. I need some help though and know i came to the right place.
1) I need help making a vray gold material.
2) I need help making a vray metal material sword-like not some shiny junk. Because whenever i render it always ends up black.
3) Thanks!

Any crits are welcome.






This is an image with ref picture. This is before a little detail was added and minor tweaks.

[sandmanninja]

I'd unwrap it. It's a straight-forward model and a proper unwrap would do it justice.

[valiance]

yes, but i dont know how.... im new to modeling and would appreciate any info you can give me. Is there a tutorial for unwrapping that is worth looking at?

[AndyHalfLife]

there are many, try google

but expecially look at this one:

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2329

and this one:

[MAX] UV unwarp

also alot of the free tutorials on this site alone involve unwrapping

goodluck, i hope i could help.

-Andy

[StJoris]

Looks true to the concept, one thing, the blade is kind of going all smoothy into the handle. They don't cast these things, the handle is seperate from the blade and the blade is put in, so it needs a hard crease there.

[Jedipottsy]

it sound wierd but use blender for UVW mapping. If you dont have the pelt tool, Blender allows you to create the seams youd like then it automatically unwraps your model with even and proportional uv's. (Although choosing where to have seam lines can be tricky) Altough the pelt tool does exactly the same, ive found it pulls the uv's a little too much, and you have to mess around with the relax dialogue to get it even.

[valiance]

well i unwraapped my uv's now im stuck. What do i do know I have photoshop so i can make the textures but where do i go to export the uv's so that i can bring em in photoshop for editing

[zero_hour]

in the Edit UV window go to tool -> Render Template UVW templat, then you can select the size you want and click render!

[valiance]

Originally Posted by zero_hour

in the Edit UV window go to tool -> Render Template UVW templat, then you can select the size you want and click render!

what format should i save it in and once thi is done i can bring into photoshop?

[Jedipottsy]

tga preferably, although bmp also works fine. I find tga better as it lets you save layers.