Another Yoda Saber

[DarthFallen_NYC]

I know that now is a bad time to post a yoda saber, since two people are already working on one. BUT SCREW IT!!! (j/k)

 

Anyway, this is my second model and I would greatly appriciate some constructive criticism to improve it.

 

Saber

 

Saber with glow

 

The FallenAngel_NYC

[Yoda_623]

Wow! Looks good to me. The more yoda sabers the better.

[KOP_+GOD'sLion+]

I think it looks great, but can u help me out?

How do i make my own saber hilt?

[aL BeasTie]

Originally posted by KOP_+GOD'sLion+

I think it looks great, but can u help me out?

How do i make my own saber hilt?

 

looky here - http://www.jk2models.cjb.net

[KOP_+GOD'sLion+]

i need Q3 to use Tempest? Says here " Please follow the steps outlined below to successfully run gmax tempest"

"First, install a fully licensed copy of Quake II Arena"

 

Iam confused

[Lord -=[FBF]=-]

u dont need tempest

u dont want tempest

all u need are the tempest plugins (for .md3 and .map import/export), which i have thoughtfully put in the files section of my mod site here

[KOP_+GOD'sLion+]

LOL never mind i figured it out

[DarthFallen_NYC]

Update :

 

Update1

 

Saber with glowing blade

I already started skinning this suckaaa.

 

Any comments or suggestions?

 

The FallenAngel_NYC

[Mr PoopyPants]

Very nice, it's comin along great. I was wondering if you are gonna make the saber blade shorter than the normal size.

[Methedrine]

That looks absolutely brilliant!

[SnAp]

Looks great!

Nice blade too

[DarthFallen_NYC]

Ok, I unwrapped the hilt and I almost finished skinning it. I did a test today to check if everything is going smoothly with the skin and when I tried to export it as a md3, it gave me an error saying that the uv map is not corresponding to the texture. I know what it means but it's really strange since mapped and I skinned every part of the saber. To give it a try I ignored the error and renamed everything and created the skin file. When I was done I exported the model and loaded it up in MD3. But now the texture is not showing up.

 

Please help me so I can release this greenbladed motherfuka.

 

THX

[Rocketman]

i dunno if i remember wrong but that emitter guard at the top of it didn't seem to wrap that far around the emitter in the movie. otherwise great job man.

[Mr PoopyPants]

Lookin Good! I can't wait!

[Pedantic]

Some reference pics for your enjoyment...

 

http://www.masterreplicas.com/StarWars/ProductsYodaSaber.asp?sid=

[DarthFallen_NYC]

THX man, to bad I didn't get these ref. pics earlier. Until now, I used the one from the posters and movie.

 

BTW, I fixed the peoblem and now everything works fine. I restarted the texure because I didn't like the first1. I'll be taking my time to make it as exact as possible.

 

I can do the texture myself, but I believe that I might need some1 to make the shading and lightning. I heard that a reflection shader could work too.

[Pedantic]

No prob. I would have given them to you earlier but I was isolated from the world last week.

[DarthFallen_NYC]

Ok, I got the saber in game but the texture doesn't show up. It all started whn I exported the model from max. The exporteer give me an error saying that the texture does not fit the mesh 1:1 (many people though said that their getting the same error but it's not causing any problems). Later I opened it in MD3 viewer. The texture was showing without any problems and everything was fine. However, when I loaded the skin file, the texture disappeared and everything that was showing up was the my saber in white. I ignored this and got it in the game anyway. The result was a gray saber that was perfectly alligned to the hand.

 

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

[DarthFallen_NYC]

I really could use some help

[BradFu]

I'm with you, I'm also having this problem with the skin not applying. I also get the "One to One" error when exporting from GMax, but I think this is probably due to breaking verts while unwrapping.

[DarthFallen_NYC]

Update With Texture :

 

Saber with my crappy textures

 

Saber with a glowing blade.

 

I know the textures suck, but I never made textures before. So comments would be aprriciated. If any1 wants to modify the textures or redo them your welcome to do it.

 

BTW, the problem that I posted above is thisll accouring. It would be nice if some1 who has any tips would help.

[skater_craigd]

iam no help of your problem, but i had to see your saber is awesome, imean it, wish i could make things like that, ive only made little things,

 

u using GMAX? idont understand it so im stuck wiv milkshape even tho u can do sum cool stuff wiv it,

 

if ucan, would u be willing to give me tips or something that will help me to model things like saber hilts cause it will help me improve on my modelling skills:) or a good tutorial 4 milkshape, please really appreciate it and hope 2 be as good as you at them one day.

 

cya craig xx

[Pnut_Man]

awesome model and skin, really amazing work

[DarthFallen_NYC]

It's just all a matter of practice. The more time you spend on your model, the better it's gonna get. Just start of doing simple things like creating a cylinder and start scaling and moving the vertices around. I'm using 3ds max but for low poly game modeling gmax is exactly the same.

Check out this thread for tutorials:

http://64.246.44.70/~lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64195

Later on, u can apply the skills that you learned in the tutrials in your own saber. Remember, it's all a matter of practice. Just create some cylinders and edit them...

[LINK-ER]

I can't just sit here and watch you diss yourself about your texturing. It's one of the best Yoda Saber Hilts I've seen so far. (Yoda is my favorite Character and I can't wait till his Character model comes out). I think it would be neat to learn how to make Saber hilts but I'd rather make Character Models but I don't know how I'd be glad to be someone's apprentice (or Padawan hehehe)