A Jedi Weapon

evil_genius_180 · April 11th, 2006, 09:04 PM

I've always loved making these. This is my first saber hilt in about a year or so. I've never been able to get the chrome look right, but some members at scifi-meshes.com helped with that

I plan on doing more of these (in fact one is in the works) and posting more pics in this thread.

This weapon is the weapon of a Jedi Master. It's my belief that a Jedi Master's weapon would be more skillfully crafted and less rough than the weapon of a Knight or Padawan.

Darrell Lawrence · April 11th, 2006, 11:36 PM

One thing I've always wanted to do, and this image is going to set me off doing it :laugh:

Many modelers make the Jedi hilts, but I rarely see regular sword hilts (sans blades... just the hilts) being made, so that is a minor mission of mine - Make sword hilts

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 12:00 AM

This should be interesting to see

evil_genius_180 · April 14th, 2006, 02:30 AM

I made a second hilt, with a few more details than the first one

With my old, slow PC, this only took about 2 hours to render with all of the shines, bumps and shadows.

skyhawk223 · April 19th, 2006, 08:20 AM

Ooh, shiny. I like them. Great work.

evil_genius_180 · April 19th, 2006, 11:35 AM

Thanks. That diamond plate really took a bite out of the proverbial ass of my computer's memory, but I thought it was a good idea. I like shiny stuff :cylon:

jf3000 · April 22nd, 2006, 02:12 AM

Wow !!!!!

April 22nd, 2006, 09:36 AM

not bad you should make an animaton with these and in action maybe ;P

evil_genius_180 · April 23rd, 2006, 12:12 AM

I don't do animations. My computer is old and I don't like waiting a week for an animation to render. Also, the program I use is older and doesn't really do well with characters. Maybe after I sort some bills and actually get ahead I'll be able to get new stuff and do animations.

May 2nd, 2006, 02:17 AM

wow, they put my hilts to shame

evil_genius_180 · May 2nd, 2006, 02:29 AM

Welcome and thank you.

I have a third one I'm sort of working on, I just haven't done anything with it in a few weeks.

May 7th, 2006, 11:54 PM

What program are you using to make these? I've been wanting to do one with lightwave and it's proving quite difficult.

evil_genius_180 · May 8th, 2006, 01:25 PM

I used trueSpace 3.2 Warrior might have some ideas on how to do them in Lightwave.

May 8th, 2006, 02:01 PM

Did you do the blade as well or just the hilt?

evil_genius_180 · May 8th, 2006, 02:11 PM

I do blades too, I just don't have the opportunity to use the blades as tS 3.2 is crappy for doing characters.

I don't seem to have a pic with the second saber's blade, but here's the fist saber's blade. The second saber has a green blade. I have the fortune of having a hard to find plugin to add the glows.

May 14th, 2006, 03:23 PM

Very high quality work, I've been working in 3d max on my own lightsaber, but have had to place it on the back burner for a while. I hope when I have time again to work on it mine looks as stunning as your two.

evil_genius_180 · May 14th, 2006, 08:05 PM

Thanks.

That's really great to hear coming from a Max user 'cause the version of trueSpace I use is nowhere near as fancy as Max.

Nemesis · May 18th, 2006, 06:06 AM

Very nice work

May 18th, 2006, 07:04 AM

Excelent work there evil, Where did you get the texture for the Diamond plating?

evil_genius_180 · May 18th, 2006, 01:35 PM

Thanks. The texture for the diamond plate is a bump map that came free with trueSpace.

rduda · May 25th, 2006, 03:06 PM

Great Work!

June 18th, 2006, 04:40 PM

I saw many models of jedi weapon, but anyone have the render and the details you made. It's a very good work, congratulations !