Build Time : 10 mins
Skin Time : 1.5 hours
Poly Count : 283
Model Onion : Paul Chen's Practical Katana Pro

flame it...
-S

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Cool.

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That sword deserves more polygons! You're sinning by mongering all the polygons for yourself! Polygon mongerer!

Skin is excelent, but JK can hadle more than 300 polygons for a sword model. I also see S51 won't be able to ***** about the grip-cloth's weaving, like he does in every other sword's thread ^_^

JediKirby

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I see jaggedness

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Very well.

Hmmm... that looks almost exaclty like Uma Thurman's Hanzo sword... minus the insignia.

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Needs to be smoother, ie: 5x the amount of polies.

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The handle is awesome, the only thinkg is your blade seems to be a bit to curved, maybe it's just the angles of the pictures *shrug* Anyway, the thing looks badass the way it is, no need to add poly-poly-polyz



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[This message has been edited by SAJN_Master (edited August 23, 2004).]

Katanas are curved, haven't you ever seen one?


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Katanas are curved. o_O

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Blade needs more polies. Many, many more polies.

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The Devious Server

What everyone else said about Polies, its to jagged around the middle of the blade.

But I ike the overall desgin of the handle and such.

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Yes katanas are curved but more so near the end not the middle



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uhm... no...



he has the curve point right, dont worry about that.

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To assume that all katanas are shaped the same is complete ignorance, thats why I stated what sword I modeled it after. The sword you posted SAJN actually has a very odd curvature to it.

It also funny that Hatori Hanzo was mentioned because Paul Chen is like amodern day hanzo...

-S

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[This message has been edited by JEDI-Salvation (edited August 23, 2004).]

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"Count the Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums..."

Much better.

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According to the film, Hatori Hanzo is the modern day Hatori Hanzo.

-But we get it.

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It's our All-American product. We got the idea from the Germans. The French hate it. It goes for half in Canada. The English have a version, but it's not so hot. There's cheap knockoffs in India. The Japanese are devolping a sleeker, sexier model. Made in China.

Is that JK?!!?

o_0

It looks good!

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Um... it's for JA... .'/

(TMU is for JA, you see...)

And that is a kewl sword. I'm afraid if I touch the pic I'll cut myself on it. .'/

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[This message has been edited by The_Mega_ZZTer (edited August 23, 2004).]

Can we see it on a black background?

JediKirby

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Wow, that's a nice blade. Acid etched?

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"Much better." It hasnt changed...

No more pics (I want to abandon my overshowcasing reputation...*looks at cazor)

-=Referring to the REAL sword and not the model=-
Acid etched hehe...This is a hand forged sword, the temper line (or hamon line) is caused by the cooling of the front edge. You can usually tell by the pattern, acid etched are usually very repetitious where hand forged swords are sparratic. If i could find a closeup of the blade itself you would probably see many individual lines which are a result of the folding process. Dont make the mistake of thinking this is a cheap $20 sword. His prices range from $150-$1500+ (according to the quality of the blade obviously)


-S


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[This message has been edited by JEDI-Salvation (edited August 24, 2004).]

Why do you need quality if you're the only one with a sharp pice of metal?

-I don't exactly see roving bands of rogue Samurai nowadays. Of course, I live in the ghetto, so I could just be sheltered.

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It's our All-American product. We got the idea from the Germans. The French hate it. It goes for half in Canada. The English have a version, but it's not so hot. There's cheap knockoffs in India. The Japanese are devolping a sleeker, sexier model. Made in China.

Aha, ehehe, woops. It looks a lot better in that last shot because the light sword doesn't show its edges on the light background.

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and it wont show it ingame while its not as large when you're seeing it, and youre also rarely gonna see it not moving.

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It looks great, though possible a few more polys could be spent on the blade making the curve look smoother. Other than that, good stuff.

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