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Greatsword of the Citadel

  • Date: Aug 21 2014
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  • Posted in: Blog

Finally finished! Thanks for Valve for adding such a great tools for uploading models into their workshop. Turns out the uploading is so much easier than compiling your own .mdl files.. Lore: Heirloom of the Meranth family. Passed down from father to son for generations until hidden before the execution of Pallid Meranth to avoid confiscation by the Vigil Knights. As the lore goes; Sven’s father Pallid Meranth was one of the Vigil Knights, who was executed because of violating the Vigil Codex (having his son, Sven, out of marriage).  

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Game version. 400 Triangles

  • Date: Aug 12 2014
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  • Posted in: Blog

Little update on the sword. After some tinkering with the maps, the sword is slowly getting ready to be trialed in the game engine. The color layer needs a bit more work and the current texture size will have to be resampled from 1024×1024 to 256×256, but it is almost finished. Special thanks to Ace-Angel and Drew++ from the Polycount forums for writing the Dota 2 Shader for maya. Been having fun playing around with it and it certainly makes the map creation lot easier.   Normal map created in xNormal.

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Highresolution mesh. No Color

  • Date: Aug 8 2014
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High resolution model sculpted in ZBrush. Basemesh was done in Maya.

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Dota 2 Workshop – Step 2 – Values Design

This is the number 4 design taken to step further to add lot more detail in greyscale. I decided to go with this design because of Sven’s history with the Virgil Knights. I thought the symmetric and angular design was quite fitting for an authority and this sword could be a heirloom of Sven’s father from his days of being one of the Virgil Knights. Name Ideas: Greatsword of the Citadel, Pillar of the Order, Greatsword of Divine Right