Okay... since Stargelman is wayyy to busy to keep track of everything right now I've decided to ask you, Honorable Forumites, for opinions - and if majority likes this pic, I'll annoy Starge in the future with it. As you may or may not know I suck as an artist, in terms of drawing even a simple stick figure *inserts paperbag smilie here* however, when it comes to weapons, it's just a bit different story... so, without furder delay, I present you all my last work:

NAILBRINGER

This is, of course, a 1280 x 1024 wallpaper of a 3d weapon model, in this case an ancient Dwemer-made Vampiric Mace. Its look is simple, just as most of Dwemer designs, without any engravings or ornaments; its state also isn't all corrosion, but something more malevolent - there are bits and pieces of flesh, as well as dried blood, actually absorbed by that mace on its surface... and that is why it looks like that
The name itself is wacky - I listened the last Nine Inch Nails album, "With Teeth", for hours while making this nasty mace, and in the end, when my brain was totally cooked, name just popped out - a vicious name for a dark, twisted, life-consuming weapon.

And now, PLEASE, be brutally honest... it sucks owl, doesen't it ?

That rocks! I love the way that it's arranged as a star.



Okay, you asked for it. . To be BRUTALLY honest, I personally think that the spikes could be a little more ornate then just normal cones, know what I mean?

Also, perhaps some savage decoration on the curved parts, that would be cool.

Of course, those are just matters of opinion, nothing else.

Actually, that was on my mind all the time, but then I thought: "wait a minute; this is a thousand-year-old weapon, with absolutely no known heritage" (well, it's lost in the time, anyway) - and so, I made it like that on purpose (not because I'm a lazy basta*d ); whatever markings, ornaments or insignia it had on itself in the past is now completely lost - the whole surface is just one monstrous 'living' alloy of corroded, blood-drenched iron. Seriously, this is no fun weapon; it looks scary and ugly and bites in the same way

It´s just awesome Mil! And you know it!.....You are an artist as well as a writer.....and do not argue with me because I know best...ok?

Yeah seriously man - don't argue


*shudders from the memory*

hehe Good job Mil - nicely montaged too

mmmmm.........is this a model in .NIF form yet? Me needs it >,< To slays teh meanies of oblivion!!!

But really...I can't say it sucks becasue it's...too good to suck Besides, I can't model for my life...unless someone would like to teach me? Eh, eh??

Looks great Mil Keep it up!

I am really bursting with joy here, folks and hulloo again Fuzzy ! It's good to see you again, my good man !

*puts on Teh Paperbag* uuuh, what's a *.NIF ? You can't moddel, and I can't MOD to save my life, so I'd say we're evenly matched it can be converted to 3DS, although...

.NIF files is the files that is used for the moddels in Morrowind and Oblivion, with an older verion of 3dmax you can convert it to .NIF by using a plugin. I'd like that moddel in the game too And to be honoust I think it's better than many of the moddels in oblivion

Ok, I just found this one at the web...decided I wanted to share it in this little commedy thread...hehe.


They are taking the hobbits to Isengard.

This is a quite funny if you're a bit tired and need a little pick me up....

Meh, no need for flash commedy yet but things are starting to heat up here - THIS is a sword that I wanted to do for a long, long time; it is not finished yet, but I'll see what can be done to place engraving or two around... stay tuned, folks, 'cause this is far from over.

EDIT: Changed picture in the link - I've added those pesky daedric engravings that were bugging me for a while now all that remains is for me to think up something for that middle wide area...

well I'd have to be honest with you, that isn't half bad. A bit more details and it could be great

Okay... it's been a while and I had some other things to do (don't we all ?) but I've managed to do a not-so-simple engraving which ate much of my time and nerves now, THIS is an african ornament I borrowed from - of all places! - A Basket ... other details of finished sword model are here:
sword's grip
text on one side
text on the other side (yeah, Rane, laugh your owl off )

As much as I tried to keep it all simple and low-poligonal, it didn't work the text meshes are huge and although they look better than simple bump mapping I will probably discard them in order to simplify the model. After all, 3500 polygons are waaaay better than 30000.

Very nice.

But I'm dying out of curiousity now about the text.

Its sweet looking, like said before a little more oranate, and I don't see how it's funny...

It is daedric writing that says "Edge of the lighning" on one side and "Bringer of the storm" on the other.

It is funny, believe me, how I pretend to know things about moddeling, writing, art... my brain is a stirred-up, chaotic hot soup of ideas that rarely get shapes - but anyway, when they do they can look a bit decent, I guess.

... so here it is - The Stormbringer (you may have guessed by now that my favourite color is blue )

you are waaay to modest... that is brilliant.. would you mind if I used that as my wallpaper?

Why would I mind ? It's in the 'wallpapers' section for a purpose... although I must admit that this time I've overdone it with the blue color I seriously wanted to do lightnings, comming out of the sword, but I've only found one plugin for 3ds Max that does realistic lightnings, and it costs money - A LOT of money... so I guess this will have to do.

It's gorgeous, Milenius. I wish someone could 3ds max it into Oblivion for us.

Master of swords! Milanius..the one and only...my sweet sweet Milanius! Great work ya know!

Ohhh I´ll salut you Mil.....I´ll drink one for you..no wait...I´ll drink one with you instead...

You know,if you weren't a Serb,i would actualy belive you......
Money?
What money?
100 Dinars?
j\k

I love your work btw

Rainer is in awe!

And Soulseeker is right, you are far to modest

This Stormbringer is also awesome! Ibis ponders if we need anymore storms in sunny Florida ... well, after the rains the tasty fish do come out ... so yes, I will bring Stormbringer to my land!

Modest, yeah he's modest all right! That ... should i call it Master Sword or would that be a rip off of that piece of crap Zelda stuff... Is the Ultimate Sword!!! It gets 9 / 10 on the weapons style scale and here's your 9!

if you don't do another one, better or as good, i will chop your computer in half. (dunno how, dunno when but I will!)

All this weaponry is havokingly awesome, Milanius! Minque and everyone are right - you are the ultimate SwordsMaster. That Dwarven Axe is driving me wild too - besides the Stormbringer sword. I'm so excited ... I think I'm gonna wet myself!! Heyah - by spilling my drink of course. Agrghhh!! Not the purple chair!!

I definitely will join Minque in saluting you with a toast and I know Minque so I know it will be severallllll toasts. hahaha I will bring my best Sunhold Champagne and we can all drink to your weapon smithing genius. You can work your metal forge drunk, right?? Oh yeah, your Serbian - of course you can!! Teasing, just teasing ....

okay... here's another sneak preview
*yawns* you have no idea how hard can it be to try & create things... that end of the handle, which has to be pure silver, unlike the handle itself, is driving me nuts. This is far, far, FAAAAAR from over.

edit: ah, yea, it won't be ALL silver, y'know, the handle (and some decorations, if I manage to get it right for a change) will be Jade, gleaming green, and that jewel in the end will be Emerald - Silver & Green... Dark Hunter will finaly have some worthy weapon to chop my PC in 2 halfs

* Ibis falls to knees and worships at the DarkHunter Jade/Emerald Axe. (Now to kill off DarkHunter with NailBringer or Stormbringer in order to have Emerald-Jade for my own??? MY PRECIOUS.... puuuurrrr *

OMG, too wonderful Milanius. Keep them coming please. We really appreciate your weapon molding talents. Please take a short nap since you are so *yawn* tired from your creative burst of brilliance. Can't wait to see it retextured !!!!!

<--------- Milanius Award of Excellence *****

The design was slightly changed
Damn those snakes... and the plane. I've dropped the initial idea of turning them arround the entire axe, because it proved to look like crap, so I just put 2 smaller, flatter snake ornaments on sides. Also, that emerald gemstone in the handle's end is simplified.
Now, teh fun begins. I have to hunt down textures & toy with them for hours... so please, don't go chewing nails.

OH yes ... delicate snakes, I love them! They are fitting the handle perfectly without being overpowering. (Like I suppose they took over the plane. think that's one movie I'll skip. lol) It's looking great, Milanius.

Major update.
When inspiration comes by you and winks in your direction, you have to runt towards like Carl Lewis, grab her and squeeze it in your arms like it was your sweetheart, no matter what. My head hurts, I am 95% certain that I didn't do a decent job on the metal reflection [as usual ] and I am still figuring out if I should put some celtic engravings on the axe's head [needed, really], but I can be at least proud of the fact that I gor the damn handle well enough

Preview back
Preview front
Teh Handle (painted marble, but we'll just call it jade & nod )

I'll probably do some engraving bumpmaps, but that'll be tricky, though, because I suck with 3ds.

OMFG ... Milanius!!! That is gorgeous!! My hands are getting sweaty just wanting to wrap around that cool enticing jade grasp. And the emerald is stately and beautiful. Such good good weapon-smithy work. Your shop would be a place of interest all over the Empire, were we really in Tamriel.

Brilliant idea to color marble green, you got a wonderful pattern and texture going there. OHHHH, I can't wait to swing THAT EMERALD EQUALIZER ingame. Hahaha, even the biggest Ogrims & Orcs wouldn't bother me, would they??

= Award of Excellence (for the progress so far)

Well, get ready to start with the sweating, Ibis... because IT'S DONE ! OMFG I HAVE DONE IT Check the mail


...but sadly, you'll have to wait a bit more for the wallpaped

WHAT? done? where??? I wanna see Mil! ya hear me? You know I love your weaponry......you just know it....

AVENGER

It's delirium, I tell ya. The entire morning I had a slightly higher temperature [just over 37 Celsius], my head aches still, but my stomach is is in tremendous uproar [I am avoiding to say "pain" so you wouldn't worry yourselves] and my whole body feels fuzzy, weird, ill... I should be resting & drinking camile tea, but no, I had to do this. And yes, I am having coffee [you only live once]. To hell with illness, when one has a weapon to make one WILL make a weapon ! *roars, then whimpers as his tummy kicks him back*

Mmmmm weapony goodness. I need to make an axe character sometime... Right now I'm working with a spear dude.

OHH Milanius! Our weaponsmithy has worked himself into a fervor ... please stop just a bit and do have some chamomile tea. It really does sooth the tummy and calm the nerves. Wait, I have some in the cupboard ... I will brew a nice batch, pour it into a zip pitcher and email it to you ....

......One lump, or two?

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I see the chamomile or coffee helped the mood .... Avenger is absolutely awiesome!!!!
Fantastic!! The snake patterns/carvings on the axehead are to die for!

*Shall we tell the people secretly that we are working together to bring these weapons into their hands in a Morrowind mod?? It'll be awhile though ... the comversion into 3dsmax5 to the 3D Importer program still has to be learned and executed. Anyone with expertise in this field could be kind enough to pm me with advice or a tutorial link if you feel like expediting our progress.*

I swear that is excelent please give us more commedy, please



your crazy.... but I hope you get better soon (which me saying this probably voids out the whole "so you don't worry" thing)

Yes much more comedy please Mil and our Weapon Smithy is more than alittle mad *crazy .... but in a good creative way!

I have decided this is a small preview of what my desktop wallpaper is going to look like after my upcoming maintenance reformat ..... but i will stretch it to fill the whole screen and will have different icons because I am experimenting with .dds programs for Oblivion modding:

More comedy is on the way. Although it looks a bit too futuristic [IMO], methinks you would like it... think

Still unnamed knife/dagger with a poor excuse for a handle

Oooo, serrated blades always look dangerously cool. I think it looks pretty good so far, I think the final product will look amazing.

hrm, I can't see it, says there isn't a file with that name

Ach, sorry - did a bit of restructuring today *embarraced*
But anyhow, here it is - due to the lack of better ideas for a name I call it Reaver

EDIT: sadly, the pic you're seeing is not valid any longer, since I've screwed up and didn't back my data properly. Now I'll have to texture the damn thing again from ACAD file and it'll probably look a bit different... at least that's not gone too.

EDIT2: Phew! Finished the model again and [slaps his own head] now it is backed up. Changed the straps on grip to leather.

Oh Milanius .. I am so glad you managed to save the Reaver model! Would hate to have you lose such a gnarly impressive looking blade. Should I call it a huge dagger or is it a shortsword? It is beautiful either way.

It's a huge dagger, Ibis, and I don't really know what material is that :\ maybe it could be some superpolished black ebony, with the golden knot markings ? Meh, some friends are advising me to make the knots same color/material as the entire knife - I am not sure, though. Now that I have it backed up I'll just fool arround with it a bit.

Hmmm, I like the golden knot. It really stands out on the dark metal. But it might look nice different too.

MODIFIED!

If I were to be killed by any weapon, I would wish for it to be THAT one!

I'd be like "Yea, it was that dagger that killed me. That's how special I am!"

lol sounds good to me. Yes Mil, the knife is that cool

Pretty good. I like the black Reaver more though. It has a certain style to it whereas the Reaverbrother just seems a bit too generic in colour for such a unique design.

Hmmmm, those are my exact thoughts - still, I can't make that kind of 'blackness' to FEEL like a metal - instead, it resembles some other material [black volcanic glass, non-translucent? Ebony???] more than it does metal.
Like I said, this is one of my more complex things so far, I'll be sure to fool arround with it some more... dialup is a bit*h, but at least it offers me more time offline