Good hilts are hard to come by, but hilts that attempt to mimic letters of the alphabet are even rarer. And indeed these blades do that - they spell out the clan's acryonym: K - O - T - F. See now if it was a clan with a two-letter acronym they could sport their whole clan tag at a time - one in each hand, or a dual with both letters. I guess KotF will need partners to do the same ;).
The sabers themselves are nice-looking - different than normal hilts in that they are more of a white color than a metal shade, making them seem almost like they are made of ivory. However the blade is really a product of shaders - the skin underneath is not impressive. It is basically a cylindrical hilt, with decent shading, then right around it, which are textured in a random liquid metallic pattern which makes no attempt to follow any UV map set forth - it is just dropped on top indescrimininantly. The same goes for the top gold portion. So the case is here, as it is unfortunately many other places, a good shader covering up a sloppy texture.
So in the future I would suggest taking as much time on the skin as on the model. Letting a shader cover up poor skinning work may be a short-term fix, but if you don't learn the art you won't go much farther with modelling. Trust me - it's a handy thing to pick up.
~Inyri
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Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
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TITLE: KOTF Clan Saber Final Version
AUTHOR: Softdragon
E-MAIL: betaarietis@auna.com
FILENAME: kotf_sabers_final.pk3
FILESIZE: 4.570 kB
DATE RELEASED: 7 DESEMBER 2005
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: copy the kotf_sabers_final.pk3 file inside your Jedi Academy Gamedata\BASE folder and enjoy :D
DESCRIPTION: This is a clan pack sabers, from clan KOTF (Knights of the Force, thanks to TIM for the mod). There are 5 single sabers and 5 dual sabers. A basic single saber with a normal blade and 4 single sabers that represents the letters K, O, F and T, these 4 are multiblade sabers, K, F and T have 3 blade, while O sabers has 7 (to create the O of course). A basic dual saber with 2 normal blades and the dual version of the single sabers K, O, T and F. K, F and T dual saber have 6 blades, while dual O, well, his real name is semidual O, has 8 blades (I cannot do 2 O because JKA only allows 8 blades per saber).
From first version, I have changed some textures and shaders, like buttons textures (see them from near :D)
BUGS: No bugs.
COMMENTS: The members of this clan like very much these sabers. I expect that you too ;).
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