Lardtree3 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I know that the Holy Win blade has already been made, but I was wondering if any other skilled modders would be interested in making a high quality mod for the Romphaia sword from Vagrant Story. I would love to do it myself but the time for learning to mod can't really be spared at the moment (stupid degrees). I can't find a good picture of it (I will keep trying, might even dig the game up myself and take the picture myself), but I can try to describe it. It's a long single handed blade, (if placed hilt first on the ground it would stand about as tall as the player), very simple round spiral hilt (nothing fancy), a pretty simply blade as well - straight flat blade edged on both sides, somewhat narrow near the hilt and very gradually getting wider near the top where one side curves to a point that and...you know what, screw it, I'll just draw it real quick in paint, it's a pretty simple sword. Okay, if you look at the attachment containing my l33t ms paint skills, that's more or less the idea of it. The hilt has a sort of corded texture, the blade has a bevel that goes around the whole outside of it bringing it to a very sharp edge. If anyone decides to pick this project up, I would request that the sword have some nice reflection mapping, the mesh should be simple enough to make. Texture would be silver-esque with the reflection mapping being almost a mirror sheen. The bevel around the outside of the sword would be a slightly lighter shade of silver/gray than the main body of the blade (if I'm not describing this well, think of the edge of the buster sword from FF7). The hilt would have the corded texture I mentioned before (think thin ropes) and be either dark brown or black. It didn't have a sheathe in the game so if anyone decides to do this the sheathe wouldn't be required but you're welcome to get creative :biggrin: Sorry for the pickiness, this was just my favorite sword out of any of the games I've ever played (and I've played a LOT) so attention to detail would be a big thing for me. Any questions, criticisms of my pickiness are welcome and anyone willing to take a crack at this gets a big :thanks: from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lardtree3 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 gotta bump this at least once before I give up on it, if there isn't any interest than maybe I'll take a crack at it myself, though when I'll have the time I'm not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lardtree3 Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Looks like it's up to me then, back to the 3DSM mines. Thanks to anyone who looked at it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lardtree3 Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 Reviving this in the hopes that some new modders that around now might be interested (also because I just recently reinstalled). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exanimis Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 There are a couple of problems with your original post and with this idea. You said that you are "picky" and that tells everyone that you will be critical of any work done, not a good thing to post. The other problem in the picture. Modders can't make a sword from the idea in your head. Modders need a good photo to work from. The drawing that you posted leaves out all detail, if someone made this they would have to take certain liberties in order to make it look half decent. I doubt anyone could make the sword that you want from the information given. You said that you might take a screenshot from the original game, I suggest that you take a few at different angles and post them here. Take a look at This request thread and you can see how much I guessed at. The mod I made is not the exact sword but I could not make the original with so little information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naminea Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 There are a couple of problems with your original post and with this idea. You said that you are "picky" and that tells everyone that you will be critical of any work done, not a good thing to post. The other problem in the picture. Modders can't make a sword from the idea in your head. Modders need a good photo to work from. The drawing that you posted leaves out all detail, if someone made this they would have to take certain liberties in order to make it look half decent. I doubt anyone could make the sword that you want from the information given. You said that you might take a screenshot from the original game, I suggest that you take a few at different angles and post them here. Take a look at This request thread and you can see how much I guessed at. The mod I made is not the exact sword but I could not make the original with so little information. good point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lardtree3 Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 There are a couple of problems with your original post and with this idea. You said that you are "picky" and that tells everyone that you will be critical of any work done, not a good thing to post. The other problem in the picture. Modders can't make a sword from the idea in your head. Modders need a good photo to work from. The drawing that you posted leaves out all detail, if someone made this they would have to take certain liberties in order to make it look half decent. I doubt anyone could make the sword that you want from the information given. You said that you might take a screenshot from the original game, I suggest that you take a few at different angles and post them here. Take a look at This request thread and you can see how much I guessed at. The mod I made is not the exact sword but I could not make the original with so little information. Fair enough, though me saying I'm picky does not necessarily mean I am going to criticize any work done. Frankly I would have been ecstatic if anyone had even taken a crack at it and I thought I had made that clear enough. I do see that my drawing was a bit lacking, I only spent about 30 seconds on it in Paint because I was convinced I would be able to find a decent screenshot of it. This is the only one I could find PIC, but as you can see it's a terrible angle. I no longer own the game myself so I'm a bit out of luck there. I do understand your need for more information before being able to make any kind of respectable attempt, I just provided what I could at the time. Perhaps my best bet is to model myself in MAX and then post screens here so someone may be able to improve it/complete it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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