Hi to you all… I modeled this sword and I wasn’t realy sure what blade it should have.
The upper one is more like a pirate sword and the lower one is more like a samurai’s, so tell what will it be: the 18 th century Carbbean or the middle age Japan?
http://www.geocities.com/ottonet2000/Swords.jpg (cut and paste) [>]
both look great but i HATE the curved handles - just shape in general
Keep both. Make some more and make some collector’s sword cabinet or smth. That would be swweeet!
thats cool and all …but i dont think samurai swords bendlike that otherwise it would be kinda hard to do kendo and actually hit something
nah jk both are pretty sweet slap an environment and render in a raytracer and the hilt’s texture needs some kinda seam or maybe like a bumpmap of leather or something ooh or add some celticish knots/hyroglyphs
which one? you should use them for like some super cool fighting scene or animation. one character asian one english. or chinese and that bad guy from mulan, what was he a Hun or something?
I didn’t realy knew much about samurai swords when I modeled it, but after I saw the reviwes I serched in Google for some samurai swords pictures and now I am going to improve my sword (including the handles), hopfuly soon you’ll watch them in the finished project section 
jsut remember the samurai hilts are straight.
most of the movements/attacks are done by snapping the wrist,
more specifically the left wrist should provide the power while the right guides the strike. just a lil info on teh attack.
also if your creating an original design kinda makeup how you would use the sword. they probably had to do that with SW ep2 cause the bent helt is an awkward design (cant really control it with 2 hands)
