My girlfriend thinks Monks got the shaft with only having oner model for thier main weapon, the Kama. Here is a 10 pack of new appearances for kama based weapons for all you monk lovers out there.
A) Chakram Kama
B) Clawed Gloves Kama
C) Crescent Kama (Queen Salgarns Design)
D) Metal Fan Kama
E) Knuckless Dusters Kama
F) Panthron Kama
G) Punching Dagger Kama
H) Sai Kama
I) Tonfa Kama (same as contest entry)
J) Traditional Monk Weapon Kama
Just add this file to your Hak folder to gain access to these ingame and in the toolset. They can be found under the Kama apperance are.
Actually the Spec is created with the material options in Max, ie the Gloss and Spec strength settings... it automatically works based on the normal maps form without the need for a normal map alpha.
What the alpha in the normal map is used for is to control the overall level of the materials gloss and spec settings. Ie you can have a material with gloss of 50 and a spec of 100 which would create very harsh sharp specular highlights but you could then apply say a 50% grey to parts of your normal maps alpha to reduce or even remove the highlight entirely from areas of your texture.
Not sure if NWN2's engine does it, but in other engines its best to have a single material setting for the entire models specular and use the spec texture (or alpha) to control its strength, color etc, since this reduces the draw calls the engine has to do. ie a model with 1 set of textures but 2 different versions of material settings for that one set of textures takes twice as many draw calls as a model where it has one set of textures with one set of material settings across the entire model and its spec texture(alpha) controls the changes to spec... or at least thats how I understand it.
Even so yes, these need some spec :P
Posted by The Fred at 2010-03-27 10:32:01 Voted 9.50 on 03/27/10
Nice variety. I'm making a new oriental-style campaign, and these are just what I need for adding some flavour to the weapons selection. _________________________ In production: The Dragon Dynasty All my other stuff
Posted by Xaltar at 2009-09-01 00:39:15 Voted 9.00 on 09/01/09
Nice pack but is in dire need of a good specular map. The specular is taken from the normal map alpha channel by the way ;)
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Posted by Dragonsbane777 at 2009-07-23 11:31:37 Voted 10.00 on 07/23/09
Had these in my old PW, and have them in the new one under construction. Damn nice work! _________________________ Talernon3 - Age of Dragons Link
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Posted by r27blades at 2009-07-02 23:59:29 Voted 9.75 on 07/02/09
Great job, love them all. Just wondering could someone please explain to me (and preferably how t fix it it) why when I create new kamas using these designs and save the uti files into my override that the kamas are invisible when I use the giveitem command to give them to my character in the OC. First time I've experienced this and any help I could get would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by kas goldhammer at 2009-03-12 18:01:25 Voted 10.00 on 03/12/09
Great weapons. That would be great if you build some of those other ones to!
Posted by Saduj at 2008-05-18 02:13:46 Voted 10.00
Posted by AgatsumaSoubi at 2008-01-29 17:52:22 Voted 10.00 on 01/29/08
Wheee these are awesome...now I just need to figure out how to import hak files.....anyone care to enlighten me here? _________________________ "Bella hitting a crate with a stick! Macbeth doth come!"
Posted by mwmdragon at 2007-12-16 08:30:10 Voted 10.00 on 10/11/07
These aren't conversions so they look more realistic. We still need more kama chices... I need more hours in the day ;) _________________________ MWMDRAGON
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Posted by Draagos at 2007-12-13 03:38:13 Voted 9.00 on 12/13/07
Well done, I'm also this to my PW hak. A must-have :)
Posted by Krimsyn Kane at 2007-12-07 23:04:50 Voted 9.50 on 12/07/07
I think they look awesome, not too cartoonish at all, I think they fit with the art style of NWN2 very well. If they looked too realistic they would appear out of place. Good work Dragon.
Posted by LordDroktar at 2007-11-05 17:57:50 Voted 9.00 on 11/05/07
Oh nevermind just realised theres a second model in the hak for a reversed claw sorry
Posted by LordDroktar at 2007-11-05 14:40:28 Voted 9.00 on 11/05/07
I have a problem when i try and dual weild the clawed gloves kama the off hand weapon comes out backwards i just wondered if you knew why and how to fix it?
Awesome work! Any chance you can release a override version so I can import it into the game via console (similar to Adonnay's Elven Weapons)?
Posted by mwmdragon at 2007-10-29 10:17:12 Voted 10.00 on 10/11/07
The naming is like that because it adds more appearances to the Kama Area. if you wanna call them a "Katar" in game when you make the weapon that completely up to you ;) _________________________ MWMDRAGON
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Very Nice.
But I wonder if the name shouldn't be "Katar" and not "Kama". Kama's are asian weapons derived from farmer's scyte and Katar's are weapons who seems blade for the knuckle.
Sorry for my english and thanks.
Posted by mwmdragon at 2007-10-18 22:18:32 Voted 10.00 on 10/11/07
ModuRaziel - make sure you add the Hak file to the module, if you need help with that please visit the official NWN2 forums in the toolset area ;) _________________________ MWMDRAGON
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Posted by Deyonara at 2007-10-16 14:47:41 Voted 9.75 on 10/16/07
Great job.
Posted by ModuRaziel at 2007-10-15 20:19:05 Voted 9.00 on 10/15/07
so how the hell do i access it in the editor? I cant see anything other than the default kamas
Posted by radagast9 at 2007-10-15 10:50:13 Voted 10.00 on 10/15/07
Really interesting, even if kama are not my favourite weapons. However they are pretty good :).
Posted by mwmdragon at 2007-10-11 16:58:22 Voted 10.00 on 10/11/07
Hmmmm, I need more ideas for kama like weapons. _________________________ MWMDRAGON
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Posted by Yaddaman at 2007-10-10 13:41:22 Voted 10.00 on 10/10/07
Very nice!
Exactly what I need for my martial artist class for the STARDRIVE-mod. I needed some more exotic/alien-looking weapons and this just might do the trick.
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