This is a type of parrying dagger used in the medieval times when dueling someone. you would have a larger sword which is used for offense to lunge at your enemy whilst the parrying dagger is used to deflect the lounge and then hit using the other sword. However, the sword breaker is used to when parrying the other persons sword gets lodged inside the slots in the dagger taking over control over the sword and therefore the opponent wont be able to attack you.
with my design i want to keep it quite similar to what it traditionally is, however, I’m going to add some designs such as engraving. i will have to make the model using maya whilst using mudbox to create those designs. i will make the dagger with 6 different parts so it is better to make high polys on the seperate objects to make it easier for the computers to handle.
My dagger’s blade is going to be straight with long, thin spikes on the sides and a sword like handle. I really want to enthesis the medieval parts of the dagger and make it symeptrical.
I did this in unreal to show that what in going to do with the medieval weapon.
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