I wanted to see what I could come up with in Poser ProPack with some primitives. Here is my totally inworld, all primitives, Medieval onepiece-cast-style studded Mace with several different mat tweaks. Diff obj colors, and the presence and absence of ref maps.

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Heres how it scales to Michael 3.0

Hows it look?

needs to be more pointy :) looks good though

anxcon might be right about the pointiness. If you replace the small balls on the mace head by cones, it would be one wicked mace indeed! Cool weapon.

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Thanks :)

going here for the AD&D style "blunt clerical weapon" for those prohibbited from drawing blood.

Im already completing version 2 (material grouped) although the torus parts seem to refuse to become seperate groups. Ive saved the item as parented props to retail the seperate groupings till I figure out a fix. Heres what it looks like with all 5 torus' as seperate groups

Ill do a spiked version now

here we go, spiked, and material zone grouped

Very cool!!!

Now THAT is a great looking mace! Wicked.

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I like the original model. There are plenty of conventional pointy maces out there. I could see this as a "stun mace," with a nice bolt of energy shooting from the ball(s) to the victim. It could also make a cool scepter or wand--make the globe clear or translucent and glowing maybe. Nice work.

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Thanks guys! Got 4 props now, Spiked Mace, Studded Mace, Spiked Mace UNG and Studded Mace UNG. the UNGrouped ones are just for quick one-mat zone texture application for that plain, one-cast-piece look, got the grouped ones of course to simulate any kind of gold or other plating of several zones. The ungrouped one has its mat zone set by grouping tool as: Mace The grouped ones have 5 zones: shaft pommel rings macehead studs/spikes Question: although I parented these to M3 hands before saving to Props library, when I reimport them in a new scene, they do snap right to hand position, but DONT follow Mike around, as do many pre-parented props ive seen. How would I preparent these (if thats the right term) please?

Ah. That's something weird about a prop group. You cannot save a "smart" group of props. If you want to make it a full smart prop, the easiest way is exporting the group of primitives (keep the group names) as Wavefront .OBJ and reimport it. Now it's a single prop that can be smartparented.

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You cannot save a "smart" group of props. Not directly from within Poser, at any rate. You can text-edit the file afterward, of course, to give it smart-prop properties.

did the export import thing, it can be parented, but it doesnt seem to want to save to prop library as a smartprop.

Whats that text edit to accomplish that?

Also, I went back to grouping tool, and made the shaft into two seperate groups, haft and grip. Applied leather texture to grip. Then I rearranged the parenting of the seperate props, so that the haft can be expanded and the weapon head and grip both follow the extension. I yTraned it to where it became 5' against Dr Geeps measuring stick, then exported as .obj, then reimported the original size, and loaded the long one as a Morph Target named "haft length" then set the dial properties for a range of -0.750 to 1.700. shown here is shortest length, default length, and longest length.

bwahaahaa!!!!

>> *Whats that text edit to accomplish that?* Just one line per actor, really. Here's an example.

aha :) Ok made a copy of one of the mace pp2's and searched for "parent" and immediately found this: prop Studded Mace { name Studded Mace on bend 1 dynamicsLock 1 hidden 0 addToMenu 1 castsShadow 1 includeInDepthCue 1 parent UNIVERSE channels { targetGeom haft length Im about to change parent UNIVERSE to smartparent rHand:1 If you hear an explosion and screams youll know I blew it.

Excellent work. Perhaps you could try a flail (cylinder instead of sphere for the head. If only there were a Hexagonal cylinder you could even do a Tetsubo. Blunt Trauma RULES!

I could probably put three squares together like so: <> [] <> sorta mash em together and export to get a hexagon: <[x]> Doing the spiked mace made me think of doing a morningstar, a flail would fit right in, great suggestion!

Here .... Download the attached text file, rename it HexPrism.obj, and import into Poser. Use however you see fit.

an image search of tetsubo has some really odd returns. Evidently a tetsubo is also some kind of steel parallel bar that is used by gymnasts, energetic jumping dogs, and for some reason, a couple of oriental schoolgirls to hang upside down from exposing their panties. Dont blame me, blame google.

Here is the best weapon image I could find from the extreemly limited returns. Is this the kind of weapon you had in mind kiru?

Little_Dragon, got the text file converted to obj, imported and saved to Prop Types (primitives) library. Working fine, thank you :)