Nishapur chess set

The Nishapur set was done for old chess variants like Byzantine Chess or Shatranj.

The design was based on an, Iran, dated from the 12th century.

=2D pieces=

The 2D skin sprites were made from a rendering of the 3D high definition pieces. The clipping step is 100 x 100 pixels.



This Nishapur set includes 6 different pieces (from left to right in the sprite above):


 * The Pawn (Baidaq = Soldier).
 * The Rook (Rukh)
 * The Elephant (Fil)
 * The Knight (Faras = Horse)
 * The Minister (or General, Firzan)
 * The King (Shah)

=3D pieces=

For each piece there is an archive of 3 files including:
 * the low poly mesh (Threejs file)
 * the diffuse map
 * the normal map

Pieces material was made with some granit texture with a gray rendering, the colors are dynamically added in the code.

The Pawn


The archive:

The Rook


The archive:

The Elephant


The archive:

The Knight


The archive:

The Minister


The archive:

Note: the Minister files are called "general", which is another possible name for this piece.

The King


The archive: