*Update: Blade Texture link fixed (Thanks to ItchyBob
for giving me a heads up!) Also, new renders of the revised sword
coming soon!*
Welcome to my first in-depth tutorial. This tutorial
will hopefully teach you how to make such a sword like I have, see
the below picture. I will try to cover everything and make it real
easy. However, you should be somewhat familiar with 3dsmax! Over
some parts of this tutorial I will not cover every single adjustment;
I will show the basics of how to create a certain part, then the
rest of the job will be left to you along with some tips for the
hard parts. This tutorial covers only the modeling part.
Click an image to enlarge
Feel free to explore and try to create a different
sword as well as these techniques can be used almost the same for
any sword. Before we start, its always good to do a good amount
of research on what the sword looks like. Gathering reference pictures
are a tremendous help, especially if your trying to design the sword
off a real one. Below are a few pictures you should grab for this
tutorial should you be creating the same sword, The Sword of
Darkness. Right click and click save as, put them to a new
directory for your sword files.
The blade texture is just the design edited from the reference
picture.
Because I will be using many sword related terms to
make myself clear, it is advised you review a couple sites on the
anatomy of the sword. Here are a few links which could help:
Onto the technical stuff! The sword will be broken
down into five different parts. They are listed on this diagram
below. Each page will cover a different part of the sword, as we
go along we will piece it together. I'm not quite sure what the
protruding pieces from the cross guard are, but I will use the term
quillon for them. This isn't correct but it is there just for the
sake to distinguish the different parts. If you know of a correct
term for the pieces (purple in diagram) please contact me.
I do not make this mesh a single mesh because I am
only using this for a still. I admit I am somewhat sloppy in modeling
as I go along, I will note where this happens and things you can
do to get around it. Lastly, aside from trying to help people, I
made this tutorial so others could help me. If you find any significant
flaws in my modeling techniques please contact me and list suggestions
so I can update my tutorial and give credit!
I strongly reccomend you do NOT skip over parts of
the tutorial as some parts use techniques which reoccur later on
and are not discussed for a second time. Also, I will often be hiding
pieces of the sword for my pictures to make it easier to see, so
don't get confused if your wondering whats going on when half my
sword disapeers!
With all that covered lets get onto the show, right
after you go grab a nice cold one out of the fridge!
Head on over to the Layout!
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