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Making Weapons in Blender
General Idea
Modeling Technique 1
Modeling Technique 2
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Answered Questions!
EDIT: fixed video link
General Idea
Modeling Technique 1
Modelling Technique 1 part 1
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Modelling Technique 1 part 1
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Modeling Technique 1 part 2
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9. Then move vertices to your liking.
10. Select the vertices of the handle, go to mesh>>vertices>>seperate.
11. Add a modifier, choose subSurf, turn up the level until it looks close to what you want without too many vertices. Click apply next to the modifier.
12. Modify vertices (using porpotional edit helps) to your liking.
13. Go to object mode, and turn off double-sided on any meshes that are.
14. If black appears on any parts of the mesh, highlight it, go to edit mode, select all vertices, go to mesh>>normals>>recalculate outside.
15. If there is still black, select those faces and go to mesh>>normals>>flip.
16. If there is still black, then you are missing a piece of mesh. Highlight the vertices around the hole, go to mesh>>vertices>>fill.
17. If black did not appear, then select everything (in object mode) and go to object>>join objects and say yes.
18. Save a backup blender project (you can do this any time
19. Export to directx, this is NOT fable ready, somebody will have to get it fable ready for you, but people are more willing to help those who already have a model (including me).
Modeling Technique 2
more information here.
Answered Questions!
From Sylhoette
Random Tips
Sylhoette wrote on Thursday, November 08
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To make it fable ready: you need 3ds max 7, but it's really expensive. There is a tutorial on it here
In part two: Sometimes the blade doesn't turn out quite right, so you might want to grab individual vertices and move them to the correct places. With the whole normals thing, the normals decide where the texture goes, if the normals are reversed in some places, those places will appear invisible. So you need to have them correct. Try going into textured viewport
to see where you need to fix. Good Luck! if you have more questions please ask :d
Sylhoette wrote on Sun, 18 November 2007 20:11
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Answer: To retain sharpness of the blade: After you seperate, go back to object mode, select the handle, THEN do the subsurf
.To make it fable ready: you need 3ds max 7, but it's really expensive. There is a tutorial on it here
In part two: Sometimes the blade doesn't turn out quite right, so you might want to grab individual vertices and move them to the correct places. With the whole normals thing, the normals decide where the texture goes, if the normals are reversed in some places, those places will appear invisible. So you need to have them correct. Try going into textured viewport
Sylhoette wrote on Sun, 18 November 2007 20:11
aah, that is a VERY good question, and should be put in my tutorial right away, when you scale an object, just like when you move it around, clicking and holding the middle mouse button resticts it to certain axis' right? well, doing that while scaling makes it only scale one direction, or you can do this automatically by clicking on the blue square icon (see pic) and clicking and dragging the different axis'.
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Random Tips
1. When you create a new mesh on the screen, don't forget that depending on how big or small you want it, be it a circle, a cone, or anything, you can tell it how many polys to have (not directly, it will have a slider for how many lines or vertices in each direction)
2. If flipping normals does not make you able to see a part of the mesh, there is probably nothing there, in which case you'll need to go into edit mode, select the vertices surrounding the hole, and hit the f key, just make sure you only select where one face would normally go, otherwise it will look a little funky and be hard to edit later it the need comes across.
3. Try to make sure you are not doubling vertices, if you find that two vertices are VERY close to each other, and should be inside each-other, select both, hit the w key, and click merge>>at center.
4. When you scale an object, just like when you move it around, clicking and holding the middle mouse button resticts it to certain axis' right? well, doing that while scaling makes it only scale one direction, or you can do this automatically by clicking on the blue square icon (see pic) and clicking and dragging the different axis'.
pic
More to come :d
2. If flipping normals does not make you able to see a part of the mesh, there is probably nothing there, in which case you'll need to go into edit mode, select the vertices surrounding the hole, and hit the f key, just make sure you only select where one face would normally go, otherwise it will look a little funky and be hard to edit later it the need comes across.
3. Try to make sure you are not doubling vertices, if you find that two vertices are VERY close to each other, and should be inside each-other, select both, hit the w key, and click merge>>at center.
4. When you scale an object, just like when you move it around, clicking and holding the middle mouse button resticts it to certain axis' right? well, doing that while scaling makes it only scale one direction, or you can do this automatically by clicking on the blue square icon (see pic) and clicking and dragging the different axis'.
pic
More to come :d
EDIT: fixed video link
