Difference between revisions of "Blender/Custom Sword"

If not, you're home free and you can move on to UV map the hilt.  This won't be as easy, but it's still much easier than if we hadn't used extrusion.  This part won't need to be square, but it will need to be the shape of whatever texture you eventually plan to put on it.  If you want to, you could select the reference sword in object mode and look at it under UV face select to get a vague idea of one way to arrange this.

If not, you're home free and you can move on to UV map the hilt.  This won't be as easy, but it's still much easier than if we hadn't used extrusion.  This part won't need to be square, but it will need to be the shape of whatever texture you eventually plan to put on it.  If you want to, you could select the reference sword in object mode and look at it under UV face select to get a vague idea of one way to arrange this.

Remember: it's possible to drag parts of the UV map off the grid in the UV screen.  This can be useful while you're actually mapping, but everything has to fit back onto that grid.  This means you might have to shrink and move things around.  That's why the textures in the actual game look so odd - they're from UV maps.  If you want, you might look at a game texture of a sword in GIMP or another image program to see how Bethesda did their mapping.  If you want exactly the same part of a texture on a given part of the mesh, you can actually lay those parts of the UV map right over one another(they'll need to line up vertex for vertex, so don't forget those w,2 and w,3 commands).  Bethesda did this with blades and hilts quite a lot.  It's why their textures usually seem to have only half a hilt on them.

Remember: it's possible to drag parts of the UV map off the grid in the UV screen.  This can be useful while you're actually mapping, but everything has to fit back onto that grid.  This means you might have to shrink and move things around.  That's why the textures in the actual game look so odd - they're from UV maps.  If you want, you might look at a game texture of a sword in GIMP or another image program to see how Bethesda did their mapping.  If you want exactly the same part of a texture on a given part of the mesh, you can actually lay those parts of the UV map right over one another(they'll need to line up vertex for vertex, so don't forget those w,2 and w,3 commands).  Bethesda did this with blades and hilts quite a lot.  It's why their textures usually seem to have only half a hilt on them.