Someone With Photoshop (Top Notch Tutorial!)

[Syrius Cline]

http://twh.telefragged.com/2d/sabre.htm

Someone needs to make a sabre, so we can look at it in envy. :lol

It's a tutorial to make the handle of a lightsabre, and it rocks. Perhaps someone could... I don't know... make me one!!!!!! :D

[ReaperFett]

I've nearly done my current project, then I'll try :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Hmmmmm..

[Dae Jinn]

it's blurry! :cry

[imported_J'ktal Anajii]

Eh... It's an okay saber, but, I think I could do better in a much easier way.

Shape tools and dodge and burn. Really easy.

[Dae Jinn]

Yeah, but you are the Dodge and Burn GOD, Sejah :p It looks blurry to me, and that would drive me insane....:lol

[Lady Vader]

oooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo! Gues what I'll be doing tonight? :lol

[ReaperFett]

Carving beavers out of Melons?

[Vega Van-Derveld]

...

LMAO the double-meanings amuse me :lol

[ReaperFett]

Double meaning?

[Vega Van-Derveld]

n/m, my mind is obviously in some gutter far beyond salvage :mneh

[Lady Vader]

Gutter? O_o... Try SEWER! :x

:lol

[Dae Jinn]

Beavers......melons......HEE! :D

[Vega Van-Derveld]

see, other people got it! It's not just me! really!

..

:cry

[ReaperFett]

I give up already. I cant een get fig 0.1 to work :cry

[Marcus Telcontar]

The real problem is the lack of texture on the handle. creating the basis out of a steel texture first would go a long way to helping. Puls, also coverting some of the object to a chrome finish.

[Dasquian Belargic]

My photoshop doesn't do half of the stuff that tells you to do, so :|

[Dae Jinn]

Same with mine, must be one that's higher than 3.0 ;) :lol

[Vega Van-Derveld]

I have the 6.0 trial so maybe the 'Render' option is only in the full version |I

[Dae Jinn]

Okay, mine is looking like a piece of floorboard :(

<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/mneh/crappysaber.JPG>

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Hey, you could use that as a border :)

[Dae Jinn]

I think I got the first part down. Doesn't look so squarish now...:lol

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Yeah, I didn't get that bluring thing. I put it at 16 and it just turned into a cloud of grey |I

[Zasz Grimm]

I believe that tutorial is suggesting the use of 7.0.

:rolleyes

[Vega Van-Derveld]

:shakefist

Now I have to go get the trial of that...

[Zasz Grimm]

:: Points and laughs ::

Well I truthfully can't laugh, freakin' 7.0 will not cooperate with my Win98...So I can't use it...

:(

[Dae Jinn]

I'm using mine and it's working, you just have to look at the picture and try to figure it out for yourself :p

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Figure it out for myself? Are you mad?!

... 1 hour download of 7.0. poodoo.

[Zasz Grimm]

If I had someone's address, I maybe could send a copy..

But that would take at least two weeks plus...seeing as how you live in ENGLAND!

:p

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Is that my fault? :rolleyes

[Dae Jinn]

:lol

<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/mneh/crappysaber.JPG>

Looks alright. FOR A PIECE OF CRAP! :lol

[Zasz Grimm]

Yus, it is your fault!

:)

I will attempt this later at home, try and see if 7.0 works. :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

Yes, it works IF you have patience. There's also a fair degree of skill needed to get it right.

[Dae Jinn]

<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/mneh/crappysaber.JPG>

after several crashes on PS (:grumble), it kinda looks like a saber.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

lip stick case and you know it :p

[Dae Jinn]

:lol

I added a button, so it looks a bit better. I think it looks good :cry :lol

edit- added a blade as well. Still think it looks good, just wish I had the "glow" option :\

[Dasquian Belargic]

what are you using to make it?

[Dae Jinn]

Make what? :lol

I'm using the marquee tool to make the hilt -- with the gradiant (spelling?) tool to do the shading. I used the same thing for the blade, but I just added a flood light "Lighting Effect" on it and it looks much better.
And I'm using Photoshop, Version 3.0, which has half the options 4,0 has. I used 4.0 in college, but this version came on my computer.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Yes, photoshop was what I was looking for there :mneh

They don't even have a glow tool on that one huh? That really sucks :|

[Dae Jinn]

No, half of the options you have in 4 are not in 3. :( Oh well, I figured a way around it.

[Dasquian Belargic]

hey, its looking a better there now :D all you need is to round off the blade tip and you're good to go

[Dae Jinn]

I have no roundy tool :cry I need the elipse tool!

[Dasquian Belargic]

don't you have like... free lasso thing?

[Dae Jinn]

Yeah, but I'm a total gymp with the mouse. ^_^;

Am trying to fix it now. :x

[Dasquian Belargic]

:D:thumbup eyyyy [/fonzy]

[Dae Jinn]

<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/mneh/crappysaber.JPG>

There. :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Pretty good for a first try :D

[Dae Jinn]

Thanks.

I'm sure other people can do much better, but I think it looks good consider what I used to make it :lol Except it's blinding :x :lol

[Morgan Evanar]

Anything but 5/5.5 or 7 is weakness!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Dae - I'm impressed! For using 3.0 that isn't half bad. :D

[Dae Jinn]

Thanks :D I'm kinda proud of it. JMK said the hilt looks like something out of a video game :lol

[Sage Hazzard]

I'm going to try and convert that tutorial with Paintshop. See if some of the same things can be done in a different way with that program. :)

Nicely done Dae. Needs a little work but you'll get better. Just keep adjusting it. :)

Yeah, I could probably make a neat sabre through drawing it on the computer, then coloring it. Would actually look kind of neat, like a comic book sabre. Though I really don't have that much patience. :lol

[Dae Jinn]

<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/mneh/saber2.JPG>

Second one, took less time to make this one, and I think it looks less...amatuer. :lol And thanks Sage, I think...:p

[AmazonBabe]

Good work with using 3.0! Now THAT takes skill! :)



Anything but 5/5.5 or 7 is weakness!

Yus!

[Syrius Cline]

With a few adjustments, that could be great. Few suggestions that would make that even better:

First, widen the area between the ridges and the indent. Make the indents about as wide as the little ridges you made. Then add a small black line on one of the sides of the ridges and blur it a very small amount. Do that to the other little raises, etc. and it'll add more of a 3D quality. I'm actually working on mine right now, not very near done but it's coming along nicely. I might post a preview soon. :)

[Sage Hazzard]

Sample of mine. :D

Lots more to do. I'll probably change the design from what it is in that tutorial and use it as a character's official lightsabre of choice. I don't really like what that tutorial did with the right side of the sabre.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Nicely done Sage :rollin

[Leeloo Mina]

Hmm.. lightsabers.. I was never any good at making the hilt.. maybe when I get get back home I'll try it out.

Jeseth used to search for some fan-made lightsabers.. you know the replica ones made from pipes and whatnot and used photos of those as a base then he'd do whatever the heck to it.. at least that's what he told me he did.

I think I tried that a couple of times but I really sucked at photoshop/paintshoppro.. whatever I was using then.

[Darth Turbogeek]

The guy writing the tutorial was a tool. IT'S NOT FRIGGING POSSIBLE WITH HIS METHOD. Frankly, i wasted an hour before I said screw it and just went using gradients instead of lines as that freak stated. And using gluassianl blurs to create the cylinder look? Bah. Have a look. He simply is wrong. I'm goign to redo this using a metal texture to begin with, then a bit of gradients and lighting to make it look like a cylinder of metal.

One thing that is neat is the suggestion of transform > shape. That does work well. Anyweay, using gradients but starting with the gluassian blue I get so far....

[imported_Eve]

You know, as someone who used to play a bit of tennis, holding a hilt like that would take some getting used to, only after a ton of painful blisters. Youch.

Sorry, back to your tutorial.

[Dae Jinn]

Very nice you two :)

I still like my first one; it's not all ridgey. Could you imagine actually holding the one from the tutorial? You'd have ridge marks on your hand! :lol

[Marcus Telcontar]

Could you imagine actually holding the one from the tutorial? You'd have ridge marks on your hand!

Also, think about this - those ridges are likely to double as cooling vanes. So as well as friction blisters as Eve said, you get blisters from burns.

Oh yeah.....

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/sabre2.jpg>

[AmazonBabe]

:eek

Oooooooooooooooooooooo! That looks kickbutt AWESOME, Marcus! Quick! Gimme a tutorial on what you just did!

:: Oogles and drools. ::

[Sage Hazzard]

Dude, you should start making custom lightsabres as well as sigs! :D

I made mine trying to duplicate what the tutorial produced, but through my own methods. I'll probably end up with trying to make half as cool a chrome look as you made, man. :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

OOH pretty! Mark, that's really good. :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

:D

Once I get FTP back again, I'll show some minor changes that improve the look.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Yeech, what a goddamn nightmare dialup is. especially for big files. And command line FTP commands you havent done in 5 years.

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/Athona2.jpg>

Other versions are to be found in Marcus Request, in GJO's Helpdesk

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Mark...that looks really nice. But, isn't it a bit long? o_O

Maybe its just the resolution on my work comp. but it looks like the handle is as long as the blade should be.

[Droo]

That's amazing work Mark.

[Morgan Evanar]

Ummmm thats REALLY good.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

...I'm going to have to try this now. :p

Mark, again, incredible looking. :)


....I can hear your ego swelling from over here!! :D

[sonja]

Yes, that is awesome! It's pretty. Maybe he wants a longer reach? Oooohh and he even has elfish on the hilt.

[Sage Hazzard]

I say the handle is actually very good. I imagine one hand goes on the area before the things that come out of the blade and one goes after. Allows for more power I would think, as you'd have two hands firmly grasped and your center of gravity would have to be firmly set. Very good for an experienced swordsmen who sticks to old school swordplay, I would think. Now if you were a wirey little guy who flipped around a lot and swung off balance while turning and stuff, that'd be a death wish to use.

Dude, I'm going to have to ask you to make me a sabre and keep asking you until you do it. :lol

[Gurney Devries]

Arg. I could use some help with this part:
Select the line tool, and set paint type to darken, opacity to 15%.I'm using PS7 and I don't see any options of this nature for the line tool. :(

Ha, nevermind. Found an easier and better way to do it.

[Marcus Telcontar]

:o Ummm.. not sure how to respond to the praise. Thank you - considering what rough couple of months it's been, it means much to me, esp coming from someone whom I'm pretty sure has no idea how in awe their skillz I am.

Sage - No way man. If I started doing them for everyone, I'd be buried in requests. Well, okay, I'll do a few :). But you'll need to be very detailed in what you want


Te sabre itself came from two idea in 1999 - one was the claymore William Wallace carried in Braveheart and the other was a sabre idea Yog did for me. Combine the two, you get a sabre that does exactly what Sage stated it would, but allow other techniques to be used. Puls a few other custom ideas like twin stages, detachability, back history and the Quenya etchings.

So, in realitiy, it's taken me this long to get skilled enough to actually produce Athona. Seeing the results, it's worth it.

Forgive me for pratting this crap, I'm jsut a touch worn out by PC rebuild and not thinking straight.

---

I have a few words for the tutorial writer at that part Gurney's up to. None of them printable. He claims gradients are not the way to shade and using lines to shade the cooling vanes etc is the way to go. He is totally wrong. Ignore him and use gradients. Make sure you know how to selectively apply a gradient with an opacicy, else you'll get some weird and unfortunante results. I used...

1. Select the area to grade

2. Set gradient to Black to transparent

2. Set the master Opacicy to about 20%

4. Apply Gradient

5. Reapply to suit darkness and distance required.

Gurney you are correct, there are no options in PS7 to do that. However, if you draw a line, set it to those settings, the next lines you draw will also have those settings.

[ReaperFett]

I refuse to join in this butt kissing!



Ah okay then, it deserves it :)




Great job. Best thing about it is the little details, like the writing. It makes it more "real".


Any reason for three lights btw?

[Marcus Telcontar]

Any reason for three lights btw?

There's four modes it can switch to. Buttons 2 and A, used together turns it into a Flamesabre, which is what Count Dooku's sabre was supposed to be, or so I remember from some time ago. Anyway, more than likely total BS, but that's the way the sabre is envisionaged in my head, so I ran with it.

[Gurney Devries]

I made the base cylinder using the tutorial and did pretty much everything else on my own. I'm fairly pleased with the results, seeing as how this is my first attempt at making something entirely from scratch in Photoshop. I'm afraid I abused the chrome effect a wee bit much, especially towards the emitter end. Maybe I'll try and work on that later.

http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=518952

[Pierce Tondry]

Niiice, Mark. I mean, the concept is a blatant theft, but at least it's a good blatant theft.

I kinda feel like I'm looking at an aluminum foil saber there, Gurney.

[Gurney Devries]

Well... it was either that, or make it a flat, cartoonish looking gray.

[Sasseeri Reeouurra]

Its cool. :D Mesa likes :)

[Morgan Evanar]

You could make the chrome more transparent, that might work.

[Ryla Relvinian]

I mean, the concept is a blatant theft, but at least it's a good blatant theft.

Imitation is the sincerist form of flattery. :) Plus, it rox0rs.


You know, as someone who used to play a bit of tennis, holding a hilt like that would take some getting used to, only after a ton of painful blisters.

That's about what I said after actually taking a swordfighting class, and thusly re-designed my saber to be a smooth hilt, hand-and-a-half style.

[sonja]

Maybe if the hilt was rubberish, or wrapped in ... wrap, I could use it. When I go and play now my whole palm bleeds, and my inner thumb bleeds. Plus, what if your hand sweats on metal or steel? What ya gonna do then? Some people are sweaty. I know that why it's rrrruffled with rrrridges, but that still wouldn't help you.

[Gurney Devries]

You could make the chrome more transparent, that might workNot really. Can't do that with the method I used.

I didn't add chrome on top of the objects. Instead, I deformed the objects until they looked chrome. In hindsight, it might be possible for me to do the chrome as a seperate layer on top of the regular saber in the future. Oh well.

The handgrip was probably the most difficult part to make, but I'm very pleased with how it came out.

[Marcus Telcontar]

So you should be pleased. It's schweeeeet

[Marcus Telcontar]

I'll try that again - a not so wo sabre, but this one I think is more real. After a few years use of course

<img src=http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=519363>

[Helenias Evenstar]

:eek

Not what I envisonaged my sabre as, but I'll take it. That's magnificent

[Dae Jinn]

<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/mneh/saber4b.JPG>


yus! it looks crap compared to Mark's work, but it's better then my other ones ^_^;

[ReaperFett]

Dae, that's a very good last but one stage. All you need to do is add little details. More colours, D-Clips, clips, thinks like that.

[Dae Jinn]

edit-- okay, added a light :mischief

[ReaperFett]

Seriously, that improves it a lot.

[Dae Jinn]

I know, I added more stuff. I just hate too much clutter, you know? Sometimes you add too much and it makes it look like crap.

<img src=http://sw-fans.net/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=519626>

[ReaperFett]

Again, better. It now looks as if you've looked at it as a Lightsabre you are making, not a fancy tube :)

[Makoto Neo]

My shot at one of these buggers

[Sage Hazzard]

Nicely done Makoto. One suggestion though, smooth out the texture. It looks a little like a rock, rather than a metal. Otherwise very good. :)

DANG Dae! Huge improvement over your other ones. No offense to the earlier ones but this is clearly better. How'd you get that color, texture? I can't ever find a way to make natural looking chrome or metal. I especially like that little blue at the bottom. Secondary lighting = an expert's best friend.

To heck with this way of making sabres. I can't make anything near Marcus', and I'm using crappy Paint Shop. So instead... I shall coloring it manually! Ol' Comic Book coloring. Then atleast I can say my crappiness is a "style". :)

[Dae Jinn]

I used a combo of layers (on different settings), embossing and dodge and burn. It started as a blue saber, so...:uhoh

The blue is actually from the embossing over a layer set on difference. I blurred the dodge & burn areas, which I created with a marquee. A lot of it was copy and pasted. All the "chrome" parts are from the main body.:lol

[AmazonBabe]

I tried my hand again at the tutorial the other day, but I keep running into the problem of not understanding what the guy has written and/or I can't seem to find the tool or effect he indicates.

:grumble

I have so many ideas for my characters lightsabers, and the closest I can get to them is drawing them on paper. :\

[ReaperFett]

That was my problem AB. He says words that I cant find :)

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Yeah, even when I got the 7 trial I can't find stuff he is explaining :|

[Gurney Devries]

The tutorial is pretty crap. Follow the instructions up until you have the basic cylinder, then ignore them and just work with that.

Make ridges by using the rectangular marquee tool to select a section, right click, Free Transform, and stretch it out a bit.

Although it may not be the best way to do it, I then cut the stretched out section into a new layer so I can add a bevel and drop shadow to it, giving it a rounded feel and having it cast it's own shadow onto the rest of the hilt.

[Marcus Telcontar]

If there's enough demand, I'll spend some time and rewrite so it's followable. Cause yes, the tutorial is plain not do-able in it's present form

[Morgan Evanar]

PLEEEAAASE.

[AmazonBabe]

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE MARCUS!

:: Grovels. ::

I'll do whatever you want, just please write out a tutorial explaining how you did that awesome lightsaber!

[Taylor Millard]

I'll third it...would be nice to have a nice rewritten tutorial.

Please :)

[Leeloo Mina]

Whatever he wants? :p

I'm not going that far. :) but I'll love him forever if he writes one.. I've been trying to do this but it's not working -_-

[Marcus Telcontar]

I need a volunteer to test the tut. It'll be ready tonight.

[Taylor Millard]

I can test it in about 6 hours so I'll do it if no one will.

[Marcus Telcontar]

The first part of the tut is up at

http://panic.hopto.org/swf/marcus/sabretut/sabre.html


Nad this is what I made based ont hat first part....

(All yours Sage)

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/sagesabre1.jpg>


(Tutorial ony gets you up to the basic final shape. second part will be on shading and textures, although after the tut, you should have enough there to modify the shape and style to how you want)

[Taylor Millard]

fyi Figures 5-8 do not work. We're not getting a pic of them for some odd reason.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Fixed now

[Dasquian Belargic]

http://panic.hopto.org/swf/vega/dasquian/dasquiansaber.jpg

First try, not so good. Looks a bit chunky.

http://panic.hopto.org/swf/vega/dasquian/keltsaber2.jpg

Quite pleased with that :)

[imported_Terran Starek]

Kelt's is very, very cool. I like it.

I'm gonna try my hand at it. Here goes. . .

[AmazonBabe]

Nice work there, Das. Me like. :D

I'll have to try my hand at the tut when I get home. Very excited I am! :rollin

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Some of the stuff, even in Marks tutorial, wasn't working for me. Just needed to pull some improv sometimes :)

[Estelle Russard]

You guys are all awesome!

[imported_Terran Starek]

Ok, here goes. My first saber. . .

Halcyon (http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~slkrmm/Halcyon.jpg)

So yeah. Please, feel free to criticize. I need to get better. :)

[Lady Vader]

That's pretty good for a first try, Terran. :)

[imported_Terran Starek]

Thank you much. I'm having great difficulty with making it a realisitic metal. The chrome filter just isn't working for me. :(

But, I think it turned out ok. :)

[Sage Hazzard]

::bows::

Thank you, you wonderful man! :D

::zooms off into the moon, eyes twinkling as he clutches his sabre::

By the by, do you perchance have that sabre in a bigger size? Just wondering. :) I love it dude.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Course I did. Gimme a bit and I'll upload

[imported_Terran Starek]

Ok, Round 2 of the Terran Saber work (yeah, I know they aren't great, but bear with me, huh? :-D):

Dark Saber (http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~slkrmm/DarkSaber.jpg)

Kinda stubby and wide, but it looks ok.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

....must not...comment...

*squelches SIW*

[imported_Terran Starek]

Yes, LD, Comment!! You need to!

I need to get better--my current level is Level -1, also known as:

SUCKEE!

So, I need constructive critisizm if I am gonna get better! :-P My feelings won't be hurt.

[Dae Jinn]

I liked the first one better, Terran. It's really good for a first try :)


Kinda stubby and wide, but it looks ok.


At least he didn't say long and hard, LD :lol

<font size=1>you know I love you Terran, but had to poke fun...:mischief'</font>

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I was going to say, girth is all that really matters anyway.. :mneh

[Dae Jinn]

True. But guys seem to think other-wise :rolleyes.

And while we're on the subject, light-sabers seem to be a huge (pardon the pun) phalic symbol. I mean, guys, holding red glowy sticks in front of their crotches....:lol I think it'd be great if we saw Ewan's real "saber" :mischief

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

:lol bad image! hee....

[Typhoon]

Originally posted by Dae Jinn
I liked the first one better, Terran. It's really good for a first try :)




At least he didn't say long and hard, LD :lol

<font size=1>you know I love you Terran, but had to poke fun...:mischief'</font>


He'd rather "poke" you with his lightsabre

[Dae Jinn]

LMAO!

Well, I dunno about that one! :o

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

:lol I don't doubt he doesn't.....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

http://panic.hopto.org/swf/lilly/lightsaber.jpg <--huge version

http://panic.hopto.org/swf/lilly/lightsabersmallest.jpg <---small version


Mark I need the second half of the tutorial. ;)

[Dae Jinn]

Verdy nice LD! :D

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Thanks Dae! I wish the handle wasn't so boring. I had fun with the blade. ^_^;

[Lion El' Jonson]

Originally posted by Lilaena De'Ville
I had fun with the blade. ^_^;

Bad mental image there, Lil...:lol

Yay! Finally something to use Photoshop 7.0 on!

Since I sit around doing NOTHING all day, I'll give it a try...

[Marcus Telcontar]

Mark I need the second half of the tutorial

I'm getting to it

[Lion El' Jonson]

Give the man a break, he just redesigned the entire GJO forum!

:lol

[Lion El' Jonson]

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/AndyRocket/LionsSaber3.gif

Did it in 15 minutes, so it's not especially great. The pommel needs lots of work, but this was just a little test...

*Goes off to make a new saber...*

[Marcus Telcontar]

Sage - frogot. Youwwanted a larger version of yours...

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/sagesabre2.jpg>


And.... latest one

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/wargravesabre.jpg>


:: Thinks... I owe the second tut part, dont I? ::

[Lion El' Jonson]

DAMN Marcus....that's downright unbelievably good!

Only thing that looks funny is those little brown bumps on the second half of the saber...they look too short.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

How do you make the rings? at the end of the saber?

[Marcus Telcontar]

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/xazsabre2.jpg>

Another, earlier one.

You mean the ring the sabre can hang from on your belt? Lion, well, if the handhold bumps were higher up it doesnt really look right. Lowerign thim into the sabre body was better on the eye.

I'll add, the reason Wargrave's sabre actually looked like machined metal is I experimented and found a superior base than the tut was to work with, working with a bevel and emboss. Gimme a day and I'll get that one up


Edit - BTW, who wants to be the victim who gets the sabre that the new tutorial will be written with?

[Oriadin]

Ive got an idea for a lightsaber that ive sketched out. Incase there is a cue can I put my request in here? I'll scan in my scetch and upload it so I can show you my idea on here sometime tonight.

[Lion El' Jonson]

Originally posted by Marcus Elessar
<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/xazsabre2.jpg>

Another, earlier one.

You mean the ring the sabre can hang from on your belt? Lion, well, if the handhold bumps were higher up it doesnt really look right. Lowerign thim into the sabre body was better on the eye.

I'll add, the reason Wargrave's sabre actually looked like machined metal is I experimented and found a superior base than the tut was to work with, working with a bevel and emboss. Gimme a day and I'll get that one up


Edit - BTW, who wants to be the victim who gets the sabre that the new tutorial will be written with?

Well, that explains why you're the master and I'm the pathetic little student...

My friend made me a saber with 3D MAX...very pretty, but weird...

[Marcus Telcontar]

Originally posted by Oriadin
Ive got an idea for a lightsaber that ive sketched out. Incase there is a cue can I put my request in here? I'll scan in my scetch and upload it so I can show you my idea on here sometime tonight.

Load it up. Lets see what's in mind.

[Oriadin]

Argh! Need to read over my posts from now on! Spelling!
OK, I'll get it up tonight.

[Oriadin]

Ok, here are a few links of quick drawings I did while not trying to get caught at work! lol

Dont take the piss, I did my best :)

http://www.freakincage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/saber1.jpg
http://www.freakincage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/saber2.jpg
http://www.freakincage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/saber3.jpg

As you can see there is a definate pattern of design coming through. The handle is how id like it to be. Id like it to look semi sword like. Just have a mess with it and see what happens. I have faith in your creativness Mark :D

[Lion El' Jonson]

<img src=http://mywebpage.netscape.com/AndyRocket/CalibanPride.gif>

My genius friend made this for me as an adaptation of a sword he made back in January. It looks nothing like a real saber, but I love it...

...I think it's inhuman that he can do something that good...

[Destiny Stormrider]

That's really nice Lion. :) :thumbup to ur friend!

[Lion El' Jonson]

Thanks Dest...I'll pass along compliments.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Havent forgotten you Ori - I've had a bugger of a time lately and creativity hasn't really flowed. But it is now. Gimme another day. I've finally got a shape I like and now just need to texture and add details.

[Oriadin]

Alright. I cant wait to see it!

[Marcus Telcontar]

Annnnnnnnd...

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/oriadinsabre1.jpg>


And the unlit version....

<img src=http://www.thegjo.com/sabers/oriadinsabre2.jpg>

[Marcus Telcontar]

Wait. I have a better idea. I'm goign to redo some of that sabre.

But for now, here's another one

<img src=http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=538800>

[Lion El' Jonson]

Wow. Marcus, Terran's saber looks awesome. How'd you accomplish that redish tinge near the activation switches?

[Marcus Telcontar]

With a layer overlay

And got Oriadin's sabre redone. Much nicer now

[imported_Terran Starek]

Yeah, my saber rules! :D

But I can't see any of the pictures when you post it. It's weird.

[Ace McCloud]

marcus you are so good at that. I've tried to do photoshop stuff in the past but have failed miserably..... If you're not to busy can you make one for me? =P Its kind of simple because it was given to me by the sith, about 10 years ago (rp time). But its been used for all sorts of things, a tool to survive on Endar, like an old, over used sword or something.