{"id":1658,"date":"2009-12-01T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2009-12-01T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:45:59","slug":"making-an-expensive-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Making an expensive sword"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I was a little worried of what we should do today. First, I was thinking of doing another FilterForge<\/a> tutorial, but my cottage wood wall filter quickly became way to complicated to explain, even to myself, so I just got this idea of a gold and silver striped texture that would make a barber pole like look on a cylinder, and it quickly turned out to be good.<\/p>\n

So, I fiddled with it for a pretty short time, maybe 10 \u00a0minutes, and when I tested it on a cylinder in Cheetah3D, the idea came to life.<\/p>\n

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This is the texture, and the corresponding bump map. It doesn’t look much as a plain square of texture, but wait.<\/p>\n

So start up Cheetah3D<\/a>, here we go again. First, as always, create a cylinder.
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Rotate and resize it, and add then create a material from the texture, and apply that texture to the cylinder, like this.
\n\"es05\"<\/a>Now, create a torus object, and size it like this, and put it over the end of the cylinder. You are curious now, are you?<\/p>\n

\"es06\"<\/p>\n

Create a sphere, and size it like this, and put it on the other \u00a0side of the torus. Add a silver texture (or use the built in silver texture in Cheetah3D 5) to the torus and the sphere. Now, create a cube, size it like below, set the polygons to 4 x 4 x 4, and do two Catmull-Clark subdivides on it.<\/p>\n

\"es07\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, it looks like a hilt. Set the silver material on the hilt also. Create a small icosahedron, and make 3 copies of it, and spread them equally on the cube we just made for the hilt. We create a reflective, transparent material for that, like a gem.<\/p>\n

\"es09\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is what it should look like in the modeler.\u00a0\"es10\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, create a cylinder, for the blade, and shape it like this.<\/p>\n

\"es11\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We shape the tip like this.<\/p>\n

\"es12\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And we create a sphere, that we shape like this to then use a Boolean to remove it and shape the blade.<\/p>\n

\"es13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, we add some shaping to the blade, and add a HDRI image to the render, and we got a sword. Last is to add some shadows, like this.<\/p>\n

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This is a pretty nice ceremonial sword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I was a little worried of what we should do today. First, I was thinking of doing another FilterForge tutorial, but my cottage wood wall filter quickly became way to complicated to explain, even to myself, so I just got this idea of a gold and silver striped texture that would make a barber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}