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A Civilized Weapon
2005-03-31, 1:41 AM #1
Namely this here model was to get my feet wet in the world of texturing. My OpenGL game project requires the use of textures and I need to learn how to do texturing. So what do you all think? (click for full size)
[http://public.csusm.edu/bcline2000/imgs/lightsaber3_th.jpg]

Keep in mind, I have never ever ever ever made my OWN textures. I think I've done all right.
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2005-03-31, 5:05 AM #2
Well it's a good start, but right now it just looks like a flashlight. :p
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2005-03-31, 10:38 AM #3
Hmm...you're right. I can see that.

What can I do to make it less..flashlight-like?
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2005-03-31, 11:04 AM #4
Add a blade. Seriously, unless you want to make it ridiculously flamboyant, it looks just fine for a lightsaber sans blade.
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2005-03-31, 3:59 PM #5
Alot of lightsabers look like flashlights anyway, perhaps that's part of the Jedi strategy.
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2005-03-31, 4:11 PM #6
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Originally posted by JediGandalf
Hmm...you're right. I can see that.

What can I do to make it less..flashlight-like?


Look at other lightsaber designs. The tube... well... isn't a tube. Some of them have grips, some have weird ring thingies, some have variations in diameter, etc.

[http://www.grademyart.com/orig/1/7.jpg]
[http://rebelops.jk2files.com/weapons/lightsaber/lightsaber.jpg]

Basicly, the original lightsabers from episode 4 were disconnected flash guns from cameras. If it looks like a flashgun, you're on the right track!
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2005-03-31, 5:27 PM #7
Yeah, geographic detail is the key to good models.

Dammit, wish I could texture.. :(
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2005-03-31, 6:43 PM #8
Changes. I didn't like the gold there. Looks...un Jedi :p
[http://public.csusm.edu/bcline2000/imgs/lightsaber4.jpg]

Flexor: Merci beaucoup. Once I'm more happy with texturing, I'll tinker with the model.
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2005-03-31, 7:24 PM #9
reminds me more of a marker then a flashlight... add like a clip-to-stuff ring on the end
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2005-03-31, 8:56 PM #10
make an indent up near the top where the crown thing is and bring it back inwards towards the handle some... it'll break things up a bit.. something like this:
[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/15785.jpg]
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2005-04-01, 6:50 AM #11
Much better!
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2005-04-01, 6:54 AM #12
meh.. better... still needs more detail... nothing wrong with gold, think of Mace Windu's saber...
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2005-04-01, 7:00 AM #13
Near the middle of it there needs to be something more. Other than that, if you follow up on Blood Asps idea it will look pretty good.
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2005-04-01, 10:09 AM #14
I don't know if this will help much, but here are a couple of pics of a lightsaber I made out of Lego a few years back. It might give you a few ideas. :)

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v52/RossD/small_light1.jpg]

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v52/RossD/small_light2.jpg]
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2005-04-01, 12:43 PM #15
Impressive Daft_Vader

[http://public.csusm.edu/bcline2000/imgs/saber/lightsaber5.jpg]
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2005-04-01, 5:44 PM #16
Well.. if you look at the lightsaber replacements Anakin and Obi-Wan were given in AotC, they weren't very detailed. And hey, a lightsaber is a representation of the Jedi, if a Jedi is a down to earth type that settles for anything that gets the job done, his lightsaber will no doubt be of a very simple design too.
A more glorious Jedi would have a more decorated lightsaber.. or at least, that is how I see it. >.>;;
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