I have been messing around with some masking techniques recently and this is probably the best effect I’ve made so far.
It’s still imperfect due to roblox’s limitations but it ended up looking better than expected. Its inspired by Stormlight Archive’s Shardblades.
It looks amazing but there’s a small trick.
You basically set the objects transparency to around 0.05 and use a glass material with a transparency of around 0.99. If you put the glass over the material, it’ll appear completely transparent!!
Try it!
I think Ive heard of that trick a while back and forgot about it. I am doing something pretty similar just a bit more complicated
Yeah I noticed. You’re using viewportframes right?
Yeah I first load the sword in a frame and use an alpha0 mask to hide a part of the sword. I also have a character mask and and I dynamically change sword viewports Z Index based on the camera distance between sword handle and the character which works 99% of the time. The only problem is when looking head on it disappears, but that might be fixable with a hollow mesh. There is also lighting change due to viewports being pretty stripped down, so thats where glass method is better.
Yeah, the glass method also removes the Z-Index stuff.