Can you provide a video for using Blender for the first time? Will definitely help me by all means.
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This is a good place to start IMO.
While Blender may be easier for some fancy designs, and is for sure a good thing to learn, there are certainly plenty of easy techniques with unions to make blade building effective.
There are two practical methods:
- Calculate everything and do the math to get the exact shape you want. Not the most fun, and not something I’m anywhere near good enough to help with. That brings us to the better method:
- Build the blade in quarters (For straight blades, for curved blades build in halves).
While this isn’t the best example, this was a quick blade build I threw together in the past 5 min to demonstrate the technique.
Generally, you should be able to shape the blade into the overall form you want with just a quarter of it, as it’s relatively easy to avoid bumps and uneven parts compared to attempting to do multiple sides at once. Once you have the first quarter how you like it, take a duplicate and un-union it completely, duplicate it over to the other side with a plugin, (Stravant - Model Reflect - Roblox), and duplicate both over/rotate to finish the last half of the blade. While learning Blender is a critical skill in the development environment of Roblox, it is just as important to be capable of using the tools Roblox provides to the fullest.
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Best thing I do when it comes to creating something, is make a blueprint, from there I can work out where each negative will be or each part will go to make up that design. And knives are the same. You can display each way the knife will be and where each curve or angle will be within the design.
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Everyone else has offered their tips, but honestly if the unions are becoming difficult you could recreate the edges with wedges and make more of a flat blade. You could also add wedges again to create a blade. I could offer some example pics, but I’m not really sure if you’re going for more low-poly or detailed. But as people said above, the most ideal way to make swords is probably Blender nowadays for various reasons, but you could get away with parts if you know what you’re doing.
What I would do if your using uinion/negate is situate your parts for one angle of the blade then use a mirror plugin https://www.roblox.com/library/217792838/Stravant-Model-Reflect is what I use, to flip it to the other edge of the sword, then take and mirror those two sections for the other side of the blade. Then negate those parts and union them with the part your using for the blade
Not sure if makes sense but I tried my best to explain it how I thought of it.
Like others said though blender would be better, this is just what I came up with for doing it the Union method.
How would you rotate the 3d viewport on laptop. I don’t currently have a mouse on me.
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I think you can bind it to another key or emulate it? I think he mentions it in one of his videos but I’m not totally sure.
I think he said emulate 3 button. Thank you for responding.
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Yeah for sure! It’s somewhere in the user preference settings.
I had just finished the video so I’m going to attempt to make a basic sword now. I’ll watch some other ones before I make it though.
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I was watching the video above and I’m not sure on how to get to the background images. I was pressing end like he said and it wasn’t working.
I accidentally gave it to myself instead of you.
Can you give me the timestamp?
Around 0:56 for how to make a cool sword video in this topic.
Ah, he’s saying “press N”, not “press End”
Thanks you for correcting me! I can continue now.
Also do you know how to zoom in in Blender?
Middle mouse button with a mouse, on a trackpad you use two fingers like you’re scrolling through a web page (at least, that’s how I have it set up. Not sure if that’s the default.)
FBX works as well, for importing.