[REQz] Black Lightsaber

[Minameisearl]

hey

i like star wars: force unleashed, and i noticed that there were some lightsaber mods "out there" and thought it would be flippin-awesome-tacular if there was the black lightsaber. i think that the coolest looking weapon(in my opinion, of course) in The Force Unleashed could also be the coolest weapon in oblivion. i dont really care about the hilt or anything, just please please dont make the blade 10 feet long!

 

http://blog.ugo.com/images/uploads/black_lightsaber_003-bugged.jpg

http://blog.ugo.com/images/uploads/black_lightsaber_006-bugged.jpg

http://blog.ugo.com/images/uploads/black_lightsaber_007-bugged.jpg

http://blog.ugo.com/images/uploads/black_lightsaber_008-bugged.jpg

[Keshyngul]

You'd have to do the lightening different since the glow is different from the blade color (I think)

 

Other then that this seems perfectly possible.

[Minameisearl]

ya it seems that the people that made the force unleashed just made an area of white around the blade, and the inside just black, because without that white you would probably never see it

[Javalin]

I'd actually like to see "The Apprentices" clothes being made in a mod though. I think that'd look pretty sweet :P

 

I'm not too sure about the lightsaber though-- That may be quite hard to do.

[Minameisearl]

I'd actually like to see "The Apprentices" clothes being made in a mod though. I think that'd look pretty sweet :P

 

I'm not too sure about the lightsaber though-- That may be quite hard to do.

 

well im looking for a weapon, and i dont really care about clothes, sry

but yea the apprentices clothes are pretty awesome

if other people have made green and red lightsabers with green and red glow, people can make a black lightsaber with a white glow

[Javalin]

I'd actually like to see "The Apprentices" clothes being made in a mod though. I think that'd look pretty sweet :P

 

I'm not too sure about the lightsaber though-- That may be quite hard to do.

 

well im looking for a weapon, and i dont really care about clothes, sry

but yea the apprentices clothes are pretty awesome

if other people have made green and red lightsabers with green and red glow, people can make a black lightsaber with a white glow

 

 

Retextures maybe?, you could ask the authors if those other light saber mods if they can retexture the one they put up, or you could try it yourself maybe? Just make sure you ask if you are going to do it yourself, and have intentions to distribute, otherwise it causes chaos amongst the modding communities.

[ihateregisteringeverywhere]

The sword should actualy be surprisingly simple to create.

 

For those that understand blender and nifscope AND want to give it a shot - this is how:

 

I bet you've seen flaming swords allready. It's a simple thing realy. An effect plane is attached to the sword, Always rotated towards the camera and along the sword axis. The effect plane cycles trough a few "difuse maps". Simple pictures of the flame, with the transparency controlled by the alpha chanel packed in nicely in a dds file.

 

So just fire up your modeling program of choice, model the hilt, attach a plane to it and name it effectplane01. Then create the texture, a simple blured rectangle with rounded edges should work fine, use a similar smaller rounded edges rectangle to make the middle part black again. Copy this into the alpha changel and export as a dds(with a DXT5 compression). Then save it as a dds one more time but discard the alpha changel (just save it with a DXT1 compression) and name the file "yournamehere_g.dds". You want the sword to glow, right? So that's a glow map. If you think yourself good then you can create several such textures with dissorted edges to make the sword look like it's pulsating. And the rest is just putting it together in nifscope. I suggest copying everything from a flame sword, pasting in your mesh and textures, deleting the rest and changing the ninode entries.

 

Read this tutorial for nifscope info on this.

[Minameisearl]

to put it quite simply, modeling and texturing makes my head explode. I have tried modeling once and all i made was a ball :wallbash: . im not really sure if the other original modder is willing to do anything, thats why i was hoping other people could help me with this retexturing buisiness

[Minameisearl]

omg sry for the double post, i just found this

OMFG THIS WOULD LOOK FLIPPIN SWEET IN BLACK

http://tesnexus.com/downloads/images/14715-1-1200113802.jpg

[ihateregisteringeverywhere]

I could do it... the day after tomorow perhaps. Anyway, there are differences in those pictures and I'd like to know which version you'd like best. Should it be truly black in the centre, just transparent, or a combination of theese? Should it be cylinder shaped like on the first pictures or pear shaped like on the last one?

 

Be warned though. if I do this then I'll do it as a modders resource. Meaning that I'll only release the niff and textures, you'll have to do the CS work yourself.