Making a Nunchuck lightsaber.(WIP)

KoldIt

Hi I am new to posting on these forums but not new to 3d. I am currently attending my 3rd year of game development school(have only been doing 3d for one year). We got an assignment to make 5 weapons and make them look different power wise. So the first one would be the weakest and the last one the strongest. Anyways I made 5 different nunchucks and the last ones are lightsabers.

Here is the conceptart for the lightsaber.


And here is some work that i did on the first day.




And later that week I started to experiment with the light on the lightsaber. The effect thus far looks kinda toyish to me and if someone could reccomend a tutorial or know a way to do it I would be very pleased to hear about it.



So there it is I will update this once I get further and any cnc would be appreciated:)

Josh_Singh

HAHAHAHA, best way to use this weapon, Give it to your enemy.

Rens

Josh_Singh wrote: »

HAHAHAHA, best way to use this weapon, Give it to your enemy.

Hahaha! XD

vofff

this is the most danger weapon...ever!!! I wouldnt swing that nunchuck lightsaber it would just cut of your arms easily.

tlankford

I like it. are you going to do a high poly bake for it as well?

Wells

vofff wrote: »

this is the most danger weapon...ever!!! I wouldnt swing that nunchuck lightsaber it would just cut of your arms easily.

pfft, that's why it's not for nubs

brandoom

I wouldn't be afraid to throw in quite a few more polys. Unless your making it for a low poly game. Break up the squareness.

Cool concept though.

KoldIt

brandoom wrote: »

I wouldn't be afraid to throw in quite a few more polys. Unless your making it for a low poly game. Break up the squareness.

Cool concept though.

Yea I´m gonna do that once I uv map it.

Thnx.

And Sectaurs thats exactly what i was thinking;)

Smash

LOL, I've never seen this done! very cool concept!

KoldIt

Got the highpoly goin now. I will start texturing and stuff tommorow:)

Wiktor

Haha, this has so much awesome in it!

oobersli

remove the chain and replace it with a coupling beam from the pod racers. Maybe put a switch on it so when a saber is held it turns that saber off so the user can swing the held part around without being cut. It would make a really cool light show with lots of saber flipping and beams turning on and off.

just a thought.

Klumpmeister

Haha looks awesome but I guess the only one who could wield such a mighty weapon would be Bruce Lee.

SHEPEIRO

cool

KoldIt

oobersli wrote: »

remove the chain and replace it with a coupling beam from the pod racers. Maybe put a switch on it so when a saber is held it turns that saber off so the user can swing the held part around without being cut. It would make a really cool light show with lots of saber flipping and beams turning on and off.

just a thought.

I am actually loving that idea:) It´s just that I have no idea of how I would go about to get that. If anybody knows a tutorial then please direct me to it:)

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KoldIt

TeriyakiStyle wrote: »

I'm sensing a future youtube vid. Just build the thing first then someone will tell you or help you rig it.

Also, spray paint a pair of nunchucks green and practice a lot. I'll tell you why later if you don't already know.

I´m not gonna practice with nunchucks unless you give me a good reason:P

kaptainkernals

I know, and it would look awesome!

BlazeF

I think I know how you'd have to use these... >.>

So, you activate the lightsaber when attacking. Cause otherwise you can't use these like normal nunchuck.

But looks like sweetness

Mark Dygert

I think I've seen how this ends...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CLwxObfaNE

Ack Master

i must say i looove this idea, as stupid as it seems. In real life i cant use em without hitting myself in the head body or anywhere else, but maybe with jedi powers and a looot more danger .... and danger is my middle name..

Jonathan Marshall

I think you should make the links be a metal stranded cord instead. It looks very oldschool for a lightsaber. I like the concept, even if it may be a wee bit impractical. It would still work better than what darth maul had. LoL

KoldIt

Ok so I haven´t posted here in a while but I was learning how to make normal maps, specular maps, emissive maps and how to get it into an engine. I have some minor bug fixes to make but imo it looks pretty solid:)

Spitfire

how would you learn to use this thing, even if you master it without the blades activated? haha

very nice work though!

Give the spec a little more variation, other than that, looks great

conte

awesome. would love to see some lightmace and lightalebard!

Wells

saw this and thought of you

Daemonecles

Actually I worked with the guy who pioneered this idea (Sean Thorpe) You might wanna check out his version. He actually had a diagram of why it should work, why it made sense and fully thought out the details. I think it shows up at ~8 seconds:
http://vimeo.com/13636144

willy-wilson

there animated like normal ones the reason they wouldn't work is because there made of light witch means no weight behind them.

KoldIt

Well the part that hurts doesn´t weigh anything but if you think about it the handle weighs something. Probably a bit less the regular ones but there is still wieght behind them.

Awesome video although it made me feel less special;)

woogity

this is probably the most dangerous weapon for the user ever created...grats