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This week, learn the basics of using the anisotropic shader to make a basic sword. These techniques can be applied to make any type of blade, not just a katana.
Skill level: Basic
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42 responses to “Blender Tutorial: Japanese Katana (Sword)”
Ehh ooo ehhh
The best blender tutorial ive came across yet, clear instructions i think i paused the video twice i was able to follow the whole thing in pretty much real time. Thankyou very much
For a katana, the hilt is called a tsuba btw. Really great and informative video!
what about a sheath
Love your voice, sounds a bit like muyskerm! This video was really helpful by the way, thank you! 🙂
when i try to render it, the model only has the color black
am i doing something wrong?
Now i know this is an old video and probably nobody cares but if anyone's wondering why at 10:28 the tip of the blade is off it's because at 7:15 he merged the vertices at first instead of at center like he did with all the other vertices on the sharp side of the blade.
Really really helpful thx m8
um you merged the tip to the zero but you merged the rest of the blade to center so your blade's all wonky and I literally only just watched 3 blender tutorials.
There's no diamonds on the other side of the handle. Would you do the same thing you did to make the diamonds but on the other side?
Good tutorial! But I'm stuck at doing the crease in the sword blade. For some reason nothing happens when i use the shape tool?? why???
thank you 😀
30:00 and 32:00 how to do it at the newest version?
Hey , I was doing it just like you and I have a problem. 7:08 it won't merge
Man, scale the sword on the X-Axis just a bit and make the blade thinner, it looks Xtra sexy. ;]
Hey dude the reason the top of you Katana went left is because you merged it to FIRST not the CENTER I had to find that out myself too.
"alt + M" for merge, save yourself a click for something tedious like that.
Hey, does anyone know how to merge all the different parts of a sword for an example, so that I end up having only one object? Many tutorials do not show how to do this sadly, they just pull the parts together
THANK YOU so much holy, this vid was so easy for a beginner like me so ty <3
Hey, Im struggling with the HDR I lighting. Where can I find an environmental texture for free?
Lmao I need someone to do katana. From suicide squad 😫😫someone help me
thanks finally done it 😀
thnx for tutorial
Why don't you create a bottom of blade and extrude this?
my blade looks like this and I cant figure out why. Doesnt really matter what materials I use. without render it looks almost identical to the one in the video just a bit wider.
I cant select only the hilt when I select the hilt it selects everything including the blade, anyone got any ideas why that is? sorry for being a pleb
cool tut m8 but unhistorical…
Any idea why my sword materials are all darkened in render view?
http://jmp.sh/44KIQNH
how did u get the sword
wish I could download this
Thanks Aneroph. The renders turned out pretty good. I had a lot of problem with lighting. Could you point me towards what and where to learn about lighting. I placed two light emitting planes for the lgihting and placing them properly gave me headache.
Checkout my renders:
http://jmp.sh/mCruN4t
http://jmp.sh/OGrM5aG
at 08:20 you could simply just select all the verts you want to "merge" and then hit S + Y + 0. That will Scale all the verts only on the Y axis to 0, and because you have your Pivot Point set to Median it will scale it to the exact middle.
29:28 how do I find that glossy shadier cause my version of blender does not have that setup and I cant find it by the way I am using v 2.73
This was a great tutorial. The only thing I mainly changed was the pommel at the bottom since katana dont tend to have them.
Thank you for your tutorial, it is very easy to follow even for a beginner like myself. Unfortunately there is one obstacle that I have, at 02:49 you press the G key to grab and you use your mouse wheel to scroll. I'm using a laptop to do this, to be specific a Lenovo Thinkpad. Is there any way I could scroll while using a Lenovo Thinkpad? Please reply soon.
made my first 3d model thanks too you man keep up the good work
ps: was not the best katana i've seen but it's something
hahaha when you were doing the tip of the blade i noticed the merge to first point error. when i did it it my program i went to center and just thought "i wonder when he'll pick up on it". not two minutes did i get the "whoa, what happened here" and lost it. thanks for the laugh and great vid btw.
You sound like Blender Guru mixed with tutor4u 😀
Great work :>
hi can we make a uv png and export to ue4 with materials in place?
So on like the first step where he makes the blade skinny every time I try it just makes the whole thing smaller but as far as i know im doing everything he says any help?
At 15:17 when I create a add a circle, after that, when I press A, the whole thing get selected rather than only circle, whats wrong in here ?
Maybe a Lightsaber?