B Tutorial 3D Easy way to scale weapon models

[dariel]

Hi all! I'm far from the best modeler in this forum, but I did recently stumble onto a trick that makes scaling weapons of your own design much more accurately and easily.

I stumbled onto this while trying to make a tulwar that looked right. Now a tulwar has a very close-fitting hilt, and it looks wrong if the hilt is too long for the hand. So it occurred to me that I should have a reference not just to a similar blade (the scimitar from weapon_meshes1.brf), but also a hand. Here's how you do it:

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[*]Open body_meshes.brf
[*]Cycle to the clenched fist frame of man_handR
[*]Export this as a static mesh (right-click, Export static mesh)
[*]Import into Wings3D or whatever you use to create your model
[*]Also import a mesh of whatever weapon is most similar to what you're making
[*]Use the fist as your guide to the weapon's size and proportions
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Exporting the fist:

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Scaling in Wings 3D:

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A tulwar:

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Have fun making stuff!

 

[HyperCharge]

Thank you! 

 

[Efe Karacar]

You can descale / upscale any mesh in openBRF without needing to use one more third-party plugin. You can also rotate and relocate the meshes.

 

[dariel]

I know. I just found this method useful for making my own, specially when I want to adjust the proportions of just one part like the blade, the guard or the hilt. If I did that in OpenBRF I'd end up resizing the whole thing.