can some one make a saber......

[Vorador]

i was wondering if there was any one who had enoght time to make a saber for me i would do it my self but i have no idea how to mod if there is any one who would make it for me just post i want it to look as evil as posible red and black allways look good to gether and i want it to be able to kill in one hit if any one would make this i would bevary thankfull

[Shimaon]

Black sabers are impossible, since the game renders black as transparent. If you want something that kills in one hit, feel free to check out my God Equipment topic.

[MrCyborg]

since the game renders black as transparent

 

I assume this only works for lightsabers then? Its just that I've been struggling to get transparency on NPC textures. Just tried black and sure enough it comes out exactly as you'd expect: Black.

 

Even so ... on the light saber side of things - surely the engine only picks one "black" to render as alpha (transparent) - so if you wanted a "black" light saber you could try making a texture with just a tiny bit of... say blue so that is a) looks black to the naked eye and b) is not rendered as transparent by the game engine? Just a thought as I havent actually tested this

 

EDIT::

 

Ok I just tested this and oddly enough the game engine DOES seem to render everything that is even remotly "black" as transparent

[T7nowhere]

there is only one way to get black on a light saber and that is to exclude blendingadditive

decal 1

 

though if you do that it won't look like a saber anymore. I tryed it and it looks very ugly.

[Shimaon]

Originally posted by T7nowhere

there is only one way to get black on a light saber and that is to exclude blendingadditive

decal 1

 

though if you do that it won't look like a saber anymore. I tryed it and it looks very ugly.

VERY

 

I think I might try finding a way to choose white as transparent, but I doubt it'll work...

[gameunlimited]

There is a way to do a decent black lightsabre, although there is some graphical glitch. Check this out, I just created a small mod that changes violet sabre into a black sabre:

 

http://alvin777t.tripod.com/

 

screenshot and link to file are there. to use it, give yourself a violet lightsabre. (if using cheat, the command is "giveitem g_w_lghtsbr05")

 

What I did is that I use black texture without blending additive. Instead, I use the alpha channel to mask the the outter part of the texture so that it appears transparent.

[T7nowhere]

ya thats pritty much what i did though my texture was not as fient as yours. It looks really odd when fighting though atleast it does on the starforge with all the dark textures.

 

nicely done though. would it work with a say a outer color glowing like red or purple without looking like an X.

[Vorador]

Shimaon your god mod is good if you could make the sabre more evil looking then it would be great