making swords

[Liberated]

omg did you edit that out of my sword? Awesome!

Thanks, i think i see what i've been doing wrong, i wanted stuff to look too complicated, which made it harder so shade, and which also didn't really look better. So i should just focus more on my shading techniques.

edit:
Just made this one. Is this an improvement?

[James]

I'm sure Cloud's buster sword is totally aerodynamic.

[Liberated]

that's got alot of weight + sharp edges, and if you have massive strenght like cloud you can cut through almost anything. Because a sword also needs some weight to hit something fiercely

edit: man diagonals can be a pain. Not really satisfied with them yet.

[Soala]

Your diagonals look fine tho, maybe just re-do the bottom golden ball yourself, doesn't quite look round

[DustyPorViva]

It might be smoother to portray shapes in the sword like so:

However, I don't think this is a widely used method, so it might be hit or miss. I prefer it, however, as even though it doesn't do such a good job at strongly showing the shape of the blade, it does so smoothly. However, since Graal supports 24bit PNG's, you could always AA with alpha blending nowadays

[Liberated]

Well im not very good at AA and it's a bit blurry right now, but you would mean like this, but then on transparent background so it will blend with any background?
right ones are the originals

[kia345]

Originally Posted by James

I'm sure Cloud's buster sword is totally aerodynamic.

I'm sure his hair is too

[Angelu]

XD

[Unkownsoldier]

Angelu, it looks sick, except where you made the top of that sword seeing all the little pixels forming the top of the sword makes the outline look strange.

[Liberated]

bored+need practice.

[anubis_wing]

Yeah, looks better without the black outline fo sho'

[Angelu]

i dont like weapons without black lines in graal because the player has an outline too

if someone knows a better blade shape