Light Sabre
An elegant weapon from a more civilised age
I wanted to create a lightsaber which was more inline with the appearance of an actual sabre.
From the classic star wars films, adding a basket to the hilt of a lightsaber would not have really added any great advantage. However from the use of a ‘force baton’ by the stormtrooper TR8R it looks as though a technology (now) exists that can block a lightsaber blade.
With this in mind I have added force baton tech to a half basket guard on the hilt of this lightsaber (or light sabre), using a couple of my own swords as a guide.
Sabres also tend to be curved but I couldn’t think of a good way to make a curved light blade, originally I tilted the blade backwards to hint at a curve for this lightsaber but in the end decided that a straight blade looked better.
The blade is actually two objects, the inner part has been given a blueish emission material, this was then enclosed by the outer part. Instead of using a normal material though the outer mesh uses a volume material to add fog like surface to the blade (this was then further enhanced by blur and glow nodes in the composite editor).
