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Drawing RimWorld art - Melee weapons!

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hello hi

and welcome everyone uh today we'll be

drawing some melee weapons for people

working on combat extended

that's right we'll be essentially

re-texturing some of the older textures

they had

and the melee add-on for combat extended

this tutorial will cover everything from

making simple neolithic

and medieval weapons to working on

spacer weapons as well

i will show you how to do the masks for

weapons so you can for example have the

handle not colored

by the material color in game and only

have the blade

colored so let's begin

so i set up a little document with all

the old textures that they had

just so we can see exactly what weapon

we were texturing

i usually do that uh you set up a

document with a lot of different

artboards and then you just paste a lot of

reference images the more reference

images it is the better

it's important to know that you can't

really just you know

trace an existing image fully it's

better if you have like two or three

different reference images and take

elements from

each of them uh because then essentially

you're making something very unique

so we'll start off with doing their

glaive or well exactly they asked me to

change the glaive into a halberd so i

found a little picture of a halberd online

online

i did know how it looks like i just need

to see it in front of me if i want to

draw it

so let's copy the color from some of the

vanilla weapons

maybe the vanilla spear and let's make

the handle now the handle

is gray with dark gray only the blade is white

white

and that is because the game will color everything

everything

according to the stuff it's made out of

so the plastic one will be bluish

we'll have this bluish tint and we don't

really want the handle to

look exactly the same as the blade

because that will give

the wrong message across the handle is

not something that deals damage

so yeah after we do the handle let's

focus on the actual blade now the blade

as i said before

will be white uh and you literally just

trace trace the shape just like that

remember to keep it simple some some

weapons can be very detailed you don't

really want that because

uh in room world you won't get a chance

to take a look at the weapon that close

uh you just want a simple shape that

says okay

this is not a spear this is not a sword

what is it it's a halberd okay

and just like that we'll be making

a little bit more complex shading on it

again not too complex because you don't

want it to

take away the attention too much just so

people can see where the metal

possibly bends and to to give this this

and now that this is done what we'll

want to do is we will want to do a little

little

a little wrap around the around the

actual handle

just to give this more authentic feeling

that you don't want people to grab

you know the metal bar you want them to

wrap some some leather perhaps

so we're just doing a very rough shape

rough representation

i'm doing it in white right now but

we'll recolor it to brown a little bit later

later

and just like that as i promised we just

recolored it now what we'll do is

we'll add a little bit more shading to

it just so it looks

again a little bit more realistic

now this element you probably wonder why

is it brownish

and not white like everything else that

is because this

will have a mask applied to it and it

will not be colored

in game so no matter what resource you

make the weapon out of

this handle will always be brownish

we want to apply a different outline to

it a little bit thinner than the actual

weapon outline

and just like that the outline is in place

place

and now we can focus on giving

everything else an outline

and just like that in just a few minutes

we've got the halberd ready now we need

to position it

on the artboard so we probably want to

rotate it a little bit

and it still doesn't quite fit so what

we'll do is we will

tweak the dimensions again it doesn't

need to be realistic

i know halberds in real life are much

longer than that

but this is rim world and there is a

certain size the weapon

can be off so we can just shorten it a

little bit

you can say that it looks more like an

axe now but it it doesn't because that's

that's that's how the game

works okay so you bend the proportions

to your liking

just so it still works for the game

and just as long as it's still

recognizable in the game it's fine

if you make it too long or you know too

thin it won't be visible and it will be

difficult for the player to ascertain

what weapon this is

and now we'll be doing the mask so we

access the artboard tool

and while holding alt we just drag it across

across

this copies the entire artboard now what

we want to do is we want to remove

everything that's not meant to be color

sorry that's meant to be colored and

only leave the thing that's not meant to

be colored and we make it black

just like that now we need to make the

outline a little bit thinner

just like that and everything else

becomes red

now red and cold is the color that will

have the mask applied to it

so red is the color that will change

depending on the material stuff

uh and the black will remain the same

no matter what okay let's move on to the

next weapon which is claymore

i've got the vanilla gladius in here so

we'll just be playing around with it

trying to

make the gladius into a large 200 sword

it follows essentially the same idea

as me making the halberd so i think it's

best if i just shut up and let you watch it

[Music] okay

[Music]

thank you [Music]

[Music] so

so [Music]

okay now we're making this large

warhammer again

it's very simple we try to follow the

same the same theme

across all the weapons so we're doing

this little

little brown handle

work smart not hard and wherever you can

you can actually reuse

assets you made previously so what i'm

doing right now is

i took the halberd i removed the blade

and we'll just replace the blade with

uh with the with the hammer head just

there's nothing wrong with that and in

my eyes it just adds some consistency to

all your artworks i have a massive

collection of all my artworks

easily available for me so whenever i'm

making something i always take a look oh

have i done something similar before

if i have i just work with what i have

you know

there's there's no need to spend extra

five or six hours making something if

you've done it before

uh unless you've done it for somebody

else like a client

then you obviously need to ask for

okay now we'll be working on items that

are not actually stuffed

i found some images on pinterest uh i

really like them and i think they fit

the theme pretty much

uh they look like what what the weapon

clearly meant to look like

from the original artwork so again we

don't want to trace it

exactly the same way we want to make

something inspired

more or less you don't need to use black

and white anymore because this stuff

isn't going

to be masked in game so you can just use

authentic colors

same way the vanilla plasma sword and

the zeus hammer they all use different

colors because they are not colored in game

game

now again you can see me copying and

pasting in some

reference images from actual game i did

it just to get the

ultra attack kind of color right the

bluish tint

and i use it not only for the little buttons

buttons

on the blade or the little energy source

let me call it

but also for the blade and i think it

gives this ultra tech

feeling that the original author was

going for

okay so what i'm doing now is i want to

give some kind of

sci-fi glow to this weapon so i go into

effects and i go into stylize [Music]

[Music]

okay and in stylize i go to

outer glow now we need to change the

color because we don't want the glow to

be black so we just go with the

rough blue color we'll change the blur

we'll make it a little bit higher and

we'll change the mode as well to normal

now whack the opacity all the way to 100

and just work with the blur

and there we go we've got a nice glowing sword

okay now i'll let you watch the rest of

this tutorial and if you have

any questions at all just feel free to

ask them in the comments section i'm

here for you i can i can help you

and that's about it for this tutorial

thank you all very much for watching i

hope you

learned how to draw your own melee weapons

weapons

and vanilla style next up we'll probably focus

focus

on some animals because we are working

on a little collaborative project

about uh animals nearing extinction so

this will be something to look out for

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but they're coming

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