How to: Model a basic 3D Sword in 3Ds Max- (FAST AND EASY) 

My college professor made us make the sword and use your video as an introduction to the software without any other information or guidance. You seem like a pretty nice dude and I just wanted to let you know that this is apparently in some college class curriculum now and this was literally the best tutorial that terrible teacher showed us since he didn't know anything about the subject, I was thankful for your guidance and nice commentary.

Thank you sooooo much for this tutorial!!!! I was drawing the outlines using line tool and extruding it and looked hideous and never opened properly in mudbox. This tutorial just saved me from failing in the sculpting class!!! Owe you a beer man!!

Great tutorial, now I can start modelling all kinds of weapons including fireweapons.

Thanks man, really helped. One question, though. When making the hilt, when the bevel setting were up and I tried to rotate, the bevel settings would disappear and it kind of screwed me up. Any way to make them not do that?

Thank you for spending time to give out free knowledge to those who seek it. Ignore all these trolls saying otherwise.

Thank you for the well explained tutorial!

This is a great tutorial! Could you do one where you unwrap and texture it as well? Unwrapping in 3Ds is a mess, would be awesome if you did a tutorial on that

Thanks! this video not only provide us knowing how to make this sword, but also teach us how to do the box modeling. I appreciate! Q_Q I make my own 3d sword,too

thanks dude, i did it on my first try following this video of yours

Nice tutorial! (Also yes, the idea of the groove being to redirect blood is a misconception. It's all about weight and reinforcement.)

For the handle, wouldn't chamfer be the best option to round off the edges of the hilt or attaching a cylinder?

Seriously it's very helpful.. thanks u very much for this tutorial...keep posting new tutorial.. it's very helpful...

Thanks for your tutorial i just started 3ds Max today and your tutorial was very helpfull thanks alot hope you do more

Cool! I have a question though. What other methods are there, if not box modeling?

Thank you for the video that I can make my first sword! I think you teaching very well.

This helped me with my game art and design course at ASU, so thank you.

Wow,thanks man! You saved my life bro.

Nice tutorial, easy to understand.

nice tutorial, i had to learn the command key at the same time but got the exact result. Thanks!

wow this is really cool! thanks dude!!!

Thanks man, that was a very helpful video. :D

The groove is called the "fuller" and it's used to reduce blade weight without sacrificing strength.

Thank you for the tutorial!! It helped a lot :) !

You helped me a lot with this tutorial Thanks

How do I select more than one edge for the blood indent thing?

at the base of Guard where you extruded the square instead You could you use the tool 'merge shape'.. you only need to create a circle and tool ask you to pick the shape and where you want it to apply... That's it. I recently came to know about this. It makes your workflow quite faster.

still helping out college kids even 6 years after dropping the video!

i cannot select individual polygons when you do when you start work on the hilt :( can you tell me why ?

Its a fuller and its not for blood to come out but to stop suction from stopping you from pulling out the sword

Great tutorial!

Wow this one is realy cool !

What did you press to scale the image down?

Good Video needed this!

so great !

Good job Kiddo!!

thanks it gave me lot of information of modeling

What were your computer specifications when you made this video ?

tnx you for your teachings and knowledge

I'm having a problem where when I create the polygon, I cant edit it and I cant select anything but the box itself HELP

thank you so much really nice and easy ....

What unit of length are you using?

it is very good this tutorial

It was a pretty decent tutorial but I have some remarks on the sword itself. That groove you were talking about is called a fuller. The basic shape of the blade wasn't bad, it feels like by the appearance to be a hybrid between slashing and thrusting which is acceptable however you should have applied a distal taper to the blade. A distal taper is part of the blade geometry where the blade is thicker (in thickness not width) towards the guard and it gradually grows thinner towards the tip of the blade. Other than that the blade looks pretty nice, not too fancy but still appealing, too bad other game companies go over the top with their blades.

Nice tutorial.

i cant use symmetry it crashes evry time i klick on it

loved the tutorial, but my symmetry doesnt work like that D: just looks like a copy in the same spot. any help?

thank you!

Can i do it with Autodesk 3ds max 2013?

Not bad. My only remarks would be to use inset and extrude a little more

Hello, I see some of you commenting that the tutorial is too difficult and does not explain absolutely everything about the program. If you are having these issues, then perhaps consider gaining an education on the basic interface mechanics of 3ds Max. This is a basic tutorial on creating a 3d sword, it is not a beginner tutorial on how to make and render your first 3d cube. This, is not intended for beginners who just downloaded the program. Thanks! If you do, however, understand the most basic mechanics of the 3ds interface, then you are more than capable of learning from this video. Thank's for watching!

i know you're not a pro but you're just good for a beginner.

Nice tutorial!

Hello, I don't know if this is a good tutorial for a newbie, but is he using any short commands that I should know about if I try this? It seems like he manually click a lot so I guess no?

Well to be honest i dont like your sword design much, but i think its still pretty good tutorial! Thank you.

Man, you are a fucking GOD, Thanks. It's Works very well. You save me in my class.

thanks

I am pretty advanced, but I never used the clay view before. It is a lot easier to see what you are doing.

Thx!)

I'm really new to 3DS Max, what advantages to I gain from having Edged Faces enabled?

Thanks man :) It probably will be cause, that I will pass exam.

do i have to make an account for 3DS Max ?

would've loved if you could unwrap it as well but thanks

how did you make the sword slimmer in one action?

Amazing

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At 19:54 what institue.com ??

3s nao

they say that groove is for bloodletting.

Everything is ok so far, but bevel does some weird things. Edit: nevermind lol

The groove is called a Blood Groove. It is indeed used to bleed the target.

You could at least have some more exiting intro

Yeah, fast and easy? For beginners? I don't understand what it is with the 3D modeling community. Beginner does not mean hobby level of understanding. I have no idea how to use this piece of software, and you not explaining every little step does nothing for me. Like at the 3:20 mark, that little thing you did creating a new segment, how the hell do you do that? There's no visible indication of what you are doing, thus I can only assume you do not know how to dictate your actions. You did that thing earlier in the video, yet you didn't explain it then. I swear to god, if you're going to make a tutorial EXPLAIN WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Jesus.

for the love of god hide that fps counter... the ocd is real