Blender walkthrough
This is not a Blender tutorial. For that I recommend Blender Guru's tutorial playlists. Especially the Blender Beginner Modeling Tutorial because it shows most of the principles needed for a good saber.
I do, however, want to give a quick walkthrough of the Application Template provided in this repository. This has some settings and layouts preset for easy creation of custom sabers.
In the modeling tab, I've set up a few things:
- Saber collections
This makes is simpler to keep them apart and work on them separately. - Sample saber
This has all the correct dimensions, and can be followed as an example. - Baking
For making realistic sabers I've setup baking. This allows you to create the required textures.