Adding Midas and Mithril to Beat Saber

July 21, 2020 7:56pm

I can always extend the handle for Midas (the golden hammer) if both sabers need to be the same length.

I want to modify these for that game. Do they look like they would work? I'll set different shading to be more "TRON"-ish.

Jonathan Lampel replied July 25, 2020 5:00pm

Whoa that's amazing! No idea you could do that. So cool :D
Jonathan Lampel replied July 25, 2020 5:06pm

Oh my word that's a blast to watch. I love it!
One way to add the color so it's not so washed out is to use the lit glow shader instead of the unlit glow shader, with a glow value of .5 to .75. That should do it!
Shawn Blanch(blanchsb) replied July 27, 2020 5:00am

I figured out the white-out issue. I basically had to turn the glow off for my texture and increase the ambient lighting (I went above 1 in the shader properties..........oh my!)

I'll post some pics of the updates tomorrow hopefully. I am also making my kids their own custom sabers now that I have a unity project built up. The kiddos are drawing pictures and I am trying to quickly model them. I got one of theirs done tonight it it a Heart wand with butterfly antennae. The other is a broom but I haven't got to that yet.

The center of the wand spins continuously. Figuring out the animation threw me for a loop because I had a hard time viewing the left side of your Unity window. I forgot that I needed to attach the animator controller to the saber object's prefab. Once I figured that out it looked pretty slick.

My boys' sabers are more swordlike (obviously, he is a boy haha). But they have fun shapes that should be simple to make for him.
Shawn Blanch(blanchsb) replied August 1, 2020 2:52am

I finished my daughter's custom hand drawn sabers! We all had fun cutting things with them tonight.

Here's the sabers for thosewho would like it: Room On The Broom.saber
Shawn Blanch(blanchsb) replied August 1, 2020 3:43am

I also forgot to post the completion of Midas and Mithril. I got the shading better and got the animation working.

Here's the Saber File: Midas and Mithril.saber
Jonathan Lampel replied August 3, 2020 12:31pm

Nice work! I'll definitely try playing with those next week.
Shawn Blanch(blanchsb) replied August 4, 2020 6:23pm

Thanks @jlampellet

@jlampel let me know feedback on them as an in game review. The hammer is pretty long but I kinda like it to be honest,
They are more bulky than the other sabers. My daughter’s are a little smaller.
Jonathan Lampel replied August 27, 2020 11:20pm

Finally had time to give this a try. The hammer was maybe a bit big, but it was fun! Nice work :)
Shawn Blanch(blanchsb) replied August 28, 2020 5:50pm

Thanks for the feedback @jlampel I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I made a newbie mistake and downloaded the Beat Saber update on steam and now everything is lost! All my custom sabers are gone haha.

Is there an updated port that allows for the customization again? I guess I can go try and look but I figured you would know the answer.
Jonathan Lampel replied August 31, 2020 4:25pm

I'm honestly not sure - I downloaded the update too a little bit later and the mods were different. If you run Mod Assistant again you can select a custom saber with the Saber Factory mod, but it loads the hammer for both hands... I don't know a fix at the moment, sorry!