How to make THE BEST Sword! – Tutorial

This is a diamond sword and at the end of this video you’ll be able to do one just like this but this video won’t just be me making a sword I’ll be discussing how to navigate a texture pack folder the best pack making software to use on

Any device and so much more now I know most of my audience is on a phone so I’ve linked some good apps for both Android and iOS in the description I personally use paint.net it’s a free software that is incredibly versatile thanks to the tools and effects it has

And the plugins the community has created for it once you have a software you can download a base pack I made in the description it includes all the important textures you will need for this video and series along with a lot of other helpful resources for my Java

Viewers this space pack is not available for Java you can still just take a pack from your pack collection and use that as a base pack to work from alright so with the base pack downloaded you can go ahead and use an extractor which will get you this folder and then once you

Open this folder you’ll see that there’s a lot of folders and a lot of files that may look very confusing but trust me it’s really not that complicated everything you have to know for this video is that the pack icon is where you put well the I icon of your pack that

Could be a sword a gapple whatever the manifest.json file which is where you put your pack name and your pack description and a uuid which is what identifies your pack and makes it unique and makes it work when you try and inject it into Minecraft the textures folder that’s where you’ll find the

Blocks folder with all of the blocks and the items folder where you can find the golden apple diamond sword ender pearl Etc the other folders aren’t important for this video but you can go check them out if you want to but now let’s actually go ahead and make ourselves a

Sword so I’m gonna go to the textures folder go to the items folder and then open up my diamond sword then I’m going to go to the useful resources folder and click on the 16x image right here that has a bunch of Sword designs on it then

Go back again and click on color pods and open that image up so now that we have everything open in paint.net you want to go ahead and get yourself some color palettes and you want to choose a sword design so I’ve chosen this sword design right here but this sword is way

Too long so let me shorten this I’m going to go ahead and make another selection and move this blade it down until I think it looks right so this is perfectly fine you can keep this design but because I’m a weirdo I often like to have shorter blades so let me go ahead

And do that now once you’re done you can go ahead and get your color pad into the image as well it’s way easier to make it pack if you have the color palette in the same image as a sword you can obviously later remove the color palette

Or move it to a different image and for those wondering I won’t be teaching how to make a color pad in this video because I think the best way to learn pack making is to first start off with shading and then once you’ve mastered shading moving on to making your own

Color pads the reason for that is because a good color pad won’t save a bad shaded sword a good sword starts with good shading and is then later enhanced by the color palettes which is why I’ve given you a bunch of color pads you can work and practice with on your

Own so with that out of the way let’s get right to it so I’m going to click on K on my keyboard or you can also go click the color picking tool right here and pick the brightest color then P for the pencil or right here left to the

Color Picker and I’ll paint the inside of the sword just like that then I’ll go do the outline of the sword now that we have that sorted to go ahead and shade the sword now for that we have to think about lighting and how to light a sword

So I’m going to draw an imaginary sun right about here and this sun will help you decide which pixels have to be brighter and which pixels have to be darker it’ll basically influence most of your decisions when making any texture so for starters it’s totally the brightest to the area where the sun

Would reflect the most so the top left and it’ll be darker the further down we go and the further right we go so let me visually show how that will work let me get my second and my third color and I’m just gonna make a line right here and

The line right here and then the fourth color down here now this is sort of backwards with how most people would make a sword but it’ll give you a good visual example of what you should be doing when you’re making a sword and this is also exactly what you should be

Doing with the outline of the sword so I’m gonna get the fourth color and the fifth color because I like having three colors for the outline and I’m going to do the exact same I just did so there you go I just did the exact same thing I

Did with the inside of the blade on the outside and now what you want to do is you want to go make an inline so for those wondering what an inline is it’s the middle line going through the sword now I’ve made the inline go through the

Entire sword but what you see for most packs is that the Inland actually stops right about here now this inline is way too harsh it’s just one color so I’m gonna apply the exact same shading I did with the edge and the inside of the sword to the inline now ideally what you

Want is for the inline to always be one color darker than the two surrounding colors so as an example right here you have the brightest color on the left and you have the second brightest color on the right so what you don’t want to do is choose the second brightest color and

Put that there that doesn’t work so let me go ahead and try the fifth color okay that’s a bit better than what we previously had but I think it could be even better let’s try the fourth one all right not bad let’s try the third one

There we go this is what I would say is ideal now let’s try the exact same thing for the bottom row so we have the second color and the third color right here so do we want to use the fifth color no we want to use the fourth color now again

If you want you can go ahead and do this like most towards but I’m going to go ahead and do this because I’m unique now the sword is basically done a pack maker would probably change some pixels like here and here out of intuition but this is also perfectly fine now here’s what

I’ll quickly add some other swords to show where shading can go wrong so this sword right here is way too bright it’s not using enough colors in the right place so for example if I remove the inline you can see there’s just two colors inside of the blade which is way

Too little and if I just show the inline you can see that there’s just two colors in the inline and even your outline modes using three colors it’s using them in the wrong place so you’re using your brighter outline color way too much in the next sword you can see the opposite

Problem this sword is way too dark it’s using way too many dark colors in the wrong places so if I just show the inside of the sword you can see that it skips a second color completely it jumps from the brightest color to the third color while just ignoring the second

Brightest color and there’s also a problem with the outline the darkest color is covering the entire right Side Of The Sword and the brightest color is not used nearly as much as it should be now if we move to the Last Sword you can see what happens when you just don’t

Make the outline at all and I could go on and on but I think you get the point there’s a lot of places where you can mess up with the sword you have to just make sure you’re following your lighting and that you’re always going from Bright

To dark but not too quick and not too slow all right now that we’re done with the blade of the sword I’m going to be moving to the bottom half of the sword which is split into three parts so you have the cross card which is this

Section right here right under the blade you have the handle which is this brown part and the Palmer which is at the bottom of every sword so we’re going to be doing the exact same thing we did earlier I’m gonna put my son right about here and I’m going to be doing the

Inside a line and the outline and now we’re going to be doing the same thing we did for the blade so I’m going to take my second and my third color I’m going to make this pixel darker so this is a second color this pixel I’m gonna

Make the third color and then this pixel will be the fourth color and this pixel will not be the fifth color now the reason why this pixel won’t be the fifth color is because symmetry is very important for most swords now this is not always true you’ll see some sort of

Designs that don’t have any symmetry so symmetry is when both sides have the exact same design but for this sword it would look better if you have this going on where it goes from the third brightest color to the fourth color and then back to the third color and now

We’ll do the exact same lighting for the outline of the Cross guard so I’m going to take my fourth color and do this right here I’m going to take my fifth color and do this and I’m going to keep the right half of the Cross card the

Last color for now and here we’re just going to look at these two colors right here and move down with them into the handle part so here’s where some people will maybe make this into a diamond color or maybe make this into a wood color but for my swords I usually just

Make this the same color as a cross guard and the same thing goes for the pommel so you could make this a diamond color or maybe a brown or do something really funky here but I’m just gonna leave this the same color as the cross guard so I just took these two colors

And followed their lines down until they match right here and then for the inside line of the handle and the pommel I just went with the same color as here but to make it interesting what I often like to do is I could change every second pixel

To a brighter or a darker color now this cross guard handle and pommel could be fine but if you want to be a bit more advanced I’m going to be removing this sun and I’m going to remove the sun right here and I’m going to refer back

To my original Sun so in order to do that I’m going to be lifting these colors up here just a tiny bit I’m going to make this color right here go down the sword just a tiny bit to match with where the sun is coming from and then do

The exact same for the other side so instead of just having the last color dominate this entire right side I’m going to take the fifth color and put it right here and right now the cross guard isn’t very symmetrical because of the changes I’ve made so I’m going to make

It symmetrical again just like that now this is where you could end off this is a perfectly fine design but I’m going to do some tinkering on my own and change this design a little bit to match with what I want to do with this pack now

With the sword done I want to quickly show you where you can take a sword like this because this is definitely not the only design you could be doing with this style so there’s a lot of different ways you can go with this type of Sword there’s a lot of different designs you

Can do there’s a lot of different designs that may fit your pack better or that you may personally like more pack making is all about trying stuff that works and doesn’t work that you like and that you don’t like and I don’t want you leaving this video thinking there’s only

One type of Sword to do all of these swords were made with the same principles that I’ve mentioned with this sword there’s some other principles like for example incorporating some blue into the the handle or into the cross guard or into the pommel but all of that still

Follows the same lighting and shading rules as the original sword alright so the sword done the last thing you want to do is you want to go open up the Manifest and you want to change the uuid you want to change the pack name and you

Want to add a pack description so the first thing you want to do is a uuid this right here is the site what you want is a version 4 uuid not a version one uad one of version 4 uuid so let’s go ahead and generate a version for your

ID and this is what we have right here a uuid is basically just a random set of numbers and letters as you can see right here and it’s what makes your pack unique so this will make sure your pack won’t have any problems once you add it

Into Minecraft so once we have our uuid let’s open back up or manifest and we’re going to paste it right here where it says paste to you ID here so I’m going to paste that there now I need another one now once I have that copied I’m

Going to go down here and click on pay Studio ID here there we go and now for the pack name uh we’ll do uh ice 16x there’s also an image in the useful resources folder that shows how you can change the color of the text after the

Description you can just do made by or you can put your YouTube channel or whatever I’m just gonna do uh made to buy me now with that done you can save the file and then MC pack the file so we want to select all the folders then we

Want to either go to 7-Zip or I want to add an archive on the on the WinRAR icon I prefer to use 7-Zip so I’m just going to click on at you archive right here and then I want to change the zip at the

End to MC pack you have to make sure the file format is zip not a 7-Zip and you have to make sure this is zip crypto not not the this word number thing at the bottom so with that all cleared up just click on OK and it’s going to make an MC

Pack it should have a Minecraft icon just like that and just double click that and it’ll inject into Minecraft and uh you’re good to go and there we go that was it for the video hope you guys enjoyed let me know if you learned something in the comments below and if

You want to watch another video there’ll be one on screen right now thank you for watching and I’ll see you guys in the next video bye-bye