Making weapons in Blender for the workshop

[SteakNation]

Hello!
 

My friend is trying to design a new set for the Soldier, but he is having trouble with the weapons part of it. He wants to create a melee weapon in the shape of a briefcase, but he doesnt know how to make melee weapons, or weapons in general. If you could link any UP-TO-DATE tutorials or just type out a guide, Please do so. Thanks!

 

Remember, he uses BLENDER.

 

EDIT: He doesnt need help with modeling and texturing, he needs tutorials on rigging the weapon.

 

Thanks,

SteakNation

[SteakNation]

Bump

[Kevin the Chicken God]

iirc valve made one with the meet the pyro update focused on the scorch shot, I'm not sure how up-to-date or relevant it is though

[Mark Unread]

Making melee weapons is harder.

 

To make a melee weapon, first of all, you need to decompile the original shovel, then create a briefcase-like model. After you made the rbiefcase mesh, apply the mesh to the bones of the shovel, delete the shovel mesh and start to make textures for the shovel.

 

There are not many tutorials about weapon making on YT. All I know I learned by myself or asked some suggestions to fellow modelers and tested them.