DZTFIX KATSU - Candle Sword - Stylized Halloween Weapon

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:candle: Candle Sword — Stylized Halloween Weapon

A haunted-manor hero sword for your Halloween event, ghost-house boss or seasonal skin. A blade made of a melting wax candle with glowing lava inside and a lit wick at the tip, a brass candelabra guard with two more candles and a skull with fire eyes, a red wrapped grip and a brass pommel with a dripping ember — game-ready, with an animated glow material and a showcase scene you can open and render straight away.

:sparkles: Highlights

  • Animated glow, no extra setup — the emissive pulses, the lava inside the wax and the skull’s fire eyes pulse, and warm light drifts along the blade.

  • One material instance to tweak — Tint, Roughness Scale, Emissive Intensity, Energy Amount and Animation Speed.

  • Ready-made showcase map — backdrop, mist, sparks, key / fill / rim lights and a portrait camera (1080 × 1920).

  • Drop-in Blueprint — BP_CandleSword with the mesh and a small glow light. Pivot at the centre of the grip.

  • Source files included — FBX, 4K PNG textures and a Blender scene.

:triangular_ruler: Technical details

  • Triangles: 12,342 (LOD0) · 6,170 · 3,086 · 1,482 — 4 LODs

  • Size: 114.9 cm long, 25.3 cm wide (scaled to the UE mannequin)

  • Textures: 4096 × 4096 — Base Color, Normal (DirectX), ORM (AO / Roughness / Metallic), Emissive · 2048 × 2048 energy mask

  • Materials: 1 master material + 1 material instance (PBR metallic / roughness)

  • UVs: channel 0 unique, non-overlapping · channel 1 hand-packed lightmap UVs (resolution 128)

  • Collision: simple (26-DOP) + per-poly complex

  • Nanite: off (regular LODs) · Rigged / animated: no (static mesh)

  • Engine: Unreal Engine 5.6 · Tested on: Windows

:package: What’s inside

  • Unreal Engine 5.6 project — SM_CandleSword, M_CandleSword, MI_CandleSword, BP_CandleSword, textures, L_CandleSword_Showcase and L_CandleSword_Demo maps

  • FBX — SM_CandleSword.fbx (centimetres, two UV channels)

  • Textures — PNG, ready for any engine or renderer

  • Blender — CandleSword.blend with the material already wired to the textures

:hammer_and_wrench: Good to know

  • The showcase map uses a flat (non-filmic) look: the project sets ShowFlag.Tonemapper=0 in DefaultEngine.ini. Remove that line if you prefer Unreal’s default tonemapper — the sword works with either.

  • Mist and sparks in the showcase map are meshes with animated materials, not Niagara systems.

  • The Blueprint contains components only (no gameplay logic), so it drops into any weapon system.

  • The glow uses a Custom (HLSL) node in the master material.

  • The low-poly is mostly triangles (silhouette-safe decimation).

:jack_o_lantern: Part of the Halloween Weapons series

Ghost Sword, Candy Corn Sword and Scarecrow Sword — built to the same scale and standard.