Blender Environment Artist: Create 3D Worlds in Blender 5.1

we go into edit mode to create a castle wall using extrusions and loop cuts

This time making a castle tower module to slot our wall into using the same editing tools and this time introducing the inset tool

Continuing the castle and learning about linked duplicates for easy iterations

Building the landscape and learning about proportional editing

Placing materials on our objects

Adding towers and flags to our castle

Finalising the reder and going through new render settings

we start by building the main corridor structure and uv unwrapping it

building the door section we also learn about the mirror modifier and uv’s

Now that we have some understanding of UV unwrapping we start to look at how to place seams

we look to add some lights to our scene and learn about the sub division surface modifier

We add pipes using the curve tools and continue our understanding of unwrapping

We unwrap a slightly more complex model of a barrel with a toxic waste texture

An introduction to the sculpting workspace

Adding PBR materials with a box projection method

Using the displacement node in the PBR setup

Using more sculpting brushes and thedyntopo to create tree trunks

Using Alpha Textures to create tree branches

Using a different texturing technique for the bark material

We use different joining methods to build our trees

Using different nodes we can easily change the colour of our leaves

Using the decimate modifier we can drastically reduce the face count therefore making it more optimal

Learning how to move and copy objects from one blend file to another

Understanding how to use the asset browser to easily build scenes dragging and dropping in objects

Starting the modules by building some beams which we can use as building blocks

Using the beams we can now make different plaster modules

The base of the house will have stone walls so we’ll build those modules next

Now its time to add the roof module

Completing the roof module

Making some modular fence posts for a pen and fencing

Texturing the stones and understandng different texturing techniques starting with box projection

The Basics of UV unwrapping on the second stone set

The next stone will be using texture painting techniques and in this lecture we look at the basics of texture painting

UV stretching is a common problem for any type of texturing so we look at the complexities of UV unwrapping

Now we have our UV’s set up we can texture paint with a stone texture to complete our last set of stones

Pbr textures are really great for realism but can we make one from a single texture using nodes

Using these techniques we texture the doors and windows

Using one texture with different parts is very useful for optimising texture perfomrance, those are called texture atlases which we will take a look at when texturing the fence post

Now we look at texturing the roof and i’ll show you how you can adapt objects but maintain the UV’s

The last texturing technique we will look at is procedural texturing

Starting our sculpted workflow we work on the beams. This workflow creates full pbr materials through sculpting

the second part of sculpting the beams

WE unwrap the low poly in order to bake the high poly sculpted detail onto the low poly shape

we now convert the high poly model into a normal map for the low poly object

we clean up the normal map by using the ray distance

we clean up the normal map by using the ray distance

we clean up the normal map by using the ray distance

we clean up the normal map by using the ray distance

we clean up the normal map by using the ray distance

we clean up the normal map by using the ray distance

Using different texturing techniques to create new materials

Adapting the textures to change colour or brightness

Learning to join objects together for quicker building

Joining and making the roof modules

Creating the sticky out modules by converting other parts

Finishing off the Jetty Modules

Just going through and doing some sorting before making into an asset pack

learning about setting up an asset browser file

Building a house from our different modules

Building a second house from our different modules

sculpting the beginning shape of the landscape rocks

Using the box project method for texturing the base to show the pros and cons of this method

Using the multiresolution modifier to add detail to our mesh and make it much easier for baking

How to create sculpting brushes to quickly make rocks

Setting up our 3 different base rocks for sculpting

Starting the detailed sculpt of our base rocks

Unwrapping the rock base in a relatively quick but clean way

Using the multiresolution modifier to bake our textures

Using the texture painting techniques to paint the base

Moving everything into the asset browser file in order to use in our new scene

Bringing the first objects into a new scene and setting up the render position

softening the scene with moss adding to our asset browser file

making edits to the landscape

Quick and simple plant assets

adding in Plants and rocks to help break up the harsh lines between objects

Addding lights to the windows in the form of textures

Creating a lamp post and a wall lamp to place around the scene

ITs not always easy to make edits on asset browser objects so this lectures shows the process of converting them in order to make local edits

General scene improvements

making adjustments to the lighting for an atmospheric scene

Using the compositing workspace to add drama to our final shots

animating the camera for a nice pan shot across the island and going through rendering settings for animations