Building Modular Levels for Games with Unity and Blender
What you'll learn
- Learn the basics of building a modular set in Blender
- Understand UV Unwrapping and Texturing your modular assets
- Learn to use your modular set to build a sample level in Unity
Requirements
- Blender
- Unity
- GIMP or Photoshop
Description
In this course, instructor Alan Thorn takes you through the basics of modeling inside of Blender, as well as texturing with the free image manipulation software Gimp. Using these tools, you'll learn his complete asset-creation pipeline for this modular set. We then follow it up by learning how to import those assets into Unity, and set up our own playable game environment.
(Students - please look under Section 1 / Lecture 1 downloads for the source files associated with the lesson.)
About the Instructor:
Alan Thorn is a freelance game developer and author with over 12 years of industry experience. He is the founder of London-based game studio, Wax Lyrical Games, and is the creator of award-winning adventure game Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok. He has worked freelance on over 500 projects worldwide including games, simulators, kiosks and augmented reality software for game studios, museums and theme parks. He has spoken on game development at universities throughout the UK, and is the author of nine books on game development, including Teach Yourself Games Programming, Unity 4 Fundamentals and the highly popular UDK Game Development.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Blender artists
- Anyone interested in building a modular gameplay space in Unity
- Anyone interested in learning to texture a modular set using GIMP
Course content
- 00:06Download Course Files Here!
- Preview01:19
- 02:17The Modular Set
- 02:46Blender Control Scheme
- 02:42Blender Theme
- 02:54Configuring the Layout
- 06:00Establishing a Base Tile
- 03:50Normals and Backface Culling
- 03:14Building the Floor Module
- Preview04:21
- 05:27Detailing the Wall
- 05:52Tiling Walls
- 06:07Adding Wall Variation
- 03:57Dealing with NGons
- 06:59Mirroring, Joining, and Merging
- 03:03Starting the Corner Module
- 05:21Completing the Corner Module
- 07:21Out Turns
- 03:16Crate Prop
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