Game Making with Blender and Building in Unity and Godot

Create a low-poly modular environment kit in Blender to build tiled, seamless world blocks for Unity and Godot, featuring a marble maze, a toon aesthetic, and rollerball levels.

Create an intersection piece by joining three straight sections into a T formation for a modular environment set, ensuring no ngons and using the mirror modifier.

Clean up and optimize topology by merging vertices, using auto merge, and refining bevel settings to reduce artifacts, preparing the model for reusing in future pieces.

Create a four-way cross section and two ramp variations in Blender using incremental snapping and the mirror modifier; bridge edges, set origins, and snap to grid for precise alignment.

Build a spiral helix slide in blender by duplicating a straight section. Apply a screw modifier with an axis object and center the origin at the lower vertex to tile.

Create a long 180 degree turn for the marble rally track using the spin tool and 3D cursor, adjust origin, and clean up faces for seamless tiling.

Create extended 90 degree track section by duplicating a straight piece, rotating it 90 degrees, and using the screw modifier with an axis object to connect to a downward dip.

Create a curved fork in the track using Blender, enabling left or right paths and ensuring the pieces remain tileable by duplicating, inverting scale, and merging meshes.

Complete the split section by merging vertices, inserting intersection vertices, and cleaning topology, using Blender's auto merge, split edges and faces, and vertex snapping to create seamless, tileable mesh pieces.

Wrap up module two by finalizing the environment set and completing its modeling, then prepare the project for export to a game engine in the next part.

Create a low poly modular environment kit in Blender, then tile and optimize it for Unity and Godot, exporting models for two engines to build a limitless roller ball adventure.

Learn to model a roller coaster style ramp in Blender by duplicating a straight section with the array modifier, shaping a bezier curve and deform modifier to tile seamlessly.

Review each model for backface culling and correct normals with recalculate outside, fix duplicated vertices by distance, and ensure complete edge loops to improve topology of the modular environment set.

Correct tiling issues by aligning origin points across mesh pieces, using vertex snapping and 3D cursor to set origins, and applying grid snapping and baking modifiers for seamless tile alignment.

Learn to assign two materials to tile meshes, mark seams and select linked faces, then reuse materials across tiles for a bright cartoon style importable into a game engine.

Applies shade smooth by angle to all models and renames objects for Godot collider export, then deletes lights and camera and saves the scene.

Apply the bevel modifier to all objects to add edge detail, then use mean bevel weight, switch limit method to weight, and set material index for consistent export results.

Reset scale to one and rotation to zero, apply transforms, and export each selected mesh to Unity as FBX or to Godot as glTF, with modifiers and origin settings.

Export your environment models to FBX and GLTF formats and prepare assets for immediate use in Unity and Godot, signaling the transition to integrating them in game engines.

Explore modular low poly environment design in Blender to create reusable building blocks for marble maze levels, then import into Unity and Godot to build endless, tileable worlds.

Create a new Unity 2022 LTS project for a marble coaster, import Blender-exported FBX meshes, and enable colliders and lightmap UVs for optimized performance and modular level building.

Create a Unity scene with modular pieces, enable gizmos and the skybox, organize the hierarchy with a root and world, and use grid and vertex snapping to align pieces.

Continue constructing a level with the modular environment kit by creating and reusing prefabs, using vertex snapping and local rotations to build large, complex worlds for the Marble Runner game.

Add a player controlled ball by placing a sphere with a rigid body and colliders. Use a script to read keyboard input and apply constrained forces aligned to the camera.

Learn to create cinematic camera movement in Unity using Cinemachine, configuring a virtual camera to follow and look at the ball with world space binding, damping, and look-ahead.

Review the completed Unity marble roller coaster, enhanced with a post-processing profile for bloom and color grading, plus a marble trail renderer and Cinemachine for dynamic navigation.

Move your modular set from unity to godot by importing gltf meshes, build a 3d scene with a playable marble, and explore grid snapping in godot 4.2.1.

Enable the snappy addon from the Godot asset library, install and activate it in project settings, then use the V key to snap vertices and align mesh corners.

Explore vertex and grid snapping to build forked paths, duplicate and rotate sections, and reuse Unity prefabs and Godot scenes to streamline level design with propagated changes.

Create a marble player in Godot by adding a sphere mesh, a rigid body with a collision shape, and a camera plus directional light.

Configure the input map in Godot to map left, right, up, and down to the arrow keys and a w s d, then import the ball controller script.

Attach the ball controller script to the player in Godot, adjust the exported roll speed, and use physics process to move the ball with camera-relative input and torque.

Learn how to implement a follow camera in Godot by attaching a Follow Camera script to the camera, targeting the player, setting distance and damping for smooth motion.

Apply post-processing in Godot to enhance lighting, bloom, ambient occlusion, and color adjustments, using sky, procedural sky, and anti-aliasing to achieve a vibrant cartoon aesthetic.

Complete a Blender environment and export it to Unity and Godot to build modular levels with a low-poly aesthetic.