Creating Destroyed Assets for Games

Plan a modular asset workflow in Photoshop by listing walls, pillars, floors, windows, and rubble variations. Then start an Unreal Engine blockout with basic shapes.

Set up Unreal Engine 5 project, create a blank project, organize assets, saves, materials, textures, and save the main level, then set up a flat terrain with a cinema camera.

Create modular blockout pieces for a destroyed assets workflow, including roof and floor components and broken variations, and export to Unreal with consistent naming and uniform scaling.

Perform a second blockout pass for destroyed assets, creating five variations of collapsed concrete and rubble, testing placements, overlaps, and support logic in Unreal.

In this second blockout pass, build destroyed assets by placing rubble and wood clutter, using variations and big shapes for balance, and prepare for mass fx simulations and unreal export.

Use the bend modifier on the y-axis at 90 degrees, limit the effect to the lower area, and create quick blockouts for destructed wood floors in Unreal.

Refine destroyed assets for games by performing a second blockout pass, advancing the quality and consistency of destruction-ready assets.

Learn to fracture objects in Blender with the Cell Fracture addon, enabling it and tuning source limit and recursion for varied shatter effects, including random fracture options.

Export pillars from 3ds max, bevel edges, and create broken variations in ZBrush; convert to low-poly meshes, bake, and apply shader enhancements for destroyed game assets.

Learn how to sculpt broken pillar assets, bake a normal map from high to low poly with decimation master, and prepare for Unreal with masking, textures, and UV workflow.

Import pillars into 3ds Max, unwrap and relax UV maps with manual seams and checker maps, then bake normals in Marmoset Toolbag for a triangulated FBX for Unreal.

Export rebar textures, build three planes with tile and mask maps and cutout transparency in 3ds Max, then bend them to fit a broken pillar and apply materials in Unreal.

Learn to create a destruction master material for game assets by building a reusable mask in substance painter, blending concrete textures with dirt, and exporting a dirt-aware smart material.

Apply decals to an outdoor building in Unreal to cover seams and add weathered detail. Adjust materials, color, dirt, roughness, tiling, and patches for a convincing exterior.

Prepare large concrete rubble pieces in 3ds Max using rayfire Voronoi to fracture and shape them. Create low and high poly, UVs and baking, then export to ZBrush for sculpting.

Learn to craft destroyed concrete rubble assets by masking, applying noise, and planar corrections, refine edges with trim dynamic, and bake to a high-poly before low-poly UV work.

Rotate rubble UVs with a custom rotator and center-based rotation_angle to refine concrete textures. Build masks and cracks via anchors, blur, levels, and world aligned texture, then export to Unreal.

Watch a timelapse taking the remaining big concrete rubble pieces to final part 2, as destroyed assets for games.

Take viewers through the final part 4 timelapse of the remaining big concrete rubble pieces for destroyed game assets.

Demonstrate a timelapse of taking remaining big concrete rubble pieces toward the final part of destroyed assets for games.

Watch a timelapse of taking the remaining big concrete rubble pieces to final part 8, illustrating how destroyed assets are built for games.

Watch a timelapse walkthrough tied to a Witcher 3 ultimate installment, with Final Fantasy content shoutouts, and prompts to subscribe and follow on Instagram, Twitter, and Discord.

Finalize destroyed assets by adding rebar to remaining concrete rubble, then import and set up the pieces in Unreal, while creating smaller crumbling fragments for realism with masks and baking.

Export and reimport rubble pieces in unreal, assign masks and normal maps, and simulate concrete piles with dynamic rigid bodies for believable destruction assets.

The lecture teaches creating optimized floor pieces for games by using alpha maps to bake splinters from high-poly to low-poly, and assembling multiple plank variations.

Create modular destroyed wood floor pieces by modeling, duplicating, and arranging planks, using FFD deformation to align ends, then cut and assemble into broken variations for game-ready assets.

learn how to prep destroyed assets by simulating wood rubble, optimizing geometry, and baking dynamic rigid bodies using a cardboard preset, while refining lighting, materials, and scene polish.

Enhance the destroyed scene through lighting, volumetric fog, and post effects, build a world space master material with color overlays, and perform DaVinci Resolve LUT-based color grading for Unreal.

Create a tileable rubble texture via a PBR metallic roughness workflow in Substance Painter, importing and baking maps (base color, normal, roughness, ambient occlusion, curvature) and refining with clone painting.

Watch a timelapse of creating a broken wall as part of building destroyed assets for games, illustrating workflow and asset creation techniques.

Take our scene to the final part 1 with a timelapse to demonstrate the workflow for creating destroyed assets for games.

Follow a timelapse that takes a game scene to its final form in part 2.

Explore how to finalize a game scene with destroyed assets through a timelapse, part 3.