Efficient Environment Creation For Games

Name: Efficient Environment Creation For Games
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Create Modular environments for games.

Created byNexttut Education Pvt.Ltd.

Last updated 11/2024

English

What you'll learn

Modular environment creation
Translate current day references to old environments
Learn Primitive Geometry Nodes Setup for Fast Procedural Meshes
Learn Primitive UE5 Blueprint for Fast Iteration

Course content

4 sections • 52 lectures • 26h 9m total length

Introduction1:52
Download Project Files1:08

Planning And References8:26
Gaea Terrain Creation37:03
Testing The Composition18:42
Intro To Midpoly Modeling34:51
Finishing The Mid-Poly Phase38:41
Intro To Kit-Based Workflow26:12
First Pass Of Wood Sculpt18:26
Mid-Level Wood Sculpt41:02
Finishing Wood Sculpting39:23
Sculpt wood bark silhouettes using alpha maps, dynamesh, and zremesher, then create low-poly versions for baking and export to unreal engine.
Unwrapping The Wood Meshes39:05
Baking And Testing Textures26:34
Start With Modular Kits36:33
Attic And More Kits33:42
Develop modular building kits by reusing geometry to form a five by three unit with a doorway, and prototype an attic variation for later export to Unreal Engine.
Finish The First Building22:23
Variation For Existing Kits31:47
Finishing The First Level22:09
Export Modular Kits To Ue530:37
Finishing Buildings In Ue525:22
Creating The Platform38:36
Creating The Connections38:01
The Stairs And Variations37:23
Blockout The Bridge32:03
Finishing The Bridge32:58
Railings On The Platforms22:03
Create two-by-two railing kits in Blender, apply them to the platform so they fill all instances, then export to Unreal Engine and assemble varied railings using instanced static meshes.
Roof Shingles Kit Sculpting35:41
Learn a kitbash workflow to create roof shingles from simple cylinders, adding moss, round and flat shapes, and variation maps to drive color and silhouette variety.
Shingles Sculpt Finalized40:37
Bake And Texture Shingles12:18
Geometry Nodes For Rooftops27:02
Rooftops Continued48:57
Master efficient rooftop environment creation using geometry nodes, instance duplication and rotation, index-based selection, and Unreal export workflows to produce varied, modular building rooftops.
Procedural Shadow Catchers46:38
Variation In Modular Kits47:44
More Variation For Building34:29
Rooftop Variations37:03
Finishing The Rooftops23:14
Continue building rooftop variations two and three using geometry nodes to manage instances, exclude shadow catchers, adjust rotations, and update materials, exports, and re-imports to finalize the rooftops.
Create The Building Frames38:35
Wood Texture Completed38:47
Master Material Creation46:54
Create a master material in Unreal Engine, building a reusable material with attributes, exporting packed textures for color, normal, roughness, and ambient occlusion, enabling per instance variations for modular props.
Material Instances37:50
Second Uv Channel Explained31:31
Learn to create secondary UV maps, four channels, for modular kits, rooftops, and extras, pack and bake in painter, and generate masks for moss, dirt, and color variation.
Second Uv Channel And Id24:07
Master second UV channel workflows to build RGB masks that drive dirt, paint, and ambient occlusion in Unreal Engine, using channels for R, G, B and ID masks.
Testing Second Uvs In Ue530:43
Variations In The Materials47:33
Demonstrate creating and applying a second uv channel across modular kits, re-exporting from blender/painter, and using color maps, masks, and material attributes to generate variations.
Completing The Setup31:05

Requirements

I expect you to have some prior knowledge in game environment art

Description

Do you want to create environments for games without creating everything from scratch?

Then I welcome you to Efficient Environment Creation For Games.

About Me:

My name is Arash Aref and I teach 3d game environment art with a love for Lighting And Prop and Material creation. I have had lots of happy students who enjoy learning new techniques.

By the End Of This Course, You Will Be Able To:

Create Environments Efficiently
Re-use What You Have Already Created To Save Time
Learn Primitive Geometry Nodes Setup for Fast Procedural Meshes
Learn Primitive UE5 Blueprint for Fast Iteration

What You Will Learn:

Translate current day references to old environments
Kit-Based workflow for fast iteration
Modular environment creation
Re-using what you already have to save time and energy in production

Course Project Overview:

We will start with taking a look at our reference board to get an idea, but since our reference board belongs to the current day and our goal is to create an ancient environment; we will use our imagination. Then using the knowledge gained from the references we start the blokcout process to test our ideas to make sure they work. The next step is to start creating the kits and using the existing kits we will create a complete environment. We finish the course by creating a simple water material and lighting and post processing.

Who is This Course For?

The course is for those who want to learn fast environment creation techniques.
The course is also for artists who want to speed up their workflow in environment art.

Who is Not The Ideal Student For This Course?

This course is not designed for absolute Blender beginners.

What Are The Requirements or Prerequisites For Taking This Course?

I expect you to have some prior knowledge in game environment art

Join Me Now:

So if you want to learn more techniques to efficient environment creation, then join me now, and take your skills to the next level. Don't forget that investing in yourself will pay for the rest of your life. Hope to see you in the course.

Who this course is for:

The course is for those who want to learn fast environment creation techniques.

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 3min

Chapter 2 _ Modular Environment Creation43 lectures • 23hr 33min

Chapter 3 _ Details, Lighting And Post Processing6 lectures • 2hr 31min

Chapter 4 _ Conclusion1 lecture • 3min

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