Game Asset Creation Modeling & Texturing a Futuristic Crate

Learn to set up a custom UI and quick access toolbar, choose and experiment with brushes, and gather references to plan a chunky, rubbery, metallic crate design.

Master common sculpting techniques using the clip brush, masking, and transpose to shape hard-surface details and isolate sections for clean, precise futuristic crate modeling.

Build a white box to establish the crate’s volume, split into subtools, and refine topology with dynamic and poly groups workflows, before advancing to a gray box with panels.

Shape and detail a futuristic crate from a gray box via sculpting, beveling, and paneling. Apply symmetry, cuts, extrusions, and extractions to create functional-looking latches and textures.

Detail a sci-fi crate by refining edges, adding surface grills and paneling, and prioritizing high-poly accuracy and masking instead of manual sculpting for crisp bake-ready textures.

Master kitbashing to quickly detail a futuristic crate, using existing meshes to form new shapes. Learn balancing high-poly detailing with low-poly baking, symmetry, and cleanup for textures and topology.

Merge visible to consolidate all subtools into one mesh, grouping touching pieces as a single element. Export the unified mesh and prepare for read topology in the next video.

Import and organize a high poly mesh into separate poly groups, then retopologize to create a clean low-poly topology for a futuristic crate.

Unwrap a low poly futuristic crate by selecting the model, breaking and splitting UVs, and packing with tools for clean, symmetrical UVs ready for baking and texturing.

Detach elements to create space for outward baking and ensure high-poly and low-poly parts align. Rename parts and assign IDs for easy material assignment in Substance Painter.

Learn to texture a futuristic crate using a base color, color ID maps, masking, and edge wear with generators to create a cohesive, weathered look.

Continue texturing the crate by refining the base, applying carbon fiber, and painting panels with metal and black finishes, while adjusting materials, symmetry, and detailing.

Add color variation and wear to panels, install carbon fiber sides, and bolt details for a futuristic crate, while masking, roughness, emissive tweaks, and a top-down wash unify lighting.

Learn to render a futuristic crate in Marmoset Toolbag, exporting and packing base color, normal, roughness, metallic, and ambient occlusion maps, then apply DirectX and OpenGL workflows.