Realize Your Level Design Ideas with UE5 and Blender

Create a multiplayer level design brief for a squad-based, four-player co-op against AI, detailing map layouts, moodboard, and 2D/3D deliverables for a futuristic sci-fi setting.

Sketch ideas from design brief with pen and paper, then refine digitally with a pen tablet to map stealth where players without weapons evade a monster and transport a resource.

Brainstorm a sci-fi facility where players spawn, scavenge batteries, and deliver them to a deposit point to win, using cover and three classes including scout and mule.

Design an industrial factory interior map for a mech and batteries scenario by sketching layered spaces, from open hangar to offices, storage, docks, and catwalks, guiding stealth gameplay.

Create a front-to-back section drawing from the map, rendering a two-story warehouse with a mech hangar, garage, catwalk, forklifts, tall shelves, and a 45-degree docking wall for semi-trucks.

Select a focal area on the map and create a quick perspective sketch to explore key gameplay opportunities, using layered drawings to plan spatial relationships before building in 3D.

Bring a top-down reference image into Blender, add a basic armature to gauge scale, extrude walls from a default cube, add a floor plane, and test in Unreal.

Test level scale in Unreal Engine 5 by importing Blender geometry and using it as collision. Then apply a uniform 1.5x scale in the transform panel and re-export from Blender.

Block out a level in Blender by applying transforms, setting a uniform scale of 1.5, and using reference plane opacity to build a grey box map for Unreal Engine.

Enhance the rough blockout by adding stairs, ramps, and border details, test them with the default third-person character in Unreal Engine, and re-import to iterate.

Refine the blockout by adjusting floating geometry, adding a bridge and catwalk, and tracing stairs across the map, using UE5 and Blender to detail the level design.

Hollow the gray box to resemble a warehouse shelf, add crates as cover objects with just enough detail, and ensure the model sits on the ground in Unreal.

Hollow out an interior building in Blender for a UE5 level, create two doorways with aligned openings, remove extra geometry, and add a ceiling with edge loops and extruded faces.

Model a forklift and related objects in Blender using a gray box approach, focusing on basic volumes, extrusions, and separating geometry to convey scale for gray box geometry.

Polish level design by adding hollowed interiors, structural columns and beams, catwalks, props for cover, and furnishings, then validate in Unreal using a simple 2D sketch as reference.

Block out an interior in Unreal, replace default lighting with emissive window panels and ceiling lights, and adjust intensity to reveal a believable space using emissive surfaces.

Adjust interior lighting in Unreal by tuning tint, attenuation, and emissive materials, use a downward rectangular light for shadows, and simplify by removing extra point lights and reducing window brightness.

Realize Unreal Engine 5 lighting features to create a realistic mood in a block-out level with a mech objective and monster enemy AI, plus 3D text render annotations.