Blender 3D : The Ultimate Guide to 3D Modelling

Learn to model a vintage arcade cabinet within a polygon budget, keep geometry light, and track counts in Blender to keep under 4000 polygons and ensure efficient triangles for games.

Set up reference images in blender using front, side, and top views, align them in quad view, and begin modeling with simple primitives like spears and cylinders.

Add more primitive objects in Blender by creating cubes for panels, cylinders for knobs, and toruses for details, then align, duplicate, and bevel edges to match the reference.

Expand your 3d modeling by starting from primitives and refining with inset, extrude, and bevel to create a coin return button. Use wireframe view and proportional editing to match references.

Master box modeling technique to build the orchid cabinet body in Blender, starting from a cube, extruding, scaling, moving, and beveling edges while preserving topology.

Explore Blender 2.8's advanced modeling tools to create side panels for a game cabinet using extrude, knife, and bevel techniques, while prioritizing quads over ngons.

Polish Blender models with subdivision surface and bevel modifiers to smooth geometry, adjust surface normals, and apply shade smooth or shade flat using angle thresholds.

Optimize the arcade cabinet model for game engines by keeping poly count low, removing hidden faces, and disabling reference images while refining geometry with bridge edge loops when needed.

Learn to use Blender's selection tools to delete unwanted faces and edge loops, dissolve edges, and grow selections for efficient polygon reduction and clean geometry.

Perform final cleanup in Blender by removing unneeded edges and faces, using loop cut and knife tools, then triangulate or convert ngons to quads to prepare the model for texturing.

Create and assign materials in Blender 2.8 using the principal bsdf shader to adjust color, metallic, roughness, and specular highlights, and preview changes in lookdev, solid, and render modes.

Explore texture maps and how image textures, mapping coordinates, and normal maps add surface detail to 3d models, connected through the shader editor and principled bsdf in Blender.

Learn uv mapping in Blender 2.8 by applying a shared material, diagnosing texture distortion, and using the UV editor and transform tools to arrange UV coordinates for proper texture wrapping.

Learn to map textures with camera-based projection and project-from-view UV unwrapping in Blender, adjust and align UV coordinates, and prepare power-of-two texture maps for game exports.

Learn to declutter your Blender scene by enforcing concise naming conventions and using left-right prefixes. Organize objects into collections and subcollections to speed up workflow and collaboration.

apply transforms to all objects in the arcade cabinet collection, set scale to 1 and rotation and location to 0, export as fbx, then render with cycles.