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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Final Blender Lesson and Finalizing Our Project
You have made it to the last lesson of the Blender part of our course. This lesson will focus on finalizing our project and making sure we are ready for game engine integration.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Lean How to Set Up Blend Files Ready for UE5
In this lesson, you will find out how to set up Blend files ready to export into Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). This will include file optimization and organizing.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Working with the Blender Compositor
In this lesson, we will be using the compositor nodes to create great-looking portfolio pieces in Blender. You can add in bloom or change the saturation to improve the look.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Working with Boolean Modifier
In this lesson, we will be using Booleans to generate extra polygons to benefit the realism of our scene.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Starting the Rope Geometry Node
This lesson will focus on creating more complex geometry nodes. We will start by creating a geometry node for rope.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Planning Out the Helm Model
This lesson will see us adding another small prop to the weapon's rack—a metal helm. This helm will sit on top of the weapons rack as if a guard had placed it there to relax between shifts.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Working with Remesh and Decimate Modifiers
In this lesson, we will cover modifier stacking. We will be remeshing the model to create a clean topology.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating the Cloth Material
This lesson will see us learning how to create the cloth material for our banners.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Adding the Bookcases to Our Asset Manager
In this lesson, we will be adding the bookcases to our asset manager.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Adding Writing to Our Parchment
In this lesson, we will be adding text to our parchment. We will be using a decal for that as well as a stamp decal.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Starting the Coin Pile
This lesson will mark the onset of creating a visually appealing gold coin pile of treasure ready to be taken by the next passer-by.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating the Treasure Material
This lesson will show you how to create the treasure material for our open chest. You will learn how to bring in the textures to make them look like gold. We will be using Blender's nodes to change the metallic and roughness maps to make...
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Texturing Our Small Chest Prop
In this lesson, we will be texturing our small chest prop.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Finishing the Chest Modelling
This lesson will see us finishing the modelling process for both of our chests in Blender.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating the Small Chest Prop
In this lesson, we will be creating a small chest prop for our course.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating Handles and Locks
In this lesson, we will be bringing our individual chests to life. There is no point to a chest if it is lacking handles and locks; so, with this lesson, we will be focusing on adding intricate details. This can be a very useful skill...
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Working with Bevel Shapes
In this lesson, we will be creating hinges using a bevel technique. This will allow us to use the options within the bevel menu to change the shape, width, and segments of our bevels to create beautiful prop accessories.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating Our First Chest Prop
This lesson will see us creating our first chest prop. You will be creating two wooden crates with metal supports—one slightly more angular and the second more rounded than the other.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Using Decals and Shrink-Wrap Modifier
This lesson will focus on learning how to apply decals to curved objects using the shrink-wrap modifier in Blender.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Importing Images as Planes
In this lesson, you will learn how to import images as planes. This is useful if you want to import decals with opacity.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Finishing Our Barrel and Crates
In this lesson, we will be finishing the modelling process of our barrels and crates.
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating a Water Material
With this lesson, we will be starting work on creating a water material. We will be using our texture maps and opacity along with the gamma node in Blender.
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How Gargoyles Became Monsters
Before these stoney grotesques became monsters they were just water spouts. We still adorn our buildings with the carvings and sculptures of the frightening, funny, and exaggerated forms—but why? Learn all about the strange history of...
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193 - Monarchy - One Minute History
A monarchy is a form of government where a monarch, such as a king or queen, functions as the head of state. (~3273 BCE) Narmer became the first Pharaoh, or king, of Egypt after unifying upper and lower Egypt; establishing the First...