Instructional Video12:44
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Vertex Painting Wind Motion for UE5 Foliage

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will start setting up a wind system for our foliage pack. We will make use of the vertex painting mode built-in within Unreal Engine 5 to have control over the motion of our foliage. This clip is from the chapter...
Instructional Video8:32
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Converting Bump Map to Normal Texture in UE5

Higher Ed
This lesson will focus on creating master material with a bump texture map converted as a normal map to get more detail out of our reed buds. This clip is from the chapter "Creating PBR Material in Unreal Engine 5" of the series "Blender...
Instructional Video9:19
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Setting Up Water Material

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will look at the setup for creating water material. We will make use of shader tools to create partial refraction and add parameters to have control over our opacity values from within the material instance. This clip...
Instructional Video11:36
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Importing Assets Creating Materials

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to take a whole foliage pack previously created and set up within Blender and import it into our UE5 game engine. You will learn how to make use of our import settings to unpack FBX format and how to...
Instructional Video13:48
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Adjusting Textures and Exporting UE5 Assets

Higher Ed
Starting from this lesson, we will be introduced to the Unreal Engine 5 setup. We will begin by making sure we have optimized all assets and they are ready to be used for UE5 by repositioning them. This clip is from the chapter "Setting...
Instructional Video8:22
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Animating Our 3D Foliage

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will begin to bring our foliage to life. We will add a wind system with a turbulence force to get motion in our scene. This clip is from the chapter "Animating and Rendering In Blender Software" of the series "Blender...
Instructional Video9:47
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Planting 3D Water Foliage

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be using another one of Blender's particle systems we previously set up. We will add water foliage for the Blender scene. We will make sure to get not only the plants on the top but also the ones underwater to add...
Instructional Video11:56
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Adding Flower Field for Terrain

Higher Ed
This lesson will focus on creating flower-density fields within our terrain. You will learn how to make the best use of the flower vegetation to break up the silhouette of a terrain. This clip is from the chapter "Planting Foliage Within...
Instructional Video8:17
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Setting Up Terrain Scene with Grass Particles

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will see our 3D foliage pack and flower plants come to life as we finish up our Blender foliage creation and start setting it up within a custom terrain provided by the course. We will make use of weight painting to...
Instructional Video10:03
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Setting Up Grass Foliage Particles

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will set up our particle system to be used for placing foliage within a terrain. We will make use of our created 3D foliage and start adjusting parameters for placing density in each of our collections individually....
Instructional Video11:12
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Organizing the Project

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to fix issues with the overall sorting of a foliage pack in Blender. We will take our time to rename and pack our plants in different collections to have better control over what we have created. This...
Instructional Video12:19
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Painting Water Lilies with Color Overlay Functionality

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will find out how to start the texturing process for colorful water lily flowers. We are making use of custom brushes and painting from the top perspective to add nicer details to our petals. This clip is from the...
Instructional Video12:28
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Creating Lily Flower 3D Model

Higher Ed
This lesson will focus on creating flower petals for water lily plants. We will make use of the techniques we have already learned and the associated modifiers to create more density in our plant mesh. This clip is from the chapter...
Instructional Video10:51
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Creating 3D Formed Underwater Vegetation Clusters

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to fix issues with the clusters of underwater foliage. We will work with the overall collection of smaller water foliage to get a nicely organized shape for them while maintaining the organic look of a...
Instructional Video12:00
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Texturing Underwater Vegetation

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to texture smaller vegetation in Blender and how to add a type of edge texture to make sure it looks nice as an underwater plant cluster. This clip is from the chapter "Creating Underwater Plants in...
Instructional Video10:48
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Creating Smaller Water Plants

Higher Ed
This lesson will introduce us to underwater plants to get more depth out of our natural-looking digital water volumes. We will start creating vegetation that has horizontal and vertical placement depth too. This clip is from the chapter...
Instructional Video11:46
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Setting Up Lily Pad Foliage Clusters

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will find out how to create a bundle of lily pads, making use of them in foliage-dense water areas. This clip is from the chapter "Lily Pad 3D Modelling and Texturing in Blender" of the series "Blender to Unreal Engine...
Instructional Video8:41
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Texture Painting Water Lily Pads

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will begin to paint color detail for our water lily pads. We will make use of the custom brush to add more color depth within the mesh and bring out its shape. This clip is from the chapter "Lily Pad 3D Modelling and...
Instructional Video11:03
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Drawing Custom Plant Stems

Higher Ed
This lesson will be a complete guide to shaping foliage stems using Bezier curve functionality in Blender. This clip is from the chapter "Lily Pad 3D Modelling and Texturing in Blender" of the series "Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants...
Instructional Video9:19
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Sculpting Our Lilypad Shape

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will look through the method for shaping the lily pad as part of our water foliage pack. This clip is from the chapter "Lily Pad 3D Modelling and Texturing in Blender" of the series "Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D...
Instructional Video12:30
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Setting Up Bump Values for 3D Detail

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to fix issues with flat textures and manually paint in additional detail for our reed buds. This clip is from the chapter "Water Foliage Reed Texturing" of the series "Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D...
Instructional Video13:52
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Texturing Reed

Higher Ed
This lesson will use everything we have worked on so far to texture-paint our red foliage. This clip is from the chapter "Water Foliage Reed Texturing" of the series "Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation".In this section,...
Instructional Video10:22
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Making Long Foliage with Customized UV Unwrap

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to fix issues with long grass foliage and density in UVs. We will make use of mark seam functionality to break off parts of the mesh and get more control over the density of the textures. This clip is...
Instructional Video14:02
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Blender to Unreal Engine - 3D Plants and Vegetation - Setting Up Mesh for Water 3D Foliage

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be introduced to the modelling process for water-based foliage. We will start creating reeds and grass to place them on top of the water planes. This clip is from the chapter "Blender Water 3D Foliage" of the...