Instructional Video10:50
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Applying Grainy Metal

Higher Ed
This lesson will walk you through the process of assigning a grainy metal material for our assets.
Instructional Video11:09
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Setting Up Metal Material Instance

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will learn how to set up a metal material for the Unreal Engine 5 assets. We will assign the textures to our PBR material and make sure we end up with nice-looking metal.
Instructional Video13:10
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Setting Up Normal Intensity Parameter

Higher Ed
The lesson will teach us how to set up a material with normal intensity parameters. You will learn how to make use of the linear interpolate node and set an easily adjustable value for the normal texture strength.
Instructional Video10:44
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Correcting Texture Map Brightness values

Higher Ed
This lesson will show you how to adjust your texture map for the PBR roughness values to get a rougher surface from the asset.
Instructional Video10:15
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Assigning Wax and Flag Material Instances

Higher Ed
The lesson will show us how to link material textures to our newly created material instances. We will make sure that they are set up nicely within our Unreal Engine 5 project.
Instructional Video13:53
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Naming Material Instances

Higher Ed
We are going to start this lesson by rebuilding the materials for our assets and getting our newly created material instances to have identical naming.
Instructional Video10:16
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Organizing the Props within Our World

Higher Ed
During this lesson, we will lay out our props in the UE5 world to check their scale within the scene. We are going to take all our props from the content browser and lay them out on a platform.
Instructional Video12:34
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Importing 3D Prop Collection

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be importing our 3D prop collection from Blender to Unreal Engine 5. You will learn how to locate the content drawer and navigate your project folder tree, import the file, and choose the right import options for...
Instructional Video9:10
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - UE5 Introduction to Viewport Controls

Higher Ed
In this lesson, you will get introduced to different viewport controls in Unreal Engine 5. You will learn how to navigate your UE5 scene and select or manipulate its actors. You will also learn how to change display options.
Instructional Video10:54
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - UE5 Introduction to UI (User Interface)

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will get introduced to the UI in Unreal Engine 5. This will help speed up your workflow because you will develop basic knowledge of all its menus to find them when you need them. Over time, this should become instinctual.
Instructional Video10:49
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - How to Present Your Work with a Turntable

Higher Ed
This lesson will teach you how to create a turntable to present 3D art for your portfolio or showreel.
Instructional Video9:55
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Working with the Eevee Render Engine

Higher Ed
This lesson will introduce you to the Eevee render engine in Blender. You will learn how to use its options to set up a render that will let your portfolio stand out among others.
Instructional Video12:30
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Setting Up Cameras and Clipping

Higher Ed
This lesson will be the beginning of the process of setting up cameras to render our props in Blender.
Instructional Video18:40
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Finishing the Last Dungeon Prop

Higher Ed
This lesson will mark the end of our 3D modelling journey as we finish with the last dungeon prop.
Instructional Video12:23
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating Functioning Details

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be creating functioning details for our guillotine. This will include the blade and the mechanism behind making it drop.
Instructional Video12:07
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Working with More Ornate Models

Higher Ed
This lesson will focus on adding ornate details to the model (for example, ornate flares on the top).
Instructional Video10:53
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Bringing Structural Accuracy to the Mix

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be ensuring that our model is structurally accurate. For example, we need to make sure that the structure can hold the weight of all its counterparts, including the blade.
Instructional Video11:13
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Starting the Guillotine Model

Higher Ed
Although guillotines were introduced later than the medieval historical period that our other assets are meant to depict, we thought you would enjoy learning how to make them as part of this course.
Instructional Video12:35
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Texturing the Rack Prop

Higher Ed
This lesson will see us finishing work on our medieval torture device. We will be texturing the racks, and this will include blood decals as well.
Instructional Video10:56
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Finishing the Rack Modelling

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will finish modelling our rack. We will have one rolling pin at the top of the rack, meaning that only the legs or arms can be dislocated at one time.
Instructional Video10:53
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Speeding Up Workflow with Geometry Nodes

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be testing out both of our geometry nodes—chain and rope. We will be using them both in one model.
Instructional Video10:42
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Creating the Rack Base Mesh

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will start work on modelling another torture device for our dungeon. Racks are traditionally wooden and those who would lie on them will have their limbs stretched until they dislocate. Our aim is to make our rack as...
Instructional Video9:47
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Realizing Instances and Decimation

Higher Ed
In this lesson, we will be using realizing instances to turn geometry nodes into mesh. This will result in a very high polygon count, meaning that we will need to use the decimation modifier in Blender to reduce the polygon count.
Instructional Video12:32
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Blender to Unreal Engine - Become a Dungeon Prop Artist - Troubleshooting Decal Issues

Higher Ed
We will be making the decal feather go around the mesh. We will be removing parts of it because some were floating in the air.