Blender to Unreal Engine 5 | 3D Props | Medieval Gallows
Blender to Unreal Engine 5 | 3D Props | Medieval Gallows
Would you like to learn how to model and animate a set of three medieval 3D AAA game assets?
Now, what if I told you I have a course to start with part 1, the medieval gallows, on Udemy?
Get started with part 1 of a medieval game assets 3D modelling series coming in November!
These three courses have been streamlined to make them compact and full of knowledge.
‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ will see you creating a set of medieval gallows with aged wooden planks and rope. The medieval gallows game asset also incorporates animated elements; the collapsable platform to run the executions.
This course will give you access to just over 6 hours of 3D art.
Learn how to build a medieval came asset that would fit perfectly in the main square of any medieval game city or medieval castle keep in the game engine of your choice.
This course will see you learn all the techniques pros use and how they use them. Learning how to add wear and tear details to your 3D game asset will be a central part of this course’s learning objectives!
Through reading this course description you will find out:
– What you want to learn about 3D modelling;
– What you are going to get through ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’, and;
– How the course will take your 3D modelling, and animation skills to the next level.
Modeling
This course will teach you how to bring to life a game-ready AAA video game prop, ready for you to render as part of your portfolio.
Our 3D modelling focus will be on building a simple wooden structure for our gallows, followed by modelling rope and adding realism to it. We will also be making sure that the floor platform planks are cut the right way so that they can collapse in a believable way when the execution lever is pushed down.
Texturing and Materials
All in all, ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ will provide you with intensive learning all in one place, giving you access to over 6 textures, and 48 texture maps at 4 k resolution. This course will also teach you the basics of making your own materials and shaders using these textures.
‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ will teach you all about gamma, hue, and saturation.
Animation
As part of this ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ course, you will learn how to use keyframes to key in different animations to the parts we want to animate. We will be animating the wooden platform so that it can collapse upon pulling down the execution lever which will also be animated.
Lighting & Rendering
By joining ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’, you will learn about specific types of in-built Blender lighting functionalities that will enhance the scary and dark feeling of your medieval gallows.
We will also be creating a portfolio render for any multimedia site you wish to upload your completed model to.
‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ is a complete guide into using Cycles for lighting, rendering, shadow.
Game Engine Incorporation Unreal Engine 5
We will be taking a deep dive into Epic’s all-new Unreal Engine 5. Do not worry if you have not managed to download it and are still working with UE4 because everything you will learn in this section can be used in both.
Through ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ you will be learning everything right from importing animations from Blender to having them work correctly in UE5. Through this course, you will learn the basics of bringing your games asset to life, rendered in real-time.
We will look at how to import and use textures created specifically for Unreal Engine and use them to create the materials for our medieval gallows.
One of the main things about this course is that we will also be creating our own portfolio gradient skybox!
Course Resources & Freebies
The ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ course resource pack includes 6 textures, and 48 texture maps at 4 k resolution, 3 references, 1 HDRI map, 1 HDRI portfolio gradient map, and 1 human reference.
The best course navigation tool for ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props Medieval Gallows’ will be included. The course handbook will give the control back to you and you will be able to fully streamline your learning process to your needs and wants seamlessly.
Join this course and come be part of a 3D modelling journey of over 6 hours of learning that will see you go away with a game-ready AAA medieval game asset full of life and animation.
Check out the free introduction and I am sure you won’t be able to put this course down!
Still unsure? Then, let me tell you what’s unique about this course:
· Following through a complete guide on creating a set of AAA game-ready quality medieval gallows
· Maximising the potential of your references to develop strong game asset concepts
· Discovering the basics of rigging and animating inanimate game assets in Blender
· Learning how to use HDRIs as 3D model backgrounds for your portfolio
· Maintaining and optimising medieval Europe aesthetics
· Learning how to use rendering to improve the quality of presentation for your 3D environment in Blender Cycles and Unreal Engine 5
· Taking a high-resolution render in Unreal Engine 5
· Rendering game assets to a high level for professional 3D artist portfolios
Let’s create something history inspired and scary this November!
To get you pumped, imagine how well this prop fits in with your other 3D Tudor projects.
You can include your medieval gallows 3D model within your castle keep as part of our ‘Creating a Modular Kitbash in Blender’ course, next to your medieval in or tavern based on ‘Blender 2.8 Complete Beginners Guide to 3D Modelling a Scene’, or nearby your medieval well or windmill using ‘Blender 2.8 Creating your First 3D Game Model’ and ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 5’ respectively.
Until next time, happy modelling everyone!
Neil – 3D Tudor
Section 2 – Course Layout & Referencing Guide
Section 3 – Grey Boxing
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Lesson 1 - Introduction to the Course & BlenderIn this lesson, you will be getting a brief introduction into the basics of Blender. Getting the Blender basics right will be essential to your ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props: Medieval Gallows’ learning process, making this a short course within a course.
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Lesson 2 - It’s all in the Referencing
Lesson 2 will be a hard lesson learned, and I am speaking from experience. I will demonstrate why referencing is important for 3D artists and what barriers I had to break to realise its potential. You will also be learning about a free tool that will help you reference faster and better; Pureref.
Section 6 – Trapdoors & Supports
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Lesson 5 - Variations the Easy Way
This lesson will focus on teaching you why variations in 3D models are important. We will discuss how wood looks and how to achieve realism in 3D modelling it as a distinct material. Our focus will be on directly applying this learning on our ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props: Medieval Gallows’ 3D model.
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Lesson 6 - Realistic Structures
Lesson 6 will see you learning how to use human references to realistically scale your 3D models in Blender. We will be placing our human reference next to our medieval gallows and use the reference’s height to better resize our model in Blender.
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Lesson 7 - What is Good Topology
In this lesson, you will be learning how to achieve good topology in 3D modelling. We will be learning which Blender tools and modifiers to use to improve our 3D model quality and get closer to that AAA game-ready asset quality.
Section 7 – Full Rope Guide
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Lesson 8 - There’s Something Down that Trapdoor
Modelling and adding our collapsible trapdoors to our medieval gallows 3D model will be the focus of this lesson. This part of the model needs special attention because making a model structurally sound from a physics and architectural point of view is essential to modelling game-ready AAA quality props.
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Lesson 9 – Hangman’s Structure
In lesson 9 we will be creating the hangman’s structure. You will be learning how to hang a rope from the gallows structure. We will also discuss structural realism and the scale of wood.
Section 8 – Engineering the Lever
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Lesson 10 - Fundamentals of Rope
This lesson will introduce you to fundamentals of modelling rope. You will be learning how to achieve a realistic-looking rope braid in Blender. This will form our medieval gallows noose. Compared to previous lessons, we will be focusing entirely on curves.
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Lesson 11 - Problem Solving with Rope
In lesson 11, we will be focusing on troubleshooting an issue we came across while modelling our medieval gallows. This will involve fixing the noose rope in Blender.
Section 9 – Creating Steps
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Lesson 12 - Refining the Hinges
As part of boosting the realism of our ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props: Medieval Gallows’ course project, we will be working on refining the hinges for our collapsible trap doors. You will be learning more about why the role of a 3D modeller not only focuses on getting the job done, but also making it believable.
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Lesson 13 - Lesson 13 Creating The Bar Supports
In lesson 13 we will be looking at ways to hold up our engineered contraption without it looking like it just floats in the air. This is an interesting lesson, again focused on realism.
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Lesson 14 Blender Addon Gears
I will be introducing you to Blender’s in-built addons and just how useful they are. This time it will be the gears and worms addon. We make short work of the lever part of the gallows.
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Lesson 15 - Working on the Lever
In this lesson, we will be focusing on modelling the lever for our medieval gallows structure. As explained, this lever will be later animated so that when it is pushed down, the collapsible trapdoors can take the role of the executioner.
Section 10 – Blender Materials Guide
Section 11 – Cycles Renderer Introduction
Section 12 – Creating Materials
Section 13 – Working with Metal
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Lesson 19 - The Process of Marking Seams
In this lesson we look at getting our models materials looking the same across the entire model. This involves average island scales and when and where to make UVs larger or smaller.
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Lesson 20 - Fixing Issues with UV's
Working with UVs means you will always find issues that you need to overcome as a 3D modeller - be it with the seams or rotations. This lesson is devoted to looking at some of these issues.
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Lesson 21 - Small Details do Matter
When we look at 3D model renders, what makes them look like AAA assets are the smallest details. You will learn all about that in lesson 21.
Section 14 – Resolutions
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Lesson 22 - Gamma & Saturation Nodes
In lesson 22 we look at how we can change materials within Blender. This will involve the process of working with Blender’s in-built node system.
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Lesson 23 - Starting the Metal Material
Even though our ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 3D Props: Medieval Gallows’ course project is mostly made of wood, you will find that its structure does include some details made of metal. Our hinges and other trapdoor support and our lever will all incorporate metallic materials, and the focus of our lesson will be on starting that material creation process.
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Lesson 24 - Balancing Polygon Counts
This lesson will focus on beating a well-known game asset challenge; balancing polygon counts. Our medieval gallows 3D model would not be AAA game-ready if we did not manage how high-poly it is. Your learning within Blender will also feed into the work we will be doing in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) shortly.
Section 15 – Portfolio Model Floors
Section 17 – Armatures & Bones
Section 18 – Animating Models
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Lesson 28 - Creating our Armature
Blender will be our weapon of choice for animating our AAA game-ready medieval gallows 3D model. You will be learning how to create an armature for our gallows lever, initiating the collapse of the trapdoors and those sentenced to a grim fate.
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Lesson 29 - Weighting our Bones
You know that, just like the human body, if bones are not attached to anything, then nothing moves. Well, Blender’s armatures work in the same way. This lesson will focus on weighting our gallows’ bones, so to speak.
Section 19 – Unreal Engine Setup
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Lesson 30 - Creating the Animations
Blender’s animation in-built software is one of the best out there, making creating simple animations a breeze. This is a skill we should all look to at least have a basic knowledge of.
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Lesson 31 - Finishing our Gallows Build
Well, here we are. This is the final lesson of finishing our AAA model build. The question is: does yours look up to scratch or like a AA model? It’s time for exporting!
Section 20 – Creating a Unreal Engine Scene
Section 21 – Unreal Engine Portfolio Render
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Lesson 33 - Importing Assets into Unreal Engine
Lesson 33 will show you how to import assets into Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). We look at thinks like textures and models and the right way to import 3D models from Blender to UE5 to reduce any problems you may have.
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Lesson 34 - Creating Materials & Roughness
In this lesson, we will be learning why importing a 3D asset into Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is just step 1 of making a game asset game-ready within a game engine. I will be showing you how to create materials and roughness within UE5.
