Blender & Unreal Engine for 3D Environment Design

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Where to Get the Free and Open Source Software Blender & the Installation Proces

Lecture 3: Saving Incrementally, Increasing Undo Steps & Navigation Settings

Lecture 4: How to Enable Add-ons

Lecture 5: How to Recover Blend Files after Crashes & Auto Saving Files

Lecture 6: Get Your Free Blender Shortcut Key Guide

Lecture 7: How to Navigate the Blender Interface

Lecture 8: The Tool Shelf, Sidebar, Modes, & Changing Editor Types

Lecture 9: Selection Types, Quick Favourites Menu & Transform Orientations

Lecture 10: Pivots, Snapping, Zoom Range and Object Visibility

Lecture 11: Activating Selection Types & the 3D Cursor Tool

Lecture 12: The Annotate Tool, Dimensioning Add-on and the Interactive Cube Tool

Lecture 13: Extrude, Bevel & Edge Loop Tool

Lecture 14: The Knife, Bisect & Poly Build Tool

Lecture 15: Using the Spin Tool to Form Profiles

Lecture 16: How to Create, Split & Join Editor to Form Custom Workspaces

Lecture 17: Introduction to Collections

Lecture 18: The Versatile Multi-Purpose 3D Cursor Tool

Lecture 19: Snapping using Relative or Absolute and During Rotation

Lecture 20: Face Normals and the Face Orientation Overlay

Lecture 21: The Coordinates System and Vertices, Edges & Faces

Lecture 22: How to Start Building your Asset Browser and Linking Blend Files

Lecture 23: What is Unit Scale in Blender and Working with Metric or Imperial

Lecture 24: Common Issues

Chapter 2: 3D Modelling the Building in Blender

Lecture 1: Forming the Layout of the Walls and adding and displaying Dimensions

Lecture 2: 3D Modelling the walls and non uniform scale issues

Lecture 3: 3D Modelling the Floor of the Building

Lecture 4: 3D Modelling the Roof of the Building Part 1

Lecture 5: Rotating the roof and walls of the Building and subtracting them from one anothe

Lecture 6: Adding a Door and Window to the Front of the House

Lecture 7: 3D Modelling the Back Door part 1

Lecture 8: 3D Modelling the Back Door part 2

Lecture 9: 3D Modelling the Back Door part 3

Lecture 10: Finishing the Modelling of the Internal Structure

Lecture 11: 3D Modelling the External Environment Part 1

Lecture 12: 3D Modelling the External Environment Part 2

Lecture 13: 3D Modelling the External Environment Part 3

Lecture 14: 3D Modelling the External Environment Part 4

Chapter 3: UV Mapping the Model

Lecture 1: UV Mapping the Model – Applying Modifies Part 1

Lecture 2: UV Mapping the Model – Smart UV Project Part 2

Lecture 3: UV Mapping the Model – Test Material Part 3

Lecture 4: UV Mapping the Model – Manually Packing UV's Part 4

Lecture 5: UV Mapping the Model – Cleaning after the Boolean Modifier Part 5

Lecture 6: UV Mapping the Model – Symmetrize Part 6

Lecture 7: UV Mapping the Model – Transfer UV Maps Part 7

Lecture 8: UV Mapping the Model – Project from View Method Part 8

Lecture 9: UV Mapping the Model Part 9

Lecture 10: UV Mapping the Model Part 10

Lecture 11: UV Mapping the Model Part 11

Lecture 12: UV Mapping the Model Part 12

Lecture 13: UV Mapping the Model – Average Island Scale Part 13

Lecture 14: Adding Material Slots to the Model

Chapter 4: Exporting & Importing the Model

Lecture 1: Exporting the Model as an FBX File

Lecture 2: Importing the Model into Unreal Engine

Chapter 5: Environment Sculpting in Unreal Engine

Lecture 1: Environment Sculpting using the Sculpt Brush Part 1

Lecture 2: Environment Sculpting using the Flatten Brush Part 2

Chapter 6: Using the Megascans Library and Adding Material

Lecture 1: Creating Environment Material – Megascans Library in Quixel Bridge Part 01

Lecture 2: Creating Environment Material – Layer Blend Node Part 02

Lecture 3: Creating Environment Material Part 03

Lecture 4: Creating Environment Material – Texture painting in Unreal Engine Part 04

Lecture 5: Correcting Material Slot and Names in Blender

Lecture 6: Adding Materials from Megascans Library in Quixel Bridge to the Model Part 1

Lecture 7: Adding Materials from Megascans Library in Quixel Bridge to the Model Part 2

Chapter 7: Adding Assets into the Project

Lecture 1: Importing and Adding External Assets to the Scene

Lecture 2: Importing and painting Foliage Assets onto the Terrain

Chapter 8: Creating a Cinematic in Sequencer

Lecture 1: Setting up to Create a Cinematic in Sequencer Part 1

Lecture 2: Adding key Frames and working inside Sequencer Part 2

Lecture 3: Manipulating the Camera and fine tuning the Shots inside Sequencer Part 3

Lecture 4: Lighting baking Options in Unreal Engine

Lecture 5: Rendering the Cinematic and Editing in Shotcut

Chapter 9: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture