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3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

By : Jessica Plowman
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3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

4.3 (8)
By: Jessica Plowman
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Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 now has support for Blender, which was not available in earlier versions. This has opened up new possibilities and that is where this book comes in. This is the first book in the market combining these two powerful game and graphic engines. Readers will build an amazing high-level game environment with UE4 and will show them how to use the power of Blender 3D to create stunning animations and 3D effects for their game. This book will start with creating levels, 3D assets for the game, game progression, light and environment control, animation, and so on. Then it will teach readers to add amazing visual effects to their game by applying rendering, lighting, rigging, and compositing techniques in Blender. Finally, readers will learn how to smoothly transfer blender files to UE4 and animate the game assets. Each chapter will add complexities to the game environment.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Unreal, My Friend, I'd Like You to Meet Blender
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1. Unreal, My Friend, I'd Like You to Meet Blender
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Installing Blender
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Exploring the interface
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Customizing your settings
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Working with modes
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Jumping into our first project
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Getting things started in Unreal Engine 4
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Summary
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2. Starting Our First Project
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2. Starting Our First Project
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Using the Content Browser to start building the level
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Using different types of light
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Adding interactive elements using Triggers and Blueprints
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Playtesting our level
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Summary
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3. It's Time to Customize!
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3. It's Time to Customize!
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Getting started making game assets
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Using the basic tools of polygon modeling
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How to use UV mapping and why it's important
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UV unwrapping our game asset
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Basic texturing techniques
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Summary
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4. Getting the Assets to the Level
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4. Getting the Assets to the Level
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Exporting our object from Blender
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What is FBX?
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Importing our object into Unreal
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Setting up and using our new 3D asset
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5. Taking This Level Up a Notch
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5. Taking This Level Up a Notch
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Planning a more complex level
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Whiteboxing a level for better asset creation
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Level design principles
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Advanced scripting techniques
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Win conditions
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6. Monster Assets – The Level Totally Needs One of These
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6. Monster Assets – The Level Totally Needs One of These
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Designing our asset – inspiration and concept art
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Advanced tools: Subdivide, Knife, Bridge Edge Loops, and more
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Using multiple shapes within Blender
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Summary
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7. Let's Dress to Impress!
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7. Let's Dress to Impress!
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Unwrapping complex objects
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Using Smart UV Project
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Custom Marking Seams
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Using different maps to create a more realistic look
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8. Lights, Camera, Animation!
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8. Lights, Camera, Animation!
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How does Blender handle animation?
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Rigging and using keyframes
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Using Blender's suite of animation tools
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9. Bang Bang – Let's Make It Explode
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9. Bang Bang – Let's Make It Explode
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Creating a class blueprint to tie it all together
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Using sound effects
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Using particle effects
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Using multiple shapes within Blender

To begin building our object, we need to break our design down into its individual pieces and decide on a primitive shape to start building each part. The bottom section looks like a cylinder. The lid looks like the top portion of a sphere split in two. The gears and pistons that make up the locking mechanism definitely look like cylinders and the legs could start that way too.

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Don't forget to set up your file with the appropriate settings like we did in Chapter 3, It's Time to Customize!

Now, let's start with a cylinder:

Starting with a cylinder

Let's start the build with the bottom of the object:

  1. Delete the starting objects from the scene, if you have them. Go to the Add menu located at the bottom of the 3D viewport, go to Mesh, and select Cylinder from the options. In the bottom of the Tools pane, you can see the options for our newly created Cylinder. Set the Sides to 24 (using just enough sides to stay round), set the Radius to 60, and the Depth to...

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