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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

By: Jessica Plowman

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 (16 chapters)
3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Let's Dress to Impress!

The Artifact is ready to unleash its hellish power! However, it doesn't really look like much with its default grey exterior. Just like we did in Chapter 3, It's Time to Customize! we need to UV Unwrap it so that we can create a material for it and bring it into Unreal. Unlike our crate, the Artifact is a much more complex object and is made of multiple smaller objects. This will require us to use a different technique to create the UV map and for that we need some different tools. Rather than use the Smart UV Project option, we will use custom seams to flatten out the different sections of the Artifact. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Unwrapping complex objects

  • Custom seams and the Unwrap tool

  • Using Smart UV Project along with other mapping tools

  • Using different types of texture maps together, to create a more realistic look