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Blender 3D Asset Creation for the Metaverse

Blender 3D Asset Creation for the Metaverse

By : Vinicius Machado Venâncio
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Blender 3D Asset Creation for the Metaverse

Blender 3D Asset Creation for the Metaverse

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By: Vinicius Machado Venâncio
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Overview of this book

If you are familiar with modeling, this book will help you discover a practical and efficient workflow designed to accelerate your asset creation process for use in multiple projects, including games and the metaverse. Complete with shortcuts and tips on how to speed up the process, this book guides you in modeling assets and characters with the help of references. You’ll learn how to optimize the modeled asset for maximum rendering performance within game engines and the metaverse. Next, you’ll get to grips with unwrapping the 3D model for texturing and explore multiple texturing techniques to breathe life into your 3D models. Finally, you’ll integrate the 3D model to work seamlessly across a myriad of programs and game engines. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to efficiently create any type of 3D asset from scratch for use in renders, animations, or immersive gaming experiences.
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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Part 1: Inorganic Asset Modeling
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Part 1: Inorganic Asset Modeling
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Chapter 1: Modeling the 3D Asset
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Chapter 1: Modeling the 3D Asset
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Gathering references
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A quick tour of Blender
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Blocking out the asset’s general shape
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Building the headphones inside Blender
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Refining the block out to add detail
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Optimizing Your Asset for Better Rendering Performance
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Chapter 2: Optimizing Your Asset for Better Rendering Performance
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Deciding whether an asset has excessive geometry
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Reducing excessive geometry
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What to keep in mind while optimizing a model
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Summary
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Chapter 3: UV Unwrapping Your 3D Asset
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Chapter 3: UV Unwrapping Your 3D Asset
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Finding the right edges on which to place seams
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Unwrapping the headphones
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Packing the UVs
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Checking for practical use
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Chapter 4: Texturing Your 3D Asset Using PBR and Procedural Textures
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Chapter 4: Texturing Your 3D Asset Using PBR and Procedural Textures
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Setting up your workspace
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A physically based rendering workflow
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Summary
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Chapter 5: Texture Painting and Using Real-Life Images as Textures
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Chapter 5: Texture Painting and Using Real-Life Images as Textures
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Setting up your texture painting workspace
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Baking the textures
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Part 2: Organic Asset Modeling
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Part 2: Organic Asset Modeling
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Chapter 6: Introduction to Blender’s Sculpting Tools
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Chapter 6: Introduction to Blender’s Sculpting Tools
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Blender’s default sculpting tools
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Advantages of using a graphics tablet to sculpt
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Suggested uses for the brushes
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Chapter 7: Making the Base Mesh for a Humanoid Character
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Chapter 7: Making the Base Mesh for a Humanoid Character
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General body proportions for humanoid characters
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Blocking out the base mesh
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Chapter 8: Refining the Base Meshes
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Chapter 8: Refining the Base Meshes
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Refining the head and face
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The neck
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The chest
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The upper back
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The arms
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The abdomen
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The pelvic area
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The legs
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The hands
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The feet
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Merging the different parts
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Chapter 9: Optimizing the Base Meshes
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Chapter 9: Optimizing the Base Meshes
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What is good topology?
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Setting up the retopology mesh
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Retopologizing the base mesh
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UV unwrapping our base meshes
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Chapter 10: Rigging the Base Meshes
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Chapter 10: Rigging the Base Meshes
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Types of movable joints in the human body
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Rigging our character
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Weight painting
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Limiting the movements of the joints
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Adding IK to our rig
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Generating a full rig with the Rigify add-on
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Chapter 11: Further Development as a 3D Artist
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Chapter 11: Further Development as a 3D Artist
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Improving quickly
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The importance of feedback as an artist
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Index
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UV Unwrapping Your 3D Asset

With our headphones fully optimized, we’re now ready to prepare them for texturing through a process called UV unwrapping, which basically consists of placing cuts (seams) at strategic places on your mesh in order to lay all the polygons flat, in a 1:1 image called a UV map. This will allow us to texture our asset smoothly, without worrying about stretched textures.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • How to place seams in the correct places based on the shape of the mesh
  • How to unwrap our asset
  • How to use the UV Editing workspace
  • How to check for stretching in the textures
  • How to minimize stretching in the textures
  • How to pack the object’s UVs

It’s important to remember that, in this chapter, we will unwrap the high-poly headphones in order to demonstrate more complex techniques, but if you plan on making this a game asset and you made a low-poly version as well, the high-poly version...

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