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Blender 3D Asset Creation for the Metaverse

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

By: Vinicius Machado Venâncio

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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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Part 1: Inorganic Asset Modeling
Part 1: Inorganic Asset Modeling
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Chapter 1: Modeling the 3D Asset
Chapter 1: Modeling the 3D Asset
Gathering references
A quick tour of Blender
Blocking out the asset’s general shape
Building the headphones inside Blender
Refining the block out to add detail
Summary
3
Chapter 2: Optimizing Your Asset for Better Rendering Performance
Chapter 2: Optimizing Your Asset for Better Rendering Performance
Deciding whether an asset has excessive geometry
Reducing excessive geometry
What to keep in mind while optimizing a model
Summary
4
Chapter 3: UV Unwrapping Your 3D Asset
Chapter 3: UV Unwrapping Your 3D Asset
Finding the right edges on which to place seams
Unwrapping the headphones
Packing the UVs
Checking for practical use
Summary
5
Chapter 4: Texturing Your 3D Asset Using PBR and Procedural Textures
Chapter 4: Texturing Your 3D Asset Using PBR and Procedural Textures
Setting up your workspace
A physically based rendering workflow
Summary
6
Chapter 5: Texture Painting and Using Real-Life Images as Textures
Chapter 5: Texture Painting and Using Real-Life Images as Textures
Setting up your texture painting workspace
Baking the textures
Summary
7
Part 2: Organic Asset Modeling
Part 2: Organic Asset Modeling
8
Chapter 6: Introduction to Blender’s Sculpting Tools
Chapter 6: Introduction to Blender’s Sculpting Tools
Blender’s default sculpting tools
Advantages of using a graphics tablet to sculpt
Suggested uses for the brushes
Summary
9
Chapter 7: Making the Base Mesh for a Humanoid Character
Chapter 7: Making the Base Mesh for a Humanoid Character
General body proportions for humanoid characters
Blocking out the base mesh
Summary
10
Chapter 8: Refining the Base Meshes
Chapter 8: Refining the Base Meshes
Refining the head and face
The neck
The chest
The upper back
The arms
The abdomen
The pelvic area
The legs
The hands
The feet
Merging the different parts
Summary
11
Chapter 9: Optimizing the Base Meshes
Chapter 9: Optimizing the Base Meshes
What is good topology?
Setting up the retopology mesh
Retopologizing the base mesh
UV unwrapping our base meshes
Summary
12
Chapter 10: Rigging the Base Meshes
Chapter 10: Rigging the Base Meshes
Types of movable joints in the human body
Rigging our character
Weight painting
Limiting the movements of the joints
Adding IK to our rig
Generating a full rig with the Rigify add-on
Summary
13
Chapter 11: Further Development as a 3D Artist
Chapter 11: Further Development as a 3D Artist
Improving quickly
The importance of feedback as an artist
Summary
14
Index
Index
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Modeling the 3D Asset

Blender is an extremely powerful tool for creating 3D models for a variety of purposes and has increased in popularity over the last few years mainly because it is a free and open source program, which makes it accessible to basically anyone with a computer. It has been designed so that every step of the 3D pipeline can be carried out within the program itself. That’s why many people are starting to create assets for the metaverse using Blender rather than paid alternatives.

In this chapter, we’ll learn how to start creating your own original assets, as well as learning how to navigate through Blender’s interface and use its main modeling tools, using the modifier system to speed up the process.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:

  • How to look for good image references
  • How to break down an object into simple shapes
  • How to create a base shape to build upon
  • Deciding on the level of detail necessary
  • How to gradually add detail to the base shape
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