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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

Basic texturing techniques


As I mentioned earlier, textures are what make a game object pop in your level. They can be used to add all kinds of different elements we would not take the time to model, as well as color, wear and tear, and lighting information. There are many ways to texture our game object. Basic objects that would like to take advantage of a material in Unreal can apply one in the level. Blender has painting tools available within the program through its texture paint mode. Lastly, there are options available using other programs to create your textures. Our UV map can be exported to a program like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, where we can paint the textures using the color tools or use photos to create a realistic result. I also want to talk about a new type of tool that has been available for a couple of years now. Substance Painter is an application that allows you to paint textures directly on to your 3D object, much like Blender's texture painting mode, but it has options...