Digital Tutors - Creating a Sci-Fi Gun in Blender

Duration 5h 42m Project Files Included MP4

Throughout these lessons we'll be creating a game-ready sci-fi weapon. We'll use Blender as a single stream tool for asset creation.Initially we'll be going through mesh modeling techniques which we'll prepare for game engine work. Then we'll move to sculpting where we'll have an overview of Blender's new Dyntopo tools. Finally we'll be using the texture painting tool-set to create multiple maps and effects. Our target game environment will be Unity but these techniques can be used for any real-time environment.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Important hotkey overview

3. Setting up Blender's user preferences

4. Modeling the volumes of our mesh

5. Building the upper shield, central tank, and gun barrel

6. Creating the chamber and trigger setup

7. Adding the trigger guard and additional volumes

8. Using the Curve and Array tools

9. Adding detail to the heatsink and gun barrel

10. Introducing Dynamic Topology

11. Sculpting and smoothing our forms

12. Designing the base sculptural detail

13. Masking and importing textures

14. Detailing the handle and pommel

15. Finishing up the pommel and starting the shield

16. Completing the shield and sculpting the trigger guard

17. Discussing creative process, iteration, and self critique

18. Finishing the trigger guard and creating a shell

19. Positioning the shells

20. Engraving the ammo loader

21. Occluding seams

22. Preparing our model for our game engine

23. Detailing the gun handle

24. Cleaning the model up for UV unwrapping

25. Unwrapping our mesh

26. Addressing unwrap issues

27. Completing the UV unwrap

28. Painting our mesh

29. Utilizing the UV editor to paint

30. Completing the base diffuse map

31. Baking normal maps

32. Fixing normal map errors in GIMP

33. Setting up our GLSL preview

34. Developing a simple specular map

35. Face Selection Masking and Stencil Mapping

36. Detailing our metal

37. Completing the diffuse map

38. Adding normal information via texture paint

39. Baking normal information

40. Preparing our texture maps for Unity

41. Importing and setting up in Unity