Learn Modular Environment Building for Games with Blender (Udemy.com)
Build game-ready environment models for amazing level designs!
Created by: 3dmotive LLC
Last updated September 2016
What you will learn
- Learn how to design and build modular environment sets
- Understand core modeling and texturing principles
- Learn to prepare and optimize models for a game engine
How it compares
Against the other 100 rated Udemy courses in Blender on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 14% of them
- Reviews90#91 of 101 by number of reviews
- Length6.4 hoursshorter than 65% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2016earlier than 96% of them
Course Description
In this course intended for intermediate viewers, instructor Alan Thorn explores how to build low-poly environment assets in a dark industrial theme. These meshes fit together seamlessly, like building blocks, for creating expansive and versatile level design in games. Use Blender to model, unwrap, texture-paint, and optimize assets, exporting them to a real-time game engine. Over five, massive chapters you’ll examine:
1). Polygonal modelling techniques for building complex shapes and designs
2). NGons and topology optimization for enhancing and refining your meshes
3). Smooth shading and UV Seams for creating good looking meshes and texture designs
4). Texture unwrapping and UV layouts, as well as texture baking and painting for developing a smooth and intuitive workflow
5). Model exporting for game engines, to help bring your models to life inside a real-time game engine
By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid foundation for easily building low-poly, modular game assets that can be used and re-used to create potentially limitless level designs.
More about the Instructor:
Alan Thorn is a game developer, author and educator with 15 years industry experience. He makes games for PC desktop, Mobile and VR. He founded 'Wax Lyrical Games' and created the award-winning game 'Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok', working as designer, programmer and artist. He has written sixteen technical books on game development and presented ten video training courses, covering game-play programming, Unity development, and 3D modelling. He has worked in game development education as a visiting lecturer for the 'National Film and Television School', as a Lead Teacher for 'Uppingham School', and is currently a Senior Lecturer at 'Teesside University' where he helps students develop the skills needed for their ideal role in the games industry.
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
90 Reviews
3dmotive LLC
3dmotive is High Quality 3d and Game Art Training by Industry Pros! Whether you are brand new to the world of Game Art, 3d, Architecture or Film - or maybe just interested in brushing up your techniques for intermediate or advanced levels of 3d with a focus on video games, 3dmotive is your one-stop-shop for all your 3d and Game Art related tutorials! Got questions? Interested in a new course topic? Let us know!
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Reviews
By James Dorgan on 12/20/2021
For intermediate users, but goes over basics like someone who's never used Blender before. Spends nearly the first hour setting up things that are personal preference and have no bearing on the project. Also had no idea the course was so old and thus using a largely outdated version of the software. Thankfully, the concepts are easy enough to implement into my current workflow
By Gabriel Valiant on 6/9/2020
This course is pretty useful, even in 2020. Decided to give it a shot as based on the preview it could be seen it showed actual industry-standard workflow and it was correct. Instructor is indeed a professional, but more than that knows how to transmit the knowledge which I appreciate a lot. I'm giving this course 4 stars as the content is really a gold mine, however it hasn't aged 100% well compared to how blender has evolved, either get blender 2.7 to follow completely or skip the baking processes portion (Ambient Occlusion, diffuse map, bump map) if using blender 2.8... anyways still an awesome course in 2020
By Jacco Ekelo on 10/5/2019
Great course. Not only learnt some new features I did not know yet, but especially learnt a lot of a possible workflow which can be used. Teaching was clear and good speed.
By Francois Bonet on 9/20/2019
It looks like there are few mistakes or missing sections in this course or some videos are not in depth enough. Like there is a chapter with Photoshop in the title but I haven't seen any use of Photoshop or the materials configuration in Unity (section 5) is only a 3 min videos not including all the texture files exported from Blender... The course is probably not up to date with the latest version of Blender and Unity
By James Lavery on 7/7/2018
Good explanations of modular game asset creation using Blender. Succinct and to the point lectures that do not drone on about irrelevant issues. However, I would advise to watch all the lectures in a given Section before attempting to implement the concepts, as some things, such as the process of saving a texture image is explained in later lectures. Overall, I am very happy with the course and the instructor's ability to make new concepts easy to understand.
By James McLain on 1/25/2018
Very clear and easy to follow for me. I could wish for Blender style key commands instead of Maya, but Maya is more the industry standard tool.
By Oleg Rybin on 11/23/2017
This course gave me a good overall understanding of what's involved in creating an original 3d game level and I now have a list of topics I want to explore further. I also found it well structured, presented and paced. The only downside for me was the complexity of geometry and number of modular pieces. I ended up simplifying it to focus on learning new things and avoid spending too much time on debugging and repetitive tasks.
By Abraham Alonzo Velázquez on 7/29/2017
The perfomance of the content vs cost of the course is far better than loose time searching for free tutorials o documentation with guys what you can see they know nothing about performance or pipeline blender - unity.
By Luis Gutierrez on 1/28/2017
This is a great course you'll love it. But whatever you do, if you learned blender using the blender default controllers, do not listen to the instructor and change to maya control style. I did that and now I'm having so much problems with blender. I tired to change back to factory settings and it's still giving me issues. Other than that, this course is pretty freaking amazing. There should also be a course about making a building for games like first person shooters.
By Jose Lopez Garcia on 9/25/2016
Really commited teacher, I am happy so far with what I'm learning (still at the beginning of the course). I will change my review as I advance through the course, but loving it at the moment. Competitive price, and clear explanations. I'm just hoping to see how all this Blender stuff integrates with Unity in the most performance-friendly way.
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Overall Score : 86 / 100












