Blender Modular Design - 01 The Painfully Basics

This is a real time badly narrated follow along style video where I will go through my whole process for creating modular environments in Blender, from starting out with the painfully basics to much more advanced modeling and texturing techniques. At the moment this is planned to be an ongoing project with weekly or biweekly uploads, but all is subject to change.

[@davejones2227]

Honestly, these videos should get more attention. There's not a lot of modular tutorials out there that take beginners into account, so thanks for making them!

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Thanks man! And i completely agree, learning this stuff was very difficult. It was hard to find a single source that covered all the need to know fundamentals and techniques in one so i had to learn it all the hard way over many years 😁. Hopefully i was able to help fill that gap in the market. Thanks for watching!

[@davejones2227]

@@JohnnyBlackWinter Absolutely, it's great to have something out there. Much appreciated :)

[@dominikp.7049]

This might be interesting to Blender newcomers (just as myself): instead of manually toggling increment snapping on and off, you could also hold CTRL while moving the object. This will also make it snap to the grid. I find this a little more convenient while moving the objects around in the viewport (aand because I often missed toggling snapping). There you go :)

[@follyscrolly1345]

btw for anyoen stuck on the corner thing u need to use control j to join the two peices after sheering them

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

MyGuy is paying attention 😂, thanks follyscrolly

[@follyscrolly1345]

@@JohnnyBlackWinter got me stuck for a while so thought I would share it lol

[@martinwallroth6208]

But before that, you should delete the overlapping faces, then joining the pieces with control j, and after that select all vertices and do a quick merge-by-distance. Then you have a clean corner piece 😉

[@brianpmaher]

Absolutely love this. Been looking for a video series like this for a while.

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

More to come for sure! 😎

[@MstrLonewolf]

Thank for sharing your knowledge just showing how to use the shear to create the corner piece and then getting the origin in the right place explained so much that that little bit of info is something I have been stuck with and has discouraged trying to make modular parts thank you again

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Im so glad to hear it is helpful to you, i have been there myself. Don't worry, it will all make sense in the end. Just stick it out 👍

[@MstrLonewolf]

@@JohnnyBlackWinter Thank you I appreciate the response

[@loopcuthero]

Why havent I come across this series earlier! great work!👍

[@aaviusa835]

I'm glad I discovered your modular speed build for the mansion. I now have something to watch after work

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Thank you 😁, I hope you enjoy

[@orionwright356]

I'm finding your unplanned, conversational style of explanation to be way, way more digestible than other tutorials I've watched. Planning on watching the whole series. Thanks for taking the time to make these.

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Glad you like them!

[@alexyang6535]

You're Amazing Johnny, this is definitely a great tutorial and I'm a complete beginner!

[@leanyscrawny]

Awesome series

[@draicor]

Thank you for making this man, this is incredible!

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

My pleasure!

[@SewerTapes]

Thanks a lot. This reinforced a few things I already knew and helped make better sense of the snapping system, which had been trial and error before. Also, You're the first I've seen to recommend and show how the Q menu works. I've got so many things to assign to that. Happy to subscribe to your channel, and I look forward to checking out the next videos in this series and beyond. Cheers.

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Delighted!! The quick favourites menu is easily the most overlooked and powerful feature Blender has to offer. Im so happy someone else appreciates it as much as i do 🤣. I would love if it had some customizable features or an ability to reorder and group certain functions, but still im grateful. The print has been worn off my "Q" key for sure

[@pwnonator]

I been looking for how to do something like this for a suburban house. So far this is looking good.

[@bovineox1111]

I only just hear about quick favourites - thank you.

[@oozly9291]

Omg you won’t believe how difficult it is to find proper modular tutorials, thank you 🙏!

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

I know, i starting out myself i specifically remember how hard it was to find a starting point. Thats partly the reason i decided to make it, so nobody has to suffer as i did 😂. Thanks for watching

[@laurensdesmet70]

Just watched this video, looking forward to the other ones. The only thing I'd suggest to those making game assets is to consider "the door problem" in video games when deciding the size of the door and maybe the size of windows if you can jump through them. There are some good videos on KZbin explaining it, but basically it comes down to using bigger than real life sizes to avoid problem with gameplay and locomotion mechanics. It's important to consider this before you double down on specific sizes for all your assets.

[@kentjensen4504]

Oh, I get the 'painfully basics' title now. Very elegant. My apologies.

[@Fasimedes]

Thanks for this sir!

[@gregggavitt2795]

I'm super new to blender and want to get into the modular asset workflow...so this was practically made for me. After working through the first part I feel like I got a great leg up on a ton of vital concepts. TY!!

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

You're very welcome!

[@SmokyMountainsHauling]

this is a really good series.

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Thanks! I hope its helpful 😁

[@karguzozki]

Damn, best videos on this topic on KZbin for sure. Everything is explained so well, I had a problem with corners and you made it so fun and simple. Thank you

[@izzak6189]

I will add even though this is a year old, Ctrl+A is the hotkey for applying transforms. Unless you use the quick favorites method but it does have a shortcut. Awesome video's thank you!

[@tiagopesce]

14:44 alt+z for xray on and off.. i really love this navigational shortcuts..

[@denisnykyforov6691]

that's a gold, thank you so much? i love u😭😭

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

You're welcome 😊

[@RossieKgan]

@Johnny BlackWinter - Thank you for this series!! You cut out how you grouped the corner walls into 1 object. How do you do this?

[@korey2996]

I am just now starting this today as of May 8th, 2023. This is the type of art that I want to make as a 3D Artist. I've been using blender for about one year but this kind of stuff is what I want to be able to do on my own, I'm super excited to learn and understand the workflow.

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Delighted to hear that! I would love to know how it is going a month later? hopefully your learning lots 😉

[@tiagopesce]

2:48 ctrl+A for the context in reseting/aplying transformations, i do prefer use Q menu for "checker desselect" or "select random" in edit mode because they don't have a native key-shortcut and are not that common used but when you need to use you need repeat it a lot...

[@NickEnchev]

12:48, in case you don't need the mirror you can just add that loop cut down the middle, then bevel it to turn it into two loop cuts, then just scale them apart.

[@98Castaway]

great tutorial!!

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

Thanks Pedro!! Great profile picture 😂

[@fernadocalerolopez7512]

I come from the next video. When I pulled the corner’s outside wall the sheer edge broke. There's any solution?

[@learnrevit]

What about absolute grid snap ?

[@jayhop960]

you sound irish I love ireland! best damn country

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

I am indeed Irish, well caught 😉

[@jayhop960]

@@JohnnyBlackWinter TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ!!!! I LOVE IRELANDDDD 🇮🇪

[@deadleaves3593]

Hola, escribo desde Argentina, no hace mucho conozco la herramienta Shear y noto que me da un error en el margen me queda un espacio entre ambas paredes y si lo junto más tampoco logro que quede de manera correcta. Lo vi varías veces pero no consigo encontrar mi error. Muchas gracias por los videos

[@deadleaves3593]

Ya encontre el error la pared era más ancha de un lado que del otro y el punto de pivot quedaba mal equilibrado.