Game asset workflow, modeling, texturing, uv, baking - Blender tutorial

Over a week of research, tests and experiments to understand how to bake a high-poly model into a low-poly model on a hard-surface object.
If I've spent so much time getting it right, it's because internet resources don't tell the whole story.
The cases presented are always simplified cases, such as baking a cube. The reality is far more complex! You'll also find tutorials on how to bake objects without a bevel, which is obviously much easier. And above all, the vast majority of tutorials, even those produced by Blender addicts, don't bake in Blender, but in Substance Painter.
In this tutorial, we'll bake a real model, with real challenges, bevels and Ngons, and we'll do it entirely in Blender, not in Substance Painter. Then we'll test it directly in Unreal.
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00:00 Intro
01:39 high poly modeling
02:32 high poly completion
06:26 Texturing
07:47 Make low poly from high poly
10:20 Unwrapping & UVs without addon
12:30 ZenUV
15:37 UV Packmater
16:34 Baking
21:25 Export
22:33 Unreal

[@omnicromltd]

To fix smoothing group error when Importing the FBX into unreal. In Blender in the FBX Export options, Scroll down to Geometry, then change Smoothing from Normals to Face before you click Export.

[@CGThoughts]

Thank you so much for the information :)

[@joshua42777]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Mikey-gs6jl]

Thank you for this great tutorial! It's very well scripted, clear and concise. Thank you again.

[@CGThoughts]

Thank you for your message Mikey

[@Freeloader767]

Honestly wish the texturing part wasn't sped up. I'm looking for a complete video like this one that includes the uv's using the uv plugins mentioned with their tools. I'm planning on purchasing the plugins but first I need a good understanding of everything and this video honestly would've been perfect

[@mdm-prods1184]

merci rudy

[@triple7evenn]

amazing stuff as always 🔥

[@CGThoughts]

Thank you triplle7evenn :)

[@skeletonking4119]

Thank you!!!!

[@ultrasnaps]

Really nice job with this tutorial. I also dislike dealing with the UVs - Zen UV and UV Packmaster are both lifesavers. I am not surprised to see both show up in your proposed workflow. I also use Better FBX to help with transition to Unreal and Unity.

[@floyd1411]

oohhhh mmyy God!!! Thank you for making this!!

[@CGThoughts]

my pleasure :)

[@channelname8623]

making adjustments requires a lot of mousing around, the thickness goes up at a very slow rate, while holding control, it took me 58 screen swipes and about 4 minutes to adjust the thickness to match the width and depth. how do you adjust it? i made it go a little faster holding ctrl but there has to be a better way, whats the keybind? also i found when adjusting a bevel, when moving the mouse it adjusts the width and segments simultaneously, but there isnt a situation where i would need to do that, how do i adjust them individually?

[@damnfail9316]

whats new in fluent 3?

[@Talvara]

As a fun aside, the red cross on this asset really should be green (or a different symbol) the Red cross is a protected symbol and can invite legal pressure when used in a game project.

[@CGThoughts]

Incredible, I didn't think a common symbol like that is protected ! Thank you for this fun fact.

[@DasBilligeAlien]

@@CGThoughts It's not protected by copyright law, but by the geneva conveiton. The intent is that the symbol is used for markings in warzones. That way warparties are not shooting at doctors or bulding with the markings. A violatio nis a wargcrime under the geneva convention. There are a laws in place to protect the symbol from misuse. Of course video games didn't exist back then so nobody foraw it as a potentiakl problem. So it is not some misplaced corporate greed, but to keep the symbol from being contaminated with other meanings.

[@CGThoughts]

@@DasBilligeAlienThank you for this accurate answer :)

[@DasBilligeAlien]

I just wish I would have done less typos :D@@CGThoughts

[@stephanstrydom6175]

I used to love the Fluent modeling tools until the pie menu was introduced. Please can you release a version without the pie menu, its a hassle to work with and dig around for icons etc. Materializer is still awesome!!!

[@CGThoughts]

Hello Stephan, look the options in préférences. You can choose your menu. Circular or column 😉

[@stephanstrydom6175]

Awesome, thanks!! @@CGThoughts

[@localstout]

This process is something AI would be useful for. Hopefully Rudy will figure it out before Adobe or Autodesk. Thanks for the great video!

[@CGThoughts]

Thank you localstout :)