Master Low Poly Texturing - Pro Tips

[@leonidas2240]

im currently learning game engines optimizations and substance painter advance texturing, if I manage to make this for a living is because of your channel and courses, Grant. Thanks you so much for all the amazing tutorials you did for the 3D community♡

[@grabbitt]

Go for it!

[@pineappleparty1624]

meh, you don't even need substance painter. A lot of people don't know that. They assume it's some industry standard that they need in order to be good. Not true at all. 💪

[@Belidos3D]

@@pineappleparty1624 True to an extent, but Substance Painter is by far the best way of painting textures, there's so much it can do in one program that you ould need multiple other programs to do, which is why it is pretty much industry standard, but yeah you can even paint textures directly inside Blender if you want, it's just harder to achieve the same quality of textures than using a dedicate program like substance painter.

[@pineappleparty1624]

@@Belidos3D I rather use a photo editor and blender instead of having a standard looking substance painter texture. You can almost always tell when someone uses it. Sure it's kind of faster but I hate the results really.

[@arcadefrog9914]

This channel deserves more subs. Your videos have always been helpful for people like me who work with Blender off an on. Hope you continue teaching us Blender tricks for a long time coming.

[@albertobloch9633]

This was my first paid course to learn 3D modeling and I really enjoyed it.

[@grabbitt]

Great to hear!

[@barancemiloglu8272]

I am following most of your courses and videos because they are not just educational but also really fun this video literally answered a lot of my problems since texturing is my weakest point :)

[@Ahkelbhen]

Oh my god Grant! You’ve popped up on my feed once again! 450k that’s nuts! I think you were on about 200k when I was in your Games Design class! Congrats!

[@grabbitt]

😀👍

[@Belidos3D]

Love it. This is exactly what i have been doing for years in Blender, it's such a great simple way of using simple colour for low poly cartoon style models.

[@CyberAngel67]

I would be interested in the slots workflow and linking it up at the end, a video on that would be great

[@omehwizdom1689]

Thank you for this. I've always been looking for the tutorial on texture slot since you dropped the video on the rogue character.

[@Rai2M]

All right. I'm not into 3D (although i know some basics since 3DS r3) but your tutorials are amazing and i'm gonna recommend your channel to as many people as possible. Thank you very much, sir.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@kashyapp23]

you are the best blender teacher sir

[@sketchturner8229]

With vertex color you dont need any textures and UVs, but got more color variations include gradients on one model, and its higer perfomance )

[@etherealregions]

You are the Bob Ross of Blender.

[@tastysnak]

Thanks Grant! That's great advice. Can't wait to give the texture atlas a try.

[@Bruno310177]

As always, a super video! THANKS

[@disobedientdolphin]

Did you ever watched or even followed a Bob Ross Tutorial? I think it would be very entertaining to make a video of that because I think you have both such a calm and charming teaching style.

[@benjaminlehmann]

So helpful. Great video.

[@AurynGaming]

To make scaling your UV for the atlas easy just press 0, this puts all verts on the same pixel. This can also make the colour pallette/atlas much smaller in size (both visually and file size) as you wont need for example 10x10 squares of colour for each. I have yet to have an issue with UVs by pressing 0 to make all vert move to 1 pixel and other low poly youtubers do this too.

[@VertexRage]

Both project from view and scaling to 0 might result in lighting/shading artifacts with static lighting due to issues with lightmaps.

[@saurav68786]

Very easy to understand. Thank you

[@brodad9364]

The texture atlas is smart here I was baking when I do literally just do that. Smart

[@dougieladd]

Almost like an episode of Camberwick Green :D

[@jasperzatch610]

Your tutorials and work are my favorite, ive bought a few of your courses already and cant wait to finish them! You wouldnt do a paid Live lesson one on one or with a small class would you?

[@grabbitt]

It's not something I do at the moment

[@jasperzatch610]

@@grabbitt hopefully in the future! My friend and I are new and training and have so many questions you cant always find a good answer for.

[@GameBacardi]

Nice and simple. Thanks

[@emirisik]

Hey Grant, lovely video as always! I had a question - what is the difference between "Closest" and "Linear" texture interpolation? I read somewhere online that using "Closest" for low poly texturing is better. But I'm fairly new to Blender so I don't know. Which of these options are preferred for game-ready models? Currently I'm having a slight issue with wrong colors on my models when imported into Unreal Engine.

[@grabbitt]

I think it's to do with stopping bleeding

[@emirisik]

@@grabbitt Yes! I tried both with some characters I had and "Closest" seems to work better. Also I noticed that using a 16x16 color palette was causing my problem - so switching to a 512x512 palette seemed to solve it. You rock! I wish you had more Udemy courses on low poly stuff :)

[@The_T-Bone]

If I were to sell low poly assets which method should I use?

[@grabbitt]

Any that works

[@The_T-Bone]

Ok thank you@@grabbitt

[@ahmedamine4268]

thank u 😃

[@theinmortaltaco2440]

how do you set up the lighting??

[@grabbitt]

See my videos on lighting

[@red.shadow833]

❤❤❤

[@moustfaalakraa8157]

is baking a good way for this tutorial to be exported to unity!!!!

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@sunny99179]

does these tips works for unreal too? i always have to re settup all materials on unreal and i wonder if there is an plugging or anything to help avoid this step

[@grabbitt]

If you use a texture atlas you should be fine

[@sansdomicileconnu]

what do you think of leonardoai text to texture? if i have well understand you import your mesh and you prompt for a texture and you get pbr texture images( albedo normal.....)

[@grabbitt]

Sounds pretty good to me

[@sansdomicileconnu]

@@grabbitt yes we have acces now i have try on a dinosaur with prompts dinosaur skin detailed hyper realist .... and it gives good result 😀

[@sciencetommorow]

hi grant how are you able to have that much skills without forgeting drawing sculpting anatomy etc? for example i see other artist can create only certain things while u can sculpt everything how do we reach that level any course/advice/roadmap :D

[@grabbitt]

Thanks. I actually feel I have a long way to go in those terms. But generally, it's effective practice, and it slowly comes with time

[@bhaveshsolanki7245]

but if i bring it to unity the texture dont look like they were looking in blender they usually look more dull and dark any solution for this

[@grabbitt]

Lighting

[@UndeadFC]

What is the best resolution for texture atlas ?

[@JordanMatyka]

The bigger the texture the more memory it will occupy so you want to keep it as small as possible. On the other hand you don't want it to be too small, so the UVs aren't too cramped and the colors aren't bleeding onto other UV islands, as Grant pointed out at 04:30.

[@UndeadFC]

@@JordanMatyka thanks man

[@atomicshrimpFT]

Hi, what software do you use for making the pallet?

[@grabbitt]

It varies a lot

[@atomicshrimpFT]

@@grabbitt Is there an easy to use software where I just have to put in the hex values and the software creates the pallet?

[@grabbitt]

adobe color is a good place to start i guess

[@atomicshrimpFT]

@@grabbitt I’ll check it out! Thank you

[@jishanahamed8592]

A quick question if I use this style for texturing (color palette) and i import it into unity and during the lighting process I create lightmap, won't there be some problem? As the UV's are squeezed???

[@grabbitt]

I don't think so but mot had a lot of experience with that one

[@jishanahamed8592]

@@grabbitt I think there will be some problems, and i found on net it could be solved by creating custom lightmap uv, different from the one used for texturing, i think there is also a button in unity while importing, Create LightMap UV's, but idk if it will work!

[@jishanahamed8592]

@@grabbitt It does, and after going through tonnes of web pages i figured out the solution, so for anyone else facing the same problem. All you have to do is after creating your uv map and following that color palette style, go to the object data properties, under UV Maps, create another UV map and for that do a more accurate unwrapping (i just press "u", then lightmap pack) and you are good to go. when you import the object in unity, unity will automatically recognise that the model has 2 uv maps, so it will take the other uv map when creating the light map. this is the best solution i could find.

[@MartKart8]

I was wonder if you know, if Inverse Kinematic still exists in Blender, I'm using 3.4.1 and when I I have a bone selected, then in Pose mode, select Add Object Constraint, down in the Tracking there's only 5 options? for some unknown reason, it wasn't loading then it just appeared.

[@indianastilts]

Great video. I use colour paletes but wasn't assigning it to colour atlas and just using it as a material and then uvmapping to it and still works. Question...why can't you simply just add the colour to the mesh in blender and simply be done with it. Why do game engines still to this day read them as every face separately. I mean I get the process of UVmapping and know we have to do this so it assigns the whole mesh to One texture and AAA games UVmap everything...just question is...why...why can't game engines define the model as one full texture? Wonder if one day technology will be able to do this and we won't have to uvmap

[@grabbitt]

It's more about efficiency and texture calls

[@indianastilts]

@@grabbitt texture calls?

[@abdou.the.heretic]

​@@indianastiltslike draw calls for meshes and polygons. Uv mapping is most efficient when texturing.

[@cekconi1773]

👍👍👍

[@Xeakerr]

How did they make PS2 graphics? Like this?

[@grabbitt]

Depends on the game I think

[@harrysan5320]

Hello sir I really appreciate your work . I am Harry from India I just started learning blender few months ago now I decided to create my funny animation channel on KZbin. But I am confused that which Mic is good to record voice in India . Could you please suggest me

[@grabbitt]

Tricky to say as it depends on your price range. I use the share smb

[@harrysan5320]

@@grabbitt thanks and what about blue yeti

[@grabbitt]

@@harrysan5320 yes that's a good mic

[@zeddlegion]

I keep hearing about this, import one texture for all of ur models. How is this done/ what does it mean?

[@MartKart8]

There's a creator called Legend 64 on KZbin that is making a game in the Nintendo 64 style, and uses one texture for his models, like a tree, the bark and leaves on one. He said it helps the game he's working on run smoothly, stops lagging and the material loads quickly, when he imported into Unreal Engine.

[@pineappleparty1624]

The transition sound is scary, not sure why lol.

[@my_yt_]

It would be handy to see your personal workflow as talked about here, kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHa4hpSpgd57f6M. Did you ever make a video of that? Would you?

[@grabbitt]

Not but it's just a combination of the 2 approaches. I'll talk about it in my next low poly workflow video

[@JordanMatyka]

@grabbitt - I don't have much experience with different game engines and I'm wondering if UVs overlapping on the atlas could cause any issues?

[@grabbitt]

Fine in unity. Might possibly be an issue if you have one object that overlaps. So make sure you scale down rather than overlap

[@jasminecaulden1089]

Hey Grant, any chance you can do an updated version of the video I linked. I think your method for creating hands and feet as base meshes is great, however it does not convert to newer versions of blender very well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pomkopivlqZ1j6s

[@lenstobrush7266]

I love your teaching style I just wish you did more realism, never been a fan of stylised modelling.

[@justinlikesme19]

no subs bcoz you have to pay booo!

[@grabbitt]

No you don't???