Creating a Modular Building for Games Part #1

[@rejaneribeirooliveira5602]

i really apreciate your help with dowloanding this software

[@DZMegamind]

the dankest 3d designer in the business :D

[@mariaalejandranogalesborda2284]

Brilliant tutorial, thank you.

[@Darthcusto]

Also one tip. You can use import image as plane addon in blender then scale it up.

[@s2ym0n54]

Thanks for sharing! This is so helpful!

[@juanarturochuquimango2660]

Really nice and helpful... Thanks!

[@homborgor]

Any chance you’ll revisit this topic and remake this video? Would love to see how you’ve progressed and in a newer version of blender lol

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Yes, I'll be revisiting this, this year will update you when I have the new video :)

[@casio8917]

thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.

[@myriamiannotta7206]

tNice tutorials is detailed, its amazin thanks man!

[@Andili76]

Awesome Tutorial, Thx for sharing..

[@kanameyu]

This is so incredibly helpful!! Thank you!!

[@justchris846]

Bro, screen cast your keys, no idea what keys your pressing . Very good work

[@XPolyKingX]

this is what i have been looking for

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

glad it helped buddy

[@whynot-vq2ly]

thanks for the tutorial, waiting for more :]

[@jamiebishop6109]

when i add the loop cut at 1:35 it moves the whole picture down instead of moving the loop cut, how do i do this

[@jamiebishop6109]

1:30 - 1:35

[@d.andreea8419]

mine too

[@jamiebishop6109]

Douda Andreea have you worked out how to fix this?!

[@d.andreea8419]

@@jamiebishop6109 Yes. when you add a loop cut you have in the left panel an option "CORRECT UVS", just check that and it should work!

[@FlyingDogCiel]

need the other half of the video!

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

Just excellent. thank you.

[@hurin1576]

good joooooob

[@AI_MIXING]

Love much love

[@sebastiansanchez-penalemos9015]

Thanks Henry. I've been trying to use your trick 1:10 projecting the image as a UV (bounds) but when I add loop cuts I don't see throw the image, so I can't see the loop cuts, and when I move the loop cuts they deform. It's not a UV unwrap, correct? So, how do you do it?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

hey bud, you can usually change your view to orthographic or maybe the opacity of the image needs to be lowered

[@sebastiansanchez-penalemos9015]

Thanks Henry, I though you were doing a UV unwrap on the mesh. So, you're just using the background, and do the mesh the same size of the background, correct. I made a video of what I though you were doing. To show it deformed the mesh: nearfy.com/loopCuts_deforms_the_UV.mov

[@jamiebishop6109]

did you find out how to do this, i'm stuck on this part!!

[@Eliomar_Alves]

very good

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

thanks, the rest will be added tomorrow

[@Eliomar_Alves]

you are professional or is just fun? Thanks for sharing!

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

I'm semi professional, Working my way into the industry, But this is how I taught myself (im a self learned Environment artist, Taught myself) I spent years trying to watch other videos to learn bits and bobs, so now I want to help the community as much as I can.

[@Eliomar_Alves]

+InzombiaGame thanks for the videos and congratulations

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

thanks dude, more videos being uploaded for this btw Its not quite finished!

[@sharoozasghar4956]

Yea! Nice video!!

[@InnerspaceX]

Hi when added the texture to the plane, and add new edge with ctrl+r, and i move this edge, the texture on the plane are scaling too. In your video, when move the added edge, your texture do nothing. How do that? Thanks.

[@Mumladze28]

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[@d.andreea8419]

@@Mumladze28 thank you so much!!!

[@Mumladze28]

@@d.andreea8419 you're welcome

[@soldaat-van-oranje]

damn man just amazing how you do those window lines that how far im really nice man i need to learn aboud a locomotive can you a tut on that

[@bhagavanshettygy7828]

Obrigado pela dica

[@EmilKidi]

at 1:26:15 what did you press that many times to select the module? And how did you make em seperate? :) thanks

[@polar1991]

I believe ctrl + num +

[@miroslavzderic3192]

This is great and all but our teacher doesn't allow us to have triangles in our building models because facial animations don't work well with triangles, yes

[@lockenessmotorsports818]

If it doesn't deform and it's flat surface tris are fine everything gets merged in a game building,prop

[@TylerSerino]

Probably a noob question, but right in the begging after i project the plane from view and open the image in the uv editor, when i add a loop cut and try to move it it warps the texture...why

[@TylerSerino]

Like, i can't move the loop cut down to the step like you do, it pulls the image with it

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Yeah, You have to Add a box in a new scene, Add a loop cut in edit mode, once you've done that step, Press T to bring your Tool ( Left Window ) Bar out, Down the bottom you'll see a tab Seperate, Under Factor where the Slider is there's a box that says 'Correct UVs', Make sure it's Ticked, THEN, Delete the box, Add a new box to the Scene and Press CTRL + U (That will save your Blend Scene WITH Correct UVs Enabled so you never have to correct UVs again, It will also work with Double Tapping G (it will move the vertices across an axes WITHOUT stretching the UV coordinates, Hope this helped.

[@maya_gameworks]

Dude u moved VERTICES, and still had a still picture. HOW???

[@maya_gameworks]

k he used gg (edge slide) there. These are the only two things that preserve UVs.

[@matthewrittenhouse1387]

You did this in the video when?

[@FoundationsofPause]

Nice video. Think I heard you vaping. Question, what exactly are you doing to preserve your UVs while you continuing to model?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

you mean when I add loop cuts? or in general, depending on how I model, I usually create a second uv and bake from the first. this case they're overlapping uvs. if you mean when I add loop cuts and the uvs don't diform, when you add a loop cut. there's an option in the bottom right (press t) tick it and it will conform so you can keep the uvs straight, another way is double tap g to move a verticy across an edge

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

are you in orthographic view ?? (5) and are you in a singular view? (front, back, side etc) also and for the picture on the plane, you need to UV project view the plane, and add the texture to the plane THEN, go into textured mode where you will see it.

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

are you using the background image or a plane? add my skype haytchey

[@Darthcusto]

+FoundationsofPause You might be thinking about edge slide with G G

[@FoundationsofPause]

Thank you both. I use GG often but my flow has always made me unwrap again after modeling more. Never knew about that checkbox for correct UVs in T Panel.

[@aungkhantzin9097]

Tell soft soft I love what they did with the $15 doallors one %

[@justuskoech9045]

Change the "Program" from Agressive TE to Analog Base 1 TE inside the GMS setup equlizer panel.. Found another comnt with the

[@dronagevideos9041]

Were you vaping at 38:13 lol

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

yeah lol sorry

[@metroworldtv7712]

This video isn't meant to really help anyone. He didn't even bother to turn on the screen cast keys so we could follow along. He was just showing that he could do it and if we want to do it we have to figure it out on our own.

[@ljiljankocurcic8893]

MetroworldTV I could follow along just fine. This is more like a workflow tutorial, considering that you would maybe model different building. So you would start with the windows, then, storey etc. But this isn’t beginner friendly video.

[@RREDesigns]

You should learn to use the 3D tool before watching this. If you don't know how to use the application it's your fault, not his. -_-

[@gusgelber2336]

Could a complete building like this work in cities skylines??

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Gus Gelber I don't see why not?

[@suicideposter]

You have to make it low poly and you can only use 1 texture so it's trickier.

[@taroxsplaylists7960]

15:24 How did you do that?

[@stazvanbael3706]

press G

[@galvarojose]

I an like if you make it on there

[@iLaeyes]

Can anyone make the Blue Mosque in Istanbul or the Aya Sofia?

[@FarmerJoe3000]

You chuckin clouds?

[@matthewrittenhouse1387]

Whenever I add a loop cut and try to move it to the bottom of the door it distorts the whole image

[@RREDesigns]

That's because you don't have to move, you have to slide it.

[@vegitoblue2187]

cuz the uv mapping gets messed up. One more thing you could do is go into orthographic and unwrap by project from view

[@madhavbharadwajchakkilala4674]

can you tell me how to preserve uvs in blender?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

sorry for late reply, Preserve UV's in the tools tab on the left side ( you have to add a loopcut and then look down the bottom

[@deannamcaboy2681]

I quite like your video, im only about halfway through at the moment...... But i have to ask what juice you are vaping on LOL

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Deanna Mcaboy it's hiesen white or cherry menthol lol

[@mwarrensims]

had my volume up and the vaping gave me a good jump scare haha.

[@ericamarano1745]

Equaius it’s my first ti using any software tho

[@imjustaguy9966]

Do you have any assets?

[@sparkes7293]

1:35:40 Henry 0 - 1 Door

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Ctrl + L Selects the Linked Object to a vertice

[@gabrielschroll3824]

What is a vertice? Do you mean vertex?

[@firemartins]

Ive watched tNice tutorials a couple tis and i tNice tutorialnk the key is to slow the video down to .75. TRY IT!!!

[@aboody006]

This is the one he used btw www.davidleventi.com/media/original/DL_Brownstones.jpg

[@prusselusken_bg]

Can you add comment whit in which second what fast keys you click please ?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Hotkeys: E = Extrude - G is Move in any Direction, With G pressed you can press X Y or Z to chose a axis to modify, R is rotate, S is scale and the XYZ Applys to all of them :), Ctrl Right Click on an Edge selects the loop Hope this helps

[@blackpowerentertainment2281]

You think youre gonna watch a tutorial on modular building but instead you get like several hours of watching a guy detail a 3D model and you have to check the video description again just to make sure you didnt actually click on a video called "Detailing and fine tweaking the design of a potentially modular building for games Part 1".

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Not even that, it's an outdated method and definitely not the way I'd approach modular buildings anymore

[@blackpowerentertainment2281]

@@HenryKellyGameArt Respectfully so, that being said I am yet still just a humble student so if you have a video on making modular buildings that isnt outdated I would greatly appreciate being directed there.

[@blackpowerentertainment2281]

@@HenryKellyGameArt So ill take that as a no?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

@@blackpowerentertainment2281 I currently don't but I'll be moving to a new studio next week so I may have time to make a new one.

[@blackpowerentertainment2281]

@@HenryKellyGameArt Thank you ill sub and keep an eye out

[@bloyomind1on1]

why not use Maya? could I also do this in Maya?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

I do use Maya now, yes all of this you can do in Maya too :)

[@bloyomind1on1]

InzombiaGame If you had access to both, which would you prefer? I see that there might be more tutorials and such for blender more than Maya, at least the free ones

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Geryalvi Batista at first I would have said blender but now I prefer maya, it takes a while to learn but is easier and more studios want you using it

[@sasaha8389]

the polycount is stupidly high for just one building, try to be more efficient!

[@Dilligff]

Not if he plans on baking out normals from the geometry.

[@maya_gameworks]

WHY IS YOUR IMAGE NOT DISTORTING WHEN YOU MOVE THE VERTICES? It's fucken driving me crazy!

[@gamesergeanthd]

If you're using Blender press CTRL E on the edge and click slide edge.

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

If you add a loop cut and keep the tool open you can click on 'preserve UV's' then Save it as default and it always works :)

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Remember to double tap G to slide the vertices though

[@bekirdemir2224]

source files ??

[@Anonymouse007]

Hi, It seems that I can't bevel like yours. 22:53

[@AZSDXC8954]

Unfortunately this video do not teach any good practices. Topology is desired to be better, UVs is also not correct for gaming, edge split modifier is also not suitable for game models coz it split edges (its in a name, and create double verts) I know that this is an old video and I hope that you got better since 2016

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

I completely agree with you man! If i did this now I'd do it a thousand times different, this isn't actually modular, as i once thought, It's a means to have a modular Building set, but to make a kitbash set i'd have done it all VERY very different, the UV's don't tile from mesh to mesh and this building pieces are too specific, I will re-do this video at some point! but thanks for pointing that out! Also, about the edge split, I don't particularly use it anymore However, It does double vert count, but once it's imported into the engine, it usually splits edge via the engine anyway, just made sure the normals are fine

[@manollobango]

Do you know a better tutorial about modular building for games and if so, would you add a link in here?

[@katzenbeats4197]

First learn the basics with keyboard and mouse. Then get a soft board and content interface if needed.

[@hurin1576]

what do you smoke there:P

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Hiesen white xD

[@dvl973]

HOW THE FUCK do you make a loopcut on the image plane without the loopcut distorting the fucking image? I also had to add to my material as texture and unwrap it before I could see it on the image just wtf

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

dligac in the tools menu left hand side, when you add a lookout there's a box to tick saying preserve uvs

[@bagussurya3127]

sir, that would be 6,67

[@Dhieen]

Stop using edge split... use autosmooth its better and doesnt make alot of doubles ! and your trim isnot even symmetrical lol

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Actually, autosmooth does still triple the polycount, anything with beveled edges does, it's how the engine reads it, But yeah I agree, I use autosmooth now and don't even touch edge split anymore, all it does is separate faces, pretty useless if you ask me, and yeah trim sucked like shit, i gotta re-do this video and make it better

[@Dhieen]

Yeah i didnt knew for autosmooth haha, when i have it the number of verts doesnt seems to change! Anyway thanks for the tuto ! But how will you make materials? its in a later part?

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

ah, they're all tiled textures, so just apply brick to all the brick area and make sure the uv's are setup for tiling and same for concrete etc, then you can just dress the building with assets and decals, I really should do an updated version of this now I work in the game industry lol, I have way more knowledge now!

[@Dhieen]

Oh yeah the result is nice, but can be better without tiled texture i believe (but im not an expert) You should try the robo recall scene in unreal engine 4 and analyse the different modular buildings in it, and the texture Personnaly I really dont know how they ve made the textures and I'd love to know!

[@HenryKellyGameArt]

Dhieen nearly all buildings use tiled textures for texel Density ratio, i.e, a 4m wall will use a 4k texture, and that will be 1k per 1m, or 1 texel per meter, so using a 4k texture on a 24 m high building would loose resolution, so most buildings use trim sheets and tiled textures, finish up with a secondary material vertex painted and also decals xD

[@Ongez]

vape nation

[@VasuVasu-gm4re]

REKT

[@veirtichannel]

british fok

[@tachiart5796]

these aren't very helpful because you don't really explain the keys clearly, you just keep going too fast and your typology is too messy

[@Extrone]

tachiArt this is a bit advanced video i.e, it’s not for people who are new to blender

[@whynot-vq2ly]

yeah a building with 1 face is possible too....the topo and polycount depends on the level of details you want, this model is good, it's standard. and one more thing please say at least thanks before multiplying the guy's work by zero like you did. the guy was ill and talked for one hour.

[@NexusCool1]

It is not that high in polycount and...if you make lowpoly version this would not be a problem for any engine.

[@matesberka1697]

soft... isn't it much harder to hear everytNice tutorialng as you go tNice tutorials way?

[@jaketugade5911]

What is wrong

[@pointab_lab9403]

Too much verts

[@sasaha8389]

yep