Portal Environment Tutorial in Blender 2.9 | Polygon Runway

Quick tip tutorial about using low poly modeling techniques and modifiers to create a smooth stylized environment in Blender 2.91
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[@timsonss]

I learned like 90% of Blender stuff from you, you da beasto

[@Verosityed]

10% is the donut

[@srujanagattu1]

DONUTS!

[@franzsaijem]

i like this kind of art more than realistic arts.

[@necrorider]

Like me, low poly/characteristic art pleases me more. Looks more cute and charming

[@elangel986]

I love stylized graphics, and this is one of the best tutorial u can rarely find

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you, mate!

[@LiefVerColl]

@@polygonrunway yeah, its pretty easy from you, 6 months ago, today i downloaded 2.93, ive watched already ur vids, and the comments are pretty positive, so looks like you are going to be my #1

[@fulltimespy]

This is great, but for beginners its hard to follow throwing short cuts around and moving quite fast, but I learned alot! Thanks!

[@kobiianardo]

i use alot of x0.75 and x0.5 when watching blender tutorials :D

[@lonick1692]

@@kobiianardo hehe same here, i was constantly going "wait what did i miss?"

[@MandeepSingh-gz8hz]

Guys, while making the first leaf. What did he do to make that rectangle into a rounded rectangle at 13:55. I am a MacBook user.

[@dantetoso377]

@@MandeepSingh-gz8hz he subdivided, if that doesnt work to well add a subdivision surface modifier

[@fikkitchen]

I'd love to see a tutorial for shortcuts with some sort of categorization. For example which are for extrusion, which are for scalimg etc.

[@Dr-Mo7077]

If I advanced in the 3D world, and become a 3D artist, that is because of you. you are motivating me to do what I love most about art. Thank you so much.

[@polygonrunway]

Thats really great to hear. Thank you for sharing

[@RoustShiro]

I follow your channel for a year and im still impressed abt ur proyects. I really love it! These inspire me

[@polygonrunway]

Great to hear that, mate :)

[@channelFluffyXtreme]

Love that motive. Had a few issues following, especially in the end (yes even on .5 speed) but that's probably just my missing experience. This is officially my third project and I learned a few new things - thanks!

[@polygonrunway]

That's great to hear! Keep it up :)

[@thomaskennings]

Very nice! Others are complaining that this tutorial goes too quick, but I think it's a great follow-up to any beginner-oriented series! Had lots of fun and learned a lot with this!

[@polygonrunway]

Awesome! Glad you like it! :)

[@jammyIsLost]

I agree I'm watching these after watching Blender Guru's donut tutorial and I'm doing fine for the most part lol

[@herryvipassana1254]

to those who had problem using the bevel modifier 7:09 (the bevel is not working), try to go to edit mode, select all by typing A then type M and choose "by distance"

[@artemsydorchuk6724]

ty

[@cendercharon]

Thanks!

[@kosmone143]

Love you bro, ty❤️

[@3dutch]

Saved me from a rage quit! 😂

[@Nara-en2oj]

THANK YOU!

[@nayno2900]

A very short, simple but rewarding project, thanks!

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it :)

[@FernandoNascimentobr]

Thanks for the tutorial. I'll soon be purchasing one of your courses. Just in case somebody has the same problem I did, the Bevel Modifier does not work if your object has double vertices :)

[@polygonrunway]

Thanks for the tip :)

[@eklor]

what do you mean by double vertices?

[@notrishi21]

my modifier still does not work

[@YeahBoi9880]

I hope its a good spawn near fortress.

[@iii-tf6rc]

it isn't obby tho

[@revengex-_-367]

Heh xD no obby bro

[@dylanroop3874]

alright, i started this tutorial and was frustrated within 5 minutes. took a small break and came back. then spent my entire sunday patiently following along. I now have one of the first renders that I'm actually proud of. I have a much better understanding of modeling for low poly now. Thank you so much

[@polygonrunway]

That's really great to hear! Keep it up :)

[@insomniclipse9400]

I didn't know that alt + e and alt +s were things. Also I was pretty confused about what textures actually did but I know that too now, thanks.

[@polygonrunway]

You're welcome :)

[@mattmanard8817]

At this moment, this is my favorite video on KZbin!

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it! :)

[@mia1867]

I love your art style, I click on the thumbnail no matter how hard I try not to- I love your videos, and tutorials!

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you! Means a lot 🙏

[@mia1867]

@@polygonrunway No problem, it's true tho- your channel is very underrated, it should be as famous as blender guru's

[@reddish_orange]

Great tutorial! Very happy with my portal. Animated it and rendered in cycles though, so have been waiting almost 2 hours for it to finish hahaha

[@polygonrunway]

Hope it went good on 1st try :)

[@XiagraBalls]

Love that displacement modifier tip. I deffo need to make better use of empties.

[@ImaliveUSA]

Whenever I see your notification I come running no matter what I do😂😂

[@polygonrunway]

💙 much appreciated ;)

[@Nardeol]

my evee is broken so i rendered it in cycles and it looks amazing, thank you

[@JulianTrebes]

Same - did you also had the problem that the portal texture was weird even though you copied everything?

[@JulianTrebes]

well nevermind he also worked in cycles I'm dumb, oversaw it at first

[@JulianTrebes]

he changes back to eevee at some point - I'm so confused

[@VickyOng53]

This is awesome!! I could follow along easily since I have gone through one of your beginner's tutorials. Perhaps it would help beginner viewers if you provide links to certain blender basics throughout the video.

[@Laserbangbang]

Thanks so much for your videos! They are helping a lot when you're learning (we see a good amount of techniques and the result is pretty) Seriously your videos are so helpfull!

[@polygonrunway]

Awesome! I'm happy to be helpful :)

[@midioutput]

You're so good at lighting. I followed along through the video just fine, but I couldn't even come close to your lighting even while watching along.

[@polygonrunway]

It gets better with time and more projects, keep it up! :)

[@alexdib3915]

Thank you sir, that looks really cool!! PS make sure you are in cycles!

[@dontcare7361]

Stunning. Thank you very much for that great tutorial.

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you :)

[@PulkitSingh]

Please do a lighting tutorial, why you put what light etc

[@reezaal9993]

this is my third day learning to blender👍 I love your video

[@polygonrunway]

Great! Keep it up ;)

[@reezaal9993]

@@polygonrunway I just made a character among us😅😅

[@SKELETON_FN]

To call you talented is a massive understatement. Kudos where it’s due. ✊ ❤️ 🙏

[@polygonrunway]

🙏🤘

[@termn9886]

I love this videos with comentary, congratulations 👌👌👌👌👌

[@polygonrunway]

Glad to hear that ;)

[@black_lunar666]

your technique is really sublime, that's cool

[@polygonrunway]

😉

[@aloomia826]

As a non beginner I loved this pace.Also at 10:45 ,that was genius ✌

[@The-Dev-Ninja]

You are the best in BLENDER!💪

[@firedemon5000]

Bro, looks great , I'm looking forward to your new videos, keep up the good work and thanks for the work

[@polygonrunway]

😉🤘

[@ilyaperfilev7663]

Дружище, то, что ты делаешь - это очень круто, спасибо тебе!) Кстати, привет из России))0)

[@snake135]

That's wonderful ! Your style of creation is splendid ! For example when we create a portal exactly like this one, is it possible to put it on Unreal Engine to make a scenery or a game but exactly the same as the one you made, please ?

[@haziqjamil314]

I want to know this as well but for Unity.

[@Thespponofbutterjam]

you could transfer it by saving it and adding it in ue4 unreal engine

[@dylanwoodhouse237]

You can export it as a .fbx for ue4

[@chilltrooper9423]

Bro i just subbed to you, im from instagram, and this is a *GREAT* video!

[@polygonrunway]

Welcome and thank you :)

[@zebra3d620]

Thank you for this. I learned so much so quick.

[@metalmannight4025]

For some reason the bevel at 13:17 doesn't work for me. Nothing happens. I select the edge between the ground and the vertical wall, hit Ctrl+b, and it just doesn't do a thing. Even if I use the mouse wheel to add subdivisions it won't work.

[@SaathAnimates]

I learned a lot , im making my own portal and ill put it up on artstation and then ill link to this video tutorial.

[@polygonrunway]

Great! Good luck ;)

[@ValeGoG]

Как обычно спасибо за познавательный урок! Всегда жду ваших видео! :)

[@tapoolkeer]

всегда пожалуйста

[@SantiagoPerez-bi9tq]

Excelente vídeo, excelente tutorial, excelente artista, todo fue muy claro, a pesar de no ser mi lengua nativa con la traducción se entendió todo muy bien. Una recomendación para un próximo vídeo: Una clase de color y todo eso que en el vídeo pasa en cámara rápida, siempre es muy útil eso también, de igual manera, gracias por el tutorial, , una tarde en poder acabar mi portal pero muy animado con el resultado, fue mi primer 3d de este tipo y creo que aprendí bastante

[@nishantagrawal8991]

Love your VOICE man.. And also your content brother ✌✌

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you!

[@BlockxBuddys_Kinderfilme]

this is a good tutorail for beginners. Nice work thanks

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it :)

[@TutorialesKames]

Thanks, very useful tutorial

[@polygonrunway]

You're welcome ;)

[@DrgnSlyrVic]

i love your work!!!!! amazing as always

[@polygonrunway]

Thank you :)

[@night_owl_6380]

Such a great tutorial! Thank you!

[@Labyrnthdom]

It is a little hard to follow when you are absolutely new and do not know at least some of Blender. However, you can be patient and pause and rewind to finally get something from it. Which is kind of a pain in the tail as well. However, if you really want to learn. You will deal with it and learn. I am surprised how much i have learned the past week. I used to mess with blender over 8 years ago. And was doing ok. Modeled a creature i drew on a napkin. Then started drifting away from it. And now here i am again. Using the newest version of blender. Modeling small stuff to learn again. Even used it to create a device for a 3d printer for a knitting machine. It's amazing how good blender has become. I just wished i had stuck with it until now. Because by now i would be making some amazing stuff at this stage.

[@arixxle]

At 7:20, I got a problem. When I increase amount of bevel, and there is not any change on the mesh. Which part I missed?

[@Jacob12911]

samee

[@ImpeGa123]

I had the same problem. I merged all the vertices by distance. found out i had alot of extra vertices. - that fixed it for me.

[@ssatriyaa]

@@ImpeGa123 You mean you have more vertices than it should be? By the way, Im also need to merge all the vertices by distance to fix this problem.

[@sanketdas9516]

pls try one of the 7 wonders

[@exodus664]

Hello can you also explain what you're doing with the Camera at 15:00 ? Rotate around world origin but how is the model rotating with the camera view?

[@polygonrunway]

I've just selected camera and background and rotated them both around the cursor

[@obv_design9310]

This is so beautiful! 😍

[@AlexanderRespectReed]

This is magic! Thanks!

[@Michacsgh]

Unselect Clamp Overlap in Geometry if you're having trouble with Bevel Modifier

[@ShadowValleys]

thank you!

[@gamiamv5169]

Thanks you saved my life

[@Kellnax]

looks epic, i did it my self... pretty happy

[@catherinejoyce9078]

Wow what a coincidence only today I made a portal to Mars concept art and posted it in Instagram 😇

[@РамиельсонЭдгар]

So beatiful work, thank you

[@LAReyGo]

Excellent tutorial- Loved it :3

[@RobinFrejd]

Great tutorial! Been playing with it for hours! Will the blender-file be available for Patreons? Can't get the portal right and can't figure out what's wrong so would be awesome to be able to reverse engineer it. Keep it up!

[@polygonrunway]

I'm on it :)

[@circle2867]

i've never thought to make a leaf like that lol. so easy but sometimes you overthink stuff like this

[@kliegstudio]

excellent video as usual...pls can you do some food modelling tips 👍

[@yurinativo]

Owesome! Thank you very much for this class!

[@polygonrunway]

You're welcome! Glad you like it :)

[@Gartist45]

awesome work like your commentary helps understand how you are making your art look good....Was this rendered in cycles or eevee thanks?

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it ;). It's cycles

[@strctur3306]

easy and intuitive explications! thank you!

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it :)

[@oliverlisher696]

Any help with how the portal itself is made transparent / glass like would be much appreciated! Looks like Subsurface Translucency is clicked, then Transmission turned up. Is that all that's needed? Mine is still very solid, feels like I'm missing a step! Thanks! :)

[@oliverlisher696]

Solved this by playing with the light behind the portal and switching to cycles, I don't know, but seems like this effect only really works in cycles. Great tutorial anyways!

[@bepicori6701]

Very good tutorial, but when I put my rendering in cycles and then GPU compute, everything is pixelated even after a long wait. Leaving in evee will something change in the end ?

[@TheGmdx]

Great Tutorial, really nice to follow along. Can anyone help me to get those smooth edges at 13:55?

[@polygonrunway]

I just tabbed out and pressed ctrl + 2 to quickly add subdiv modifier

[@cws1865]

I was about to ask the same question! Thanks :D

[@MandeepSingh-gz8hz]

@@polygonrunway Thanks a lot, you saved me. Really loving your tutorials.

[@boltvv1]

If bevel modifer dosent work for you u must merge duplicate vertecs by select all vertecs (A in edit mode) Then right click "Merge vertices" and "by distance"

[@abddddddd]

Worked for me, thanks!

[@gelfling7628]

this worked for me also, thanks so much!

[@jeffosborne440]

Very very cool!

[@polygonrunway]

Thanks ;)

[@mafia2288]

How many years you learned in Blender? Because you are really professional!! 👍💪

[@polygonrunway]

Just a few years :) THanks! :)

[@mafia2288]

@@polygonrunway Okay

[@mathaeis]

The settings for making the portal appear like water don't seem to exist in version 4. There's just one "transmission" section with only "weight" as an option and it doesn't seem to do anything? What would be the way to go about creating this effect in newer versions?

[@scp-3521]

Great work, bro!

[@polygonrunway]

Thanks :)

[@stormk-1130]

Wich tool let you change the shape of that plane? for circle. And keep all the resolution and stuff?

[@jeffstienstra3615]

So many helpful tips!! @ 2:45 why Ctrl+I to invert then delete the faces? Is there duplicate geometry or something? Just trying to understand. edit: Ha! I get it now. You are deleting the extra faces you don't want to turn into stone blocks. When I tried to recreate it on my own it became obvious. :)

[@polygonrunway]

Yeah, that's it :)

[@yegorbielik2426]

I ve just saw u in tiktok with your tutorial.

[@리을-z9b]

Thanks a lot!! It was really helpful!

[@VoltroxTV]

I had a problem where the Bevel modifier wasn't working, after a lot of research I found out that it was because there are double vertices from canceling an extrude with right click and not pressing ctrl + z afterward. Just click the object(s) that aren't being modified, press m, then merge by distance. You should get a little message saying x vertices removed :) Hope this helps someone!

[@chemicalderrick]

Very good advice. In fact, I made a habit of doing that periodically while working on anything. Periodically select all vertices and merge by distance. It'll prevent headaches and, in larger projects, an absurd amount of unneeded geometry.

[@t_ack6556]

You are a savior. Thank you!

[@dreygen9357]

can someone explainit to me? in 7:01 he's doing bevel and every segments and everything it's okay, but, in mine model nothing special happends. Why? Can i did something wrong earlier?

[@polygonrunway]

Maybe your bevel is overlapping somewhere? Try disabling the clamp overlap option in the geometry section of the bevel modifier to see if it breaks

[@dreygen9357]

@@polygonrunway thanks man, i will try it!

[@dreygen9357]

@@polygonrunway It work! thanks man, i will continue

[@Relonn_]

@@polygonrunway Thank you! It works!

[@bepicori6701]

@@polygonrunway For me, it happens that as soon as I deactivate overlap, the object makes numerous spikes in all directions, completely hiding the portal. What can I do, because I have already changed amount

[@antsmith3284]

Can you create a tips video on how to maintain this type of aesthetic using different techniques?

[@sushmarohit928]

Great tutorial

[@itsclemtime2357]

Aperture Science loved that.

[@quangminhdo1681]

More like black Mesa, cause aperture science portal gun is more of a short range portable teleportation device

[@eruchii7200]

Great tutorial, easy to understand and follow along. I have slight problem where the portal material doesn't seems to pass the light like in your project, back light pass a little but point light doesn't pass through at all. any suggestion on how to fix this?

[@polygonrunway]

Glad you like it! Transmission materials are very sensitive to color brightness, try to avoid darker tones, go really bright, also you can play with IOR on the shader options and check normals as well

[@Kaikomako]

The beveling doesn't work for me, it just goes inside the project and makes a duplicate vertex, does anyone know why?

[@swearsinspanish1092]

You need to press CTRL+B and then V and then move ur mouse

[@aunber]

@@swearsinspanish1092 thx

[@lauricesposito6316]

it looks great but when i try and use the bevel modifier, i does nothing.

[@andrewstell6648]

same bro😢

[@exploiter2437]

I love it :)

[@polygonrunway]

💙

[@AS-bi3fh]

Great tutorial for beginner tbh. But not sure how you turned a plane into an oval for the flower petals?

[@TreiConfidence]

really wish you would have explained the rest towarrdss the end too. but overall i learned a lot thankk you

[@GalloPolloLoco]

@Polygon Runway Hi, I'm trying to Ctrl + B to an individual vertex and I can't give it the shape you create, it only works for edges ...

[@polygonrunway]

You need to additionally press V after ctrl+B

[@alpernoyanylmaz7325]

Great video as usual but i want to ask something. Is this model game ready or can we make game ready low poly assets with these methods?

[@polygonrunway]

I don't think it's game ready due to extensive use of modifiers and higher poly count. But it could be baked onto lower poly object

[@nathanalleweireldt2393]

Hello 👋🏻, at the time of the portal’s texture, I don’t the waves, I put all my settings like you but there is something that don’t allow me to see the texture, do you know why ?

[@ramazangokmen9739]

Thank you so much 👏

[@vanishvanished6002]

I'm having a problem with extrude. When I press alt e, it only lets me extrude in the menu and it doesn't let me select like you did. Can someone help me?

[@jeffstienstra3615]

Be sure you're in Edit mode, select some faces, then press Alt+E and you should get an 'Extrude' popup menu - select 'Extrude faces along normals' in this popup menu. Now you can extrude the faces how you'd like by moving your mouse around, then click to finalize their position. If that doesn't work and you are using a keyboard where 'Alt' is part of a dual-function key then check your keyboard settings.

[@DotsPerInchTV]

Nice work.

[@polygonrunway]

Thanks!

[@ItsMeJeki]

amazing!

[@zilog1]

clicked on ur ad. worthit

[@polygonrunway]

🙏🙏🙏

[@tallguyjack2135]

I had a problem with the bevel modifier not working. I solved it by using "merge by distance" at .00000001 in edit mode. although I would like an explanation as to why I have to do that in the first place

[@polygonrunway]

It's probably that you have few vertices too close. You can disable "clamp overlap" in the bevel modifier settings (geometry section) , set desired bevel amount and see if it breaks somewhere

[@rexk4208]

Great tutorial, and great style. Peripheral question : If I'd like to animate the the portal waves (the wood rings displace texture) like if the waves were coming from the center, what would be the best way to do it ? I tried to play with the empty (Pos, Rot, Scale) but nothing seems to get me to that effect. I looked for a "phase" option in the wood ring texture, but there was none. There must another way to achieve this...

[@polygonrunway]

I would search for this in the texture settings as well, but I would have to check

[@furkanerkan7332]

amazing

[@lerimaxinenepomuceno5573]

Can you make an animated version of this? I loved doing this tut!

[@ReflexXeon]

im curious, how did it take you guys?

[@koljak9395]

Great tutorial! One tiny thing that puzzled me: you later apparently use snapping a lot to move the floor plates around and such, but I never see it actually being enabled (i.e., the magnet symbol at the top stays greyed out). How did that work?

[@polygonrunway]

you can hold CTRL to snap :)

[@koljak9395]

@@polygonrunway Learned *another* great shortcut :) thanks!