Blender: Interior Environments for Games

Learn the best workflow for building clean, optimized, and reusable environments for games in Blender.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Planning and Preparation

• Activating the Maya controls
• Maya controls overview
• Configuring user preferences
• Importing references
• Creating a primitive base
• Blocking out the environment
• Testing in Unity

2. Modeling

• Creating a modeling UI layout
• Configuring a preview camera
• Separating walls
• Blocking out the window wall
• Refining the window wall
• Detailing the window
• Creating a window ledge
• Duplicating the window wall
• Merging wall sections
• Fixing the floor
• Removing N-gons
• Sculpting floor detail
• Reducing polygons
• Creating a pipe prop
• Completing the pipe prop

3. Unwrapping

• Unwrapping a UV set
• Preparing for texture painting
• Configuring a painter brush
• Loading image textures
• Painting a base texture
• Saving textures
• Layer painting the floor
• Configuring layer blending
• Painting a detail layer
• Baking texture layers
• Baking ambient occlusion
• Configuring a cycles material
• Configuring a cycles sky material
• Building scene lighting
• Refining the environment material
• Baking a composite texture

4. Texture Creation

• Texture enhancing in Photoshop
• Exporting from Blender to Unity
• Unity project creation and asset importing
• Creating an environment material
• Creating a prop material
• Creating a skybox
• Adding a first-person controller
• Finalizing the project

Conclusion

• Moving forward