For games, you'll want to have small file sizes for your textures so you can maximize texture memory. For normal maps, that means reducing gradients as much as you sensibly can. You can do that by setting each UV Shell to its own smoothing group / hardening the edges. You've already split the shell along that edge, so it's something you could do for free of cost performance-wise. Bake a soft edge cube and a hard edge cube down from a high poly beveled cube, and then compare their normal map sizes. You'll be surprised how much larger the soft edge one is. This process will also help your art look better in engine, as the normal maps are typically scaled down and compressed. If you have a lot of gradients in your normal maps that are being compressed, you're going to get obvious stair-stepping / compression noise in those gradients over a large surface, and they will have a hard time compensating for the soft normals of your render mesh in engine, which could cause some shading artifacting.

Man, I'm so happy flipped normals exist. Love these videos, relatively condensed and pretty informative.

Don't forget to mention: 1. Channel packing for textures. 2. Trim sheets. 3. Using overlapped UVs depending on situation like toon shader or having the ability to put overlaps on a negative number position/axis/atlas to bake light map information. This is to prevent light map artifacting. 4. Using Texture Atlases to save on drawcalls in game engines. 5. Using alpha maps/ opacity in materials. (Not to use too much because of performance). 6. Having seperate UVs sometimes for light baking in game engines. 7. Having multi-materials for one piece (multi-sub materials). 8. Having a baking version of models. 9. Industry file systems and naming conventions. Like m_SceneObjectNameMat 10. Difference of using more geometry which affects gpu performance and texture maps that use cpu performance. 11. Making a collision model or material for objects. 12. Breaking apart models for baking (depending on baking software). 13 different ways to model: spline modeling, boolean modeling, displacment modeling, and model upwards from texture/ texture planes...ect 14 pipelines: highpoly/sculpt to retop-low poly or low poly to highpoly...ect. 15 exporting assets to game engines. For example the difference between tangent space and binormal.

I like the approach of Star Citizen for hard surface models more, where they dont use a high poly model for baking, but rather a relatively detailed low poly model that uses texture tiling, weighted normals and decals for the details (like bolts, dirt and text). Looks great even at very close distance, doesn't use a dedicated (baked) texture for every model and can change materials on the fly. This approach is really scalable to have high resolution scenes with many different objects, without using much texture memory.

I gotta say this honestly is a great video for people starting out in the 3D arts. You are covering so much info they anyone can really use out there and it's so helpful. A job well done with this video. I'll be looking forward to the next one!

I already kinda knew most of this, but its always good to refresh a little or check to see if you missed some basics. So thanks for making the video, always great to see people make informative videos even for absolute beginners. Also fun to see how many dutchies (sorry if i assumed incorrectly) are in this work field.

crucial info on how all this works! I've been messing around with Blender for years and have never come across a video that explains how the workflow works like this!

Great video! I'll be sharing this with people I know who want to get into 3d modeling, so they at least know what they are getting into.

Finally a guy that knows what he's talking about in terms of proper technique and industry. insanely rare on youtube

Just discover your channel and i'm very happy to leanr those is the way you present it ! Thaks for your great work

I think in this particular instance it would make sense to bake maps without positioning out meshes, but rather explaining on how to split it to groups for Marmoset. Because in this case you will actually get a completely different AO.

This video encapsulates the first 4 years of my payed education in modelling into 15 minutes, and is almost as in depth. Great video, guys! Wish I knew about flipped normals before I started, it would’ve saved me so much time!

Nice explanation of the basics. There are many tutorials on each of these subjects, but I always seem to miss tutorials about the process that brings everything together. I'm trying to create my own racing game, I know some modelling, graphics, programming, ... . But I miss the right workflow. I'm creating a track, but how much and what do I need to make in a 3D modelling software and how and what in the game-engine itself. How much in a level is considered an asset and how much is considered as part of the set piece? Currently I have a small part of the track of a rocky beachfront, also with some animated falling rocks, all made in Blender. Did I make too many rocks in Blender? I actually made around which I spread around with a particle modifier, applied it permanantly and now have meshes of 'grouped' rocks. But do I need to convert them to assets or let them be part of the set-piece? Especially since I'm creating with VR in mind, I really need to be mindful of the resources. Btw, you sound either Dutch or Flemish. Am I right?

This is very informative thank you!

One of the greates videos.

I needed this :D

good explanation. thanks

And here i am making game assets for someone I know with no knowledge 🤣 only a lot of ideas on how things should be done but dunno if its right way or not. Right I Finnished all modeling stuf and puting simple textures and materials to the model I'm trying to learn baking texures but it seems their is something that I missed that is having a high poly and low poly model that you said so that's the reason why their is always a high and low poly for game assets. thank you very much for this will research more and redo all the stuffs that i made so far.

Vry good info.. thanks u so much 👍

Very infromative, thank you!

Excellent video, very good pace. When you talk about "I will talk about this further down the line", what's the course that follows?

Really informative

Just press Ctrl+1 or Ctrl+2 and it adds subdiv surface modifier in Blender. Multi-Resolution is a sculpting modifier.

My goodness I love the accent, I feel I've nearly drowned in American accents with all the 3D tutorials I've watched Tip top job thank you

Nice video, I've been doing modeling in blender for a bit more than a year and I still didn't have a clear knowledge of these things.

Im learning 3d cause me and my friend is doing a passion project so we have something to show for when we apply for jobs. When modelling, do we have to use smooth preview? I assume that smooth preview is how it would look as high poly? or is it just named high poly because there's more polygons on the object?

love your accent, thanks for the valuable vid

A well deserved like and sub

very good

Thanks

I wish that I had this video when I was first learning lol.

Can you make a video about character modelling workflow without sculpting? I'm struggling alot with it

I tend to use the decimate tool on my high poly models. I know it’s a bit lazy, but it seems to work well for what I do.

You can project the screen on in substance painter. However I wold probably design it in photoshop or illustrator.

i have a question should we have to give spotting loops in low poly or not

wow thankie workflow

Het was best grappig om te horen dat je halve wegen sneller begon te praten. Wou je de lengte van de video kort houden maar had je meer te verstellen dan gedacht?

Is it necessary to bevel low poly edges?

Nice

Hello!!!! Sir last time we buy a course from you related to this topic but i lost my account not remember it so, i have downloaded tutorial upto UV mapping so, i need access to tte texturing and baking part so, i will buy again te full course

Can blockouts be easily 3D printed to actual size? The Blockout creation/rendering looks like it would be a great starting place for making custom jewellery with oval and natural shaped stones. I'm looking at some software to help me with 3D jewellery cad. Blender looks really good.

hey where i can find full tutorial of this course i couldn't find it online

I've never heard anyone speak such good English yet, it completely sounds Dutch. Like I'm back at Ms Verlinden's class. Crazy.

Is it possible to sculpt a blockout, then retopo it for the low poly, instead of poly modeling the block out or low poly?

Why multi resolution instead of subdivision modifier?

The baking stage is a little confusing. Are you unwrapping both the high and low poly objects to have the same UV space before you do that? Or can you leave the high poly UVs untouched and the software does the work for you when it bakes the high poly mesh details onto the lower unwrap?

My dream is to find one tutorial about molding a 3D object like this one, for games. But I can't find

my problem is always to decide which bevels i do in mesh or in the normal map

1:05 is it a cyberpunk level? Looks like a location from the final mission with panam and the basilisk tank

hi, I have a question, could be that topology right for a game asset, or it`s just okay for renders. Because i use to see similar cuad forms and good looking topology.

So he is talking about Marmoset Toolbag for baking, but not mentiones Marmoset Toolbag 4 for actual texturing?

is it important to use sub-division to make high poly? i need to make a high poly model, my model already looks realistic without sub-division, so do i have to add sub-div or not?

hehehe my guy!! je engels Is funny maar me waardering is hoog, liefde.

do the lowpoly model needs good topology inorder to use its as a final game ready asset? i am a beginner and im always worried about topology, when modelling something. At which part of the game asset workflow that good topology is necessary? plz help me to clarify this one.

Quick question: do I need to bevel hard surface low poly models?

is it ok for game engines to have so many triangles instead of quads and hanging geometry? Or I should go from high to low poly with retopo or it will just increase poly count and ruin performance?

please tell me why you are modeling with triangles in topology?

6:49 I wasn't paying attention since my phone rang, and for a second I heard ''madafaka'' LOL

wow

NINE!!!!

Wish more tutorials had time stamps. I’m Collecting video data for my AI software to read timestamps in generalizing workflow. The ultimate TUT AI

7:50

What app called

So what was the polycount on the low poly?

Uit welk land zou deze man komen?

Can you provide the reference image please?

with baking PbR,Sub D to Low poly modelling , sup.loops, with without cage, LOD, mip maps, UV technic, etc.etc.??? p.s...wO.Ow thx..thx...thx. ..thx.....

Despite it's really useful tutorial the asset contains so many mistakes making it awful... I appreciate what you do really much, and I would want not to write this comment, but unwrapping looks weird, normal map after baking looks glitchy with broken normals so people after the tutorial could get wrong understanding of the correct workflow

after hearing the voice of the video im pretty sure the creator is dutch. am I wrong?

who did the captions 🤣

ugh... why is it that english subtitles are never available in videos with difficult accents. it's frustrating.

not any more ue5 changed everithing

I don't understand these videos. You keep saying, later on I will do this and that, and never come to it? Is this a promo video for the ACTUAL TUTORIAL?

Je bent sowiezo Nederlands

Sure love tutorials that don't focus...

Topology grid is not correct and not gameready!

man....You forgot about hard edges. This bake is very f**** up

AO map is a show!@#$@ i repeated this 1000 times and didnt get it 11:50

we don't care if they are popular we need free ones

it does not move. we dont need a tutorial for models that dont move. and by the way, who makes a game by himself with such high-poly models??

Oh man... N-Gons. And you expect this to be used in a game? Sir, the reason why quads are advocated for is because 2 tries can represent a quad and they are better interpreted by both us and the machine for animations and platform transitioning. Do try your best not to ignore this rule because although it looks good, the topology is not and thus the functionality will suffer.