at 9:10 you missed pressing "W" to enter the Object Context Menu

@@richardnixon8678 What do you mean? To enter the "Object Context Menu" you need to press "RMB" (Right Mouse Button), and I say it in the video.

@@LMHPOLY Some use RMB for selection :) For us 'W' will do the job..

@@Victor-oo4ux ​ @Victor Well, last time I used RMB for selection in Blender 2.79, lol. I used it for 10 years, and when the Blender 2.8 came out, I switched to LMB for selection, and it's so much better. I got used to it pretty fast and never going back. P.S. I've never tried to use RMB for selection in Blender 2.8+, so I didn't know that W still opens the menu :)

Thank you for your feedback! Yes, it takes a lot of time to edit these videos.

​@@LMHPOLY i agree, the subtitles are very useful. i sometimes take screen shots of the videos to use as reference, and that works even better with tutorials like yours.

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Really glad that I could help! Thank you for watching :)

thank you!

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Saw that today too!

Also, the pivot point must be set to "Individual Origins" when scaling. This confused me since by default I was scaling about the barrels origin.

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I use Z because you can change to any shading mode fast. I don't use Shift+Z because the more shortcuts I use, sometimes I get mixed up lol. But I think someone else will find it useful, thanks ;)

Thank you for watching! Good luck with learning Blender ;)

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Thank you, this means a lot!

@@LMHPOLY You deserve it mate. By the way l searched for to buy a course that you recorded but l couldn't find neither on your web page nor in the patreon. I wish you make a blender modelling tutorial or a complate tutorial which includes Blender modelling and Unity integration for game development. You'd better create a poll to find how many people can buy a course you made.

@@designnimbus Well, I've never released any paid courses yet, and I don't have Patreon. But I actually would love to create exactly the course you are asking for. Creating game assets from scratch Blender to Unity workflow, or even making the whole game environment.

Yes, thank you for noticing it!

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Make sure that you press G to move and while moving hold CTRL to snap to any Vertex. It shouldn't be a problem.

Also, if yoy have the Snap icon enabled at the top then you don't need to hold CTRL to snap.

@@LMHPOLY thanks. i made it.

@@LMHPOLY Thanks so much for this. I was stuck on this too and you guys helped me.

Yes. As far as I know, UE4 supports .fbx or .obj files. Export settings might be a bit different for UE because Unity and UE4 use different axis for rotation. Thanks!

It should work on any version of Blender if you have the same mesh shape as I have. It's possible that you have overlapping vertices/extruded geometry there - this happens when you (E - to Extrude and press RCLICK or ESC trying to cancel. It doesn't cancel the Extrusion! It only puts the Extrusion to the default position where you started the extrusion). In this case, any time you press E-to Extrude and press RCLICK or ESC to cancel, you must then press CTRL+Z to redo the action so you don't leave overlapping Extruded geometry. YOU CAN EASILY REMOVE OVERLAPPING GEOMETRY/VERTICES BY DOING THIS Try "A - to select all Vertices in the Edit Mode", and "M > By Distance - to merge all overlapping vertices". You will see a message at the very bottom "Removed x Vertices". If it says "0" that means you didn't have any overlapping vertices. If it says any number, then you have overlapping vertices which are now merged together. Now, try to select that Vertex and press F to fill in the faces. P.S. It's normal to actually select 3-4 Vertices while using SHIFT and pressing F to fill in the Face. It's what I use most of the time. But in some cases, as I showed in this video, you can fill in the face with 3 closest vertices only by selecting one corner vertex. For example, if you have a square mesh with 4 Vertices around and no face, you can select 1 Edge and press F to fill in that face instead of selecting all 4 corners. And if you only select 1 Vertex of that square with 4 Vertices and press F, you will fill in only half of that square, only 3 closest vertices makes a face. Basically you use different approaches for different circumstances. You can try it by yourself, so you can understand it better.

@@LMHPOLYSuper solid response, thanks for helping out!

To select the edges around the barrel HORLD ALT + LCLICK, and ALT+ SHIFT + LCLICK to select more than one. You don't need the CTRL. If it only selected the half of the edges, then you might have Overlapping Vertices in that location. Try with a Vertex select tool to press A - to select all mesh vertices, RCLICK > Merge Vertices > By Distance and then try to select the edges around again.

@@LMHPOLY WHOOPS you were absolutely right, a friend looked over my barrel and they confirmed I had overlapping vertices across the barrel. Turns out when I set the mirror modifier to the Z axis, I never deselected X and that made the double. Thank you so much!!

Turn off the 'Clipping' on the barrel mirror modifier and you won't have that problem when you can't move the circle up.

To answer my own question I did a test, and to my surprise YES, shade smoothing does effect how unity imports the asset!

@@joeysipos Yes, smoothing is transferred to Unity. Mesh normals will always transfer from Blender to Unity and will look the same. Why would I do it if it's not, lol.

Did you apply the mirror modifier before doing those steps of changing the cursor position? I'm not sure what you are doing wrong since I can't see it. Make sure to follow all of the steps from 8:25

@@LMHPOLY I never applied the mirror modifier. I rewatched the tutorial from the beginning and fixed the issue. Great tutorial and thank you for the timely reply!

Well, I do that in my tutorials :)

I think your barrel didn't merge vertices at the middle when you applied the Mirror Modifier. Try to TAB - to enter the edit mode, A - to select all Vertices (Using the Vertex select mode), press RCLICK>Merge Vertices>by Distance. Maybe your Mirror modifier settings were not the same as mine at 8:25 (Merge and Clipping is on), so when you applied the Mirror modifier, it didn't merge the middle Vertices. P.S. It would be nice to see the picture of how it looks. So if this didn't work, send me an email with picture/s so I can help ;)

For Blender 4.1 RCLICK > Shade Smooth by Angle. And open the tab "Shade Smooth by Angle", which should show up at the bottom left corner. There you will be able to change the smooth Angle. If you make some changes to the mesh and want to change the smooth Angle again, repeat the steps (RCLICK > Shade Smooth by Angle; change smooth Angle at the bottom left corner.) or The better way is to apply the "Smooth by Angle" Modifier after you do (RCLICK > Shade Smooth by Angle.) This modifier will let you change the smooth Angle any time without any additional steps. This was changed since Blender 4.1. ------ If you press CTRL+J and some parts of the mesh appear to have flipped normals, just go to the Edit Mode, A - to select all vertices, SHIFT+N - to recalculate normals. More about flipping normals I explain in my tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8-GbNqf29a1YYk.html

Have you watched the texturing - (part 3/5)? I'm showing there how to texture paint planks on the sides, top, and bottom.

@@LMHPOLY Sorry, should have been more descriptive. I'm looking to use a color palette. So I assign faces to be a flat color. That way in my game engine I only have to have a single texture which is the palette. I asked online on blender stack exchange, and the answer I got was that it was not possible to get what I'm looking for without adding more vertices

@@tail1410 I want to see the visual picture of what exactly you want to achieve because I'm not 100% sure. But if you want to add planks by using color palette texture, you can use one color for plank faces and another black color to make a fake gap in between. You can do that by adding more geometry (faces between plank faces). Or use a 3 color gradient going from black to brown to black, and apply this gradient to every single plank. This way you can achieve a separate plank effect with the same low poly geometry and small texture.

It's hard to say what's wrong without really seeing your mesh. Send me your .blend file so I can look what's wrong. You can find my email at KZfaq About section.

@@LMHPOLY Hi, sorry for the delayed response. I finished the tutorial series and it was absolutely amazing! The problem I had was I must have accidentally extruded at some point and I have overlapping verticies. Thanks!

I'm pretty sure that your mesh has overlapping vertices or not connected vertices on top of each other at the location where the Loop Selection stops. Fix: A - to select all vertices (make sure you are in Vertex select mode (press 1)). RClick > Merge Vertices > By Distance.

@@LMHPOLY Thanks you are best

Yes! You can follow (Part 4/5) of this series for exporting the barrel from Blender and it should work without any problems in UE.

I leave everything smoothed out except sidewall edges to make them look more separated, like wood planks. I left the barrel center edge loop and those metal rings smoothed out. You can clearly see that in the video.