FBX Workflows for Blender to Unity

By Shane Whelan
Learn to harness the power of Blender and prep your assets to use in Unity
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(11)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Nov 1, 2019
Duration
2h 59m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Project Layout
Importing Unity Packages 5m Exporting a Scale Reference from Unity to Blender 5m Adding a Posed FBX Character in Blender 5m Using the Grease Pencil to Mark up the Project 2m
Modeling & PBR Texturing in Blender
Blocking in a Seat Model 7m Continuing the Modeling Details with Bevels and Loop Cuts 6m Marking Seams for UV Wrapping (Part 1) 3m Marking Seams for UV Unwrapping (Part 2) 5m Adding a Base Color Texture Using Texture Paint in Blender 10m Adding Details to the Seat with Bevels 8m Adding Metallic and Roughness Maps Using Texture Paint 7m Painting a Height Map to Use as a Normal Map 5m Painting Extra Detail in the Diffuse Map 3m Matching Color Channels to Unity's HDRP Shader Using the Compositor in Blender 7m Testing the New Textures Inside Unity 4m
Modeling the Vehicle
Making a Simple Outer Shell for the Vehicle 5m Using Loop Selections and Bevels to Create a Frame for the Vehicle 3m Separating Part of the Model to Make a Door 4m Adding a Glass Material and Viewing It in the Eevee Renderer 4m Bridging Loops and Flipping Normals to Create Solid Interiors 7m Making Lights with Emissive Materials 6m Modeling the Flexible Arms of the Vehicle 6m Modeling the Engines 7m Testing the Updated Vehicle in Unity 8m
Rigging the Vehicle
Beginning the Armature with Rigid Bones 6m Making the Deformable Bones 3m Parenting the Rigid Objects to the Armature 3m Using Automatic Weights to Assign the Flexible Bones to the Armature 2m FBX Workflows Blender Unity 7m Creating a Pose Library in Blender 5m Adding the Diagonal Movements to the Pose Library 8m Creating an Animation Timeline from the Pose Library 5m Setting up Physics and Adding the Movement Script in Unity 3m Animator Controller in Unity 5m
Description
Course info
Rating
(11)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Nov 1, 2019
Duration
2h 59m
Description

Often when people begin learning Unity, they reach a point where they need to create 3D assets of their own. Starting out, this can involve an unexpected financial commitment, coupled with a new learning curve. Blender is a modern, open-source, free-to-use 3D Modeling and Animation program that utilizes similar asset pipelines to programs such as Maya and 3DSMax. This course will take you through the essential pipeline you’d find going from any 3D modeling software to a game engine. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to create a hard-surface model in Blender, unwrap it for texturing, apply materials, set up its hierarchy and animate it. Finally, you’ll send it all to Unity where it can be prepared for interactivity and real-time rendering. Required Software: Blender 2.8 Unity 2019.1

About the author
Shane Whelan
About the author

Shane Whelan is a Game Design tutor at Ballyfermot College in Dublin, currently teaching in the Game Design and Animation degree program.

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Course Overview
[Autogenerated] Hi, everyone. My name is Shane Wyland, and welcome to my course on Fbx Work flows from Blender to Unity and a game design teacher at Bcf in Dublin. This course is about showing the main elements of the fbx file format as we bring a model made in blender to life in the Unity Game engine. Both applications are free to use but very powerful, especially when used together. Some of the major topics that we will cover include modeling basics matching R P B or texting, workflow and blender to unities, high def Shader rigging and animating a model in blender on bringing it all together with a pre made script in Unity. By the end of this course, you'll know how to bring a model made in blender to unity as an animated asset before beginning the course. Familiarity with the basic layout of Unity would be a bonus, though this will suit beginners in both blender and unity. From here, you should feel comfortable diving further into both unity and blender, with courses on building a ID driven characters using playmaker immunity, rigging a 2D character in unity, using I K and creating a production ready character and blender. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about bringing both of these applications together with the F B X work flows from blender to unity course at Pluralsight and a.

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