How to add DETAILS to your Game Props 

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Make sure you optimize your polycount. No need to have 20k poly brick walls in your game

@@Blue_snapdragons great tip. I am doing a base building game and applied this technique on my buildables like walls and stuff to give it a more texture, tried to minmax for effect vs poly count. Would this matter a lot for things that are hidden, like 2 foundations next to each other, where you cant see the faces that are touching each other? Does the engine calculate those even when they arent on screen?

@@distructed1878 I suppose it would depend on what sort of culling you’re using. I’m more familiar with how unity does its culling (making VRChat maps), but I suppose if you’re using some kind of frustum culling and occlusion culling, it might be less heavy? Buuut if you’re making a building game where players can place lots of meshes down, you definitely want to prioritize optimization. In your case is very much recommend going the route of hand-creating your assets (modeling, sculpting, baking high-poly to low-poly, etc. So you end up with well-made assets with good lower poly topo that packs detail into textures)

It will be cool to see the next versions of the modeling tools, they are a time saver for some tasks

Not really, if you use the 3rd method you will optimize it a lot (plus it will look better). Triangles are not that much of a big deal nowadays.

Bruh you can clearly see, in the first object its like 30 tris and on third object around 20k tris... But i get the point, only geometry is needed for edges. But still it would be a better job inside Blender with decimate modifier.

@@ADIAN.a1 I prefer do it in Blender as well. Just have to add a little bit of poly to the edges manually. Much better performance than beefing up everything.

yeah you could try to make even a more simplified version if you really want to go that way

Probably in the future thats the idea. It would be hard to have all Blender features tho. But the future is bright you can already animate on 5.3

@@maomaogamedev what do you mean you can animate in 5.3? Sorry I didn't know anything new about animation was in 5.3.

It’s cold AF 🥶

If your budget is very tight maybe. But texture maps don’t change the silhouette of the model. So it’s not the same type of detail

Yes, you can do all too

Parallax mapping wouldn't work because you can't specify which parts you want the displacement and which ones you don't. As for the triplanar, it won't work because the displacement is being displaced in its local UV space regardless of the material, I just previewed the material there to make it easier to read. So the solution is just to have better UVs that are continuous.

Yes you can, thats the good thing about this tool is you can model inside the context of your scene

Hey 👋 thanks for sharing! Unreal can’t compare to a 3D modeling package. But it eliminates a lot of back and forth between the apps. Some things are easier to do in Unreal but if you want to model something with complex shapes you still need to use a 3D modeling app for more precision. As for the method, model on top of an existing texture is a task that can take several hours if you do it by hand. But this can make the work done.

@@maomaogamedev Modelling a good looking, high detail brick wall in blender or maya takes less than an hour if you already have a texture

​@@maomaogamedev Quality takes time friend :)

@@Wardson yeah it always does

it doesn't matter for environments as long as the lightning is fine and there are no visual artifacts

shift + 5 or go to the Modeling tab top left corner

you can add Nanite to it, i just didn't enable the feature. But you should always enable nanite when you can.

Our main problem is that all 3d software cannot deal with millions of polygons sadly. I am currently making a huge temple complex and i have to do it by chunks and it is a real pain.@@maomaogamedev

For environment assets is not a big deal, specially today

@@maomaogamedev For good looking assets it is a big deal :P

Maybe for PS1 :)

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