Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash

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Have you ever wanted to build your own dungeon and walk around it like in a real RPG game?

Join Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash and embark on a journey of 3D modeling to game environment creation in Blender and Unreal Engine 5.

Whether you are an RPG fan or a Dungeons and Dragons (DND) player wanting to walk through a medieval dungeon environment, or a game designer looking to design a medieval dungeon for games, this Skillshare class is perfect for you!

You will become a dungeon master! Build an intricate structure with winding walls and stairs using just a few parts and a lot of creativity. Walk the halls of a dungeon lit by torches built entirely in Blender 3 and export it into Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) to make the lighting and atmospherics even more magical.

Top 5 Highlights of Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash:

Build a massive dungeon with a complete modular system in Blender.

Set up your dungeon for walking through with your very own character.

Create animated stylized fire and lighting.

Learn how to create opening game doors, custom collisions, and all about the Niagara fire systems.

Enjoy a comprehensive guide from Blender to Unreal Engine 5 - the only one of its kind for all fantasy RPG fans.

This Skillshare class offers over 27 hours of 3D art instruction.

As a 2-in-1 class, you have the option to complete everything in Blender or move onto Unreal Engine 5 and truly bring your 3D game environment to life through 68 additional lessons!

This class will teach you the techniques pros use and how they use them. Learning how to achieve realism through aging your 3D game environments will be a central part of this class's learning objectives.

One of my biggest ‘happy moments’ in making games is being able to walk around and open doors. Yes, we will teach you how to OPEN DOORS.

Walk around your dungeon with the UE5 default character for a full immersive experience filled with wonder and the ominous feeling of fear about what is going on in the depths of the dungeon, which we call the torture room!

Modeling

Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash will take you on a journey of building 90 medieval dungeon kitbash parts. Join the craziest medieval dungeon class to create a modular system (aka kitbash) with infinite possibilities for your environment build. By completing the class, you will be able to build vast sewer networks and individual rooms on various levels, including intricate chairs and doors that open using a third-person character.

You will be creating variations of walls, stairs, and sewer network parts to build a game environment unique to every student. Finally, optimize your modular system parts ready to export them into Unreal Engine 5.

Following the success of my latest classes, we will be modeling, texturing, and finalizing every individual asset before moving onto the next. Students have said that this has helped them stay excited throughout the creation process, being able to see how their scene comes closer to the class preview step-by-step.

Of course, you could set yourself a challenge and diversify aspects of the medieval dungeon such as changing the textures, adding more rooms, or adding furniture assets to make your medieval dungeon more alive.

Texturing and Materials

Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash will provide you with intensive learning all in one place, giving you access to over 16 references, 1 medieval dungeon floor plan, 32 custom cliff brushes, 1 HDRI, 55 Blender texture maps (including ambient occlusion, metallic, normal, roughness, and specular), 33 Unreal Engine 5 texture maps (including base color, normal, and combined ambient occlusion/metallic/roughness), 1 human scale .obj, 90 dungeon modular parts (in case you choose to move straight into Unreal Engine 5), and Unreal Engine 5 content such as the lava texture, water texture, waterfall animation sheet, and skybox.

The node wrangler is one of the best free built-in addons within Blender but most users are not even aware of it. This class will teach you how to create your materials and find out how to take all of those beautiful texture maps and make use of them.

Creating your materials or altering textures on the fly is something you will want to learn about. Maximizing your knowledge of Blender’s node system will raise the level of your textures and skill up your proficiency in working with materials.

Unreal Engine 5: Game Engine Integration

Continue your modeling-to-game engine journey by completing the second (independent) part of the class in Unreal Engine 5. We will be taking a deep dive into Epic’s all-new Unreal Engine 5.

Through Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash you will learn everything right from importing individual models from Blender to having them work correctly in UE5. Through this class, you will learn the basics of bringing your game assets to life, rendered in real-time.

Learn how to open a game door using blueprint coding, custom collisions, and all about the Niagara fire systems to create particle effects. Work towards setting up your dungeon ready for walking through with your very own third-person character in Unreal Engine 5. Create animated stylized fire and lighting, including braziers and flaming torches. Build a real game environment by setting up an 8k skybox and animated lava material to feature underneath your medieval dungeon.

We will look at how to import and use textures created specifically for Unreal Engine and use them to create the materials for our medieval dungeon environment. Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash will also be an introduction into how to set up files to create a clean UI. The skills you learn here are fully transferable to all your future builds.

Lighting & Rendering

When we look at renders of 3D models on social media, we can see a huge difference between models of different artists. Most of this can be attributed to not only the skills of the artist but also to how they achieve realism in their models.

By joining Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash, you will learn about specific types of in-built Blender lighting functionalities that will enhance the atmosphere of your dungeon.

We will be going through the many pitfalls and some technical details of what Blender render options to use for the specific machine you are using. I will also introduce you to the all-new Cycles X Blender renderer and show you how to render out your medieval dungeon in Eevee if you so choose.

Together, we will create a portfolio render for any multimedia site you wish to upload your completed model to. Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash is a complete guide into using Eevee and Cycles X for lighting, rendering, and shadows.

Class Resources & Freebies

The Blender to Unreal Engine: Create a RPG Dungeon Kitbash resource pack includes 16 references, 1 medieval dungeon floor plan, 32 custom cliff brushes, 1 HDRI, 55 Blender texture maps (including ambient occlusion, metallic, normal, roughness, and specular), 33 Unreal Engine 5 texture maps (including base color, normal, and combined ambient occlusion/metallic/roughness), 1 human scale .obj, 90 dungeon modular parts (in case you choose to move straight into Unreal Engine 5), and Unreal Engine 5 content such as the lava texture, water texture, waterfall animation sheet, and skybox.

Join this Skillshare class and be part of a 3D modeling journey of over 27 hours of learning that will see you go away with a game-ready AAA medieval game environment full of life and animation.

Check out the free introduction and I am sure you won’t be able to put this class down!

Still unsure? Here’s what's unique about this class:

Creating 90 stunning medieval dungeon kitbash assets enabling you to build an underground dungeon environment unique to every student.
Building a massive dungeon with a complete modular system (aka kitbash) in Blender.
Continuing your modeling-to-game engine journey by completing the second (independent) part of the class in Unreal Engine 5.
Optimizing modular system parts ready to export them into Unreal Engine 5.
Learning how to open a game door, custom collisions, and all about the Niagara fire systems.
Setting up your dungeon ready for walking through with your very own third-person character in Unreal Engine 5.
Creating animated stylized fire and lighting, including braziers and flaming torches.

Let’s create something history-inspired and full of life!

Until next time, happy modeling everyone!

Neil

Shaun Anderson

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