Blender Beginners Tutorial - Modeling & Unwrapping a game ready Flashbang
Hi everyone, let's model and unwrap a Flashbang in Blender!
This is the Blender part of the tutorial where you will learn how to setup a reference image to the right scale, lowpoly and highpoly creation by making use of various free plugins, modifiers, tools as well as unwrapping our low poly. Once this is done we are getting everything prepared with proper naming convention as well as material ID colors for the bake and texturing part which happens in the Marmoset Toolbag 4 tutorial after this one - you can follow that part by downloading the one month free trial version if you don't have it. 👌
0:00 Intro
0:05 Loop Tools
0:39:28 Modifier List Plugin
0:45:43 Creating spirals with Extra Objects
01:05:34 Adding Text to our grenade
01:10:33 Making highpoly geometry using Bevel weights
01:25:37 Naming Conventions for our later bake
01:28:15 Adding materials for our Color ID Mask
01:40:28 Unwrapping
01:55:36 Resizing our UV islands to have the same texel density using TexTools plugin
01:58:50 Smoothing by UV Islands using TexTools plugin
02:01:31 Exporting our finished low and highpoly geometry
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Grenade Reference image:
imgur.com/cHGkv9E
Free Plugins used in this Tutorial: (Installation is simple and shown in the "Step by Step beginners Guide to Blender" Tutorial if you need help)
maxivz interactivetools github.com/maxivz/interactive...
CAD Transform Plugin gumroad.com/l/nQVcS
QBlocker gumroad.com/l/goev
TexTools renderhjs.net/textools/blender/
UV Squares github.com/Radivarig/UvSquares
JMesh tools github.com/jayanam/jmesh-tools
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Tim, you taught me 3DSMAX and got me a career as a 3D Artist, now teach me Blender!
Thanks Robert! :) This is awesome to hear. Congrats on your career as 3D Artist!
If you don't mind me asking, what is a reasonable time frame to get a 3D art career as self taught?
@@joshuabermudez2372 That depends on how much time you put into learning, practicing, and developing a portfolio. There's really no specific timeline on when you should be able to get a career as a self taught anything.
You are an insane, sick person. My mind is blown by this perfection.
now you can prepare for SCUM mods :)
😃 haha thanks man!!
WTF, I know you from your Tarkov streams and your Tarkov controversy videos. But I never have once in my life thought that you actually do 3D stuff lol, that's an amazing man! Tarkov game assets and weapon designs with Its attachments for weapons were some of my main reasons for wanting to get into hard surface modeling in 3D back in 2019.
@@kruz3d573 I am hardcore learning 3d for the past few months. stepping up the content by a lot :)
woah eroktic is here
Wouldnt have expected to find such quality in tutorials for blender. this channel can be weighed in gold.
Ah yes a tutorial worth 2 gigabytes of gold.
press shift to parent collection timing 1.38.00
Love the intro! Great tutorial as well.
Thank you so much again for the awesome amazing tutorials Tim. I really do appreciated that you made them affordable as well. :)
Wow, what a tutorial...thanks!
Exactly! Tim, your 3d models are extremely perfect and realistic! Just like your classes and tutorials! Amazing!
Hi everyone, I am glad you like the tutorial! I received a few questions and comments about the 'game ready' description and I understand that this is maybe a bit of a generic term used. I wanted to emphasize with that title that it's an object that we are going to have a low poly for that we are unwrapping and texturing. This is usually what we do when we put something in games. Now the other thing that I got asked is if the polycount is not too high? Quick answer: it depends but no it's not. For that it's important to mention that I am a 3D Artist who focuses strongly on first person shooters and what we create here is perfectly in line with a grenade that would be used in games such as Rainbow Six Siege, CS:GO or Call of Duty. In my tutorials you learn how to create things the same way we do it in the industry. Of course if this was made for a top down or third person shooter where you only see a few pixels of this grenade it would be considered too high and you could optimize it more but think of it as a flashbang that you hold in your hands in a first person shooter. You will see it up close and it will fill out a significant portion of the screen space. So long story short: when it comes to polycount it is important to consider what the object is made for and in my tutorials I generally make objects as you would find them in first person shooter games where you have weapons that you hold in your hands. For that the polycount is perfectly fine. Come join us at the ChamferZone discord if you want to talk and learn with other artists about things like this 🙂 discord.gg/sAkTtKG
I bought some of your courses, all of them in 3ds Max, but i was able to follow it even though i use Blender. Glad to see you using Blender in this one. Thanks
@@patriotaRBC This is great to hear! Yes I would say that once you have the basic understanding of modeling absorbed it's all pretty straight forward regardless of what software you follow it in. Max, Maya, Blender etc. Blender is quite similar to 3dsMax in a lot of ways and it's awesome we get it for free.
People who question it, don't know enough about game-art or 3D art in general. Simple. People honestly shouldn't really question it, as you probably have like, thousand times more experience than the people commenting negatively about it. Your tutorials are the best, and I'm using these to transition to Blender from Autodesk. The polycount of this asset could even run in a full environment setting a mobile device such as Oculus Quest as well. No problem. I got 5 years experience working in VR/AR graphic-development to prove that, and once I'm done with this flashbang I'm going to play around with it on my quest. It's crazy to me you even have to explain yourself about this, to back-seaters who think they know better. Your work is amazing and your experience shows! Stay awesome Tim. You make the best of the best.
@@crabbycrab9955 please if you don't mind can i talk to you in social media , i want to ask an expert some questions, i will really appreciate it
@@Cedrek Join the ChamferZone discord and you can get a reply to every question between the sun and the moon when it comes to 3D, games etc. I am on there also.
Holly Molly!!! That's awsome. Thank You very much for Your work.
Thank you for the amazing content.
Looks amazing
This was an amazingly well-made and detailed tutorial by a true pro. Also, it was very much appreciated that you included the chapters so I can reference the steps later. Thank you!
So cool! Again a Blender tutorial from you! Really happy! Thanks a lot!! Hope that the next will be a gun or a rifle! Can't wait!
I've never seen such a level of mastery before, this is seriously good stuff.
Thank you so much for this 🙏
This is Great! Thank you!
Excellent.
Amazing tutorial! This was very helpful for training.
amazing tutorials
Magnificent!
I think i just found my new favorite channel.
Seriously making the switch from max to blender this guys a life saver. your tutorial is the best out of the blender tuts on youtube. THANK YOU!!!
You are such awesome Teacher. Thank you so much for all your Blender vids. I am gonna kick you some cash next paycheck. Been watching your lessons everyday. So cool how your modeling from the 2d drawing. That is really cool.
I have just finished this one, it was so great to follow along. Really clear and full of knowledge, simple yet quiet in depth. Thank you a lot for the hard work you put on creating these tutorials. I did the AKM one few years ago, helped me so much. Always a pleasure to learned from you, i will definitely recommand this one to my team mates. Wish you the best !
This is GOLD 💰 thanks for the video
Super good tutorial! I am very waiting for gun modeling tutorial in Blender, the next one you told dor that will be in future video!
Everytime, you are the one I refer to for a software smooth change. First I learned Max thanks to you, and now Blender! You clearly love this soft lol
Again another clean job as a 3d artist you're worth your salt excellent work. I just hope that some day creating work of this caliber will be a joy for myself also. Beautiful 3d work test simulated in great software ported to 3d production. From design to 3d computer modelling to fabrication of real world items that's my goal on a budget. I believe your knowledge and experience with the kindness you're sharing is renewing my interest all over again. There's many items I desire to produce. My dream come low tech of course. Thank you very much again.
The shift+ctrl+"+" was new to me, pretty cool command there. Thx Tim!
Please!!! More Blender tutorials Tim !!
You are the most underrated youtuber so yea if I had a ton of money then I could support you
This channel deserves more recognition !
i followed you on 3dsmax tutorials, and since that i switched to blender (came back to it actually), thank you sir for all the knowledge you share with the rest of us.
This was FANTASTIC! Thank you!
Glad you like it and thanks for watching!
Nyc information 👍
You always are the best
This is TOP tier content
thankyou so much for this I have been using blender for like a year now and u thought me new tools i did not know existed! me and a fellow members of the blender community love that more experienced tutors are taking interest in blender! and we need high quality tutorials like this for blender! trust me there is a large untapped market :) looking forward to more tuts from you !and any idea on the gun course for blender release date i need to pick that up asap!
I learn something new today. Never knew triangles can be useful for mesh. I was taught four vertices make a face so I always keep all face to 4 which can be hard and have confusing edge loops. Thank you for the tutorial.
like it mate!
Huge thanks, I learned a lot of stuff man.
Glad to hear it freq! 🙂
When you are adding the engraved text on the top you can do a limited dissolve then intrude to not get any of those artifacts. Fantastic video btw. Learned a lot
Will you make more blender videos? I like how you set up the video as you delve into every aspect of the program.
U know what ? that was a great tutorial, even i dont understund all the topology (maybe with practice), and why you join 2 points to make a triangle ! anyway, thank you, that was incredible ! keep going, we wait for another great tutorial ;)
Great job as always, Tim! Making good models is one thing and making good tutorials is a whole different thing but you managed to do both so perfectly. Never knew some of these addons you use. They’re so handy I must try ASAP. And I learned a lot about unwrapping in Blender so thank you for making this great tutorial!
Really good to hear that even a Blender pro guy like you could pick up something new from it. Happy to hear it!
bravo
I actually thought I wouldn't learn much just following along, but I am actually finding new ways to do things I wasn't aware of before - Like loop selections, repeating selections around loops, modelling and working with lines to make a solidified object more efficiently (Previously I used an awkward method that didn't work as well).
these two Blender / Marmoset tutorials are amazing - thanks! if you want to go back to Blender from marmoset to light and render, is it possible to export the materials etc for the set up? Thanks again!
Easily one of the BEST Blender hard surface modelling tutorials around and that is saying something as there are a lot of them on youtube! I learned a lot of things and your workflow is great! I would love to see a deeper dive into textools, uvwrapping and texel density considerations for more complicated assets using Blender. Looking forward to more tutorials on Blender from you!
Thanks Karan, appreciate it. I have a lot of tutorials planed for the future. There will always be free tutorials too but the bigger and more in depth tutorials are reserved for my marketplaces. I will post trailers on here so that you can see if its worth it for you or not. It's going to be great.
@@ChamferZone so i agree with karan. and i think one of the reasons is the description you do on every action you take and the pace which is nice and not hurried. also i like your use of free addons which is also very inclusive i think for everyone to be able to follow along without being told to buy this and that etc. if you do this well on your paid stuff i might become a customer. i love learning how others think and work. 20+yr game dev here my first game was "system shock 1" in the 90s...
thx man
Oh hey Tim, I remember watching your grenade tutorial for 3ds max a few years ago. Nice to see you're doing some blender stuff now too as I couldn't really get into 3ds max back then but am having a lot more luck with blender. A bit unconventional with non standard shortcuts and plugins, but hey, it works! Definitely goona look into jmesh tools for my own workflow after this video. By the way, a little tip, instead of selecting 2 edges on the center piece then repeating it at 18:08, you can select the whole loop then make use of Checker Deselect to deselect every other edge, super useful. I don't remember where it is (probably in the selection menu) but I always just find it in the F3 search menu.
If you have issues with JMesh acting weird heavily distorting or twisting your meshes, it's because the object needs to have its transforms reset. Select the object, hit Ctrl-A, then "All Transforms". Then make sure your world gizmo is set to the world origin (or at least the point you want your object to revolve around) by pressing Shift-S then "Cursor to World Origin".
Thanks Ben! Yep, there's a good chance that others might run into this too. Thanks for sharing your fix for it!
Thanks!
That doesn't work.
bless you my friend. I`v suffered with it for 2 days till got your comment.
I guess it's easier to apply just "Scale", not "All Transforms" :)
I just listened to your intro and pressed subscribe button immediately.
Happy to hear it :) More tutorials coming in the near future! My approach is to have a mix out of longer in depth tutorials for my marketplaces but there will always be free ones like this too.
great tur dude
thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, it was very helpfull to me...
Nice work Tim!
Thanks Simon! 😀🍻
I came here after recieving your newsletter Simon, can't wait for your cours too, thanks alot guys !
finally come! Dear grenade! Great tutorial! The excitement is incoherent already. . . . From the late-night Asian region, your fan. . .
Asian Rammstein fan? :3
@@absence9443 Yes, I started listening to this band when I was 16 years old, and I am 31 years old this year. Their songs give me strength.You like it too?Rammstein？
@@tankwang5049 yeees!
Man you are a special person, I know you from a tutorial that I did, the mech robot that I did with the desert storm cammo pattern now you giving tutorials on how to use Blender, what would be Next? Maya. Keep the good work. :)
i made my first 3d! < 3 thank you!!!!
Tim, thanks to You I'm working now as 3D Artist. You are awesome. Best 3d knowledge out there.
Hi Aleks, happy to hear it and congrats on working as 3D Artist! It's so important to love what you do as work.
Awesome friend... I would like a detailed tutorial for the workflow fom blender to zbrush to substance .. Thank you very much for share this content... (Y)
That moment when you get your university assignments done and chamferzone uploads a new blender tutorial at the same second.
УФ! Это был длинный урок. Спасибо!
С субтитрами смотрел?
Спасибо
Blew my mind as well - very nice!
The videos are amazing, thank you!!! Please tell me, in the episode where masks are created for objects, are addons applied in all folders?
11:05 - i think instead of joining the vertices , it's better to join the vertices that are close and use the auto merge and slide the vertices and your mesh will be cleaned faster and more efficiently , just another way i think
I have just discovered this channel and you have very amazing and professional content, keep it up! As for the part at 1:32:00, one simple way was to box select the middle part, invert the selection, hide the selected (so that you remain only with the middle section) then you can select one face of the outer shape and use select linked. You can then use the sharp or normal option. Of course in this situation, it was simple so the manual selection isn't a problem but I just thought I mention the "select similar" tool in case a more difficult situation comes up. You can also specify which material you would want to appear on the bevel using the material index option.
Thanks Mohamed! Always good to know different and more convenient ways of achieving something!
Hi. Thanks for the tutorial. Amazing as always. Quick question: How do you select elements without leaving the move tool? As a long time 3DsMax user that drives me crazy in Blender!! Are you using Right Click fore selection?
Coming from 10 years of 3ds max I found it hard at first, clunky, hard to get used to, but with the shortcuts and plugins I'm starting to see just how powerful this free software is. I can do exactly the same workflow and Blender might even be faster now at this stage, the bevel weights for high poly works so much better than quad chamfer which I found to be quite buggy , the batch rename also is a godsend , renaming suffixes of induvial parts in 3ds max took forever. I'm still getting used to unwrapping in blender but I think in the initial base unwrap blender does a better job than 3ds max also.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I couldn't find the readme so here's the text for copying: STUN GRENADE P/N 1750-002 UPCO 51998 L/N UPC083 01-009 S/N 048950 CYS US pat 5.824.945 FUZE E7R6
Thanks for adding this. I should have thought of this :) Btw. youtube shows me you been subscribed for 5 years on my channel! Thanks! 😄
@@ChamferZone When I was a student I had the student free version on 3DS Max and came across your AKM and Grenade Tutorials and I was so thankful an industry professional was sharing their knowledge on YT for free! After my free version ran out I was bummed I couldn't follow your 3DS Max tutorials anymore. Fast forward 5 years and now you are doing Blender tutorials and I am over the moon excited to follow them once again!
I've really enjoyed this tutorial, I've learned a few things I didn't know. I've done it without the JMesh plugin (I don't have/use that one). Just finishing the last parts now... So thank you. I have to say though... this is NOT for beginners... especially absolute beginners.
Wow thanks a lot for this amazing free tutorial! My objective is to get in the game industry and this helps a lot! I've read all comments/replies but still got few questions if you find the time to answer : - When you make your UVs, you move a part out of an island (1:54:30) but you don't make a seam, why do you move it and why not adding a seam? - About pixel margins, you eyeball it, is it fine or should we be more accurate in general? I've read somewhere, the ideal pixel margin between the islands and the frame of the UV should be [resolution/128], so for 2k textures, 16 pixels. I think it is about downscaling and to avoid texture bleeding? - At 1:57:40, you move the UV island of the duplicated inner part to avoid overlap, is it because otherwise the software would bake twice the normal maps and add them up? Also you do +1 on Y axis, can you do +1 on X axis instead? Or maybe it is a convention to avoid issues when you work with UDIMs ? Also if you have 4 copies of the same island, do you have to go +1, +2, +3? - I always thought we should use the minimum amount of seams to avoid breaks in textures, does it really matter? For instance, I would've never put 6 seams for the hexagonal bottom part, but only 1 to unfold the cyclic part and make it flat. - When you use the UV Smoothing from TexTools, does it mark all seams as sharp edges and replaces the autosmooth? So in the end, you get 1 smoothing group per island, and I assume this is mandatory? If I use the Weighted Normals modifier instead, will it give worse results? - all your islands are horizontal or vertical, is it to avoid bad aliasing/stepping ? Also a side question, just curious, do you think/know if recruiters care about an "all quad topology" ? I've read that I should put some all quad topo projects in my portfolio to showcase that I know how to make good topology. Otherwise if you know a tutorial that goes very deep in UV/baking I'd gladly take that, for me it feels like this is the hardest and the most crucial part of the whole process. Thanks again for these amazing tutos! Really looking forward for that weapon tutorial in Blender, I planned to buy your AK tutorial but I guess I'll wait a bit more for this one instead :)
You're my idol tim🥺
Great thanks a lots and I have a question that can UV Squares work on blender 2.9x?I installed it but it didn't occur on N panel.
thanks for the great tutorial!! which gun are you gonna model for gumroad tutorial?
Hey Mefista, thanks and currently still in the research phase for it. In fact I plan to make more then one weapon tutorial. Probably handgun, sub machinegun as well as another assault rifle but I am not sure what I do first yet. I will get started soon though!
I just finished this tutorial with Blender 3.0 and the only issue I ran into was the "Modifier List" addon not working with 3.0 yet. I didn't really feel the need for it until the end of the video when I wanted to disable/toggle all the modifiers at the same time, so I googled for another solution and found out there is a built-in addon called "Modifier Tools" that lets you do this.
this looks great! btw, some of the links in the description don't work
Thank you Tim this is awesome! I love watching and analyzing other people's workflow! You may already know it by now but instead of selecting edges ring and subdividing you can save some click by pressing ctrl + r and deciding the amount of loop you want to add with the scroll wheel!
Really really good tutorial. If not the best..man doesn't play around
Is it necessary to use the same texel density on the whole model? The inside of the body (the part with the holes) and the inside part of it for example wouldn't be seen as much as the outside. Wouldn't it be a good idea to scale those down a bit so the other elements can have a big more resolution?
Awesome stuff. I had no idea about some of these add ons. Wanted to ask you about weighted normals and triangulation before export and bake though. Is there a reason for why you skip these steps? Also that UV smoothing with tex tools I had no idea worked like that. Is it different than managing your hard edges manually through selecting and marking edges? When I smooth my UVs like you did, the mesh just turns blobby. Anyway, love that you are giving away your expert knowledge on YT like that and for free - absolutely crazy. Would definitely pay for one of your tuts. Thanks!
Hello Adam, yes the UV smoothing is the most critical step after doing the unwrapping. If you do that you ensure that the normals are as perfect as they can be for the bake and that's also why I don't bother with anything else when it comes to normals. Textools will sort that all out with that step. Don't worry about things looking blobby! You should see some of the organic weapons I worked on at Warframe. Once I apply the uv smoothing before the bake you'd think this looks horrendous but once you bake and apply the normal map it will be looking perfectly fine. You can also watch my Uunwrapping special eventhough it's for 3dsmax but it might shed some more light on these things. On that object there aren't many ngons to begin with and most is quads so I didn't really expect there to be any issues with how an engine would interpret the triangulation but you can certainly set it to triangulate. It's something I should have mentioned at the end so it's a good point.
@@ChamferZone very cool, thanks for this comprehensive reply, Tim! How long would this mesh take you from start to finish in production scenario?
to snap at 13:00, use vertex, active, and in edit mode, select the vertice you want to snap with then select everything via 'a', then move all the vertices and snap that way
for the cylinder center part, i would also suggest just working off one aprt with lots of modifiers so you can easily make changes
Hi Tim, thanks for the wonderful tutorial. I have a question regarding to toolbag bake preview, why are the parented floaters not showing in preview, and why are there plenty of black spots/artifacts during preview? i have followed your tutorial very thoroughly so i'm confused as to why this isn't working
Du kannst auch die zahlen eingeben ;) Sprich R ( Rotate) + Y (Achse) + 180 (Die Gradzahl um die es sich drehen soll)
If you guys are struggling with the circle array modifier, don't move the cylinder after creating it. I moved it when i created it because it was right in the reference picture but instead I should have moved the reference pic. It seems like it messed up the origin point after deleting the other faces but not sure really.
Hi, 1st I want to thank your for guiding us and i would say this one is awesome tutorial. but i'm sad because i can't work with the textool, I’m running Blender 2.91.2 and wanted to install the TexTools addon, and in preferences it’s telling me “Upgrade to 2.8x required”. :(
The same...
The same (blender 3.4)
Could you make a tutorial for texturing and rendering it in Blender itself?
thank you so much for this tutorial! I have recently started using blender and obviously I have some problems that I cannot solve ... When I apply jmesh at 7:14 and go into edit mode it only shows me the vertices that are in the first section of the cylinder I created and if I try to move a vertex it is not even connected to each other. If anyone can help me I would be very grateful. Thank you!
I had same problem. In my case, I just merged as he did and fixed the problem. I hope this would help you.
5 month late reply but if you see this I had the same problem... I was able to fix it but pressing F3 to search 'cursor to active' and that fixed it.
if your having problems with the array circle make sure the cylinder u created is not scaled or u wont get the desired result. Once u create the cylinder just move the vertex to match the reference so u avoid scaling values then it will work perfectly. Also at 1:23:40 make sure before u inset the Fuze text boundary option is on.
Weird he didn't mention that from the start. I'm into 7th minute of tutorial and I'm melting my brain already due to issues/artifacts I get by using his JMesh method. No matter what I do, the circle array appears as a stretched out and heavily distorted shape. On top of that, no matter how many copies of the object I wanna replicate, I only get one copy as if the desired quantity is inoperable.
@@tweed0929 yea i feel you the pivot system and the blackface selection need to improve to make it more easy to workaround but overall easy tut and good to learn the basics sometimes we have to struggle a bit to force our brains to search for some answers.
5:48 I can't do that collapsing thing it becomes so weird shape I had a triangle on the bottom side blender 2.93
same problem
same here, any solution? blender 3.0
@@nico_marcucci Ctrl + A, scale, then array modifier
@@siarheizhylevich2768 thanks!
Having some trouble linking objects at 1:37:46, when I drag things in Blender (3.0) it gives the option of holding ctrl to link, but I don't see any visual indication that it's worked like the little triangle that comes up here. I'm guessing this is just something that was changed but it makes it a little confusing to tell if it's actually done anything or not.
oh man, me too. Blender (2.91)
It's basically “Set To Parent”. Select an object that you want to link, then shift select an object where you want the linked object to be stored. Press ctrl+P, choose Object.
@@freidcher Ah I see, just different wording then. Thank you.
@@freidcher thank youuu!
thanks for this great tutorial but modifier list is installed but not activating
when I hit unwrap...simply the bomb explodes 😅 faces scattered everywhere in my house but I ll keep trying 🙃 thanks
Wtf you can parent objects by dragging on another object. I didn't know that after a year using Blender. :D But when I do it I have to use Shift + Drag and for linking CTRL + Drag. Thanks for the video.
Whats the difference between patch and sharp in the bevel settings?
Do you think you’ll cover any more pro Boolean tutorials?
Hi Jay, yes boolean workflow will certainly be used in my future tutorials! I am currently looking into the best plugins for it. Obviously there are paid ones that help with that but I prefer if people don't have to pull out their credit card which is why I always look out for free solutions :)
@@ChamferZone sorry for the late reply, I didn't get a notification. Awesome to hear tho! :D
Greetings from CG Rush
nice tutorial! one problem for me is the inset boundary when i uncheck it nothng happens does anyone know the problem?