VR Integrated Heritage Recreation: Using Blender and Unreal Engine 4 (Paperback)

Chapter Goal: In this chapter we will introduce the readers to the book and its concepts.

Sub Topics

  Scope of this book

  Topics covered

Chapter Goal: In this chapter the readers will be introduced to the software applications that we will use throughout the book for creating our scene and everything related to it. Software that we will use are Blender, Substance Painter, Quixel Bridge and Unreal Engine 4.

Sub Topics

  Blender

  Substance Painter

  Quixel Bridge

Chapter Goal: In this chapter we will explore how we can acquire various resources that we will require for creating our project.

Sub Topics

  Websites for getting textures

  Collecting References

  Creating basic plan

Chapter Goal: We will learn the basic tools of the software which we are going to use for heritage recreation. After that we will create a white box level using Blender and UE4.

Sub Topics

  Basics of Blender

  Basics of Substance Painter

  Creating White Box scene

Chapter Goal: In this chapter we will start modelling our scene. We will create optimized game ready models that can be used within any game engine.

Sub Topics

  Modelling the Temple

  Modelling the ground assets and stairs

  Modelling additional assets

Chapter Goals: In this chapter we will create UV map for our models and explore in detail the UV editing tools provided by Blender.

Sub Topics

  Unwrapping the Temple

  Unwrapping the various ground assets and stairs

  Unwrapping the remaining smaller assets

Chapter Goal: We will now see how we can texture our assets using Substance Painter which is an industry standard tool for texturing.

Sub Topics

  A quick introduction Substance Painter

  Texturing our Larger structures

  Texturing the smaller assets

Chapter Goal: Here we will see how we can create game ready foliage like grasses, bushes and trees. 

Sub Topics

  Creating grass

  Creating Bushes

  Creating Trees

Chapter Goal: We will see in this chapter how to export assets to Unreal Engine 4. 

Sub Topics

  Basics of Unreal Engine 4

  Creating lightmap UVs

  Exporting models from Blender

  Exporting textures from Substance Painter

Chapter Goal: In this chapter the readers will see how we can import assets into Unreal Engine 4 and set them up for use.

Sub Topics

  Import settings

  Exploring properties editor

Chapter Goal: Readers will now learn how to create materials with the imported textures that can then be applied to the meshes.

  Simple material setup

  Complex material setup

  Working with Master and Instanced materials

Chapter Goal: We will assemble the scene and write scripts for gameplay part of our scene. We will set up our scene to work with VR devices and bake everything into executable file.

Sub Topics

  Creating landscape

  Assembling scene

  Creating gameplay scripts

  Building our scene into an executable

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