Optimizing Game-Ready 3D Modeling for Indie Developers

hello there so about a month ago I was talking to a friend of mine showing him some of the new stuff that I've done and

I was surprised to hear that he would have changed a lot if he had to make the game ready version to make it easier to

model I was mad about this how can you make the design noticeably worse if uh you can just spend a bit less time on

the game ready and 99% of people would not notice the difference even if you told them what to look

for and that was someone very flexible with no religious like approach to clean mesh or game ready production in

general so I thought is there really no better way to speed things up I was really motivated because while I knew

that a lot of cutting Corners uh wouldn't fit 95% of a AAA pipeline this would make a huge difference for

Indie industry what if I an indie company that would rather have two things for the price of one with almost

no difference for an average person looking at it I've spent more than a month learning different game ready

pipelines tools and approaches tried really hard to come up with solutions for things I thought could be done

faster or better and I got some results okay let's address a couple of things right away while I am showing the full

process because I thought some of you might find it a good way to start I'm not really a 3y artist I would make a

bad job explaining why I do certain things it's just that there is no one else to show that workflow

currently you must have a good understanding of modern game ready approaches to comfortably use this

method so instead of spending huge effort and coming up with a mediocre explanation of full game ready

production I would rather aim you at the amazing tutorial on Art station learning from Alex

Medina let's now talk about the software for the method I personally use plasticity pixes blender substance while

plasticity is cheap blender is free not counting the addons and substance is basically a must to texture game ready

assets pixes with its price is the elephant in the room here and as I'm finishing all the videos there is a

blender bridge out that has fixed the surface tolerance X Sport now it's calculated the same way for everything

you just have to make sure the live link is enabled and every object is selected before the

reacting after that you can market shop and because it gets the model straight out of plasticity there won't

be any potential issues with card repair on import currently as a beta version it's only available for Studio you will

have to wait uh for it to release for Indie version but I don't think you will regret getting Studio anyway let's

quickly go over the addons I'll be using um text tools it's free for working with UVS and

baking UV packm as the best packing tool for reasonable price and Zan barbecue a very cheap tool

to put our bevel Shader usage on the next level I'll provide all the links in a text

file we'll discuss my techniques used in the method in the next video