Chapter 1: Introduction to Book 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 2: Introduction to Software
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
Unreal Engine 4
Chapter 3: Acquiring Resources for Our Project
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 4: Design Visualization
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 5: Modelling our 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 6: Unwrapping the Models
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 7: Texturing Assets Using Substance Painter
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 8: Creating Foliage
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 9: Exporting to Unreal Engine 4
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 10: Importing into Unreal Engine 4
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 11: Material Setup in Unreal Engine 4
Chapter Goal: Readers will now learn how to create materials with the imported textures that can then be applied to the meshes.
Sub Topics
Simple material setup
Complex material setup
Working with Master and Instanced materials
Chapter 12: Integration with VR
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
