WORLD BUILDING & TECHNICAL ART
Introduction
This course moves individual assets into modern real-time game engines or staging software. Students explore landscape creation, population tools, and technical art systems designed to build vast, interactive worlds.
Instructor Profile
Prerequisites
Description
Topics Covered
• Setting up scenes and folder assets inside modern engines
• Digital terrain sculpting and layer-blending texture systems
• Foliage painting tools: distributing grass, trees, and stones
• Utilizing modular kits to construct complex indoor and outdoor sets
• Level-of-Detail (LOD) optimization for massive landscapes
• Setting up interactive collision paths and navigation meshes
• Introduction to node-based custom material graphs (shaders)
• Managing heavy memory usage through instance mesh populators
Course Objectives
• Populate a complete level layout using modular kits.
• Generate varied natural landscapes using engine painting tools.
• Construct optimized engine master materials with variable parameters.
Learning Outcomes
• Assemble a functional, populated environment scene inside a game engine.
• Sculpt a realistic outdoor terrain map complete with multi-layered ground textures.
• Implement optimized instanced static meshes for heavy foliage counts.
Tools & Materials
• Game Engine software (Unreal Engine 5 or Unity)
• 3D Asset library engine bridges (e.g., Quixel Bridge)
• Mid-to-high level computer workstation setup
Course Rules
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