Computer Game Development and Design 2019/20 fall

Lab 9 - Blender modeling and texturing

In this lab, we are making a low poly tree and texture it using texture first approach. If you are more experienced with the blender you can make a different (more complex) model and submit a picture of your tree.

A very good Blender tutorial for beginners:

All hotkeys used in this lab are shown here:

Steps:

• Create a new blender project and add a cylinder with 5 sides.

• Extrude the tree upwards. After every extrusion, rotate and scale the last face a bit.

• You can cut longer segments in half with the loop cut tool Ctrl+R. (Useful if you need squared faces for extruding branches)

• Continue extruding sides of your trunk to make branches.

• Add branches until your tree is detailed enough.

• Open UV layout in another view and load the following texture:
  

• Assign Material to your mesh, and give it a texture
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• Unwrap your mesh
  • Select an edge loop and unwrap it. Scale and place the selection to the corresponding color on your UV map.

• Continue unwrapping faces until they are all mapped to the texture. You can receive full points for submitting a picture of your tree at this stage.

• (Optional) Create another object with a quad. Unwrap this quad to the branch.
• (Optional) Duplicate the branch quad multiple times to cover the whole tree with branches.

Submission

Make a screenshot about your finished tree and submit this picture. (Don't include the Blender files)