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**Joy of GameDev Series 2, Set 1 Now Available!
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Welcome to the Joy of Gamedev, Series 2, Set 1! This fantastic set will show you everything you need to know if you want to be able to create high detailed assets FAST using premade textures (we got from www.gametextures.com) in order to create geometry to hold your built up materials inside of Unreal Engine 4 or any other next generation game engine!
This set covers creating 6 basic assets using 3ds Max which you then will take into Unreal Engine – you will then build materials using premade textures and apply them to create all the parts you need to create what is in that teaser. (Along with the free stuff that comes in Unreal Engine – and the character which is by Mixamo and which you are allowed to use for free, which is cool).
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**What will I learn?
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- Creating your project using Unreal Engine
- Creating the assets in your 3d package (3ds Max)
- Optimizing the assets to make them game suitable
- Exporting the game asset models to FBX format
- Importing the game asset models to the game engine (Unreal Engine)
- Importing the textures into the game engine (Unreal Engine)
- Creating basic materials from the textures
- Creating more advanced materials using Lerp functions
- Creating materials with adjustable emmission
- Saving up your correctly named assets for easy use in your own projects
For international people, £7 is about $10 – which isnt bad for a 14 part full video and audio learning set. That is the same cost as a coffee and a sandwich at Starbucks and it lasts considerably longer!
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**About the Joy of GameDev series.
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The Joy of GameDev series by www.3d-palace.com is partly a homage to the great teaching style of Bob Ross and as such we offer a relaxed and easy to understand approach to learning where you get the information you need quickly and easily. We promise that no matter what level you are coming in from you will have no problems following our sets and that you will always end up with a great result time and time again! Plus our Joy of GameDev series is priced so that anyone of any age can afford to get in on learning game development right now!
Season 1 of the Joy of GameDev is now released completely free on www.3d-palace.com since we have now moved on to Unreal Engine 4, and we have a new focus on easy and efficient game development that will get you into indie development or help you make a cool reel! Find out more at www,3d-palace.com!
**About Cris Robson
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Cris is the senior tutor and administrator of www.3d-palace.com with over 14 years of teaching experience in the 3d community as well as several indie and professional projects under his belt. With past students working in every industry from major game studios and effects houses to major 3d site administrators, his personable style is industry famous (along with his love of robots!).
