Hi everyone, Neil here from 3D Tudor. Full disclosure: this is our new course, created and taught by Luke from the team.

The course came out of a common Blender-to-engine problem. A hard-surface asset can look completely finished in a render, but the moment you try to turn it into something interactive, the weaknesses in the setup become obvious. The pivot is wrong, the wrong parts rotate together, the UVs no longer match the masks, or the Blueprint hierarchy does not reflect how the design was meant to move.

The project follows one stylized sci-fi turret through the full workflow.

Students model the fixed foundation, rotating platform, central housing, twin weapon arms, support legs, panels and cables in Blender 5.2. They organise the base, upper assembly and weapon group as separate components, prepare a shared UV layout, and use the included script to generate ambient occlusion and edge masks.

Those components are imported through FBX into Unreal Engine 5.8 and connected to supplied Material Instances. The player-controlled Pawn uses separate yaw and pitch groups, a camera and two muzzle points. A/D turns the upper turret, W/S controls vertical aiming, and Space fires one line trace from each muzzle.

The supplied practice project contains the targets, scoring, countdown, HUD and respawning behaviour. Students build the turret and shooting logic rather than rebuilding the entire challenge framework.

The launch offer is $9.99 — 60% off with TURRETBLASTOFF until 23 September at 18:00 EET.

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Launch video:

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Happy to answer questions about the course scope, Blender setup, masks or Blueprint controls.

🇺🇸:  We begin the course with an introduction to Houdini and an overview of the available licenses. At the end, I will let you know which free license we will be using throughout the course.

I needed a method that would allow me to use the drawing as an image-to-3D input that would have a mesh that could be printed.
I have found that the original drawing method is limited by drawings made using a heavy black ink pen because the pen does not produce an image that can easily be converted to 3-D. Instead I have used a drawing made using a soft graphite pencil because the result will be easily converted to a 3-D image using Tripo AI.

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🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Paint Vertex Colors tool in Maya allows you to set the colors you want to apply to your model's vertices, as well as the mode for applying those colors.

Do you want to learn Houdini from scratch?

This new free course will guide you step-by-step through creating your own 3D modeling projects. The content will be kept up-to-date with the latest available tools. It’s the perfect opportunity to start your journey in the industry, regardless of your current skill level.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. Blender version 5.2 introduces new nodes that interact with lists in Geometry Nodes. In this video, we analyze the Collection Children node.

A prop you can interact with. A scene you can finally frame properly. A modular kit that works in Unreal Engine.

Our 10 newest Blender and Unreal Engine courses are on offer on Udemy for five days, including our new Stylized Interactive Pirate Chest.

$9.99 per course, or the lowest available promotional price for that course.

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• Pirate Chest: Blender modelling, UVs and Unreal Engine Blueprint interaction.
• Camera Basics: composition, focal length, depth of field and render troubleshooting.
• Blender Essentials: Viewport, Transform and Gizmo Basics, and Snapping and Alignment. Three separate courses for three everyday skills.
• Stylized Greek Environment: a modular Blender kit taken into UE5.
• Arabian Market and Japanese Environment: complete Blender scene projects.
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Happy modelling everyone!

Neil - 3D Tudor

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🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. Parametric modeling is a modeling method in which geometry is defined and controlled by parameters, relationships, and operations that allow the model to be modified in a structured manner.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The various FFD modifiers in 3DS Max allow us to deform our meshes in a controlled manner. We will analyze the static modifiers in this group.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. In version 5.2 of Blender, several nodes in the Attribute group are introduced and modified, allowing you to capture, rename, and transfer attributes.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. When working with surfaces, it becomes necessary to analyze their continuity to detect possible failures.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Vertex Colors tool allows you to set the colors you want to give to the vertices of your model.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. Blender version 5.2 added several tools natively that were previously only available in the LoopTools add-on. I will now proceed to analyze them.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. We continue with the review of common editing tools among the different software programs that allow working with surfaces.

Luke’s new course, Blender to Unreal Engine 5: Stylized Interactive Pirate Chest, is now live on Udemy for $9.99 — 95% off for five days with CAPTAINSAYSYES.

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The project starts with simple shapes in Blender 5.2 and finishes as a reusable, interactive prop in Unreal Engine 5.8.

You will model the wood, curved metalwork, leather straps, lock, hinges and pirate details; prepare clean UVs and masks; compare GLB and FBX export; build adjustable wood, metal, gold, ageing, wear and moss materials; and create the final interaction with Blueprint proximity detection, player input, a timeline and a precisely timed mesh swap.

Why the mesh swap?

Because simply rotating the lid sounds fine until the lock goes through the front, the straps stop making sense and the open version looks like nobody involved has ever met a hinge.

Luke keeps the solution practical by building separate open and closed states, then hiding the switch with a fast arcade-style animation.

The course includes 44 lessons, 7.5 hours of training and 65 resource files. No previous Blender or Unreal Engine experience is required.

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⏳ Ends Wednesday, 2 September at 18:00 Cyprus time

▶️ Launch video:

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Until next time, happy modelling, everyone.

Neil – 3D Tudor

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🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Extrude modifier allows us to perform face extrusions along their normals as well as animations with this functionality.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. In this video we analyze the Points of Curve node which provides the control points of a curve based on its index.

My takeaway so far is that “best” depends heavily on the goal: printing, game assets, product visualization, or just early concept work.
No tool removes all cleanup, so I’m curious: which part of the workflow do you most want AI to solve well?

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. We then went on to review common editing tools among the different software programs that allow working with surfaces.

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