Are YOU ready to continue your 3D modelling journey? In September we introduced two ‘beginner’ applications – Tinkercad and Kenney Shape, and this month we dedicate an entire explainer series to the popular Unity-based modelling tool, uModeler. Beginners welcome!
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In this month’s explainer series we’ll use the popular Unity asset ‘uModeler’ to introduce basic 3d modelling tools and techniques and create a simple car model based on the Simpsons ‘Canyonero’ …
Here’s the ‘original’ Canyonero in action in the Simpsons!:
Here’s what you could go on to create using the powerful uModeler asset!
Over the series of seven explainers, we’ll…
- Install the Unity Hub and Unity LTS
- Create a new Unity project and install the Umodeler asset
- Create a UModeler object and explore the UModeler interface
- Navigate the scene and scale, rotate and move 3D objects
- Create unique shapes by adjusting vertices, edges and faces
- Block out a simple Canyonero-style car model
- Create materials and textures and apply them to the model
Once you’ve learnt the basics of UModeler you could go on to use their professional-level UModeler X asset!
The explainer series starts a few days from now!
