How to Make Realistic Roblox GFX in Blender — Transcript

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1. 0:00This is how you create realistic looking
2. 0:02Roblox GFX in Blender. Let's begin.
3. 0:04Okay, to begin, you're going to have to
4. 0:06create the uniforms. So, I have a little
5. 0:09module here with a bunch of uniforms,
6. 0:11but I would only suggest selecting about
7. 0:13four to five actual uniforms that you'll
8. 0:15use in the GFX. That way it doesn't take
9. 0:18forever to export and to set up in
10. 0:20Blender. So, just select ones that look
11. 0:22unique that would fit well. Okay, once
12. 0:25you have your selection done, you want
13. 0:27to create a folder that will be housing
14. 0:29all of these uniforms. That way when you
15. 0:31export, it will be nice and organized.
16. 0:34So, just create folders with each of the
17. 0:36uniforms you're going to export. Then
18. 0:39what you want to do is you want to go
19. 0:40into the character and select any of the
20. 0:42accessories you want to export. So, I'm
21. 0:44going to export this hat, export as OBJ.
22. 0:47Find the folder. This is the private.
23. 0:49Just name this hat. Then I would also
24. 0:51recommend grouping this into a folder
25. 0:53just to make sure it's organized and the
26. 0:55textures won't overlap. Then you can
27. 0:57just delete that. Just do this for each
28. 0:59part. I'll do this for the bag now.
29. 1:06Then once you go through all of your
30. 1:07accessories, you'll have the base mesh.
31. 1:09Then just export the entire thing.
32. 1:13And just name it how you want. And just
33. 1:15repeat this process for each of these
34. 1:17characters. Also, if you want to import
35. 1:20UGC from the catalog into the studio,
36. 1:23what you can do is just go into Roblox,
37. 1:25copy the asset ID, which is right here,
38. 1:28then go back into studio, bring up the
39. 1:30command bar, then just type in this
40. 1:32script, and then paste your asset ID
41. 1:35right here.
42. 1:37Then click run and it should spawn in.
43. 1:39Here it is. Just copy the accessory.
44. 1:42Just paste into. Then you can just do
45. 1:44the same thing, the same export as you
46. 1:47did with uh other accessories. Then
47. 1:50yeah, that's how you can add in custom
48. 1:51UGC and hair. For some reason, my mic
49. 1:54stopped working. So, I'll be narrating
50. 1:55over this now. For this tutorial, I'll
51. 1:57be using the Roblox starter rigs, which
52. 1:59are free. Now, once you download them,
53. 2:02open up Blender. After that, drag in the
54. 2:04rig and click on append. Then, select
55. 2:06the starter block you break collection.
56. 2:08Now, we can start applying the uniform.
57. 2:10For the main texture, select the uniform
58. 2:12that you exported. It'll probably have
59. 2:13diff one or diffusion one at the end. It
60. 2:15should look something like this. Now, to
61. 2:17import the hats, just go over to the
62. 2:19import settings and click on OBJ. Then,
63. 2:21select the hat or accessory that you
64. 2:23want imported. If it's not at the world
65. 2:25origin, select the imported hat, go into
66. 2:27edit mode, then do control A to select
67. 2:29everything, and then set the transform
68. 2:31to zero, and you should see it. It may
69. 2:33need to be resized or rotated as well.
70. 2:35Now, to get the hats to stick to the
71. 2:37head, what you need to do is select the
72. 2:38hat, go into the constraints tab, and
73. 2:40add a child of constraint. Then, select
74. 2:43the rig as the target and the head as
75. 2:44the bone. Also, to change the settings
76. 2:47of the rig, go into pose mode and select
77. 2:49the gear icon. I recommend setting the
78. 2:50subdivisions to zero for the classic
79. 2:52Roblox look. Now, you want to click on
80. 2:54this duplicate button for each character
81. 2:56uniform, and then control L to link the
82. 2:58materials to each body part. That way,
83. 3:00each new uniform doesn't overwrite the
84. 3:02old one. Now, repeat this process for
85. 3:04every accessory for each character. For
86. 3:06weapon models, I got mine from
87. 3:08Sketchfab. Just search up what weapon
88. 3:10you want, then download it as a GLB
89. 3:12file. I also tend to stretch out the
90. 3:14limbs a little to make the proportions
91. 3:15look a little bit nicer. It also helps
92. 3:17with the posing. To get a custom face on
93. 3:19the rig, just go into the face texture
94. 3:21and select anything from the Roblox HD
95. 3:23faces that came with the rig. So, I
96. 3:25start by getting a couple references.
97. 3:27Then, I go on Sketchfab to find a good
98. 3:29little scene that I can use. What I'm
99. 3:31looking for is a nice street scene that
100. 3:33doesn't look too modern. It'll have some
101. 3:35interesting points of interest that'll
102. 3:36help create the scene. So, I spent a
103. 3:38while doing that, a long time doing
104. 3:40that. Then, I found this one, which was
105. 3:42pretty good. So, I import it into
106. 3:43Blender, then I clean it up a little
107. 3:45bit, rotate it, and scale it so it fits
108. 3:48better. I find the best way to scale it
109. 3:50is just to put a character next to a
110. 3:53door
111. 3:53>> [music]
112. 3:53>> and just size it that way. Then once I'm
113. 3:56done with that, I'm going to start on
114. 3:58the composition of the scene. So, I add
115. 4:01in a camera and position it where I
116. 4:02think would look the best. Then I set up
117. 4:05the characters in just some rough
118. 4:07positions. Nothing final right now, just
119. 4:09so I can get a layout of the scene a
120. 4:11little bit better. Make sure to break up
121. 4:13their position a little bit. Make sure
122. 4:15it's not so perfect unless they're, you
123. 4:17know, marching or something. Then I
124. 4:19start adding in some lights. I use some
125. 4:21point lights in the street lamps. Just
126. 4:22put one in each lamp for now and you can
127. 4:24go back and tweak the settings to fit
128. 4:26the lighting a little bit better. Also
129. 4:28set the world lighting to zero so
130. 4:30nothing influences so it's completely
131. 4:32dark night. Then once the street lamps
132. 4:34look good enough, I look for a
133. 4:37background image that I can throw in on
134. 4:40a plane. I like having one that has a
135. 4:41moon on it just to add a little bit of
136. 4:43interest to the background. Then what I
137. 4:45typically do is plug the color into the
138. 4:47emission so it stands out a little bit
139. 4:49better. Then after that, I just go in
140. 4:51and tweak the lights a little bit more
141. 4:53till I get something that looks good.
142. 4:54Now, you can select all the lights and
143. 4:56press Alt when clicking on the power so
144. 4:58it influences all of them at once. But
145. 5:00once I think the scene looks good, I'll
146. 5:02move on to adding a volume. Now, this
147. 5:04volume is just a cube with a volume
148. 5:06scatter node with a density set very
149. 5:08low. This makes the lights look good and
150. 5:10just adds in some nice little fog
151. 5:12effects. Then I add in some area lights
152. 5:14to get some interesting looking
153. 5:15reflections on the little puddle areas.
154. 5:17Make sure you disable the camera and the
155. 5:19diffuse as well as the volume scatter so
156. 5:22it doesn't influence the fog or
157. 5:23anything. Just so it influences the
158. 5:25reflections a little bit. Just add some
159. 5:27visual interest. Then I just add some
160. 5:29area lights around the scene to just get
161. 5:31some nice little backlighting. Now I
162. 5:33start posing. And for posing, you don't
163. 5:35want it to look super rigid. You want it
164. 5:37to be You want it to flow a little bit
165. 5:39as if they were actually moving and
166. 5:40such. It's important to give each
167. 5:42character a unique pose just so it looks
168. 5:44a little bit a natural. So, I'll have
169. 5:47some of them walking, some of them
170. 5:48reloading, some of them shooting, and
171. 5:50whatnot. And the posing isn't that
172. 5:52complicated. Just move the limbs around
173. 5:54so they're just not perfectly centered
174. 5:56or anything. If you really wanted to,
175. 5:57you could just copy and paste the poses
176. 5:59to each character and just tweak it
177. 6:01slightly. That would make it a lot
178. 6:02faster. Also, for posing, if a limb's
179. 6:05not directly facing the camera, you can
180. 6:07detach it to make the pose look a little
181. 6:09bit better because the camera won't see
182. 6:11that as detached. And as long as it
183. 6:13works, it works. So, yeah. Then I want
184. 6:16this guy to be shooting. So, I just pose
185. 6:18him however I would do normally. You can
186. 6:20see in the background there's a nice
187. 6:22little light shining onto the musket,
188. 6:23which creates a nice little rim light.
189. 6:29Now, to create the actual gunshot, I
190. 6:31will just add in a point light, make it
191. 6:33very bright, and decrease the
192. 6:35temperature a little bit to create a
193. 6:36little orangish glow. Then I find a
194. 6:38gunshot overlay. It's hard to find a
195. 6:40good one. If you can, I would recommend
196. 6:42getting one that's already transparent,
197. 6:44or you can find one with a black
198. 6:45background and just edit it out. So,
199. 6:48that's what I go ahead and do. Now, the
200. 6:50texture itself doesn't need to be that
201. 6:51high quality because it'll be overblown,
202. 6:53so you won't see the texture that well.
203. 6:55So, I just position it around the
204. 6:56barrel, set the emission pretty high,
205. 6:59and make sure it faces the camera
206. 7:00somewhat so it doesn't look like a plane
207. 7:02directly. And then I just do the same
208. 7:04thing with another guy, change the
209. 7:06texture a little bit, but the same
210. 7:07principle. And just creates a nice
211. 7:09little easy gunshot effect. Then I go
212. 7:11ahead and finish the posing for the rest
213. 7:13of the people. Also, I've been thinking
214. 7:15about making a Discord for the YouTube
215. 7:17community in which you can suggest video
216. 7:20ideas and talk about things. So, let me
217. 7:21know if that sounds interesting. Then I
218. 7:23just add in some more characters to
219. 7:25break up the viewing angles, add some
220. 7:27more interest to it. I don't know a
221. 7:29whole lot about composition, but yeah.
222. 7:31Just add some more characters to fill
223. 7:32out the background a little bit more.
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230. 7:52Then I just go in and tweak the lighting
231. 7:54a bit more, add in some custom area
232. 7:56lights and such. Then I give the officer
233. 7:58a guy a sword and add some rim lights to
234. 8:01that to make it look pretty cool. That's
235. 8:03the basic scene composition down. Now
236. 8:05here I'm using a custom plugin called
237. 8:07Easy Fog 2, which adds some nice little
238. 8:10custom smoke and fog presets that I like
239. 8:13using. I typically add a dense one at
240. 8:15the feet just so it creates some nice
241. 8:17little visual interest as if it's a
242. 8:19smoky battlefield or something. Then I
243. 8:21go in and tweak the render settings.
244. 8:24These are the final ones I use in the
245. 8:26end. Make sure to set the color
246. 8:28management to filmic and medium high
247. 8:29contrast. Then just render it a bit. Oh
248. 8:32yeah, and then I add in some depth of
249. 8:35field to the camera just to blur out the
250. 8:37background a little bit more and focus
251. 8:38on that one guy that's walking. Then I
252. 8:40render it out again, tweak the settings
253. 8:42again, just repeat the process until I
254. 8:44have something that I think looks good.
255. 8:45Then I go into the compositing tab, then
256. 8:47just add in a simple glare node, tweak
257. 8:50the settings a little bit, decrease the
258. 8:51threshold. Next I add in a lens
259. 8:53distortion, just creates nice little
260. 8:55chromatic aberration to the edges. I
261. 8:57think it looks pretty nice. Just don't
262. 8:59go over the top with these effects. Then
263. 9:01I do my little final render and I think
264. 9:03it looks good enough. Then I export it
265. 9:05so I can edit it in my photo editing
266. 9:07software, which is Photopea cuz I can't
267. 9:09afford Photoshop. Okay, so first what I
268. 9:12do is duplicate this layer, set this to
269. 9:15screen, decrease the fill to like about
270. 9:18about 30, and add a little bit of
271. 9:21Gaussian blur to this. Maybe about five
272. 9:24pixels is good. Then what I do is I drag
273. 9:27on a little bit of lens dirt like this,
274. 9:29just scale it up so it fits the image.
275. 9:32Then set this layer to screen, set the
276. 9:35fill to like 75 or something, Add in a
277. 9:37raster mask, then just go over this
278. 9:40completely. [music] Set the opacity to
279. 9:42about 50% and the flow to 50%. Make the
280. 9:45hardness zero, then just go over all of
281. 9:48the light areas with a white brush. Just
282. 9:52so it creates little realistic camera
283. 9:54effect casting up little particles in
284. 9:56the filter. Okay, once you do that, just
285. 9:59add in a curves adjustment layer and for
286. 10:03this one just bring it down a little bit
287. 10:05here so it adds a little bit more
288. 10:06contrast. It's going to be a little
289. 10:08subtle. Something like that's fine. Then
290. 10:10what you want to do is select all of
291. 10:13these layers, duplicate them, then merge
292. 10:16these layers. That way we can add a
293. 10:18camera raw filter that affects all of
294. 10:20them. Then you can just disable all
295. 10:21those. You can put them in a folder if
296. 10:23you really want to. Just hide that. Now
297. 10:25we have this. Make sure you set this to
298. 10:27a smart object, then you can go in and
299. 10:30we're going to add in a camera raw. And
300. 10:33the basic principles for the camera
301. 10:35filter is just increase or decrease
302. 10:37these sliders until you get something
303. 10:39that looks pretty good. But be careful
304. 10:41that you don't completely crunch this
305. 10:43image by like setting it too high. You
306. 10:45want to have some variation. You don't
307. 10:46want the blacks to be completely
308. 10:48destroyed, the whites to be completely
309. 10:51overexposed or anything like that. So
310. 10:52just be gradual in your changes. I want
311. 10:55this texture to be a little bit cool
312. 10:57feeling so I'll just decrease this. Then
313. 11:00you can go into vibrance. I tend to set
314. 11:02this pretty high. I'm actually going to
315. 11:03decrease the saturation so that it gets
316. 11:06a nice little washed out look. Then just
317. 11:08increase the texture and the clarity a
318. 11:10little bit. And yeah, then once you're
319. 11:12done with that, you can just add a
320. 11:14sharpen effect. This just helps bring
321. 11:16out those edges a little bit more. Then
322. 11:19what I typically do next is add in a
323. 11:22film grain. Now you can just search up
324. 11:24film grain on Google and you'll probably
325. 11:25find a good one. For this, you want to
326. 11:27set it to overlay, then decrease the
327. 11:30fill a lot. Just so it's a little bit
328. 11:32more subtle.
329. 11:33This adds a nice little grungy camera
330. 11:36look that I think looks pretty nice.
331. 11:38Then add in [music] just a nice little
332. 11:40vignette. You can find one on Google
333. 11:42pretty easily. Just decrease the opacity
334. 11:45a little bit. So something like this
335. 11:46will do. Then add in a color look up
336. 11:48adjustment layer. What I typically do is
337. 11:51add in a Fusion 88. That makes the scene
338. 11:53look really nice and cool. Then just
339. 11:55decrease this fill a lot so it's not
340. 11:57overbearing [music] or anything. So you
341. 11:59about 35's good. Then for the final
342. 12:01effect, I'm just going to add in just
343. 12:03one more curves adjustment layer. For
344. 12:05this, just increase the brightness a
345. 12:07little bit. Bring this down a little
346. 12:09bit. There you go. This is the before.
347. 12:11This is the after. Again, tweak all of
348. 12:13these settings because your scene might
349. 12:15be different. So don't copy exactly what
350. 12:17I did.