[Gamedev] Garden of AI - Foliage creation with Midjourney, Blender and Unreal Engine - Tutorial 2023
21Hello everyone! π Today I decided that I'll do some #Gamedev stuff. A few days ago I've seen an "AI side hustle" video where the maker made sellable clipart images with #midjourney V5 π€ and I thought I can use some if that to make foliage for games.
In this #tutorial, I'll go through from creating the images, show you the prompts and variations, then I take them to #Blender3D make the models, and import & try them in #UnrealEngine5
Stuff to note:
- You can work more on the images, but if you can't draw, using AI is pretty fast and cheap alternative.
- If you are better at removing background, your foliage will be better too
- You can create an atlas of your own for only the parts you use, so you can have 1 texture for 6-10 different foliage. Saves effort in Unreal.
- Instead of transparency, you can use alpha cut textures by simply taking your texture and make it a black and white high contrast image- Google Alpha Clip textures to see some examples.
- Textures can be optimized and smaller if you want and I noticed while rendering that the first planet we add had had the origin point in the air. you can adjust that either in UE or in blender (same as I did with the flowers).
Leave a comment below on what you think of this, especially if you are an #artist of a #gamedev and let me know your thoughts on the foliage creation.
Links for the tools used:
Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/home/?callbackUrl=%2Fapp%2F
Photopea: https://www.photopea.com/
Blender: https://www.blender.org/
Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US
** Timestamps **
00:00:00 - 00:06:43 - Intro
00:06:43 - 00:13:29 - Midjourney
00:13:29 - 00:20:35 - Photopea
00:20:35 - 00:36:00 - 1st plant in Blender
00:36:00 - 00:42:10 - 1st plant in Unreal Engine
00:42:10 - 00:58:32 - 2 flowers in Blender
00:58:32 - 01:03:18 - 2 flowers in Unreal Engine
01:03:18 - 01:05:24 - Closing thoughts
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