A Beginner's Guide to SketchUp for Game Design
The best choice for beginners in game design is SketchUp. Terrain, vehicles, buildings, and more are all simple to model. Free software like Unity 3D and the ability to work with game enthusiasts make it possible for hobbyists to create video game environments that rival the best 3D games available. With so many independent game projects emerging, the demand for objects, environments, and art is going up. It is easy and fun to create game art, levels, and props on SketchUp.
Learning Features
Be a Pro in Film & Game Industry
It has already become evident that there are enormous crossovers between the two industries. A future game spin-off will use the same 3D assets as the film.
Since the film sets are digital, so gamers can walk around the same film set. Additionally, it means a lower bar to enter the film industry. You may be able to create a set for a fraction of the cost of an actual set if you are skilled at SketchUp asset creation. You won't be an independent film director unless you can afford actors and a blue screen. The process of producing a full-length film might take more than just you, but there's no reason you can't contribute in any way.
Student End Requirement
Having a passion and a commitment is what you do from the start. Invest your time in this book, and it will invest in you. You will achieve success if you faithfully follow the tutorials and apply the principles included therein. Perhaps you'll become a star at a local gaming company.
Both of these outcomes require passion and commitment. It is not difficult to apply the methods in this book. Plus, you don't need any talent to do them. This profession has a reachable entry-level, and you can make it there.
Documenting the world around you is the most important aspect of creating assets for games and film. You can do that with SketchUp. The cost of SketchUp Pro cannot increase tenfold or twentyfold, and you would not benefit. The long-run would be worse for you. You will have to start using SketchUp anyway since SketchUp users will create assets ten times faster than you can.
Uses
This tutorial is for anyone who works in an industry that uses 3D assets. It is also for you if you are an enthusiast. Both Macs and PCs can follow everything here.
That happens for free if you have SketchUp and a free file converter. Additionally, you will be using free game engines. Web designers are also catching on as well as these industries.
You will be able to create 3D worlds for games, visualization, or film after you have completed the projects this tutorial.
As real world artifacts, your assets will look like them. 3D computer space will be your medium for documenting the world. In light of the fact that it is predicted future gaming and film will integrate, you might become a master at both.
Wrapping it Up
SketchUp is an ideal product for those who are just starting in the hobby of game design, enabling them to convert digital images to 3D objects quickly and easily.
Using SketchUp and Unity 3D, you'll model all the game art, assets, textures, and props for each level in SketchUp for Game Design. You will learn how to build cars, buildings, terrain, tools, and props like barrels, fences, and pallets. To email your friends or future employers, you will set up your game level in Unity 3D to create a fully functional first-person walkthrough level.
If you believe that all that is required for your game journey is a few modifications, you're wrong. On the Internet, you will probably find some game assets to sell. When you had the chance to un-box and install a 3D game recently, you probably noticed how amazingly realistic the design was. The realism in the game is achieved through the assets it contains, along with the effects it provides.
These assets have grown as detailed as those used for film animation thanks to the power of gaming computers. This means that CG assets will no longer be different from those in a film or a game.
To learn more, watch the following video tutorial.
Video Source: KB Videography
