This week was continuation on cubes, and creating a Minecraft-like environment in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). I had to create a beveled cube, make the UVs, and paint the textures in Adobe Photoshop. Once those were done, I had to create an environment in Unreal Engine 4.

First step was the beveled cube. It's similar to the one created last week, but has a few more edges to round off the shape nicely, and also make UVing easier.

Next, we had to make the UVs and arrange them in a way that was easy to texture in Photoshop. Below is how the UVs were arranged and color coded in Photoshop in a 48x48 px image size. All the side faces were red, and the top and bottom faces were colored blue.

Once that was made, I looked up a reference image of a scene I wanted to recreate. I stumbled across this cute piece by 冬眠的Xiang called Elf's Forest, and wanted to build a similar tree house. I went ahead and grey boxed the space with the beveled cubes in engine:

Next, I planned out the main textures I would need for this scene. I sorted them out by what the space would mostly consist of, and then extra textures for props. The main textures were wood planks, tree logs, leaves, stone/cobblestone, bookshelves, and water. I then made them into materials for the cubes.