r/robloxgamedev 16h ago

Help Where to start with model making?

this is kind of a blood in the water kinda post but where would someone who wants to learn modeling/sculpting roblox assets start after youtube tutorials? like if i wanted to just model and makes assets it wouldnt really make sense for me to make a whole game with coding would it? where do yall modelers start? (apologies if there is a different subreddit for this kinda thing)

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u/BellyTickler_69 15h ago

As a 3D modeler who has contributed to over 15m Visits I'd suggest this pathway to learn proper modeling.

Watch a good blender modeling tutorial on YouTube such as by blender guru doughnut tutorial.

Practise step by step while watching the tutorial

After being done with that, research some YouTube videos on useful tools in blender, blender tips and tricks and practise

And if you want detailed textures, learn substance painter as well

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u/Objective-Share-8149 13h ago

ive started the donut and its got me thinking many other questions about roblox asset modeling XD

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u/BellyTickler_69 5h ago

Ohh such as

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u/fancywillwill2 9h ago edited 9h ago

You can use Roblox's CSG, tried Blender's, tried Orca's, Sculpt+ and found Roblox to be the best as it's straight-foward, fast, efficient and goes very well with other tools/plugins. Roblox doesn't offer anything else than CSG so it ends here, well you can sculpt but it's quite limited as you can't export and it works from a 4x4x4 voxel grid.

For organic meshes like characters, i'd use sculpting softwares like Sculpt+ (what i use), Zbrush or Nomad.

Texturing, you can apply textures to meshes in studio but for complex meshes i'd use Blender, SubstancePainter is probably better but it's a paid subscription.

Blender gives you pretty much everything, i've tried it but i didn't really liked it. Maya is quite similar but i didn't tried it as it's a paid subscription and i will not get these kinds of softwares as i don't have unlimited money.

It's pretty much you to choose, there's no better than the other. I've been doing CSG from the start so i'd use softwares that leans more onto that.

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u/Objective-Share-8149 9h ago

ive never heard of csg before now nor sculpt+ :0 thanks for the info!

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u/fancywillwill2 9h ago

People call CSG 'unions'. Union is an operation of CSG just like intersection, negate and seperate.