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638 free, watchable video lessons and 42 original tutorial sets from the 3D Palace archive and current work. Historical videos keep their original dates so you know which tools and interfaces you are seeing.
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345 lessonsVehicles & hard surfaceLong project courses and individual techniques for mechs, robots, cars, boats, spacecraft, props and mechanical models.
Browse subtopics →104 lessonsUnreal EnginePractical Unreal Engine lessons across UE5, UE4 and UDK: building worlds, materials, gameplay systems, PCG and performance.
Browse subtopics →85 lessonsEnvironmentsBuild places: architecture, interiors, modular levels, terrain and world building for games and visualisation.
Browse subtopics →45 lessons3D fundamentalsStart with the tools, then follow practical projects and asset workflows into more ambitious work.
Browse subtopics →22 lessonsMiniature paintingA preserved Warhammer 40K Ork painting course: preparation, colours, shading and finishing by 350kilotonnes.
Browse subtopics →21 lessonsMaterials & renderingLearn to unwrap, texture, shade and render, with historical lessons in 3ds Max, Quixel, V-Ray, Arnold and more.
Browse subtopics →9 lessonsAnimation & effectsAnimation, particle effects and visual effects lessons from the 3D Palace archive.
Browse subtopics →7 lessonsCharacters & creaturesCharacter modelling lessons from historical 3D Palace project courses, including the Minion build.
Browse subtopics → Long projects, small steps.
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Unreal Engine 5 · new lesson
In this tutorial draft, Cris Robson looks at the end section of a level on a large island and talks through a World Partition challenge in Unreal Engine. He explains why distant parts of the scene may not load visually from far away, and why swapping those areas to proxy meshes can make the level easier to manage. The video focuses on the idea of using lower-detail proxy objects that swap in at distance, rather than relying on the full visible geometry all the time.
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42 setsSome old courses have no public YouTube version. Find the original collection and ask Cris to check it for you.
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