The joy of unity, creating forests

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Gather the deep knowledge of the basic and advanced concepts and methodologies involved with game environment design to create forest scenes.

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Introduction

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Introduction
Pitfall 1.... choose your path.... latest greatest or 2017 lts
Spring sale 2020! half price on some amazing forest assets!
Objectives of this section
Grab the free assets whilst you can!!! right now! tomorrow they might be gone.
special mention to laxer and his "mountain creek" waterfall! grab this !
demo of laxer "mountain creek" free asset
Splines! grab spline mesh versus RAM water.
Demonstration of using splines to make a river and save it as a mesh
A look at public commons images of forests.
A quick note about Art history and composition.
Viking village! Blacksmith! Book of the dead! demos!
What do I / you think of flowscape to prototype and sketch ideas?
Nature renderer asset. A bit pricey. Look out for sales.
Rainbow folders! Rainbow Hierarchy.
Unity learn, 3D Game Kit Lite, 3D Beginner: Complete Project

setting up unity 2020 lts, simple timer and escape key

setting up unity 2020 lts
setting up unity 2020 lts in more detail
setting up atom to work with unity instead of microsoft student developer
creating a new project simpletimer1
simpletimer1 script with escape functionality
how to use and import resources / packages in unity
September 2021 grabbing book of the dead assets from asset store
Some insights into book of the dead and purple shaders of doom

Works in progress. WIP

i7100kbushes test
10 thousand to 100 thousand bushes with physics and hinges! on i5

Getting started with unity

using long term releases of 2017 or 2018
May 2020 workflow 2 summary
workflow 2 looking at envirospawn, quick overview
May 2020 new workflow! invector lite and envirospawn
critical update march 2020
critical update march 2020 pt2 grass
critical update march 2020 pt3 water!
getting started with unity basics part 1 feb 2020
Critical update for 2019 unity, standard assets. finding first person.
Accessibility settings. Increasing text sizes in unity editor
windows key and plus minus to zoom in and out
getting started with unity basics 1 2018 outdated
fixing the problem of import packages. IMPORTANT
getting started with unity basics 2
Using terrain toolkit for fast free procedural terrains and textures.
2019 introducing terrain tools from unity :D
2019 Using unity terrain tools with terrain toolkit 2017
2019 setting up the basic diorama 1000 by 1000 size
Quickstart adding and using viking resources
adding a new skybox to the scene
toms terrain tools ... adding a path with an image.
using terrain tools, and laxer mountain creek to add waterfalls.
adding invector third person controller and pavels free footstep system
invector, envirospawn and 3d game kit to make bushes / rocks with collisions!
invector, envirospawn and 3d game kit to make bushes with extra wiggle!
Shader Forge, adding a vegetation shader material, bush6a
fixing envirospawn bubble effect! :D

Creating forest floor textures

adding some forest floor textures
Texturing unity terrains lesson 1
darker grass
Substance designer and why you should probably get it on steam
Substance Designer 2021 some thoughts

Fractals and rivers

River systems, fractals
Fractal rivers into unity!
adding freesound to the water

Creating Trees by hand

making a tree with unity tree maker

Skyboxes

creating skyboxes
pink skybox 1

Creating butterflies!

grabbing the butterfly asset!
grabbing sprite sheet creator!
butterfly particle systems
creating a buttefly sprite sheet part 1 (advanced)
creating a buttefly sprite sheet part 2 (advanced)
creating an orange butterfly
creating an orange butterfly movie to put into stills
creating an orange butterfly contact sheet
higher quality orange butterflies
many coloured butterflies
many coloured butterflies part 2
dust particles and turning fireflies in butteflies
slomo fluttery buttefly

The book of the dead

importing book of the dead. IMPORTANT!
adding a negative y offset to tree prefabs to avoid floating tress
importing book of the dead. IMPORTANT! part 2 fixing shaders, creating prefabs
creating prefabs from book of the dead trees, bushes, rocks
new project book of the dead exporting art
fixing lods (level of detail) on the trees
adding more prefabs from book of the dead
adding placeable trees
adding colliders to your trees
Rocks, choosing the most compatible for procedural use.

Chasing waterfalls. how to make waterfalls.

waterfalls 2020, particle effects
waterfalls 2020, integrating laxer creek with waterfall asset.
creating waterfalls in 2019... water fx depreacated.
particles pack from unity
Chasing waterfalls. Save the terrain with a different name!

Entering the world of VR! with oculus quest 2

getting started fast with oculus quest 2

Refrence waterfalls deprecated after 2018 skip if needed,

fixing waterfall mk7 with better terrain
integrating waterfallmk8a pt1
integrating waterfallmk8a pt2
fixing waterfalls 1, autodestruct ticked

Aura and volumetric fog

Installing "aura" volumetric fog

Building mountains

2019 october streamlined setup for mountains
free terrain toolkit!
Importing real life satellite image data for realistic looking mountains
building mountains pt1
eroding mountains pt 2
using real world terrain data in unity
real world ish ben nevis ish terrain
Aircraft simulation controller in 5 minutes to explore the map

Details part 1

making your first bush! unity tree creator
making a palm bush mk1
introduction to materials, the asset shop, budgets
water occlusion fix, fps counter. escape to exit functionality
improving fps counter with toggle f
Fixing white lines in trees. Anti-aliasing. Post processing stack 1
lens flares part 1
sunshafts, god rays,
Gaia quick demo

Using existing assets. Viking village, Blacksmith environment, Book of the dead

importing viking and fixing viking for 2018
Viking mud and rocks.
Loading up blacksmith, the horror.
setting up a testbed starting scene
adding terrain toolkit 2017 to blacksmith project
backing away from sectr for now. New waterfallmk8a, benchmark test1
tiling two 65k terrains together. set height zero on borders.
adding 1024 by 1024 terrain to the scene.
testing progress and new prefabs
adding more bushes

Details part 2 ground cover and general fixes to trees

Introducing AURA volumetric fog!
Ground cover details and gpu instancer.
shrinking the world with sectr
shrinking the world to 100 by 100
Adding water to mini world 100 by 100
adding lens flare and sunshafts to new scene
fog and clouds using particles part 1
fog and clouds using particles part 2
fixing distant black bushes popping
Optimising bushes aggressive lod acceleration

Adding sounds

adding wind to this scene
wind sound pt1
Wind zones and sound pt2
adding forest footsteps and sorting dark forest lighting
Birdsong and robins
adding music to the scene part 1
adding birdsong track to scene

Hookshot Grapple Gun and invector

a hook shot grapple gun for unity
how to import hook shot mk5 into project
how to switch off invector to travel by hookshot

Atmospheric Scattering

alternative to 4 gig blacksmith, blacksmith atmospheric scattering 550 mb
atmospheric scattering part 1

Using 3d Game kit lite to add gameplay!

setting up 3d game kit lite and fixing errors
adding moving platforms

Bringing it all together

preparing a new project importing procedure
bringing it all together example test 4
Basic UI building 1
Basic UI building 2 adding a Main Options scene
easy loading screen

Optimisation !!!

Occlusion baking

Flying! Helicopters and Dragons

basic helicopter simulator in 20 minutes

Graphical User Interface Design. GUI. UI. Template.

workflow 2 GUI design part 1
workflow 2 GUI design part 2
workflow 2 GUI design part 3

Getting started with blender

Setting up blender to be more like unity

Showcase

Lets see what you can do. Make a forest with free assets only!

Refrence. fixing problems, paid assets and outdated stuff

quick look at sectr vis
adding sectr core to split up huge maps pt 2
slicing up terrain with SECTR update 2020 no longer free
creating prefabs from book of the dead
reference video for making bushes
fixing pink shaders of doom pt 1
Fixing shiny bark trees!
fixing waterfalls 2, waterbigbottom fix, importing waterfall into new project

Special offers as they turn up

april 2020
Landscape auto material first impressions

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