The joy of unity, creating forests

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: overview of course

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Pitfall 1…. choose your path…. latest greatest or 2017 lts

Lecture 4: Spring sale 2020! half price on some amazing forest assets!

Lecture 5: Objectives of this section

Lecture 6: Grab the free assets whilst you can!!! right now! tomorrow they might be gone.

Lecture 7: special mention to laxer and his "mountain creek" waterfall! grab this !

Lecture 8: demo of laxer "mountain creek" free asset

Lecture 9: Splines! grab spline mesh versus RAM water.

Lecture 10: Demonstration of using splines to make a river and save it as a mesh

Lecture 11: A look at public commons images of forests.

Lecture 12: A quick note about Art history and composition.

Lecture 13: Viking village! Blacksmith! Book of the dead! demos!

Lecture 14: What do I / you think of flowscape to prototype and sketch ideas?

Lecture 15: Nature renderer asset. A bit pricey. Look out for sales.

Lecture 16: Rainbow folders! Rainbow Hierarchy.

Lecture 17: Unity learn, 3D Game Kit Lite, 3D Beginner: Complete Project

Chapter 2: setting up unity 2020 lts, simple timer and escape key

Lecture 1: setting up unity 2020 lts

Lecture 2: setting up unity 2020 lts in more detail

Lecture 3: setting up atom to work with unity instead of microsoft student developer

Lecture 4: creating a new project simpletimer1

Lecture 5: simpletimer1 script with escape functionality

Lecture 6: how to use and import resources / packages in unity

Lecture 7: September 2021 grabbing book of the dead assets from asset store

Lecture 8: Some insights into book of the dead and purple shaders of doom

Chapter 3: Works in progress. WIP

Lecture 1: i7100kbushes test

Lecture 2: 10 thousand to 100 thousand bushes with physics and hinges! on i5

Chapter 4: Getting started with unity

Lecture 1: using long term releases of 2017 or 2018

Lecture 2: May 2020 workflow 2 summary

Lecture 3: workflow 2 looking at envirospawn, quick overview

Lecture 4: May 2020 new workflow! invector lite and envirospawn

Lecture 5: critical update march 2020

Lecture 6: critical update march 2020 pt2 grass

Lecture 7: critical update march 2020 pt3 water!

Lecture 8: getting started with unity basics part 1 feb 2020

Lecture 9: Critical update for 2019 unity, standard assets. finding first person.

Lecture 10: Accessibility settings. Increasing text sizes in unity editor

Lecture 11: windows key and plus minus to zoom in and out

Lecture 12: getting started with unity basics 1 2018 outdated

Lecture 13: fixing the problem of import packages. IMPORTANT

Lecture 14: getting started with unity basics 2

Lecture 15: Using terrain toolkit for fast free procedural terrains and textures.

Lecture 16: 2019 introducing terrain tools from unity 😀

Lecture 17: 2019 Using unity terrain tools with terrain toolkit 2017

Lecture 18: 2019 setting up the basic diorama 1000 by 1000 size

Lecture 19: Quickstart adding and using viking resources

Lecture 20: adding a new skybox to the scene

Lecture 21: toms terrain tools … adding a path with an image.

Lecture 22: using terrain tools, and laxer mountain creek to add waterfalls.

Lecture 23: adding invector third person controller and pavels free footstep system

Lecture 24: invector, envirospawn and 3d game kit to make bushes / rocks with collisions!

Lecture 25: invector, envirospawn and 3d game kit to make bushes with extra wiggle!

Lecture 26: Shader Forge, adding a vegetation shader material, bush6a

Lecture 27: fixing envirospawn bubble effect! 😀

Chapter 5: Creating forest floor textures

Lecture 1: adding some forest floor textures

Lecture 2: Texturing unity terrains lesson 1

Lecture 3: darker grass

Lecture 4: Substance designer and why you should probably get it on steam

Lecture 5: Substance Designer 2021 some thoughts

Chapter 6: Fractals and rivers

Lecture 1: River systems, fractals

Lecture 2: Fractal rivers into unity!

Lecture 3: adding freesound to the water

Chapter 7: Creating Trees by hand

Lecture 1: making a tree with unity tree maker

Chapter 8: Skyboxes

Lecture 1: creating skyboxes

Lecture 2: pink skybox 1

Chapter 9: Creating butterflies!

Lecture 1: grabbing the butterfly asset!

Lecture 2: grabbing sprite sheet creator!

Lecture 3: butterfly particle systems

Lecture 4: creating a buttefly sprite sheet part 1 (advanced)

Lecture 5: creating a buttefly sprite sheet part 2 (advanced)

Lecture 6: creating an orange butterfly

Lecture 7: creating an orange butterfly movie to put into stills

Lecture 8: creating an orange butterfly contact sheet

Lecture 9: higher quality orange butterflies

Lecture 10: many coloured butterflies

Lecture 11: many coloured butterflies part 2

Lecture 12: dust particles and turning fireflies in butteflies

Lecture 13: slomo fluttery buttefly

Chapter 10: The book of the dead

Lecture 1: importing book of the dead. IMPORTANT!

Lecture 2: adding a negative y offset to tree prefabs to avoid floating tress

Lecture 3: importing book of the dead. IMPORTANT! part 2 fixing shaders, creating prefabs

Lecture 4: creating prefabs from book of the dead trees, bushes, rocks

Lecture 5: new project book of the dead exporting art

Lecture 6: fixing lods (level of detail) on the trees

Lecture 7: adding more prefabs from book of the dead

Lecture 8: adding placeable trees

Lecture 9: adding colliders to your trees

Lecture 10: Rocks, choosing the most compatible for procedural use.

Chapter 11: Chasing waterfalls. how to make waterfalls.

Lecture 1: waterfalls 2020, particle effects