Procedural Terrain Generation with Unity Updated for 2024!

Procedural Terrain Generation with Unity Updated for 2024!, available at $94.99, has an average rating of 4.73, with 164 lectures, 4 quizzes, based on 1047 reviews, and has 11236 subscribers.

You will learn about Use various algorithmic approaches to create procedurally generated content. Manipulated terrain meshes with code to create realistic looking landscapes. Texture terrain meshes procedurally. Discuss the design principles involved in producing aesthetically pleasing terrains. Manipulate the render settings in Unity to produce better looking camera results. Create custom Unity windows and graphical user interface elements for use inside the Editor. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in learning the algorithms used in procedural generation. or Those wanting to develop code to manipulate meshes, to produce realistic landscapes. or Anyone keen to find out how to write custom Unity inspector editors. It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in learning the algorithms used in procedural generation. or Those wanting to develop code to manipulate meshes, to produce realistic landscapes. or Anyone keen to find out how to write custom Unity inspector editors.

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Summary

Title: Procedural Terrain Generation with Unity Updated for 2024!

Price: $94.99

Average Rating: 4.73

Number of Lectures: 164

Number of Quizzes: 4

Number of Published Lectures: 163

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 168

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 165

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Use various algorithmic approaches to create procedurally generated content.
Manipulated terrain meshes with code to create realistic looking landscapes.
Texture terrain meshes procedurally.
Discuss the design principles involved in producing aesthetically pleasing terrains.
Manipulate the render settings in Unity to produce better looking camera results.
Create custom Unity windows and graphical user interface elements for use inside the Editor.

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in learning the algorithms used in procedural generation.
Those wanting to develop code to manipulate meshes, to produce realistic landscapes.
Anyone keen to find out how to write custom Unity inspector editors.

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in learning the algorithms used in procedural generation.
Those wanting to develop code to manipulate meshes, to produce realistic landscapes.
Anyone keen to find out how to write custom Unity inspector editors.

Updated for Unity in 2024

The creation of beautiful virtual terrains isn’t just the domain of the artist, but also of the programmer. What if you could use your programming skills in C# to manipulate a mesh to create realistic landscapes, using algorithms developed by researchers studying landscape formation and erosion? Well now you can.

In this course, Penny introduces procedural terrain generation techniques using her internationally acclaimed holistic teaching style and expertise from over 25 years of teaching, research and work in games and computer graphics. Throughout the course you will follow along with hands-on workshops, designed to teach you the fundamental techniques used for generating realistic virtual landscapes.

Learn how to program and work with:

Voronoi Tessellation
Midpoint Displacement
Perlin Noise
Splat Maps
Trees and Vegetation
Clouds
Weather
Erosion
Water and new to 2024
Working with Multiple Terrain Objects
Dealing with URP and HDRP

Contents and Overview
The course begins by examining the nature of a landscape and the design considerations you should include in making decisions on structure, colour and vegetation. You’ll learn what makes for a natural looking terrain, so you can replicate this in Unity.

Following on, we will examine some of the most popular algorithms used in generating terrains (including many fractal and tessellation techniques) that can be used together, to form random and yet convincing mountainous vistas.

Once you are confident with landscape formation, we’ll move onto texturing the terrain with a variety of images that can be placed via splatmaps onto differing heights and gradients. Then, continue to decorate the terrain with trees, rocks and grass placed with an algorithmic approach before investigating erosion methods, that will add that extra level of realism.

The course concludes with the development of a cloud generation system and an exploration of particle systems for adding rain, snow and other atmospheric effects to the finalised landscape.

Throughout, we’ll be developing our own custom Unity editor code that will allow you to build extra functionality and structure into the Unity Inspector, as well as create Editor Windows of your very own.

What students are saying about Penny’s courses:

Penny is an excellent instructor and she does a great job of breaking down complex concepts into smaller, easy-to-understand topics.
Penny’s teaching style is exceptionally well-motivated and illustrated.
This course is awesome. The lecturer explains everything you need to know and encourages you to experiment and challenge yourself.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: How to Study This Course

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Student Community

Lecture 3: Contacting H3D

Lecture 4: Welcome

Lecture 5: FAQs

Chapter 2: 2024: The Unity Terrain Object

Lecture 1: Getting Started: Setting up Unity for Terrain Generation

Lecture 2: Manually Adding Texture Layers

Lecture 3: Landscape Reproduction Challenge

Lecture 4: A Word about Brushes

Lecture 5: Adding Trees to a Terrain

Lecture 6: Adding Details to a Terrain

Lecture 7: Design Principles for Terrain Aesthetics

Lecture 8: Important Terrain Settings

Lecture 9: Getting Ready to Create a Custom Editor

Lecture 10: Generating Random Heights Part 1

Lecture 11: Generating Random Heights Part 2

Lecture 12: Loading Height Map Data from an Image

Lecture 13: Test Your Knowledge: Height Setting

Lecture 14: Want to Refactor?

Chapter 3: 2024: Noise

Lecture 1: Noise Theory

Lecture 2: Implementing Simple Perlin Noise

Lecture 3: Brownian Motion

Lecture 4: A Quick Note about the GUITable Code

Lecture 5: Multiple Perlin Noise

Lecture 6: Test Your Knowledge: Ridge Noise

Chapter 4: 2024: Voronoi Tessellation

Lecture 1: What is Voronoi Tessellation

Lecture 2: Creating Mountain Peaks

Lecture 3: Modifying Mountain Slopes

Lecture 4: Multiple Random Peaks

Lecture 5: Adding a Choice of Function Types

Lecture 6: Test Your Knowledge: Voronoi & Perlin

Chapter 5: 2024: Midpoint Displacement

Lecture 1: Introduction to Midpoint Displacement

Lecture 2: The Diamond Step

Lecture 3: The Square Step Method

Lecture 4: Smoothing Part 1

Lecture 5: Smoothing Part 2

Chapter 6: 2024: Texturing

Lecture 1: Splatmaps

Lecture 2: Coding for Terrain Layers

Lecture 3: Specifying Texture Heights

Lecture 4: Overlapping with Noise

Lecture 5: Blending Texture Overlaps

Lecture 6: Controlling Tile Size

Lecture 7: Adding Normal Maps to Terrain Layers

Lecture 8: Running out of Room in the Inspector Editor?

Lecture 9: Texturing on a Steep Terrain

Lecture 10: Test Your Knowledge: Texturing

Chapter 7: 2024: Vegetation

Lecture 1: Working with Tree Prototypes Part 1

Lecture 2: Working with Tree Prototypes Part 2

Lecture 3: Working with Layers

Lecture 4: Setting Tree Heights

Lecture 5: Test Your Knowledge: Vegetation

Chapter 8: 2024: Detail

Lecture 1: Adding Details

Lecture 2: Setting Heights and Slopes for Detail Positions

Lecture 3: Terrain Detail Setting Specifics

Lecture 4: Working with Detail Properties

Chapter 9: 2024: Natural Exposure

Lecture 1: Adding Water

Lecture 2: Adding Water Via the Terrain Editor

Lecture 3: Erosion

Lecture 4: Rain

Lecture 5: Thermal

Lecture 6: Tidal

Lecture 7: River

Lecture 8: Wind

Lecture 9: Wind Direction

Lecture 10: Test Your Knowledge: Canyon Challenge

Chapter 10: 2024: The Great Outdoors

Lecture 1: Fog

Lecture 2: A Word About Clouds

Lecture 3: Making Your Own Clouds Part 1

Lecture 4: Making Your Own Clouds Part 2

Lecture 5: Cloud Management

Lecture 6: Cloud Painting

Lecture 7: Cloud Shadows

Lecture 8: Cloud Challenge

Lecture 9: Producing Rain Particles Part 1

Lecture 10: Producing Rain Particles Part 2

Lecture 11: Producing Rain Particles Part 3

Chapter 11: 2024: Final Touches and Postproduction Hacks

Lecture 1: Working with Multiple Terrains

Lecture 2: Adding Perlin Heights to Multiple Terrains

Lecture 3: Fixing Perlin Height Alignment

Lecture 4: Joining the Seams

Lecture 5: Offsetting Perlin

Chapter 12: A Final Word From The Instructor

Lecture 1: Final Words

Lecture 2: Where to Now?

Chapter 13: The Unity Terrain Object

Lecture 1: READ ME

Lecture 2: Behind the Scenes of a Terrain Object

Lecture 3: Manual Terrain Creation Part 1

Lecture 4: Manual Terrain Creation Part 2

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author
Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 11 votes
2 stars: 15 votes
3 stars: 65 votes
4 stars: 284 votes
5 stars: 672 votes

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