Creating Grass and Shrubbery in Unity

Unity 3D: Texturing Overlay Detail Textures(Version 1 of 2)
detail/diffuse texture



Unity 3D: Texturing Overlay Detail Textures(Version 1 of 2)
semi-transparent plane

Creating a Flashlight for your character in Unity

Environment Prop Texturing: Step 2

Review: Importing Objects into Unity from Maya
This tutorial covers how to properly import assets into Unity from Maya, as well as how to create a Unity Prefab to scale imported files from Maya and create a sized ready asset

3D Texture Specularity: what is it & how to make a good spec map

This Tutorial covers how to create a specular map from your layered photoshop color file and import that spec into Unity on your texture file.

3D Texture Normal Map: What is a normal map and how to make a normal map

This tutorial covers what a normal map is and how to create one in Photoshop using Normal Mappr on a Mac. It also explains how to plug in a normal map in Unity 3D.

PC Normal Mapping Program (Nividia):
http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

MAC Normal Mapping Program (Normal Mappr):
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=200724&start=40

Environment Prop Texturing

Creating a tiling old wood texture in Photoshop

This tutorial covers how to create an old wood texture for a 3D environment prop, a student desk.

Using Tiling textures on environment props

This tutorial demonstrates how to leverage tiling textures to create a crowd of assets unique by simply modifying the UVs

Low Poly Modeling Tips

Series of videos covering some tips for low poly modeling.

Cylinder tips and soft edges


Improving curves on hard surface objects


Crashing Geometery & Deleting hidden faces

Envrionment Blocking

This video covers the first stage to blocking an environment. Tips: use a grid for your foundation and floor plan, make sure the units are 1x1 (one foot on the floor plan equals one unit in Maya); separate the walls from the floor to optimize polygons.

Intro to Unity 3D & tiling textures

Intro to Unity 3D


Creating a tiling texture from a photograph

part 1 of 4 (make the texture tile)



part 2 of 4 (bump map 01)


part 3 of 4 (bump map 02)


part 4 of 4 (spec map)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OxDUyJVQGM&feature=BFa&list=PL82A8260C8CA915C2&lf=plpp_video

Envrionment Modeling

Spring Schedule Due Dates

Jan. 11 - Floor Plan & Prop List

Jan 23 – Blocked out floor plan with basic tiling textures

Feb 01 – 1 big prop each

Feb 13 – 1 medium prop each

Feb 20 – 2 small repeating props each

Feb 29 – 1 big prop each

SPRING BREAK

March 19 – 1 medium prop

March 26 – 1 small prop

April 02 – check placement of props, add detailing

April 04 – finalize lighting

April 11 – learn particles & add where necessary

April 26 – 2 weeks to clean up and finalize all assets & package file for grade.

Floor plan layout