14 hours ago

High Definition Rendering Pipeline in Unity

Objective: Upgrade the project to the High Definition Rendering Pipeline. I am upgrading my SciFi Control Room to the HDRP pipeline. The first thing to do is create a new project and select the High Definition Pipeline, then name the project; select location and click Create.

Game Development

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High Definition Rendering Pipeline in Unity

6 days ago

Reflection Probes in Unity

Objective: Add Reflective probes to our Scene in Unity From the Unity Documentation, a Reflective Probe is like a camera that captures a spherical view of its surroundings in all directions. The captured image is then stored as a Cubemap that can be used by objects with reflective materials. To…

Game Development

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Aug 1

Why Occlusion Culling Improves Performance

Objective: Turn on Occlusion Culling in our project to improve performance Occlusion culling is a process that prevents Unity from performing rendering calculations for GameObjects that are entirely hidden from view by other GameObjects. When objects are out of the Camera's view Unity does not waste the resources needed to…

Game Design

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Why Occlusion Culling Improves Performance

Jul 29

Adding Post Processing Profiles in Unity

Objective: Using Post Processing Profiles in the Universal Rendering Pipeline(URP) Post Processing comes with the Universal Render Pipeline, so there is no need to downland and import any separate packages. URP uses a volume framework for its post-processing effects First, we will need to set up the global volume. In…

Unity Game Development

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Adding Post Processing Profiles in Unity

Jul 19

Adding Emissions to Custom Textures

Objective: Add an Emissions Chanel to our Custom Textures in our scene First I will drag the texture into Gimp Now I will add a layer for the emissions.

Game Development

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Jul 18

How to Alter Your Pre-Built Texture Maps

Objective: Adjust the pre-built assets to give our scene a different look First, I will need to find the texture element I want to change and locate it in file explorer. Now that I have the texture file located I can import it into a photo editing tool. …

Game Development

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How to Alter Your Pre-Built Texture Maps

Jul 5

Different Lights in Unity

Objective: Add lighting to our Scene to bring it to life. In my scene, I will be adding a point light and a spotlight. This will help guide the player through the scene and highlight the areas they should focus on. Point Light: A Point Light is set at a…

Game Development

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Jul 3

How To Add a Custom Skybox

Objective: Add a Custom Skybox to our scene. Our project is upgraded to the Universal Render Pipeline, next I will create new lighting settings. I will set the light mapper to Progressive GPU and select Auto-generate. The Auto-generate will allow me to see the changes in real-time. Next, I will…

Game Development

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How To Add a Custom Skybox

Objective: Add a Custom Skybox to our scene.

Our project is upgraded to the Universal Render Pipeline, next I will create new lighting settings. I will set the light mapper to Progressive GPU and select Auto-generate. The Auto-generate will allow me to see the changes in real-time.

Next, I will…

Jun 13

2D Galaxy Space Shooter

Objective: ReCap the development process of a 2D Space Shooter Game Creating this 2D Galaxy Space Shooter Game has been a great adventure, as this was my first project in my journey to becoming a software developer using Unity and C#. Below is my prototype just using cubes. This allowed…

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Mar 9

How to Install the Universal Render Pipeline

Objective: Upgrade project to use the Universal Render Pipeline. Our current project “Sci-fi Control Room” has been using the standard built-in pipeline render which is ok for general use but if you are looking for better graphics and better performance the Univeral Render Pipeline is what you want to upgrade…

Game Development

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How to Install the Universal Render Pipeline

High Definition Rendering Pipeline in Unity

Reflection Probes in Unity

Why Occlusion Culling Improves Performance

Adding Post Processing Profiles in Unity

Adding Emissions to Custom Textures

How to Alter Your Pre-Built Texture Maps

Different Lights in Unity

How To Add a Custom Skybox

How To Add a Custom Skybox

2D Galaxy Space Shooter

How to Install the Universal Render Pipeline

Bill Rislov