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…

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…

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…

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.

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. …

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…

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 create a new material and name it Skybox. Then in the inspector change the shader to Skybox and select the Procedural skybox.

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. …

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…