2 days agoWorking with Cinemachine & TimelinesLearning how to install and work with Timelines and Virtual Cameras — In this article we will gain a better understanding of what is Cinemachine and Timeline within Unity. Both systems are including when you download Unity or downloaded manually within the package manager (if you are working with Unity 2019 and below). …Unity Game Development3 min read
Jun 13A Guild to Beautiful GamesWorking with Light probes — Light probes are a function within Unity that creates a giant custom mesh within your scene that collects and store light and shadow data that are lighting up the surfaces within scene. …Unity 3 D3 min read
Jun 11A Guild to Beautiful GamesWhat is Baked Lighting and how we can use it — Lighting in Unity can be set to 3 different options “Baked, Mixed and Real-Time” and their differences can make a big affect to your gaming performance. Real Time Lighting: Real Time lighting is basically taking in all the dynamic lighting and shadows and having it auto generate in real time with an constant…Unity 3 D4 min read
Jun 3A Guild to Beautiful GameWorking with Decals and Layered Lit Settings — Some other neat tricks that also come in handy when working with HDRP is that we can work with decals and also unique settings for texture maps within planes. Working with Decals Decals are basically images or other symbols that can appear on walls or other surfaces that can add extra effects, such…Unity 3 D4 min read
May 27A Guild to Beautiful GameWorking with Planes and Height Maps — In this article we will explore some more settings within the HDRP pipeline that simply just change the way you can render objects within the scene. The first thing we are going to explore is regarding to plane objects. Working with textures that should have various height or 3D elements…Unity 3 D4 min read
May 26A Guild to Beautiful GameAdding the Final touch to our Scene, Reflection probe — In this mini article we will learn how to add an reflection probe to our scene and how it can affect our scene. Since we are using HDRP pipeline the end result will drastically be different compared to the URP pipeline. What is a Reflection Probe: A reflection probe is an component which captures the…Unity 3 D3 min read
May 25A Guild to Beautiful GameAdding a Particle System to simulate Fog in HDRP — Sometimes adding a simple effect can make a big difference to a scene especially when setting up the mood of the scene. This is especially true when adding smoke or fog into a dimly lit room such as the one we have created. In this short article we will insert…Unity 3 D3 min read
May 24A Guild to Beautiful GameWorking with Occlusion Culling — By now we would have added a lot to our scene, from lightings and special effects like bloom and glowing object, but that is a lot of objects to render during game play and it won’t be optimal for lower ended devices. This is where Occlusion Culling comes in handy…Unity 3 D3 min read
May 21A Guild to Beautiful GameCreating a beautiful scene with post processing and lighting — Now that we have a understanding on what we can accomplish with post processing and proper lighting source, we can finally create our beautiful scene. Our objective is going to create a scene that has both warm and cool tones to bring a unique contrast. Using Box Volume Processing: In the previous article we…Unity 3 D3 min read
May 19A Guild to Beautiful GamesEnhancing the Game with Post Processing — With the ability to edit our texture map and also add in emissions mapping into our scene, our overall room now looks more professional, almost. We just need to add some finishing touches, and one of those final touches is going to be adding Post Processing to our scene. Post…Unity Game Development3 min read
