How to make a Mesh in Unity (Dynamic, Vertices, UVs, Triangles)
Setup Unity VR Project from scratch
Unity XR 2023 - Make a VR Escape Room by Ryan Murray
Unity Create with VR Challenge 1.4: Rearrangeable Books
Build a Virtual Reality Escape Room in Unity
Looking at the XR interactables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPZyIM6XNs The Secret to Virtual Reality: Make VR Games Without the Headset
https://unity.com/how-to/learning-c-sharp-unity-beginners
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html
Installation steps
- Install Unity hub
- Install git extenstions https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/releases
- Install .NET desktop runtime
- Install choco
- https://chocolatey.org/install
- Run Powershell as an admin
- Install choco
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Install Git
choco upgrade -y git
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Install kdiff3
choco upgrade -y kdiff3
From https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/add-light-sources-to-your-scene
Note: GameObjects need to be flagged as Static to be included in the lightmap for ambient lighting. This is because lightmap data is precalculated and can only be calculated for GameObjects that don’t move at runtime.
Color resources for lighting Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box course unit on color science: A foundational primer that will take you deeper into the science of color than this learning experience.
Draw Paint Academy’s Color theory guide for artists: An artist-perspective guided tour through color theory, and a useful refresher for those with a background in visual art.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Color theory research guide: A starting point to help you begin your own research journey into the aspects of color theory that interest you most.
Bill Williams’s Stage Lighting Design on General Design Methods: Although written with a focus on theater lighting design, the basic concepts are still relevant for lighting for 3D digital spaces.
https://learn.unity.com/mission/creative-core-lighting
https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/spotlight-team-best-practices-collision-performance-optimization https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/Manual/collider-shapes-introduction.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTz3LMQpvfA Performance optimization tips: Physics in Unity | Tutorial
convex vs concave https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_uE90sarrrc the convex is like wrapping, it doesnt have holes the convex shape it has only one entry point and exit point if you draw a line through it
Grey Circles Appear Everytime I Select an Object
https://forum.unity.com/threads/grey-circles-appear-everytime-i-select-an-object.467902/
https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.2/Documentation/Manual/GizmosMenu.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.2/Documentation/Manual/compound-colliders-introduction.html
Search in Unity-Ctrl-K https://discussions.unity.com/t/cant-find-unity-quick-search-anywhere/247036
Best advice to learn Unity https://t.co/LARBpRrOFg
Fixing the normals after the bridge edge loops.
Mesh->Normals->Flip The Book is finished based on the tutorial, but the import into Unity is failed. I can't see the textures.
Looking at the next video while waiting for the answer: The Basics of Designing 3D Art with Blender and Unity(O'Reilly) - this was very useful. I created a book model eventually.
A new shortcut: Shift-A to add a new object in the object mode.
Building a book continued. Select edges and hold the Shift button, press F to fill it up Ctrl-R for a loop cut, in the Loop and cut menu set number of cuts to 5. TO make the curvy side of the book, select the very middle edge and enable proportional editing by presssing O from the keyboard
Important: change Preferences/Navigation/Orbit & Pan/Orbit Mrethod -> Trackball G = free Translate/Manipulate (X, Y and Z to lock axis) S = free Scale/Resize (X, Y and Z to lock axis) R = free Rotate (X, Y and Z to lock axis)
- Tab => Edit mode
- Shift + Click to select multiple edges
- Ctrl-B to bevel the edges
- select edges - bridge edge loops - to make faces
- select faces - Alt-E to bring the menu - extrude along normals
- select faces - Shift-H to hide evrything except selected faces, bridge edge loops`
- Select the loop - Mark seam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZaIkmRK5Gc How to create a book in Blender | Modeling tutorial in blender Select a cube, S - X,Y,Z to resize in only 1 direction Tab - to get into the edit mode Ctr-R for loop cut
Rigid Bodies • Physics • Unity Game Development for Beginners • Unity Fundamentals • (Pt. 194) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fkreqqEMw&list=PLS9G7A6kaaHPC__uNE0GtJTxhGmn5PS0-&index=195 Physic Materials - Unity Official Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuUNnwswH94
Mesh Collider • Physics • Unity Game Development for Beginners • Unity Fundamentals • (Pt. 197) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjTGuCns2lg&list=PLS9G7A6kaaHPC__uNE0GtJTxhGmn5PS0-&index=197 Mesh collider - 2 mesh colliders will not collide unless "Convex" property is checked. Only 255 triangles can be used.
Creating Complex Colliders • Physics • Unity Game Dev Beginners • Unity Fundamentals • (Pt. 198) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr09elWiRqo&list=PLS9G7A6kaaHPC__uNE0GtJTxhGmn5PS0-&index=198
the Goal - to learn how to create complex colliders in Unity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgbnDIxtEpc&list=PLS9G7A6kaaHPC__uNE0GtJTxhGmn5PS0-&index=194
Unity is using NVIDA's Psysx
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX/
- Rigidbodies - Non-deforming object that responds to forces, collisions and joints
- Colliders - invisible surface used to calculate collisions
- Physic Materials - Definition of physical properties stored in a modular asset
- Joints(they are called Dynamic constraints in Maya) - constraints behaviour along some axis
- Forces - Energy applied to dynamic objects:
- Linear
- Angular (Torque)
- Cloth (special case) Deformable object that reacts to forces & collisions
- Interactive
- Skinned
Important: Physics ---> Performance
- Scale ==> 1 Unit = 1 Meter