Unity: Next Level Game Visuals

Learn a suite simple techniques that will allow you to transform the look of your game graphics

Created by: Ian Marshall
Passionate Advocate of Technology

What Will I Learn?

• Be equipped with the knowledge and practical experience to use a range of simple, yet powerful, techniques to dramatically improve game visuals
• Understand the terminology used when rendering textures onto game objects
• Create your own height and normal maps, to simulate surface detail on a game object (rivets, scratches, seams etc.)
• Create seamless textures
• Understand tiling and offsetting of textures to achieve more realistic visuals; use simple code to randomize tiling and offset values to reduce the appearance of repeating textures
• Understand the benefits and limitations of all the techniques introduced in this course and where they can be applied
• Provide you with the suite of techniques to equip you with the confidence to take the 'next steps' in your journey of creativity

Requirements

• Working knowledge of the free, personal version, of Unity (We will be using a small amount of C# but no programming knowledge is required)
• Working knowledge of Photoshop or other similar image editing application. Free alternatives to Photoshop are presented in the course
• This is a beginners course so don't worry I'll walk you through all that you need to know

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to have fun by making your game graphics more realistic
• Those who want to express their creativity in games (but don't worry you do not need to be artistic - I'm not!)
• Anyone wanting to learn the techniques to create and modify base textures, height maps and normal maps
• Anyone wanting to increase the principles and underlying knowledge of textures, materials, height maps & normal maps; what they are and how they work
• Game designers who may want to create their own graphical content rather than rely on others or purchases from the Unity Asset Store
• Anyone wanting to create their own unique materials for fun or profit (Unity Asset Store and other market places)