Tuesday, March 26th

Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Week 28 – also a B day (Alex)

NTHS Thursday night! Make sure you are ready:
Miah, Logan, Josh, Brodey

Clothing?
Stole (Who is putting it on you?
Arrival time – get here early. Ceremony Starts at 6pm – be here by 5:30pm

NTHS Practice scheduled for Thursday – 10:15-11:15am. This does impact Skills, so participants do speak to your partners.

SkillUSA Prompts will come out tomorrow at the 11am hour.

10:10 Rigging (our way) and Rigify

Link to Rigify Docs

The purpose of Rigify is to speed up the rigging of your models. For animation purposes in Blender, this is a really handy way of customizing and using rigs that fit your characters.

At this point, you now know how to rig with Inverse Kinematics and can use Bendy Bones in your rigs!

Let’s take the Tpose model from yesterday and add our IK controls. This process will serve as a good review and you can see how to add to Rigify. The last step will be to import into Unity, just to see if there are any problems and to serve as additional practice from yesterday’s importing exercise.

Remember, IK controls will not have Deform and will not have a parent. Label your bones!

then….. Let’s transition to Unity for some terrain fun.

Leveraging Unity’s Asset Store and Terrain Creation

If you want to build a landscape and environment in Unity, it is pretty easy to do. Without doing anything in the editor, Unity has some terrain tools available. However, there is a better set of tools available in the Unity Registry. Let’s look at the Unity Registry – which is basically a host of add on applications that ships with Unity but need to be enabled. Any thoughts on why Unity does not enable these with a new project?

Why build Terrain?

Rapid prototyping
Terrain objects are Unity game objects so you can add colliders, lighting, etc…
Creates more dynamic levels
Simulate terrain effects like bridges, terraces, wind and thermal erosion, heightmaps, holes

Unity has a terrain tool installed already, however we have to activate it and add some dependent packages. Let me demonstrate.

Besides what is in the Unity Registry, Unity’s Asset store is full of content that can be used for game development, game prototyping, architectural renderings and animations and visual effects.

Let’s look at how the terrain system in Unity works and build out a scene together. There are a lot of great assets you may like to explore and import.

Remember, you don’t have to include an entire asset library. During the import process you can pick and choose. Here are some that you might find enjoyable….

Fantasy Landscapes
Aquas Lite
Handpainted Grass and Ground Textures
Grass Flower Pack by ALP8310
Conifers BOTD or the other new one that comes up when you search Conifers
Coconut Palm Tree Pack
Outdoor Ground Textures
Nature Starter Kit 2
Rocky Hills Environment Light
Sun Temple by Sandro T
Flooded Grounds by Sandro T
Modular First Person Controller by JECASE – so you can run around (disable main camera)

Our Goals today are:

Activate the terrain tools
Add on the Terrain Sample Asset Pack
Create a custom terrain
Raise and lower terrain height
Paint terrain textures
Add foliage and details

10:50 Break

11:00 English with Mx. Yopp

11:50 Fantasy Landscape in Unity

After English your goal will be to create a beautiful environment in Unity. The second thing is to enable a character so you can run around that environment.

Around 12:20pm, set up a really nice angle for us to look at that showcases your work.

We’ll do a quick gallery walk before lunch.