Unity

1 .Graphics Basics and Unity 

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4 . Unity • Cross-platform game creation system  devel oped by Unity Technologies, – A game engine  – An integrated development environment (IDE). • Used for developing video games  – web sites, desktop platforms, consoles, and mo bile devices. • Unity Pro is available for a fee • Unity Free has no fee 

5 . Platforms • BlackBerry • Windows Phone •  Windows • OS X, Linux (mainly Ubuntu) • Android,  • iOS, Unity Web Player (including Facebook),  • Adobe Flash •  PlayStation 3, Wii, etc. 

6 . Unity Tutorials • Beginner – Roll-a-ball – Space shooter – Survival shooter • Intermediate – stealth • http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/module s 

7 . Unity Tutorials by Topics • 2D • Animation • Audio • Graphics • Navigation • Physics • Scripting • UI (User Interface) • http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules 

8 .Animation 

9 . Graphics • Meshes • Textures • Materials • Cameras • Lights • Skyboxes • Water effects 

10 . Lighting The simulation of light in computer graphics. 

11 . Texture • Texture mapping is a method for adding d etail, surface texture (a bitmap or raster im age), or color to a computer-generated gra phic or 3D model. 

12 . Texture • Normal map (or "Dot3 bump mapping“) is a techn ique used for faking the lighting of bumps and de nts 

13 . Normal Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping 

14 .Texture 

15 .Cameras 

16 . Lights • Spot light, point light, directional light • blooming 

17 . Skyboxes • A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a computer and video games level look bigger than it rea lly is. When a skybox is used, the level is enclosed in a c uboid. 

18 . Skybox and Skydome A skydome employs the same concept but uses either a sphere or a hemisphere instead of a cube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybox_%28video_games%29 

19 .How are the objects processed in the graphics pipeline? 

20 . Stages of the graphics pipeline • 3D geometric primitives • Modeling and transformation • Camera transformation • Lighting • Projection transformation • Clipping • Scan conversion or rasterization • Texturing, fragment shading