Unity Tech Art: Realistic Lighting For Game Development
01 May 2020
Category: Courses
Hello!
I’ve just finished this awesome course. It’s an extensive course to teach students the basics of lighting in Unity
and allow them to understand this topic to a good extent. The teacher prepared tons of very helpful materials for this course
and also tons of resources, which removes lots of mundane tasks and let the student focus on the topic itself.
I found this approach wonderful and very helpful. Because the topic itself is quite complex and requires understanding of many
mechanics and terms. I’m happy I went through this course, because my lack of understanding whats going on with lights and just throwing some random stuff into the scene was bugging me a lot. Even during this course
I could use the newly acquired knowledge to add some lighting and effects to Project Boost
like emissive materials, spotlights and gradient global illumination of the scene to make it look more like Mars :P
Highlights of the course:
- extensive explanation of spotlight, pointlight, directional light
- area lights and emmisive materials in the Sci-Fi corridor section
- nice introduction into post-processing - something I really wanted to dive into for a long time
- reflection probes, light probes and their application - important stuff to understand for effects and performance
- ShaderGraph! Something which I’m honestly still hyperventilating about a bit, but I got great deal of better understanding of shaders and how to design them.
Great course really!
Cheers!
Petr
