Ryan McCoach – Medium

Aug 4

3D Level Design: The Amazing Power of Light Probes

Intro In this article we are going to talk about Light Probes; what are they, how and when to use them. This will spill into realtime, baked and mixed lighting. What Are Light Probes? Unity states that Light Probes work by “…store[ing] information about light hitting surfaces in your Scene and provide a way to…

Unity

4 min read

3D Level Design: The Amazing Power of Light Probes

Aug 3

3D Level Design: Screen Space Reflections

Intro In this article, we are going to cover Screen Space Reflections; what it is, how to use it, and when you should use it. Screen Space Reflections According Unity, “Screen Space Reflections are an easy way to depict wet, shiny, or mirrored surfaces. …

Unity

3 min read

3D Level Design: Screen Space Reflections

Aug 2

3D Level Design: Using Cookies to Create Realistic Lighting

Intro In this article, we are going to cover what a cookie is and how to add them to spot and point lights. Cookie Cookies are textures that you can apply to spot, point or directional lights. It is a light mask that allows certain parts to be opaque and others to…

Unity

3 min read

3D Level Design: Using Cookies to Create Realistic Lighting

Aug 1

3D Level Design: Control Your Lighting in Unity Using Light Layers

Intro In this article, we are going to cover using Light Layers to only cast light on certain objects which increases performance and doesn’t effect the scene’s aesthetics. Before getting started, we want to make sure Light Layers is enabled in the HDRP settings. …

Unity

3 min read

Jul 31

3D Level Design: Volumetric Fog in Unity’s HDRP

Intro In this article, we are going to cover how to add volumetric fog using lights. Global Volume One approach is adding Fog to the Global Volume. This needs to be done by using the Fog Override and selecting ALL to turn on all of the properties. The link to Unity’s documentation on…

Unity

5 min read

Jul 14

3D Level Design: Creating A Sky in Unity’s HDRP

Intro In this article, we are going to cover how to create two different types of skies in Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline. The first sky will be an HDRI sky, which uses a high definition image’s ambient light to light the scene. The second sky is a gradient sky, which…

Unity

4 min read

Jul 14

3D Level Design: Using Layered Lit to mix Texture Maps

Intro In this article, we are going to cover how to use the Layer Lit Shader to produce mixed Texture Maps on a game object. …

Unity

3 min read

3D Level Design: Using Layered Lit to mix Texture Maps

Jul 11

3D Level Design: Using Decals in Unity

Intro In this article, we are going to cover how to create and use Decals in Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline. Decals are materials that are projected onto other objects in the game scene. Create A Decal In the hierarchy, you will select Rendering and a new Decal Projector.

Unity

2 min read

Jul 10

3D Level Design: Tessellation in HDRP

Intro In this article, we are going to cover how to setup and to use Tessellation. Tessellation Tessellation is the subdividing a shape into smaller pieces. The faces of the shape will now have extra vertices that can be move around and smoothed out. Importing Textures I am using Poly Haven (link below), which…

Unity

3 min read

Jul 9

3D Level Design: Vertex & Pixel Displacement

Intro In this article, we are going to cover Vertex and Pixel Displacement which will give us the ability to make flat materials appear 3D. This requires very few polygons compared to creating these dimensions in a 3D model and are prefect for terrain planes that are straight. …

Unity

4 min read