The seminar will explore the possibilities of real-time 3D with the free game engine Unity in conjunction with 3D animation/texturing software (Cinema4D/Blender, Substance Painter) for interactive applications.

Game Asset and Level Creation (Modular Low Polycount Modeling, Composite Texture Maps, Modular Animations), User Interaction, Character Controller.

Terrain Building, Terrain Texturing, Trees, Plants, Environmental Effects

C#: User Interaction, Triggering Animations, Scripting Projectiles, Scripting Impacts, Collisions, Game Object Destruction, Timer, Object Spawning, Object Tracking, Move Towards Interactions

Game Physics, Rigid Bodies, Collider Components

Audio Sources, Reverb Zones, Audio Mixing

Direct/Indirect Lighting Concepts

Character Creation, Character Rigging C4D: Character Editing, mixamo.com: Automatic Rigging, MoCap Database; Character Import, Retargeting Animations; 3rd Person Characters, Non Player Characters,

Animation Editor, Cinemachine Camera Rigging and Animation , Animation Blending, Timeline, AI Path Finding, Timed Behaviors, Finite State Machine, Asset Collection

Environments, Particle Effects, Environment Effects, Post Processing

User Interface

Game Optimization, Build Compiling

 

Software: Unity 6.3, LTS Release 6003.0.xxxx

The specific content of the seminar will be determined during the 1st course.

Regular attendance, submission of an artistic work with Unity 3D.

Please note: Continuation of the seminar from winter semester 2025/26. Participation only with appropriate prior knowledge of Unity.

Please bring your own laptop with pre-installed and updated software (Unity 6.3, LTS Release 6000.3.xxxx).