Reacquainting with Unity :)

For our first lesson Annabeth wanted us to get reacquainted with unity so she gave us a few tasks to perform like adding camera effects and making the camera move up and down over a character. We used an in unity game character for this called the constructor and we had to play around with it watching annabeth's instructions and doing the same. Here's some screenshots i took of my work from the lesson, it find it helps a lot for me to take screenshots as i can revert back to this later if i forget how to do something with a camera in unity.  

inserting camera and guy

run cycle

how to add a light and shadow changing it

 remember to put light in correct direction

 adding a halo, you can also change intensity etc...

 i decided to add my own little twist and make a story out of the run cycle, like he's running away from a boulder. I also added another light

 as you can see from the second light added the lighting is much better now

 camera effects are here - a good one to use is grayscale

 here's grayscale, if you add noise and glow to you can create a kind of crackle effect like an old tv screen 

 here's what it looked like at the start

i added in another story element for the fun of it, if you look close you can see another constructor flattened by the boulder :)

 make a wall for the camera, select a camera to render texture on. drag from hiarcy to selected wall.

 yay! done - select target texture. select camera

 after positioning everything well

 done! looks much better now

 mouse orbit select object you want to orbit around

 here the camera task annabeth wanted us to do - move the camera from his feet to his head, it was annoying and i struggled at first but i'm sure after doing it a few times it will be pretty easy

 how to bring up the animation graph, or you can use shortcut cmd + 6

 remember -click little blank space - create new clip

don't forget to add curves on the correct position 

using the graph was the hardest part for me as i've only used maya's one once and i haven't learnt after effects yet so graphs are always a hard one for me. I need to work on this this year if i want to create more of a flow in my animations etc

*refer to my book for step by step if i forget how to do this*

how to change the grid layout (it's in the top right hand corner)

select camera and do this to bring it into camera properly

remember to remove all conflicting components or else it won't work

done! here's a screenshot from the bottom of the feet, i'll upload a short clip of the shot later.