Unity Urban Environment Template (Unity, C#) – WIP Post

Urban template is one of the starting scene + tutorial created within Unity to help environment artist to get up and running with Unity. The ultimate goal was to help artist get to create in Unity within minutes.

• Collaborated on defining requirements and success criteria for the template
• Created and collaborated on various shaders related with environment art.
  • Edge decal automation
  • Vegetation shaders, with and without vertex painting.
    • From trees to grass and everything in between
  • Various vertex painting shaders.
    • From a generic / multi functional as well as more specific shaders (such as wall, pavement etc)
  • Fake window interior / parallax shaders
• Worked with various stakeholders and upstream our findings when creating the template to the relevant team
  • Transferring vertex colour painting from LOD 0 to all lower LODs in Polybrush
• Created In Editor Tutorial on various features that are relevant for environment artist
• Collaborated with Unity profiling team, as well as lighting team
• Guided internal artist and outsourcing in the project.

Tooling

• Batch tool to implement lightmap setting based on size/bounding box to speed up baking
  • Code is very similar to GI disabler below
• GI Disabler – https://gist.github.com/aobond2/3951e4dceab70bbcbf7d01f59a38f220