3D Game and Graphics Programming using UNIGINE

CHAPTER 1: Install and Setup UNIGINE-2

1. UNIGINE and System Requirements
2. Installing UNIGINE SDK Browser and Licenses
3. Setup A Windows development environment
4. Summary

CHAPTER 2: Introduction of UNIGINE Engine

1. Engine Features
2. Engine Fundamentals and Build Platforms
3. Logging, Start-up Options, Configuration files, and Console
4. File Systems and Performance Analyzer
5. Summary

CHAPTER 3: Creating your first Project

1. Create Project in SDK Browser
2. UNIGINE SDK Browser Project Format
3. Introduction to UNIGINE Editor
4. Asset Workflow: GUID, Runtime files creation, and handling of assets.
5. Run via Code
6. Summary

CHAPTER 4: Virtual Worlds: Nodes, Surfaces, and Players

1. Coordinate System and 3D models and Export
2. Importing 3D Models: Geometry, Animations, Textures, Lights, and materials
3. Nodes and Surfaces: LOD’s, Nodes, Converted Engine Objects
4. Players: Virtual Camera and properties, View Bitmasking
5. Project: Sample Project with Models and Players (GitHub)
6. Programming: Rotate the node continuously, Start the animation after a pre-defined time. (GitHub)
7. Summary

CHAPTER 5: File System and Render Settings

1. Unigine File System
2. Asynchronous Data Streaming
3. Render Settings: Environment, Camera Effects, Antialiasing, Textures, color correction, DOF.
4. Project: Sample Project with render settings (GitHub)
5. Programming: Change the rendering settings at run time (GitHub)
6. Summary

CHAPTER 6: Paint the Surfaces: Textures and materials, Metalness Workflow

1. Textures: Colors and transparencies, mipmaps
2. Unigine materials and materials inheritance
3. PBR workflow and creating new material
4. Project: Material Mapping and material Inheritance (GitHub)
5. Programming: Access material parameters and change them at run time. (GitHub)
6. Summary

CHAPTER 7: Lightning and Reflections: Global Illumination, Lights, and Day of Time

1. Types of lights
2. Global Illumination
3. Types of Reflections and settings
4. Project: Different types of Lights and reflection implementation (GitHub)
5. Programming: Add Lights programmatically and program the light settings and change the time of day. (GitHub)
6. Summary

CHAPTER 8: Behaviors and Logic: Properties and Component Systems

1. Unigine Properties: Files, structure and usage
2. Component system
3. Project: Add Components to existing nodes (GitHub)
4. Programming: Program a component to jump if any other node comes into its vicinity. (GitHub)
5. Summary

CHAPTER 9: Cinematics using tracker

1. Introduction to Unigine Tracker
2. Project: Cinematic using players and other tracks. (GitHub)
3. Programming: Program a tracker using UnigineScript. (GitHub)
4. Summary

CHAPTER 10: Exteriors: Terrain, Vegetation, Grass, roads, and Fields

1. Introduction Terrain Objects in Unigine
2. Vegetation Add-on and Grass Objects.
3. Road Tool and Fields.
4. Project: Exterior scene with the terrain. (GitHub)
5. Programming: Roll the sphere on terrain.(GitHub)
6. Summary

CHAPTER 11: Decorate your world: Water, Volumes, Clouds, and Sky

1. Water
2. Volumes
3. Clouds
4. Sky
5. Project: Scene with water and clouds. (GitHub)
6. Programming: Float an object over water with waves. (GitHub)
7. Summary

CHAPTER 12: Effects: Particles and Decals

1. Particle System
2. Decals
3. Project: Decals on roads and smoke and fire particles. (GitHub)
4. Programming: Shooting decals Example. (GitHub)
5. Summary

CHAPTER 13: Making it responsive: Collisions, Intersections, Rigid Body Physics, and Physicals

1. World Collisions, and intersections. Properties and API
2. Physics: Rigid body physics, Shapes, and Joints.
3. Project: World with Physicals and Rigid Body Physics. (GitHub)
4. Programming: Physical callbacks and physics triggers. (GitHub)
5. Programming: Intersection and collision detections. (GitHub)
6. Programming: Object Picking. (GitHub)
7. Summary

CHAPTER 14: Pathfinding and obstacles

1. Navigation objects
2. Obstacles
3. Programming: Writing a simple implementation for the crowd. (GitHub)
4. Summary

CHAPTER 15: Spatial Sound

1. Sound Objects
2. Project: 3D Sound effect world (GitHub)
3. Programming: Playing sound on collisions and playing ambient sound. (GitHub)
4. Summary

CHAPTER 16: User Interfaces: Unigine Widgets Graphics

1. Programming GUI: Containers, Widgets, and Localisation
2. RC Files and Skin Layouts
3. Project: Small world with User interface and skins. (GitHub)
4. Programming: Create User interface and handle the callbacks (GitHub)
5. Summary

CHAPTER 17: Creating your build

1. Create Build
2. Summary

CHAPTER 18: Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality

1. Virtual Reality Support
2. Mixed Reality Support
3. Programming: Properties and component for Lens calibration for mixed reality (GitHub)
4. Summary

CHAPTER 19: Debugging and Optimisations

1. Debugging using micro profiler
2. Techniques for Content Optimizations
3. Programming: Microprofiler programming (GitHub)
4. Summary

CHAPTER 20: Extending Unigine Functionality using Plugins

1. Plugins
2. Programming: Writing a simple Plugin (GitHub)
3. Summary

CHAPTER 21: Procedural Shading

1. UUSL
2. Vertex, Pixel, and Compute shaders
3. Programming: Write a custom material to change the scene to black and white. (GitHub)
4. Summary

CHAPTER 22: Boids Example

1. Programming: BOIDS Program to simulate birds flock. (GitHub)
2. Summary

Acknowledgement