Links

• the Unity manual -- this is the main Unity documentation site. You can choose older versions of the manual if you want, but we'll be pretty much in-sync with the latest version available.

  Note that you can switch to the "Scripting API" version. That's where you find the documentation for the functions we use in our scripts.
  

• Vector3 manual page -- here's a good example of using the "Scripting API". You can get to this page by switching to the "Scripting API" and selecting the "UnityEngine" from the list on the left. Then you can scroll down to the "Classes" link. Opening that will show a large number of functions/objects we can use in our scripts. The "Vector3" structure entry is where we found the "Distance" function to calculate our distance from an existing GameObject.
  
  
• Tranform manual page -- here's another example. The "Transform" structure is used a lot.
  
  
  note: If you have Visual Studio installed correctly with your Unity distribution, you can select something in your Unity script and then type CMD-' (OSX) or CTRL-' (Windows) and it should open a list of documentation pages with that reference.
  
  
• scoralyzer -- link to the page with the "scoralyzer" program and short doc. This is what we used to translate our max/map or pd RTcmix scores into a format usuable by Unity.
  
  
  blender info
  
  
• blender.org -- the main Blender web site. Download the program from here
  
  
• the first Blender Guru tutorial -- This is the crazy Australian guy, but his tutorials are excellent. This one is for the fairly recent (11/2019 -- v2.8) version of Blender. You can follow the next tutorial at the end of this one (it will be listed on the screen).
  
  
• Blender Guru combined tutorials -- You might prefer to go to this page instead of the starting point above. This lists all his tutorials, and you can follow them as you'd like.
  
  
• importing to Unity
• another importing to Unity -- I showed the very basic aspects of importing a Blender object into Unity. These tutorials cover additional aspects of importing blender files (or .fbx files). I don't know how good/bad they might be, but they seem ok.

Class Downloads

• g6610-fall2021-week4-maxmsp-patches.zip -- load the patch for the 'droney' ambient sound we did in class
  
  
• g6610-fall2021-week4-pd-patches.zip -- use the "load" message to load the 'droney' ambient score into the pd patch.
  
  
• week4-unity.zip -- the Unity project we did in class that demonstrates how to calculate distances between objects and set up a trigger. Also it has some nice droney music!
  
  
• ROCK.blend.zip -- the simple Blender project file with the bumpy rock-thing we made (it is in the "week4-unity" project).