Next we had fun building some terrains with the terrain editor and terrain tools package. God-like power! Cool looking scenes!

Finally I showed how the High Definition Render Pipeline can be set up, but only on fast Windows machines now. Our poor Macs can't handle the load. The new ones possibly can. There's a lot I don't know about the HRDF system, so perhaps there is a way to get it to fly. I'll be investigating it more -- the scenes it can produce really are impressive.

Links

• terrain tutorial -- video from Unity. From 2019, but still valid with the current terrain system
  
  
• extensive terrain editor tutorial -- Unity certified, over an hour. Covers lot.
  
  
• the new terrain tools package -- text (with a short vid) from Unity; pretty good walk-through of how to set up the terrain tools package
  
  
• 2020 terrain tutorial -- video, good on the setup, then a little dense, then good on tree placement system at the end
  
  
• another video -- starts with the 'basic' terrain editor and adds the tools later (kind of an interesting alternative approach). Good with grass.
  
  
• working with the terrain toolbox -- Unity manual tutorial (text)
  
  
• Unity Creating Environments -- Unity manual overall heading (terrain is a subheading) link
  
  
  High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
  
  
• setting up and using the HDRP -- this from the package manager. It may be a way of setting it up without all the added 'demo' stuff.
  
  
• volumetric lighting tutorial -- but a fair amount about the HDRP in general, including starting it from te Unity Hub
  
  
• more on volumetrics -- particularly good on the fog, if I recall
  
  
• yet another lighting HDRP project -- each of these has a bit more HDRP information
  
  
• HDRP vs, URP -- a discussion of the two different render pipelines in Unity
  
  
• Upgrading to HRDP -- how to upgrade a project done in 'regular' Unity to HDRP

Class Downloads

• week7-terrain-unity.zip -- the terrain project we did in class