Links

Like last week, there are no definitively good links for the things we showed, mainly because they are all relatively basic. The trick is to fool around with the settings (skybox, photo import, etc.) to get what you want. The basic operating of the VideoPlayer we covered in week3's class.

What was truly fun, though, was to see what Lara had been working on with her 'virtual dollhouse' project. She had some really nifty demos set up using the HTC Vive system. See Lara if you want to delve into this!

Class Downloads

• classphoto1.zip -- This demo shows different ways of bringing a photo into Unity. The most basic (and the default in the project) is to simply drag the photo ("sky1") onto the game object. Unity will create a material with the photo as the Albedo texture. Watch for the appearance of the "Materials" folder under the main "Assets" folder.

  We also created two skyboxes that can be accessed by loading them into the 'skybox' from the Lighting menu. One uses the original "sky1" photo to fill out 6 sides of a cube ("photosky") and the other wraps it around as a panoramic image ("photosky1").
  
  

• trymovfade1.zip -- This was the project that had two players of a movie ("water.mp4") staggered so that one was fading up while the other was fading down, creating a seamless/continuous movie playback effect. The two scripts ("vidcontrol.cs" and "vidcontrol1.cs") control the VideoPlayers on each of the cube/windows ("movwin1" and "movwin2") that are playing the movie on their respective textures. We created the VideoPlayers just by dragging the movie onto the cube game objects.

  Note the timing offset in the two control scripts. We had to set one to start playing in the 'past' so that it would not be in sync with the other player.