Self Study 5

This weeks self study included creating lighting effects through post processing along with learning shader graphs to create effects.

Throughout this prosess i followed 3 of Brackey's Tutorials, these were good recourses exept for the fact that they were extremely outdated for use with unity 6 meaning i had to work a lot of things out myself through unity documentation and trial and error. This was in no means a bad thing as I feel I have learned a lot more this way, however, it did lead to taking many excrusiating hours more than what it should have to complete :(. 

The first tutorial i completed was a baked lighting one, this was the one that took me the longest as i found that so many of the settings in unity have changed names since Brackey's tutorial. I also ran into some problems when I tried to create any new materials, I realised that i needed to import the Universal Render Pipeline and convert all models to compattable materials for this. 

below is my finished monkey in a box:

I'm really happy with how this looks as it turned a very bland scene into one full of depth and colour.

The next tutorial was the Basics of Shadergraph - Unity Tutorial

This one was way easier to implement in my mind as it was far more up to date (even though it is an older video). This tutorial focussed on how to make a pulating effect on an object.

below is my finished shader graph tutorial:

Next I was tasked with implementing a more detailed shader graph from brackeys tutorials, I chose to do a forcefield as it suits the asthetic of my scene the most. 

For reference this is the camera view prior to adding lighing and the forcefield effect:

This is with the lighting and forcefield effect:

I personally think it gives the scene so much more character, I also removed the skybox to increase the ambience. I unfortunately had to reduce the lightmap size drastically so that the light bake time didn't take hours.

links to all three tutorials: