IMR_5

State of the art.

Planning & Architecture.

2D & 3D

SDKs and Libraries

Next time: Technical Planning

Components
- In linii mari, ce componente vor fi, ce functionalitati
Journey Map
- Diagrama cu flowurile posibile (puteti tinti mai sus decat va permite timpul)
What Scenes & Design
- Decideti ce nivele for fi, ce ecrane, cum ajungeti de la unul la celalalt
Resources needed (3d, 2D, VFX, SFX)
- Lista specifica cu tot ce aveti nevoie pentru a crea jocul (exceptand codul)

Last year example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jW3FM3L0vyGS5QlupbG2t7BREf1ZqiraO8d8UmlpDy8/edit?

~21 days until partial evaluation

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Start distributing responsibilities;

1. Working on UI, UX
2. Gathering assets
3. Creating the most important assets

How will you present?
Must: Have a video and pics prepared.
Buut... we can also prepare a basic presentation directly into AR or VR (on my device)

State of the art

Similar Products

1.

2.

Main Features

& User Journey

3.

Moodboard

# CHAPTER 2

*Technologies, Libraries and Assets

Components and SDK

# 2D and Design

Games inspiration: Youtube Gameplays
UI Inspiration: Dribbble, Pinterest, Google Images, Behance
UI Design: Pen and Paper, Photoshop, Krita, GIMP, Figma
AI Generated: Install Stable Diffusion locally :) link here

Import in Unity

Images, 9-sliced textures, Fonts (TextMesh Pro), Color Palettes

Decision:

vs (and, or)

UI Canvas - Legacy, Easy to learn ,World-position works

UITOOLKIT (Modern, Responsive, Screen-fixed only)

# 3D assets

Games inspiration: Youtube Gameplays
Use Visual References!
Free assets: Turbosquid, Sketchfab,
Free animations: Mixamo, Plask.ai

Import in Unity

FBX, OBJ

Environment: Bash assets together, use Unity Terrain, or prototype fast in Probuilder

Build the most IMPORTANT assets:

Blender3D, ArmorPaint

# VR

OpenXR + XRToolkit or (Meta) Oculus Integration or Microsoft MRTK

in-class VR testing (I hope soon)

*Learn about Unity's new Input System

# AR

ARFoundation
- ARCORE vs ARKIT
Vuforia
Niantic Lightship ARDK
Auki Labs(?)
Azure Cloud Anchors, Google Geospatial API

# Networking

HTTP Calls using UnityWebRequest
WebSockets/Socket.io
**Store free servers on Heroku etc.
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Unity Netcode - Unity's solution
Photon Unity Network - most mature & powerful
- Photon Voice
Normcore - VR-first I think*

Learn more about networking: https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/learn/dealing-with-latency/index.html

Netcode:

Photon:

https://doc.photonengine.com/en-us/pun/v2/demos-and-tutorials/pun-basics-tutorial/intro

# Extra assets

https://github.com/silidragos/3d-programming-utils/

A lot of extra (free) assets 🎈

Others

Use Universal Render Pipeline
Shader Graph
VFX Graph
Addressable and Asset Bundles
Postprocessing
Profiling