Lighting In Unity | The Art of Lighting for Games (Udemy.com)
Learn how lighting works in the Unity game engine and make AAA quality scenes
Created by: Team Augmeticc
Last updated May 2019
What you will learn
- Gain Experience in lighting 3D objects and gorgeous environments in Unity for a variety of platforms including PCs, mobile devices, and XR
- Gain complete knowledge about Unity's lighting system by prototyping 3D environments
- Gain Experience to be used in game development or other real-time 3D application development such as simulation and design visualization
- Make your scenes look more visually appealing with clever lighting strategies
- Master the Unity's lighting pipeline
- Build artifact and error free lighting
- Learn advanced lighting concepts such as Global Illumination, Light baking, Reflections, Light Probes and much more
- Learn how to make your games look more interesting and cinematic using lighting
- Learn every Minute Detail about Lighting by working on various challenges
- Learn Advanced Tech art in unity and create realistic lighting for your games.
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Unity on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 13% of them
- Reviews68#154 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length2.6 hoursshorter than 88% of them
- Last updatedMay 2019earlier than 76% of them
Course Description
*NEW* Added Much Awaited Challenges and Solutions that will help students build upon their skills that may help them find employment in roles with titles such as Unity Gameplay Programmer, Unity Artist, 3D Artist, 3D Generalist, Level Designer, and Environmental Artist -- Extended Content
Making AAA quality visuals is not as hard as you think. you don't need to be great at 3D math, programming or art.
It all starts with knowing the basics of the game engine you are using. In Unity to make games look high quality, it is necessary to understand how it's subsystems like Lighting work.
In this course, we will cover Unity's entire Lighting Pipeline that will help you create more cinematic and immersive games. This course doesn't require you to have any programming or 3D art experience. All you need to know is the basics of the Unity editor.
We will kick start by covering the basics of lighting, with a complete dark church scene and as we move further we will add the different type of lights to our scene and continue to learn more advanced lighting concepts such as
ADVANCED LIGHT PROPERTIES like cookies, halos, culling, light flares.
SHADOWS - cover advanced shadow settings such as shadow cascades, shadow distance and much more.
DIRECT AND INDIRECT LIGHTING
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION AND LIGHT MAPPING - will discuss the concept, cover both baked and real-time GI.
QUALITY SETTINGS
REFLECTIONS by understanding reflection probes
LIGHT PROBES
And much more!
We will be using a beautiful church scene and as we move through the course you are expected to follow along with us so that you will get a practical knowledge of the Unity's lighting setup. we encourage and expect you to practice all the techniques side by side as we move on. Remember to get good at something it is important to practice it, and If you feel stuck feel free to re-watch the videos or ask a question in the forum section. Our team will try it's best to answer all your questions.
This course is perfect for developers working on games that require deep knowledge about Unity's Lighting System. Anyone using the Unity engine will benefit since we comprehensively cover how to correctly use many of its more advanced lighting sub-systems.
This course is designed in a short, concise and direct manner. So that you can gain most out of this course without wasting much of your time.
Why Learn Game Development with Unity?
The gaming industry is a $100 billion industry worldwide. By 2020, that number is expected to near $120 billion. With Unity 5 being the most widely used engine to develop games across multiple platforms, there has never been a better time to get into the field. As you will learn, the types of games you can create with Unity and C# are limitless. Game development makes a great hobby, allowing you to learn a new skill and play your game with family and friends. It is also an exciting and rewarding career, where plenty of successful developers, have learned the fundamentals of game development through courses like this, and not in the traditional classroom setting. Every great game starts somewhere, so why not make it yours? While people often find coding or making games intimidating, this Unity course utilizes a unique teaching method which will allow you to gain a thorough understanding of concepts while you develop your own games. Thanks to the Unity community, you’ll be able to connect with other developers, work together on new projects, and make some incredible games!
If you have a few gaps in your experience, don’t worry. That’s what this course is for! You’ll have the opportunity to gain practice and learn best practices from an expert Unity instructor.
Join us on this adventure today! We’ll see you inside the course.
Note :- This course comes with 30 day money back guarantee and lifetime access + support from us.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
68 Reviews
Team Augmeticc
Augmeticc is a technology school that offers beginner to advanced courses in game design, 3d art development, mobile development, game development, and much more developed by a team of experts. Its courses are aimed at beginners looking to learn coding skills for a career in the tech industry.
Augmeticc aims to bring affordable and premium quality technology education to people everywhere to help them achieve their dreams and change the world.
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Reviews
By William Carattini on 11/29/2022
This is a good course to help introduce or supplement your knowledge of Unity's lighting system. I learned some new settings and implementation methods that were previously unknown to me. It's a bit disappointing that post-processing was not covered here, despite it being mentioned and even included in the course materials. However, even though I would consider post-processing a significant part of finalizing the look of a scene, it was not my primary goal here. Overall, I recommend it.
By Merry on 11/7/2022
Straight forward and easy to follow, i learned a lot because it was just straight to the point. I would recommend this to anyone who is starting out learning lighting for unity. Thank you!
By Hyperlab on 10/12/2022
No post process lecture for apartment project.
By Magdalena on 6/26/2022
Good explanations! Great course for beginners!
By Aki DAI on 2/18/2021
A good briefing course for all entrance Unity users especially programmers who wish to know more about the basic lighting tools in its build-in render pipeline. Wishing there is more information about how to do the basic lighting setup of a simple scene with the HDRP as the bonus chapter, or develop another course for intermediate users on this topic. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge on Unity lighting.
By Cloud Ninja on 5/3/2019
There were some technical issues that need to be resolved with the newer version of Unity (2019).
By Paul on 2/17/2019
Too basic for me, this information can also be found in the Unity manuals. Those manual pages are referenced to in this course btw. But good for a ery beginner intro to lightings in Unity.
By Joe clinton on 1/7/2019
Amazing course. Wish I could find more like these.
By Irfan Malik on 12/30/2018
Covered almost everything in lighting part of unity... Waiting for materials of unity course...
By Dave Jones on 12/6/2018
Course so far is absolutely amazing. Perfect for people who want to know about Unity's lighting and rendering toolset. Highly recommend it.
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