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Published inSep 2013
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ISBN-139781783559060
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Stefan Boeykens
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Stefan Boeykens

Stefan Boeykens is a Belgian architect-engineer. Starting out as a professional architect in several offices, he returned to KU Leuven in 2000, at the Department of Architecture, for teaching and research, completing his PhD on Building Information Modelling in 2007. Stefan is an experienced researcher with a variety of IT skills. Aside from teaching BIM, he is mainly working as senior Innovation and BIM manager for the Belgian D-Studio, focusing on BIM middleware and consultancy. He is a frequent speaker at BIM-related events and is actively involved in BIM standardization groups, including CEN/TC 442 (Europe) and Belgian Technical Committees. He is father of three boys and enjoys musical composition, reading, cycling and life-long-learning.
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Scripting is a necessary evil when you need to go beyond the included assets installed with Unity. It might be beneficial to look around the Asset Store to add other tools and scripts to your arsenal, but a decent understanding of scripts is a valuable competence to gain in the long run.

Always strive for short, simple, understandable, and reusable scripts. If you need two unrelated behaviors, they might be better off being split into two scripts. To make scripts reusable for different contexts, give them a rather generic name. RotateObject is more versatile than RotateDoor. If variables need to be adjusted, provide them as public variables, so they become parameters of the scripts. Reusable scripts never need to be edited during usage, but mainly tweaked by their parameters.

Add easing and tweening to improve smoothness and to obtain a visual, modern animation style. If you are pressed in time, you might cut some corners here, but they do provide an overall professional feel to your...

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Published in: Sep 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783559060

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Stefan Boeykens

Stefan Boeykens is a Belgian architect-engineer. Starting out as a professional architect in several offices, he returned to KU Leuven in 2000, at the Department of Architecture, for teaching and research, completing his PhD on Building Information Modelling in 2007. Stefan is an experienced researcher with a variety of IT skills. Aside from teaching BIM, he is mainly working as senior Innovation and BIM manager for the Belgian D-Studio, focusing on BIM middleware and consultancy. He is a frequent speaker at BIM-related events and is actively involved in BIM standardization groups, including CEN/TC 442 (Europe) and Belgian Technical Committees. He is father of three boys and enjoys musical composition, reading, cycling and life-long-learning.
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