Unity for Architectural Visualization: For architects the walk-around 3D computer visualization is a fantastic marketing tool. This tutorial shows you how to use Unity to achieve modeling skills through step-by-step examples. You'll find the acquired expertise invaluable.

Stefan Boeykens

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Paperback Sep 2013 144 pages 1st Edition

Stefan Boeykens

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Simple instructions to help you set up an interactive and real-time scene
Excellent tips on making your presentations attractive by creating interactive designs
Most important features of computer games covered, to develop compelling, interactive scenes for so-called ‚Äúserious games‚Äù

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Architects have always relied on drawings, renderings, and sometimes even movies to present their design concepts to clients, contractors, and other stakeholders. The accessibility of current game engines provides new and exciting possibilities to turn any design into an interactive model that anyone can experience at their own pace. "Unity for Architectural Visualization" explains how you can create compelling, real-time models from your 3D architectural project. Filled with practical tips and in-depth information, this book explains every step in the process, starting from the very basics up to custom scripts that will get you up to the next level. This book begins with a general overview of the Unity workflow for architectural models. You will start with a simple project that lets you walk around in your design using basic Unity tools and methods. You will then learn how to easily get convincing lightning effects on your scene. You will then set up a basic navigation system in your project, and not only this; you will also cover some tips and tricks to take navigation to the next level. You will quickly learn how to fine-tune the shaders and how to set up materials that are a bit more advanced. Even when you finish Unity for Architectural Visualization, this book will make scripting easier with reusable examples of scripts that can be applied in most projects. After reading this book, you will be comfortable enough to tackle new projects and develop your own.

Who is this book for?

This book is written for students and professional architects who know how to model buildings in 3D and have a need to turn their design into an interactive model, even if you have never used Unity before. Experience with visualization and programming will be helpful, but is not required to follow along. You will learn all the basics throughout with the help of step-by-step examples. The majority of the examples work fine in any recent version of the Unity software, on Windows or Mac, but occasionally features of the Pro version are required.

What you will learn

Convert CAD or BIM models into Unity-compatible formats
Use the default Character Controllers to walk around your design
Configure light sources and use Lightmapping to bake lights and shadows into your model
Add a mini-map to display an overview of the design
Tweak the model import and other settings to improve performance
Use a shader to simulate a simple and convincing glass
Write scripts to open doors, move platforms, and display model information
Allow the users to switch cameras and materials using a GUI

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Publication date : Sep 25, 2013

Length: 144 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781783559060

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Unity Technologies

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Concepts :

3D Game Development

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Unity

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Giancarlo Amati Nov 27, 2013

Finally The book I have been waiting for! As a Unity3D developer, this book is really useful and very well written. I loved the lighting section and I could create my own project in few hours! Thank you!

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Bow Dec 11, 2013

The author goes over the differences of traditional CAD software like AutoCad and 3D software like Unity 3D. In the first chapter he explains the workflow to get designs from AutoCad to Unity 3D and also explains common problems and pitfalls that architects could find when working with these programs.On the next chapters the author takes a hands on approach and the reader can begin creating a scene exported from a CAD software and imported into Unity 3D. With every chapter you can see you scene coming to life by adding lights, 3D navigation, 3D models, optimization of your scene and even you will learn a bit of scripting.The book is perfect for any architect and visualization artist who enjoys an hands on approach to learning a new tool. While the author goes over theory during the first chapter the rest of the book will have you working with your project and at the end you will enjoy your work of art. I found it an interesting read and easy to get into.

Octavio Rezende Aug 30, 2017

Very good information on using the Unity engine for Architecture.

Pico Parrot Dec 08, 2013

Many years ago I was doing mechanical drafts for automotive parts. Even back then we had to deal with how to best visualizeitems we would draft in Auto-Cad in 3d and had to somehow make these parts "pretty" by some form of digital visualization.Obviously, that was way before more modern visualization software like Unity and we had to cut corners everywhere we go,often using multiple programs transferring data back and forth till we had something that would look good enough to presentto our customers.Since I been using Unity professionally for 5 years now as a programmer for video games I came across this title and I wascurious how non game professionals can use Unity for their visualization needs and how software has evolved since my daysin mechanical drafting.I basically entered the book with a clear mind and without the purpose that this book needed to teach my something that Iwill need. Since I have a pretty good graps of Unity from my professional work, I read the whole book on my train commutewithout having a copy of Unity at my disposal to see if I could follow the authors topics very easily. Except for a few pageswhere I had to read a sentence or a small chapter more than once, I have to say that the book is very well written and easyto follow for anything the author explains about the Unity engine. Anyone that has not used the Unity engine before shouldbe able to pick it up for the purpose of this book in no time. The reader is set up with a good base knowledge to exploreUnity in all its glory further if so desired.The author spends a good amount of in the early to mid chapters of the book to get the reader to understand theories and conceptsof what it takes to get architectural assets prepared to use in Unity. Multiple ways and software are explored, explained andthoroughly brought across. Specific technical terms are discussed and elaborated on as needed. While these concepts arecertainly necessary to understand, it made me wonder a little bit if those are concepts that should already be knowledge for areader of a book with such a specific title or not. I guess as with all technical books, the author wants to reach all levelsof readers. For more advanced readers that are already familiar with these concepts these parts might not be very helpful.The chapters in which the author goes into hands on use of Unity itself are again set up very easy to follow and structured. Acommon theme throughout the whole book I would like to mention. As a professional programmer, although I might be a little biasedhere, I thought that the chapter on scripting should have been a little bit more elaborated on. My complain here comes from thetitle of the book itself. When I first read the title I was in the opinion, that this book would teach more about the actual useof Unity and scripting for a very specific purpose. Not that the book is lacking important code or has flaws in the code that isused. In my opionion the book just has a too short chapter explaining the power of writing code for this particular purpose.Overall, to me the book follows a pattern of many technical books that I have read over the years. Often their titles are a bitmisleading and not quite what I was looking for. Now I said above, that I read the book solely for the purpose of "personalentertainment", however, I did set a goal before I started reading of what I would look for if I would read this book from ateaching perspective. As I mentioned before, all of the chapters are well written, easy to understand and cover specific partsof the whole picture, so this goal was certainly met. The goals that weren't met by the book were the lack of more coding examplesas well as the long theoretical chapters on how to prepare assets. These parts were a little bit too basic for me and I ratherwould have seen them to be a little bit shorter and focus more on using Unity as the title would suggest.Therefore I rated the book as 4 stars from a perspective of a more advanced user. There isn't really much the book will help youif you already know the concepts of preparing assets for use in a visualization software and you have a basic idea of how to writesimple code. If you are a someone who is an absolut beginner in asset creation and the basics of writing code, then this bookis for you and deserves a 5-star rating. As a beginner, this book will take you literally take you by the hand and walks youthrough the necessary steps to have something to show. Where you take it from there is completely your choice, but you willcertainly have what you need to get on your journey.

Antonio Sanchez Jul 27, 2023

Es un libro que explica pero no termina de dejar claras las cosas. Echo de menos algún ejercicio completo real que se pueda ejecutar.

Unity for Architectural Visualization: For architects the walk-around 3D computer visualization is a fantastic marketing tool. This tutorial shows you how to use Unity to achieve modeling skills through step-by-step examples. You'll find the acquired expertise invaluable.

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