Unity for Architectural Visualization

Key Features

• 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

Book Description

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

Who this book is 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.