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UNITY TUTORIAL - Look At script: pointing an object towards another; part 2: Slerp

Free PDF - Feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!This is the second of two video tutorials on creating a "Look At" script in Unity 2022 to make an object point towards another one.Specifically, in the first part we analyzed the problem and implemented a solution that involved an instant rotation of the object; in this tutorial, however, we will create a slower and more gradua...

UNITY TUTORIAL - Look At script: pointing an object towards another; part 1: Rotate

Free PDF - Feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!This is the first of two tutorials dedicated to orienting an object towards another in Unity; specifically, we will see how to make the 3D model of a surveillance camera automatically orient itself towards the Player, following their movements within the scene.This tutorial was created using Unity 2022 and is divided into two parts.In ...

UNITY TUTORIAL - Scripting basics: introduction to Time.deltaTime (for smooth gameplay across devices)

Free PDF - Feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!In this tutorial, we will see what Time.deltaTime is in Unity and how to use it.This beginner-friendly tutorial is perfect for those who are new to scripting in C# within Unity, as the topic is fundamental and deserves to be well understood, since you will encounter it in many scripts and tutorials.The tutorial was created using Unity ...

UNITY TUTORIAL - Basics: Rigid Body and Physics Materials to make objects fall and bounce

Free PDF - Feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!This is a basic tutorial on how to use Rigid Bodies and Physics Materials to make objects fall and bounce in our Unity projects.Unity provides a physics simulation engine, but in order to access these features, it is necessary to use a couple of components (such as Rigid Body and Colliders) and other elements.This is because physical s...

UNITY TUTORIAL - Strange effects in transparent materials at the edges of the frame

Free PDF - feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!If you are using Unity's High Definition Rendering Pipeline and notice strange effects when certain transparent materials are at the edges of the frame, access the currently active Volume object and add a Screen Space Refraction override.2024---fm---UNITY---HDRP-Screen-Space-Reflection-errors.zip

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Seams impossible: recovering the UV seams from islands in Blender

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Hello everyone!In this short tutorial, we will see how to retrieve UV seams in a 3D model that does not display edges marked as Seams in Blender.This is a basic tutorial, made with version 3.3 of Blender, but the tool shown here has been available for several versions of the software and is likely to be available in the future as wel...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - UV Map Disappears after Joining Two or More Objects? Here's Why

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Sometimes, I've encountered situations where merging two or more objects using the Join function in Object Mode results in the disappearance of the UV map from one or more of the original objects, despite the UV map being clearly visible for each object before the Join, even in the case of multiple object selections...BLENDER---U...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Select Boundary Loop and Individual Origins

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Blender's Select Boundary Loop operator allows us to isolate the boundary edges of the currently selected geometry.This will select not only the outer edges, but also all the edges of the holes in the selected portion.Let us look at a couple of examples of its use in combination with the Individual Origins transformation mode...B...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Checking the Orientation of Normals in the 3D Viewport with Face Orientation

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!To correctly check the orientation of the Normals, activate the Face Orientation option in the Viewport Overlay menu of the 3D Viewport.If a face is oriented towards the camera, then it will appear in blue...BLENDER---Checking-Normals-orientations.zip

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Recreating Camera Perspective from a Photo in Blender with fSpy

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!fSpy main page: https://fspy.io/Hi!What you see on the screen is a photo from about 30 years ago in which my younger brother, my mother, and my paternal grandfather are portrayed, at the school I attended when I was a child.What you are currently looking at is that same location recreated in Blender, textured in Substance Painter, an...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - How to save Glare (Bloom) semitransparencies and other effects in files with transparency (PNG, EXR, ...)

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!When adding a semitransparent effect in the Compositing in Blender, such as the Glare effect from the Filter group, the glares in transparent areas of the image are not saved when exporting the file as a PNG with transparency.In the description of this video, you will find the link to the 3D model used for this example. I rendered th...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Glowing edges (nodes compositing tutorial)

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Hello everyone!In this tutorial, we will explore how to emphasize the edges of an object and add a Glare type glow through post-production of our renderings in Blender.This tutorial was created using Blender version 3.6, but the Compositing nodes used have been available since at least version 2.49, and it's likely they will rema...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - How to Make Rigid Bodies Interact with Cloth Objects

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!This short video was created using Blender version 3.6 and shows what to do, at least in this software version, to ensure that a Rigid Body object interacts correctly with a Cloth-type object, rather than passing through it.I'll tell you right away which parameter to modify, and then you can decide whether to continue watching th...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - How to Create a Ghost Silhouette Effect in Blender

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Hello everyone!In this brief tutorial, we'll see how to make the faces of an object transparent based on their orientation relative to the camera, achieving the effect visible in the rendering I'm showing on the screen right now. This is therefore an effect that highlights only the silhouette of an object, allowing its shape ...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Compositing - Sun Beams, part 1: basics

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Hello everyone!This is the first of two tutorials, created using Blender 3.6, in which we will examine the Sun Beams node to simulate the dispersion of light in the air in Compositing, that is: after rendering, without resorting to Volume shaders or other elements in the scene.This effect can be called in various ways: Crepuscular Ra...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Flickering Lights in Blender with the Noise Modifier tutorial

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Hello everyone!In this short tutorial, we will see how to provide a random value for the intensity of a light source in Blender. Specifically, we will discuss using the Noise modifier on animation curves.This modifier can be used with all animation curves present in Blender, so its use is not limited to light sources, but it can invo...

BLENDER TUTORIAL - Basics - How to set and rotate an HDR image as World Background

Free PDF --- feel free to share it!Text version of a videotutorial published on my Youtube channel.Subscribe to my channel & turn on notifications to get updates on new videos!The PDF is free; feel free to share it!Hello everyone!In this tutorial, we'll explore how to use an image, particularly in the HDR or EXR format, as the backdrop for Blender's virtual universe, enabling us to light our scene with a more intriguing illumination than a simple uniform color or Blender's Sky Texture.Furthermore, we'll discuss three different m...