Interactive Visualisation with Unity 3D by Loranger, Brian https://padlet.com/bloranger1/d0lf6unp6o2yrqsi A page to see the week-to-week schedule for this class. en-us 2021-09-20 11:03:01 UTC 2025-09-24 08:55:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4bb.png Lecture bloranger1 https://padlet.com/bloranger1/d0lf6unp6o2yrqsi/wish/1753598611
  • Project Organization
  • Design Phases
  • Concentric Development
  • Introduction to your Formative assignment (this will be due at the end of week 7)
  • Protecting your work with Unity's Collaborate Feature
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  • Present your initial idea for your Formative assignment
  • Bring some examples that resonate with you and are related to your formative assignment idea (if you can find any)
  • We'll start designing a small interactive lab scene for use over the following weeks
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  • Start on your Formative Project by developing a storyboard, mood board, and art direction
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  • Mature Coding Practices - The Basics of Using Game Managers and sharing data between scenes
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  • Presentation of your Formative assignment (During Lab)
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  • None! You all need a break :-)
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  • Further lectures will be based on student requests for specific topics not covered previously, but related to your final project

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  • Week 10 lab will be dedicated to helping finalize your project. 

  • Project Presentations will be Monday Dec 9th


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  • You'll be busy working on your Final Assignment by this point.
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  • Final week of classes will end Dec 9 (with other events till the end of term)

  • Your finally project will be handed in Friday (Dec 13).

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  • An Introduction to Unity Scripting in C# - Part 1
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  • Homework Review & Presentations
  • Based on scripting lecture notes and examples, build/improve upon our small interactive lab scene and include some scripting
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  • Finish or improve the interactive scene you started during the Lab Session
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  • Review the video lecture and prep for Friday's lab
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  • Visit the Main Canvas Page for the course, get to know the layout (and maybe make some bookmarks for yourself!)
  • Review the Class Orientation Video to get you up to speed on some basics
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  • Go through the short video on the main Canvas website to install Unity 3D
  • Go through the short video on the main Canvas page to install Visual Studio Code
  • Make sure to familiarize yourself with the start of the Unity Essentials tutorials on the main Unity website  (Unity Essentials). You can also start reviewing the scripting tutorials (Junior Programmer Pathway).
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    • This is a few things you should do to get ready for our first class on Thursday in Week 1!
    • Don't forget to use a personal email (not your university email) when setting up your Unity account.
    • Also be sure to register early for a Unity Student Account so you can get access to the additional features they offer
    • A copy of the slides used in the videos can be found using the link on the top of this page
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  • Introduction  to Interactive Visualisations

  • Serious Games Examples

  • Introduction to Unity 3D

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  • Find examples serious game to present (see the purple comments below!)

  • Getting Familiar with the Unity

  • Review Unity Basics & additional Online Resources

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  • Complete a beginner Unity Website tutorial (roll-a-ball or similar) to get the basics of Unity down. 
  • Modify or Improve it if you feel up to the challenge!
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  • Please note that there is no help session this week as Monday is orientation day
  • Make sure you watch the video lecture for the week, and prep for the lecture & lab
  • Also find some interactive visualisation examples to bring to the lab class on Friday
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  • An Introduction to Unity Scripting in C# - Part 2
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  • Homework Review & Presentations
  • Scripting Discussion, Questions & Answers Session
  • Start going through the online beginner's scripting tutorials from the Unity Website
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  • Review as many of the beginner's scripting tutorials from the Unity Website as you can - these are some of the best 'Introduction to Unity Scripting' videos you can find!
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  • A look at User Interface Design in Unity
  • An introduction to the concept of Events & Delegates
  • Good vs. Bad UI Design
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  • Start laying out a basic User Interface for yourself (for use in your Formative assignment if you've got your storyboard and art direction ready)
  • Discussion, troubleshooting, and demonstrations for your project work.
  • Keep working on your Formative assignment
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  • With your initial concept and UI flow for your Formative assignment hopefully finished, you'll want to start prototyping your project to make sure the code functions properly.
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  • Basic Animations
  • Animation Controllers
  • Animation Events
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  • Hand-In of your Formative Assignment (Friday Nov 1st)

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  • (During the week) Finishing your project, you should be bringing everything together and solidifying the final version of your Formative assignment.
  • Add any animations you need to get things working for your Formative assignment
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  • Introduction to your final project (this is due Dec 9th)
  • Using GitHub to share and secure your Unity projects

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  • We will be looking at organizing your project and making sure all the pieces are in place for your final hand-in.
  • Organizing groups for your peer group work

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  • Work on your final project (due Dec 13th)

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  • No Lectures this week

  • Hand-in & review of Formative Assingment

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  • There will be a one week break during this period of time

  • Our teaching location will move to the new studio

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