Unity Urban Environment Template

Urban template is one of the starting scene + tutorial created within Unity to help environment artist to get up and running with Unity. The ultimate goal was to help artist get to create in Unity within minutes.

  • Collaborated on defining requirements and success criteria for the template
  • Created and collaborated on various shaders related with environment art.
    • Edge decal automation
    • Vegetation shaders, with and without vertex painting.
      • From trees to grass and everything in between
    • Various vertex painting shaders.
      • From a generic / multi functional as well as more specific shaders (such as wall, pavement etc)
    • Fake window interior / parallax shaders
  • Worked with various stakeholders and upstream our findings when creating the template to the relevant team
    • Transferring vertex colour painting from LOD 0 to all lower LODs in Polybrush
  • Created In Editor Tutorial on various features that are relevant for environment artist
  • Collaborated with Unity profiling team, as well as lighting team
  • Guided internal artist and outsourcing in the project.

Tooling

Randomised fake interior/parallax shader using cubemap
Different vertex painting shader for wall, pavement, puddles, grimes. Also seen here automatically generated edge decal on the pillar.
Vertex animated shader for foliage, cables and other debris