Unity Game Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself®

Hour 5. Environments

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to add trees and grass to your terrain

• How to add environment effects to your terrain

• How to navigate your world with a character controller

In the previous hour you learned to sculpt and texture terrain for your game. In this hour you will be adding environment effects that will really give character to your world. You will start by learning how to add vegetation like trees and grass to your terrain. From there you will learn to apply environment effects like water, sky, fog, and lens flares. You will finish by adding a character controller to your scene and moving around inside your world.

Generating Trees and Grass

A world with only flat textures would be very boring. Almost ...