Game Dev Studies

Week 1 - Cinemachine + Timeline

• Cinemachine
  • Unity Tutorials
  • Unite Europe 2017
• Timeline
  • Brackeys - Quick Intro
  • Unity Tutorials

Debts

• Cinemachine
  • Mixing Camera
  • Blend List
  • Extensions (Confinner, Collider, Follow Zoom)
  • Noise

Week 2 - Post Processing Stack + Shader Graph

• Post Processing Stack v2
  • Repository
  • Documentation
  • Brackeys - Description of the v1's Fx
• Shader Graph
  • Repository
  • Intro at GDC
  • Brackeys - Quick Intro
  • Examples

Challenges

• Post Processing Stack
  • Gray Scale Fx
  • Edge Detection Fx
• Shader Graph
  • Change Properties through C# script
  • Write your own node

Week 3 - Physics

• Colliders
  • Wheel Collider Tutorial
• Joints
• Ragdoll
• Cloth
• Raycast
• Settings
• Performance
  • Best Practices - Unity 4.x
  • Collision Optimization
  • Brackeys - Physics Stress Test

Challenges

• Build a pendulum
• Make a flag
• Create a magnetic surface
• Gravity on a small planet
• Tilting doll
• Car controlled by impulses and gravity

Week 4 - AR (Vuforia)

• AR
  • Target Optmization
  • Ground Plane Device List

Week ? - Movement

• Input system (+ Rewired)
• Navmesh
• Player Controller

Challenges

• Slippery/Ice floor movement

To Study

Visual

• Cinemachine + Timeline
• Post Processing Stack v2
• Shader graph
• Text Mesh Pro
• Particles (with the standard shader and 2018.1 updates)
• Fog
• Toon shader, Toon FX
• Volumetric Lighting, Area Light, other types of light

Physics

• Physics (Joints, Ragdoll, ...)
• Cloth

Animation

• Root Motion
• Inverse Kinematics
• Humanoid Rig
• Moveen
• Procedural Animation

Movements

• Input system (+ Rewired)
• Navmesh
• Player Controller

Dev Tools

• Pro Builder + Pro Grids
• Editor Scripting
• Editor Graph API
• LinQ + .NET 4.5
• VIM

Performance

• Profiler
• Multithread (Job System)
• LOD
• Scriptable Render Pipeline
• Light bake + Light probes + Reflectance ball
• Entity component system + Burst compiler + UnityMathematics

Miscellaneous

• Multiplayer (+ Photon, Unet)
• Machine Learning - Unity ML Agents
• Tessalation
• Deformation Mesh
• Fluid and Cloth Simulation
• VR
• AR