Unity: Interactivity for AEC

1h 36mIntermediate2018-05-17

Authors

George Maestri

Animation Director and Producer

Course details

Interactivity is key to seeing how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) designs will perform in the real world. Unity provides a powerful toolset for adding interactivity and making AEC visualizations more dynamic. Join George Maestri in this course to learn how to use Unity scripting, animation, and UI tools to enhance the interactivity of your designs. Review the basics of scripting, including working with variables and functions. Learn to apply scripts directly to objects in your scene and trigger them with a single keystroke. Next, discover how to animate interactions, such as opening doors and drawers, and adjust how animations are triggered with colliders and proximity detection. Finally, George shows how to create a simple user interface for your scene, adding buttons, menus, and sliders that allow the viewer to control object visibility, lighting levels, and more.

Learning objectives
Scripting for interactivity
Creating variables
Creating animated interactivity
Scripting proximity interactions
Creating simple user interfaces

Skills covered

Architectural DesignReal-TimeGame DevelopmentUnityVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingLearningSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - How to use the exercise files
03 - Unity standard assets

1. Basic Scripting for Interactivity

04 - Scripting tools in Unity
05 - Apply scripts to objects
06 - Create variables in scripts
07 - Use Start() for initialization
08 - Add interactivity with Update()

2. Animated Interactivity

09 - Animation for interactivity
10 - Create animation triggers
11 - Add colliders
12 - Open doors and drawers with a script

3. Interaction Using Proximity

13 - Set up a first-person controller
14 - Set up automatic doors
15 - Create animation triggers
16 - Add colliders
17 - Script proximity interactions

4. Create Interfaces

18 - Build a simple UI
19 - Script push buttons
20 - Connect sliders
21 - Set up a dropdown menu

Conclusion

22 - Next steps