Textures - Introduction

Texture Size, Color Space, and Compression

Texture Atlases

Texture Filtering

Mipmapping

UV Unwrap, Visual Impact, and Texture Channel Packing

Alpha Channels and Normal Map Best Practices

Editing Texture Settings

Demo: Texture Atlases

This project will highlight the different implementation considerations and optimizations that take advantage of a Texture’s flexibility. When given the correct settings and applied correctly over their many use cases, Textures play a major role in achieving your desired visual effects. 

Textures

Course Introduction

The Optimization Process

Profiling Tools

Geometry - Introduction 

Triangle and Polygon Usage

Level of Detail

Additional Geometry Best Practices

Demo: Level of Detail

Shaders and Materials - Overview

Optimizing Shaders for Mobile Platforms

Transparencies

Additional Material and Shader Best Practices

Demo: Draw Calls and SRP Batcher

Lighting - Overview

Light Modes and Types

Lighting for Static Objects

Light Probes

Shadows

Demo: Baked Lighting

Conclusion/Next Steps

Welcome to 3D Art Optimization for Mobile Applications! In this introductory project, we will review the course's main learning objectives, discuss the practice of optimization, and identify the optimization tools available at your disposal.

Introduction/Optimization and Profiling

This project will highlight optimizations for 3D models that can make a game more efficient while maintaining aesthetic intent, improving the performance and experience on mobile devices. 

Geometry

Shaders and Materials play a crucial role in determining how target hardware will process and render your 3D objects. In this project, you will explore best practices that will keep the shaders lightweight and fast when running on phones with limited resources.

Shaders and Materials

Lighting is one of the most important aspects of real-time 3D visuals. It can set the mood, guide interactions, and identify goals and objectives. In this project, you will learn about and compare the differences between the available lights and light modes that you can use in your 3D mobile application.

Lighting

ARMUnityMobileOptimization.zip

In this intermediate course, participants will learn how to produce performance-optimized 3D assets and scenes for mobile applications. Topics will cover tips on optimizing Geometry, Textures, Materials, Shaders, and Lighting. This course was created with technical artists and content creators in mind.

Arm & Unity Presents: 3D Art Optimization for Mobile Applications

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Overview

What are Textures?

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we briefly discuss the importance of textures in our 3D mobile applications and the learning objectives for this project.

Textures serve as a sort of Swiss Army knife for your 3D Assets. Not only do Textures display the major details that users will immediately see on your 3D models, but they also store more intricate features in tandem when resources such as memory are limited. 

This project will highlight the different implementation considerations and optimizations that take advantage of a Texture’s flexibility. When given the correct settings and applied correctly over their many use cases, Textures play a major role in achieving your desired visual effects.

Learn about Texture size, color space, and compression in order to customize Textures to fit your needs.

Explore optimization tools like mipmapping and Texture atlases to reduce the memory footprint of your mobile app.

Consider techniques like UV unwrapping and Texture channel packing for the finer details in your 3D models.

Textures are images that are applied to the surfaces of 3D models in order to give them detail and realism. You might have a shiny new robot that uses a highly reflective, space-grey Texture with many hard edges, while a rocky cliff will contain the bits of dirt, dust, and rocks in a matte Texture.

The following is an image of a Texture used in a 3D Scene to give a cliff its many details, such as jagged rocks and the river that flows beside it.

Textures can also provide information, such as how bumpy or reflective a surface should be. The following image is an example of the same cliff’s normal map, a special type of Texture that gives an object its finer details. 

Textures provide the details for your mobile application’s 3D models. In the next tutorial, we’ll explore settings like Texture size, color space, and compression rates that will allow you to configure your Textures to fit your application’s specific needs. 

Textures - Introduction

1. Overview

2. What are Textures?

3. Conclusion

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