Challenge: Rocket Blast Off

• Download the Zip file, and open the project.
• Open the “Main” scene.
• Create a new Timeline and call it RocketTakeoffTimeline.
• Add the WaterParticles GameObject to an Activation Track in the Timeline. Ensure the beginning of the Timeline begins with the water particles activating.
• Add the PreLiftoffParticles and LiftOffParticles to two more Activation Tracks in the Timeline.
• Animate the Saturn V rocket GameObject so it takes off after the particles activate.
• Add the EarthEnvironment GameObject to an Activation Track, so the surrounding mountains are active during the Rocket’s takeoff.

Note: be sure to set its Post-playback state to “Inactive.”

Rocket blasting off into space

• Make a new Timeline and call it “Master Timeline.”
• Add a Virtual Camera looking at each part of the rocket you would like to highlight.
• Add the Cinemachine Track to the Timeline.
• Add the Cinemachine Brain to the Cinemachine Track.
• Add a Cinemachine Camera Dolly and Track, so the camera moves from the top of the Rocket and spirals to the bottom. Ensure the camera is looking at the rocket engines the entire time.
• Add each Virtual Camera to the Cinemachine Track, and overlap them so the Camera’s position interpolates between each of them.
• Add the Virtual Camera associated with the Dolly Track to an Animation Track in the Timeline, and animate its position value so the camera moves across the track.
• Add the RocketTakeOffTimeline to a Control Track. Ensure RocketTakeOffTimeline plays on awake.

Rocket blasting off - now with cinematic camera angles!

• Create a Canvas and expand the Image so it covers the Camera’s field of view.
• Change the Image’s color to black.
• Add the Image to MasterTimeline, in an Animation Track.
• Adjust the Image’s Alpha values, so it fades to black and then fades out to transparent again.
• Convert the Animation Track to a Clip Track, so we can easily add it between the Virtual Cameras. Call the Clip Track “FadeOutFadeIn.”
• Duplicate the Clip Track and re-position each duplicate so they sit between the Virtual Cameras. Each Virtual Camera should now fade to black at each transition. Feel free to use your best judgement on these.
• Create two more Animation Tracks with the Image, and create both a FadeToBlack Clip Track and a FadeFromBlack Clip Track. We will place these Clip Tracks at the beginning and end of our Master Timeline.

Adding fades to camera angles

• Add a new GameObject, and call it "Environment Manager".
• Add the EnvironmentManager component to the Environment Manager.
• Add the MilkyWay skybox material to the Skybox Swap parameter.

Adding the MilkyWay skybox material to the EventManager