AVC 200 - Week 4 - Spring 2026

Week Overview

Monday covers this lecture covers fundamental Blender workflows for creating modular 3D assets, including proper export procedures, UV unwrapping, and material application. Students learn to create reusable components like walls, pillars, doors, and rocks for Unity game environments. Wednesday focuses on this lecture covered student project presentations showcasing Unity interactive scenes, followed by introduction to first-person controllers, trigger zones, script-based animation, and modular asset creation for 3D environments.

Blender Modular Design UV Unwrapping 3D Modeling Unity Export Materials First Person Unity Controllers Trigger Zones Interactive Systems Modular Assets 3D Environments

Monday

February 09, 2026

Blender Basics and Modular Design

This lecture covers fundamental Blender workflows for creating modular 3D assets, including proper export procedures, UV unwrapping, and material application. Students learn to create reusable components like walls, pillars, doors, and rocks for Unity game environments.

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Course Overview

0:00 Introduction and Assignment Review

1:03 Class Philosophy and Incremental Learning

6:01 Keep It Simple Approach

9:06 Previous Student Work Examples

Technical Foundations

16:07 Image Formats and File Types

22:48 Print vs Screen Resolution

30:44 Image Sizing for Unity

40:10 Blender Workflow Overview

Blender Workflow

43:20 Modular Design Principles

47:17 3D Modeling Fundamentals

49:34 Creating First Wall Asset

56:21 Understanding Normals

1:00:12 UV Unwrapping Basics

1:16:29 Exporting to Unity

Asset Creation

1:18:32 Applying Materials and Textures

1:35:03 Creating Pillar Asset

1:44:02 Boolean Operations for Doors

1:56:47 Student Modular Assets

2:06:00 Sculpting Rock Assets

Final Integration

2:17:08 Final Assembly and Wrap-up

Key Concepts

PNG format required for Unity assets with alpha channels
Screen resolution is 72 DPI vs 300 DPI for print
Modular design uses reusable components like Lego blocks
3D models require anchor point, normals, and UV unwrapping
Smart UV Project works best for simple, square-like objects
Materials have channels that accept texture maps
Boolean operations subtract one shape from another
Prefabs enable reusable modular assets in Unity

Wednesday

February 11, 2026

First Person Controllers & Interactive Environments

This lecture covered student project presentations showcasing Unity interactive scenes, followed by introduction to first-person controllers, trigger zones, script-based animation, and modular asset creation for 3D environments.

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Student Presentations

14 projects

0:00 Class Opening and Setup

3:30 Student Project Presentations Begin

First Person Setup

42:00 First Person Controller Introduction

1:03:47 New Project Setup

1:05:00 Player Controller Components

1:09:04 Tags and Layers System

Interactive Systems

1:18:00 Event Game Toolkit Scripts

1:21:00 Trigger Zones and Colliders

1:28:00 Animation with Scripts

1:45:00 Interactive Door System

Asset Creation

2:06:00 Modular Asset Creation

2:16:00 Assignment Overview

Key Concepts

First person controllers use WASD movement and mouse look with character controller components
Trigger zones detect player presence without physics collision using the 'Is Trigger' checkbox
Tags identify object types while layers group objects for organizational purposes
Script-based animation works well for simple looping environmental animations
Interactive systems combine mouse input scripts with trigger zones for complex behaviors
Modular assets need proper anchor points, normals, UV unwrapping, and appropriate scale factors
Events connect different systems together allowing doors, lights, and sounds to respond to player actions