Aug 2021

My First Course

In Fall 2021 I taught a class at Woodbury University in Burbank on some Advanced Programming techniques in Unity. This was in the Architecture School, aimed at non-computer Science majors who had already taken two semesters of Unity / gameplay programming. This was the first class I taught like this, and I learned a lot… I made all the curriculum from scratch, and I’m pretty proud of it so with their permission I’ve made it freely available here.

These techniques are a lot of fun, and I’ve supplied all the finished code projects for anyone to play around with.

Slides (on google slides)

The slides don’t have a lot of text because I would mostly explain in lectures what was going on. The images illustrate some specific concepts.

• Color Theory

• 2D Textures

• Material Techniques

• Materials II

• Digital Image / Signal Processing

• GPU Architecture

• Compute Shaders

• Rendering Optimisation

• Simulation Techniques

• Fluid Simulation

• Particle Systems

• Multiagent Systems

• Raymarching

• Raymarching II

• Raytacing

Assignments (on github)

• 01 Basic Video Effect Shaders

• 02 / 03 Materials / Advanced Materials

• 04 Compute Shader Cellular Automata

• 05 Raymarching Procedural Architecture

• 06 Compute Shader Particle System

• 07 Fluid Simulation

• 08 Raytracer