Unity for Architectural Visualization

Discover an easy-to-follow, step-by-step workflow for building architectural visualizations for interior environments like offices, hotels, and homes with Unity.

Introduction

• Using Unity for architectural visualizations
• How to use the exercise files

1. Asset Import and Configuration

• Project creation and setup
• Asset importing
• Asset configuration
• Building prefabs and reusable blocks
• Render pipeline settings
• Watermarking and camera setup

2. Scene Design

• Building an interior scene from prefabs
• Add furniture and props
• Generating collision data
• Configuring skyboxes
• Optimizing camera renders
• Configuring post-processing
• Add post-process effects

3. Materials and Lighting

• Building the core materials
• Assigning materials
• Reflection probes
• Building scene lighting: First pass
• Building scene lighting: Second pass
• Dynamic lighting with light probes

4. Cinematics

• Working with Cinemachine
• Creating a camera path
• Animating a camera fly-through
• Testing the camera animation
• First-person exploration

Conclusion

• Next steps