Are you ready to master procedural city generation in Unity C#? This course will teach you how to build grid-based, modular cities using automated road placement, prefab randomization, and height-zoning logic to create realistic urban environments.You'll start by learning the core programming fundamentals necessary for procedural generation, including understanding arrays and lists, grid mapping, and designing custom classes. Then, you'll dive into creating and preparing prefabs from modular parts, ensuring that your city assets are structured efficiently for procedural placement.Next, you'll develop a city generation script that automates the process of placing roads, adjusting city borders, and fixing connectivity gaps. You'll also learn how to instantiate prefabs dynamically based on grid data, bringing your procedural city to life.To add variety and realism, you'll implement randomized prefab variations and runtime randomization techniques to ensure that every generated city looks unique. Finally, you'll integrate height-zoning systems to structure your city in varied heights, making your cities feel more lifelike.In the final stages, you'll optimize your city for performance by using Mesh Combine techniques, allowing you to drastically reduce draw calls and improve rendering efficiency. This means your procedural cities will not only look great but run smoothly, even in large-scale environments.By the end of this course, you'll have a fully functional procedural city generator in Unity C#, along with the knowledge and skills to expand and customize it further for your own projects, whether for game development, simulations, or world-building.
What you'll learn
understanding of arrays and lists in C#
skills in grid mapping and designing custom classes
ability to create modular prefabs for city assets
capability to automate road placement and manage city borders
techniques for implementing randomized prefab variations
knowledge of height-zoning systems for varied structures
skills in optimizing for performance using Mesh Combine techniques
Course objectives
teach the fundamentals of procedural generation in Unity C#
develop practical skills in creating and optimizing modular cities
enable students to customize their city generator for various applications