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Welcome to Section 2! Michael is going to introduction you to the fundamentals of importing a model from Blender into Unity.

• Setup A Unity Project
• Save a Primitive into the Assets Folder
• Understand what comes across and what doesn’t
• Challenge: Iterate The Model & Play

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• What is a transform?
• How they affect your meshes
• How to apply any transforms you have made
• Challenge

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• We will change what Unity is importing from our Blend file
• This is great for keeping this simple.

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• Blender uses a right handed coordinate system
• Unity uses a left handed coordinate system
• Based on the Cartesian Coordinate System
• Rotation in Unity doesn’t work properly
• There are 3 ways to correct this...

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• Empties are a single point, they are null objects
• They are typically used for control:
• Organisation of a model
• Placeholders and Targets
• Rigging and other Controls.

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• Discuss the placement of origins on your meshes
• Learn how to place an origin where you want it
• See the switch in Unity that enables you to use your pre-defined pivot point.

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• What is a material?
• Materials are setup in the final rendering package
• Material names come across once. No Updates
• Material properties cannot be transferred.

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• Couple of Advantages- mainly control
• You can export specific objects only
• NOTE: FBX has no overwrite warning in Blender
• You will still have the material issue in Unity.

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Excellent job, you now have learnt all the fundamentals of Importing a model from Blender into Unity. Armed with the knowledge you can move on the the next section and get Texturing!

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