Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Scripting languages for computer animation (17.RG022)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Engineering Animation (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
ECTS	6

Enabling students to master the declarative techniques of programming components of animation, both entertaining and engineering type.

Student will learn the basics of scripting within standard game engines(Unreal engine, Unity). By the end of the course, you will have a knowledge how modern game engines function, and how to develop basic gameplay.

Program abstractions of animation: objects, attributes and methods. Program techniques of specifying time, events and algorithms. Declarative methods of specifying objects and character of animation. Node-based visual programming concept. The techniques of visual programming: objects, character and camera; specification of active and passive type of character/object behavior, HCI and HUD.

Lectures; Lab Practice; Consultations.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Sewell, Brenden	Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine	2015	Packt Publishing	English
Hocking, Joe	Unity in Action: Multiplatform Game Development in C# with Unity 5	2014	Manning publishing	English