How To Make A Basketball in Unity with Materials and Textures? 🏀

Overview

· Overview
· Pre-requisites
· Step 1: Create a folder that contains all the textures
· Step 2: Download a texture
· Step 3: Drop the texture into your Unity project
· Step 4: Apply the downloaded texture to the sphere
· Step 5: Make your basketball bounce

In this article, you will learn how to make a basketball using Materials and Textures in Unity. This microconcept can be extended to create any kind of ball i.e football, tennis ball, snooker balls. That said, it is not just limited to creating balls. You should be able to use this concept to customize the look of any type of geometry(or mesh).

Here is what you will create👇🏻

Basketball🏀

Think of the basketball as a sphere wrapped around with a pretty paper.

Let’s get started.

Pre-requisites

Your sample scene should have —

1. A plane
2. A sphere with a custom material

This tutorial is based on the techniques mentioned in an earlier one👇🏻.