Color Grading
- Game Development course
- Advanced
- Lesson 10/71
- 4 min
Learn to adjust color tone with Color Grading.
What is Color Grading?
Color Grading is the group of effects that adjusts the color tone and mood of the frame. It is used to get a warm, cold or cinematic look. Settings such as brightness, contrast and saturation are done here.
renk.colorFilter.value = new Color(1f, 0.9f, 0.8f);
renk.saturation.value = 10f;It reflects the mood of the scene through colors.
Tonemapping and LUT
Tonemapping fits the wide brightness range into the tones the screen can display. A LUT is a color transformation table; it applies ready color styles in a single step. When both are used together, the image looks balanced and stylish.
renk.tonemapping.value = Tonemapper.ACES;
renk.lut.value = lutDokusu;Thanks to tonemapping, very bright areas do not drown in white.
Practice Set the color tone
In a class named RenkAyari, define a string ton field with the value "Normal" and an int katman field with the value 1. In the Start method, set the ton value to "Sicak", increase katman by one, and print the pieces "Ton: ", ton, " LUT katmani: " and katman joined together with Debug.Log.
Starter code
using UnityEngine;
public class RenkAyari : MonoBehaviour
{
// string ton alanini "Normal" degeriyle tanimla
// int katman alanini 1 degeriyle tanimla
void Start()
{
// ton degerini "Sicak" yap
// katman degerini bir artir
// "Ton: " + ton + " LUT katmani: " + katman biciminde yazdir
}
}Sample solution
using UnityEngine;
public class RenkAyari : MonoBehaviour
{
string ton = "Normal";
int katman = 1;
void Start()
{
ton = "Sicak";
katman++;
Debug.Log("Ton: " + ton + " LUT katmani: " + katman);
}
}Expected output
Ton: Sicak LUT katmani: 2
Questions and answers
Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.
1 What does Color Grading adjust?
- The color tone and mood of the scene Correct answer
- Shadow resolution
- Movement speed of the objects
- Light type
Explanation: Color Grading edits the colors and the brightness balance; it decides the overall mood of the scene.
2 Select the tonemapping
renk.____ = Tonemapper.ACES; renk.tonemapping = Tonemapper.ACES;Explanation: The setting that fits the wide brightness range into screen tones is tonemapping.
3 Color Grading terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
Color Grading |
Adjusting scene color tones |
Tonemapping |
Fitting brightness range to screen |
LUT |
Color transformation table |
Kontrast |
Difference between light and dark |