Agenda

• Planning your game
  • 2D or 3D
  • You can always switch modes later
• Unity
• Install
  • Unity Hub
  • Each project is linked to a Unity version
  • LTS edition
• Essential Unity Concepts
  • GameObjects
  • Components
  • Assets
• Creating a new project
  • Start from a template or work from scratch?
  • Work
• User Interface
  • Creating an object: simple cube
  • Moving around the scene: alt key, F key
  • Translate / Rotate / Scale: QWER shortcuts
  • Zooming in on objects
  • Parent child relationships
• Building a level
  • Models from Blender
  • Grid Snapping / Vertex snapping
  • Modular assets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBS0w8Jm-58
  • Assets
    • Kenney
    • DevAssets
• Player movement
  • Scripting
• Materials
  • Creating a new material
  • Coloring
  • Importing textures
  • Tiling material
• Lighting a scene
  • Real time lighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwm98VdzD8s
    • Set color space from gamma to linear (Project Settings > Player)
  • Baked lightmaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnG2gOKV9dw
• Audio
  • 3D audio
• Animation
• Physics
• Particles
• Adding behavior with scripting
• Projects and Scenes
  • Project Settings
  • Switching between scenes
• Publish to WebGL
• Future Possibilities
  • Procedural level design: Dungeon Architect
  • AI: Unity Machine Learning

Further Learning