Unity 5 for Beginners

In Unity, a project represents a single game. Here we'll see how to create and configure new projects. 

This video explores the interface basics. It considers the main panel layout and layout presets for an optimal workflow. 

Games rely heavily on models, textures, animations, and special effects. The Unity Asset Store gives you access to a massive content library for adding content to your games. 

Unity ships with a sample project, featuring some mini-games and assets. Let's explore this project. 

In this video, Alan Thorn demonstrates viewport navigation. See how to use the keyboard and mouse to move around and explore your scenes. 

GameObjects are the building blocks of a scene. See how to create basic objects and explore their construction. 

Unity ships with extra primitives and basic objects included in the Prototyping Asset package. Here we'll access and use that package. 

Learn how to build levels by transforming Game Objects in the scene. See how to Translate, Rotate and Scale objects. 

Understand the difference between Global and Local space, and why it's important for transforming Objects. 

GameObjects exist in relationships to other objects. These is expressed by the Scene Hierarchy. Understand how Hierarchies work. 

Unity works with complex objects and custom meshes made in third-party applications. See how to import custom meshes. 

Modelling applications like Blender work well with Unity. Using Blender, you can make custom meshes. Here, see how to export Blender meshes for import to Unity. 

This video introduces an important interface feature to enhance your productivity: Panel Maximization. 

See how to play-test your games using the Game Tab. 

Understand the difference between Play mode and Edit Mode, and a common problem that arises when making changes to a scene. 

Understand how GameObjects are constructed from Components, and how the components work together. 

See how to construct a complex GameObject from an empty, by adding components. 

Get started at creating a coin collection game. Create a new Unity Project. 

Understand how Unity organizes projects, and how projects relate to folders on your local hard drive. 

Begin level design by creating the world floor, ready for adding a player character. 

Working cleanly and in an organized way is very important for maintaining your project long-term. See how to organize your assets from the Project Panel. 

Sometimes you need to block the player from movement further in particular directions, to prevent them from falling or encountering dangers. See how to put limits on player movement with Colliders. 

See how to quickly build levels and align objects using Vertex Snapping. 

Establishing the beginnings of a Coin object, to be collected by the player… 

Learn how to make your objects look realistic with custom materials: create a gold coin material. 

Understand the purpose and benefits of Prefabs. Learn how to convert objects to Prefabs, and how to update Prefabs. 

Learn how to use the Scene Hierarchy for Organizing and tidying a scene, making it for simpler to use 

Understand how C# scripting works in Unity for creating game logic, such as a countdown and collectible coins. 

Learn how to Customize MonoDevelop for a smoother scripting workflow, and attach script files to GameObjects. 

Sometimes Unity must search for objects in the scene. To help along the search, you can use Tags. These make searches run faster. 

The Coin Collection game features a countdown time-limit. See how to implement and work with this via C#. 

Learn how to make objects rotate and turn around an arbitrary axis. 

Create a Firework effect with a pre-made Particle System, from the ParticleSystems package.