Unity Game Development Master Class

Name: Unity Game Development Master Class
Rating: 4.2 (311 reviews)

Become a Game Developer

Created byBrian Cox

Last updated 11/2019

English

What you'll learn

Unity User Interface
Creating 3D Objects
Moving, Rotating & Scaling Objects
Unity Inspector Window & Scene Hierarchy
Adding components to GameObjects
Creating Materials
Using lighting to create atmosphere (Omni light, Directional Light, ...)
Collisions & Triggers
Physics using Rigidbody & AddForce
Using a CharacterController to control and move a character
Creating & adding scripts to GameObjects
Start, Update (+ Awake, FixedUpdate, ...)
OnTriggerEnter, OnTriggerExit
Instantiating & Destroying GameObjects from scripts
Accessing variables from the Editor (public, private, serializable)
Importing 3D Models
Importing Textures and creating Materials
Playing sounds / Music using AudioSource and AudioClips
Creating assets for instancing and updating scene
Detecting PlayerInput (Mouse movement and Key presses)
Creating various states for Player and Enemies
3D Mathematics using Vectors
Detecting MouseInput
Creating UI in Unity using Canvas System
Importing Animations
Using Animator to set up Animation Tree and Animation Blending
Using script to drive Animations
Creating a GameManager class to manage all objects and score in the game
Creating an Enemy with various states
3D Mathematics for Player Detection
Adding support for a Xbox Controller
Saving the Data of our game to Loadable format
Reading XML data and importing it to the game
Localisation: Adding support for multiple languages using XML
Creating an executable: Building the game for PC
Networking: Creating a Multiplayer game
RPC = Remote Procedure Calls
Profiler: Analysing and optimising the performance of the game
Shaders: Creating a custom shader effect
Particle Emitter: Creating VFX
Unity2D: Building a 2D game
Creating an Interactive Character
Creating a Top Down Shooter
AI Behaviour & Navigation
Raycasting, Animation timeline & Animator
Creating a Third Person Game
Saving & Loading using PlayerPrefs
Controller Input, Local Multiplayer & VFX
UI, XML, Localization, Scene Load & Build .exe
Advanced Animations
Unity Editor Extensions
Advanced Visuals
Source Control & Creating a FPS game
Multiplayer Networking
Advanced Multiplayer Networking
Unity2D & Performance Optimization

Course content

16 sections • 231 lectures • 19h 12m total length

Unity Course Projects Overview2:03
Overview of the course projects you are able to create at the end of each class.
In this course we will make 15 different games, step-by-step.
Personal & Unity Introduction Video5:38
Introduction & background information of the course lecturer and introduction to existing Unity projects.
Downloading and installing Unity2:46
Step-by-step explanation how to download and install Unity.
For our class we will be using the latest version of Unity 2018 as we will be using UNet in class 13 and 14.
It is possible to use a later version of Unity for classes 1 to 12 & 15.
Summer Course Result Compilation Video3:40
This is a compilation video of student's work who took this course as a summer course at ShanghaiTech University.
The students had no Unity experience before starting the course and were able to achieve amazing results!

Class 1 introduction & Unity User Interface6:17
Unity User Interface:
- Creating 3D Objects
- Move, Rotate, Scale
- Inspector Window & Scene Hierarchy
Lighting4:40
Lighting:
- Using lighting to create atmosphere (Omni light, Directional Light, ...)
C#, Variables, Functions & Code grouping5:13
C# basics:
- Variables, Functions & Code grouping
Creating & executing scripts in Unity3:59
Creating & adding scripts to GameObjects
- Start, Update (+ Awake, FixedUpdate, ...)
Rigidbody: Collisions & AddForce4:12
Collisions & Triggers:
- Physics using Rigidbody & AddForce
Rigidbody: Triggers3:54
Creating & adding scripts to GameObjects:
- OnTriggerEnter, OnTriggerExit
CharacterController & Creating an Interactive Character, Time.deltaTime6:32
Character Controller:
- Using a CharacterController to control and move a character
CharacterController & Jumping logics5:08
Character Controller:
- Using a CharacterController to make a character jump
Prefabs6:41
Prefabs:
- Creating assets for instancing and updating scene
Audio & Importing Custom Assets6:15
Audio:
- Playing sounds / Music using AudioSource and AudioClips

Class 2 introduction1:12
Parenting objects in Scene Hierarchy2:21
2D movement -> 3D movement & Rotate towards Movement Direction4:22
Character Rotation to Mouse Position5:12
Creating Bullet Prefab2:58
Prefabs:
- Creating assets for instancing and updating scene
Creating Gun Prefab & Setting up Bullet Spawn4:57
Spawning Bullets4:28
Rotating & Shooting Bullets2:58
Shot Cooldown & Ammo Count2:56
Canvas UI & Ammo Visualization4:34
UI:
- Creating UI in Unity using Canvas System
Destructible Targets & Applying Textures to Materials5:27
Playing Gun Shot & Gun Empty Sounds4:22
Ammo Crates, refilling Ammo & Accessing other Classes5:18
ADVANCED: Equipping and unequipping weapons17:12
Adding New Weapons & Outro5:19

Class 3 introduction0:59
Canvas UI Health5:45
Enemy States & Enums3:19
Enums:
- Creating various states for Player and Enemies
NavMesh Baking3:19
NavMesh Agent5:21
Setting up AI Patrolling behaviour5:03
Artificial Intelligence:
- Creating an Enemy with various states
AI Range & Radius Checking7:00
Artificial Intelligence:
- 3D Mathematics for Player Detection
Damage to Player6:31
Damage to Enemies4:15
Extra Features & Outro4:20

Class 5 introduction1:07
Third Person Camera & Scene Setup2:00
Player Movement8:23
Camera Movement4:36
Camera Rotation6:11
Camera LookAt & Camera Zooming4:22
Downloading Model & Animation Assets using Mixamo6:59
Animation:
- Importing Animations
Importing & Setting up the Character5:07
Animation BlendTree7:20
Animation:
- Using Animator to set up Animation Tree and Animation Blending
Setting up Animation Events in Editor5:07
Implementing Animation Events in code5:41
Animation:
- Using script to drive Animations
ADVANCED: Contextual Sound Theory & Scene Setup4:55
ADVANCED: Contextual Sound implementation using Raycasting9:43
Player turning towards Camera Direction & Outro5:11

Class 6 introduction0:45
Setting up Project & Player assets5:29
Implementing PlayerLogics7:34
Setting up Enemy assets6:31
Implementing EnemyLogics for Animation5:47
Implementing EnemyLogics for States & Movement5:44
Implementing EnemyLogics for WeakPoint & Dying4:34
Setting up Collectibles6:13
Singleton Coding Design Pattern, Serialization of Data, Saving & Loading Theory2:39
Creating GameManager Singleton8:35
Singletons:
- Creating a GameManager class to manage all objects and score in the game.
Saving & Loading Coin Collectibles7:35
Saving GameData:
- Saving the Data of our game to Loadable format
Saving & Loading Zombies10:58
Saving GameData:
- Saving the Data of our game to Loadable format
Checkpoint System, Bug fixes & Outro5:51

Class 7 introduction0:49
Project Settings - Input, Setting up Keyboard & Xbox Controller Input4:52
InputManager setup:
- Adding support for an Xbox Controller
Creating the Scene & PlayerLogic4:51
Creating 2 Players6:42
Downloading & Setting up Player Model & Animations4:52
Updating PlayerLogics to support animations & Face towards walk direction5:13
Implementing Casting Fireball Behaviour & Animation7:28
Spawning a basic Fireball7:49
Particle Emitter Settings & Fireball VFX Setup5:10
Particle Emitter:
- Creating VFX

NOTE:
If you are using Unity 2018.x or higher do not download the version from the video.
Instead open a new blank project and import the updated particle system from this link: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/unity-particle-pack-127325
Thanks to: James LiSooey
Fireball Collisions & Explosion VFX5:32
Player Death Animation4:36
Player Respawn Logics3:31
Events, Delegates & UI Setup4:59
Implementing UI Manager & Events3:42
Optimization, Bug Fixes & Outro4:17

Class 8 introduction0:51
Main Menu Setup6:27
Button OnClicked Logics4:31
XML Data, Localization Data & Localization Files setup3:26
Loading XML Files in code7:52
Creating XML Reading support:
- Reading XML data and importing it to the game
Reading Localization Data in code7:05
Localisation:
- Adding support for multiple languages using XML
Setting up Text fields for Localization4:10
Building .exe, Loading Scenes & Quitting5:13
Creating an executable:
- Building the game for PC
ADVANCED: UI Selection2:03
ADVANCED: UI Manager State Transition to Options Menu10:14
AVANCED: Improvements & Outro6:05

Class 9 introduction0:28
Setting up Project & Player Assets6:36
Setting up Animator Controller & Animation Blend State5:51
Setting up Weapon & Fixing Strafe Right Animation5:51
Aiming & Bone Rotations3:57
WeaponLogics: Weapon Line Renderer7:16
WeaponLogics: Raycasting for Impact Position6:26
WeaponLogics: Shooting logics6:51
Animation Masking Setup7:20
Advanced Animations code implementation7:25
Inverse Kinematics (IK): Left hand supporting Weapon8:07
Inverse Kinematics (IK): Feet IK core implementation5:02
Inverse Kinematics (IK): Feet IK improvements5:01
ADVANCED: Impact Marking Setup5:04
ADVANCED: Impact Marking Code implementation3:35
ADVANCED: Aiming Camera & Outro6:10

Requirements

There are no course requirements, every step of the development process is shown (including every line of code explained)

Description

In this Unity course we start from the very basics and cover all topics from complete beginner C#, Unity User Interface and will continue to explore advanced Unity features such as Animations, Animation Blending, Inverse Kinematics, Shaders, Post-Processing and even Multiplayer Networking (UNET) in the final classes.

This course contains 230 videos with over 19 hours of video learning content with an average video length of 5 minutes.

During this course you will learn how to create 15 different games of various game genres while learning the core features of Unity Game Development.

These game genres include:

Basic Platformer
Top Down Shooter
Top Down Shooter with AI
Basic MOBA
Third Person Platformer
Platformer with Loading & Saving
Local Multiplayer Arena
Main Menu, Localization & Game Loading
Third Person Shooter
Procedural World Generation using Unity Editor Extensions
Exploration Game with Advanced Visuals
First Person Shooter
Top Down Networked Multiplayer
First Person Shooter Networked Multiplayer
2D Action Game

During the creation of each game every step of the development process is shown and explained.

All scripts which are written an demonstrated are shared with the viewer in order to solve any potential bugs or issues.

This course has been taught at ShanghaiTech University to over 60 students and several graduate students have started their Game Development Careers as a result of this course.

Who this course is for:

Beginner Unity Developers aiming to work in the Game Development Industry
Beginner Unity Developers aiming to create their own Indie Games
High school / College / University students wanting to learn Unity
Mid-level Unity Developers who want to expand their skills & knowledge

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 14min

CLASS 1: Creating an Interactive Character10 lectures • 53min

CLASS 2: Creating a Top Down Shooter15 lectures • 1hr 14min

CLASS 3: AI Behaviour & Navigation10 lectures • 46min

CLASS 4: Raycasting, Animation timeline & Animator12 lectures • 56min

CLASS 5: Creating a Third Person Game14 lectures • 1hr 17min

CLASS 6: Saving & Loading using PlayerPrefs13 lectures • 1hr 18min

CLASS 7: Controller Input, Local Multiplayer & VFX15 lectures • 1hr 14min

CLASS 8: UI, XML, Localization, Scene Load & Build .exe11 lectures • 58min

CLASS 9: Advanced Animations16 lectures • 1hr 31min

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