Unity

📄️ 2D Animation using Sprites (Unity Animator and States)

This lesson assumes you have completed the previous one (2D Top Down Movement (Up, Down, Left, Right, aka RPG Style)) or have a scene where a player is able to be moved using Player Input.

📄️ Adding a Camera to a prefab

Double click on the prefab to open it.

📄️ Adding a Canvas and UI to a scene

You can have multiple Canvas' on a scene.

📄️ Game Design - Unity

This set of activities will cover how to complete some key tasks in Unity.

📄️ Unity

Create a project in Unity.

📄️ 2D Movement (Platformer with Jumping)

Demo

📄️ 2D Top Down Movement (Car Style Turning)

Click to load and play the demo.

📄️ 2D Top Down Movement (Up, Down, Left, Right, aka RPG Style)

Getting Set up

📄️ 2D Top Down Player Movement (Asteroids Style Space Shooter)

Click the Image to load a preview.

📄️ Add music for a level

When an audio source is added the audio will automatically play when the level loads.

📄️ Unity: Adding Menu navigation through code

How to add menu navigation using the new input system.

📄️ Adding Multiple Scenes to a build

This guide will show how to add different scenes to the build so that they can be switched between easily.

📄️ Adding two or more animations onto an object

In this lesson you will:

📄️ Unity and VS Code Autocomplete

via IFTTT Sometimes Unity won't activate autocomplete with VS Code. Use this guide to help you get it set up. Make sure you download and ...

📄️ Unity Creating an animation on an object

In this guide you will learn how to:

📄️ Animation Shortcuts

The following shortcuts will only work in the animation window.

📄️ Animator Controller: Adding Transitions between states

In this lesson you will learn how to:

📄️ Building / Exporting a Finished Project

Go to File > Build settings...

📄️ Unity: Change Scene

via IFTTT How to use a trigger to change the scene when a player object collides with it.

📄️ Changing the Build Platform

Unity supports a number of different build platforms.

📄️ Changing the colour of GameObjects

To change the default colour of a game object we apply materials to the object.

📄️ Changing the colour of objects in Unity

via IFTTT How to use materials to change the colour of objects in Unity.

📄️ Changing the colour of objects

https://youtu.be/DQx4VtLGdkQ

📄️ Character Controller 3D Project

In this lesson you will create a Character Controller using Unity.

📄️ Code a button to load a different scene or close the application

This lesson build on from Creating a UI, make sure that you have completed that one first.

📄️ Create a Menu / UI for a project

User interface (UI) elements in Unity are created using Canvas objects. These can be in their own scene or included as part of another scene.

📄️ Create a playable build of your game or application

So by this point you should have created a player character, made it move, have a level and a menu. When you get to a point in the level you should reach a win scene and there should be a way for your character to die / lose / restart the game.

📄️ Create a release on Github

Once you have a build created of your game or program you should add the release to github.

📄️ Unity: Create Build

How to create a build using Unity.

📄️ Creating a Camera path using Cinemachine Track and Dolly

This lesson will use Cinemachine and the Track and Dolly virtual camera to create a path for a camera to follow.

📄️ Creating a Level with ProBuilder

Unity has a tool called ProBuilder which allows for quick prototyping and Grey boxing of levels and environments.

📄️ Creating a Loading Bar

In this lesson you will create a loading bar to use when loading different scenes.

📄️ Creating a Menu

There is a tutorial on Unity covering this.

📄️ Unity: Creating and main menu UI

How to create a main menu layout using Unity and the UI tools for the new Input suts.

📄️ Creating Custom Control Schemes

In the project right click and select Create > Input Action

📄️ Creating Custom Player Inputs

Create a new set of InputActions.

📄️ Creating Levels and environments in Unity using Probuilder

via IFTTT How to install and use the core features of ProBuilder in Unity to quickly prototype / grey box a level.

📄️ Creating Objects

GameObjects are the core element of Unity. Everything you see (and even things you don't) in a Scene in Unity is a type of GameObject. Think of them as the type of object that everything is created from. For example a cube is a special type of GameObject as is a Camera.

📄️ Creating reusable objects (Prefabs)

Prefabs are a type of GameObject that can be reused.

📄️ Creating timed player Powers Ups in Unity

via IFTTT How to create timed player power ups / pick ups in Unity with triggers and coroutines.

📄️ Custom Cursors for a Pan and Scroll Camera using Cinemachine

You can access a windows example here.

📄️ Cycling between Cameras in order using Player Input

Sometimes in a scene you want to be able to switch between different cameras to get a different viewpoint.

📄️ Default Keyboard Shortcuts

Unity has a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Common ones are listed below, as is a method to customise the shortcuts.

📄️ Unity Development Challenges

You should attempt these tasks independently and try to complete them without looking at existing code.

📄️ Different colour players

Create materials for each player colour.

📄️ Displaying Enemy ID above the player

You can grab a sample template to work with from Github.

📄️ Displaying player ID on the UI/HUD

This lesson will show how to use UI elements to display player information on the screen.

📄️ Enemy AI: Chase a player

This example will have an enemy player chase a player object.

📄️ Enemy AI: Infinite Spawn Point / Tower

This lesson assumes that you have completed the guide on how to get an enemy object to chase the player using the nav mesh agent. You can find the lesson here.

📄️ Environmental Damage: Taking Damage from an Area

This guide shows how to create an environmental obstacle. In this case a section of the map set to be lava that will inflict damage over time while the player stays in the area.

📄️ Firing a Projectile (with Physics)

This lesson covers how to spawn a projectile when the user presses the default fire button (left mouse click) using the Input System.

📄️ First Person Camera using Character Controller

Click the image to access the demonstration (rotation is very sensitive)

📄️ Fly Thru Player Movement (Move on all axes)

https://youtu.be/zm0IgXMgjXw

📄️ Unity Getting Started - Creating Objects

via IFTTT Introduction to Unity covering creating GameObjects and placing them into a Scene.

📄️ Unity / Github Student Plan

Unity has a free student plan that is available. As does Github which provided access to a range of tools.

📄️ Unity: Glass (See through) material

How to create a see through object and material in Unity.

📄️ Handling players joining through scripts

The PlayerSpawnManager Script

📄️ Holding a Button - Multiple interactions on a binding / action

First set up a Player object with a default Play Input script and input actions / bindings.

📄️ Unity Hub

Download and install Unity Hub and then Unity using the hub.

📄️ Identifying the players on joining the game

This assumes that you have created a Player Spawn Manager script in the previous lesson.

📄️ Importing 3D Models and add a Mesh and Colliders to stop them falling through the floor

This guide will show how to import a 3D model and add a simple mesh and collider to it to stop it falling through other objects.

📄️ Unity Input System: Jumping with Character Controller

via IFTTT Using the Input System to jump using the built in Character Controller.

📄️ Jumping using a Rigidbody

Below is a complete movement and jump script for using the New Input System with a Jump action added.

📄️ Laser Tower that automatically attacks targets within range using (draw line in game)

This guide will demonstrate how to make a tower that will shoot a simulated laser at a specified time to the first object that moves within it's range.

📄️ Level Editor - ProBuilder

Unity has a Level Editor that is able to be included free of charge (despite it's name).

📄️ Load a new Scene when an object reaches a trigger

You will need two scenes for this task.

📄️ Local Multiplayer / Couch Co-op

Unity has local multiplayer built into the new input system.

📄️ Local Multiplayer using Player Input Manager and identifying the players (Complex and thorough)

Click the image to an example of Local multiplayer, note some spawning locations are not functioning in the WebGL version.

📄️ Locating and Seeing Empty GameObjects

Empty GameObjects are hard to see.

📄️ Making a character Jump using the Input System and a Character Controller

This lesson build on the code from the Moving a Player lesson, please make sure that you have completed that lesson first.

📄️ MLAPI and Unity's New Input System

This is a complex and frustrating but also rewarding activity.

📄️ Mouse Look

Below is a code example for how to setup a mouse look on a camera object.

📄️ Unity: Movement in all directions

How to move your player object in all directions (x,y,z) using the input system.

📄️ Moving a Camera or Enemy from point to point using Empty GameObject located around the scene

This lesson covers how to create a script that can be attached to any object with a Rigidbody andhave the object move to any GameObject items on a Scene.

📄️ Moving a player (GameObject) with the Default inputs

📄️ Moving a player (GameObject) with WASD

The code below is attached to the player object.

📄️ Moving a player with the new Unity Input System

The new input system provides a number of advantages over the original input system.

📄️ Moving a shape automatically around a predefined path

Make sure that the object to be moved has a RigidBody applied to it.

📄️ Moving the player using the Input System

Create a scene with a ground and a player object.

📄️ Moving the player with the Input System

Create a scene with a ground and a player object.

📄️ .NET SDK 4.7.1 Developer Framework

Download the .NET 4.7.1 developer framework from Microsoft here. This is needed for Unity and VS Code

📄️ Unity New Input System - Default Input Actions

via IFTTT Creating the default input actions using Unity.

📄️ Unity New Input System - Moving a Player

via IFTTT How to move a player object using the new input system in Unity.

📄️ Package Manager - Missing 2D or 3D GameObjects or other packages / tools

Sometimes when you create a project you initially set it up as a 2D or 3D project and then want to convert it or add in 2D or 3D features.

📄️ Picking Up Items - Storing Values in a List/Array

This guide will cover how to use an Array to store the amount of different items that have been picked up.

📄️ Play audio clip when a trigger is entered

This lesson involves moving a player character into a collider area which is set to a trigger and using this to trigger an event to play a selected audio clip.

📄️ Play audio with a subtitle

You need to be able to create a trigger that plays audio when entering a collider as well as have a basic understanding of UI canvases in order to complete this lesson.

📄️ Point and Click Movement - Player Pathfinding using a Navmesh

Click the image to load a preview.

📄️ Unity - Prefabs

via IFTTT Creating reusable objects (Prefabs) in Unity.

📄️ Unity: Reload Scene on Player death

via IFTTT How to use a collider and a trigger to reload a level / scene when a player collides with the object. Uses the Player Tag and runs ...

📄️ Reload Scene when colliding with an object

This guide will show how to reload a scene (or load a scene of your choice) when the player collides with an object.

📄️ Unity: Rotate an object around itself

via IFTTT How to write a script to rotate an object around itself using an objects transform.

📄️ Rotate Player with mouse

This guide moves a player forward and back as usual with the character strafing left and right. The character will rotate left and right when the mouse is moved left or right on the x axis.

📄️ Rotating an Object around itself

Here we will write a script to rotate an object around itself.

📄️ Unity: Rotating the Player and camera

How to rotate the player and the fixed camera using the new input system.

📄️ RTS Style Pan and Zoom Camera using Cinemachine

This lesson will have you create a camera that can pan and zoom using a Cinemachine Virtual Camera and the Input System.

📄️ Scripting - Using a Script to Dynamically Create a Grid with Different Height Cubes

Click to open, drag the sliders to change the number of rows and columns

📄️ Separate Sprites from a Sprite Sheet

In this lesson you will learn how to:

📄️ Setting Up Git and installing the MLAPI package

The Unity guide to Getting Started with MLAPI is a great place to make your first steps using the Unity MLAPI package.

📄️ Setting Up Unity

First Install Unity

📄️ Unity: Snap and Align Objects

How to snap GameObjects to the grid in Unity and align objects to Vertices (points) of an object.

📄️ Snapping objects to grid (and changing the grid measurements and size)

Unity has a lot of useful tools but positioning objects can be tedious as they do not snap to a grid by default.

📄️ Spawn and Despawn Objects when you Mouse Click in a Scene

There is an example of this here.

📄️ Unity Student and Github student developer pack

MAke sure you have a Github and Unity account setup.

📄️ Switching the project UI to use the New Input System

Add your UI to the Scene as you normally would.

📄️ Third Person Follow Camera using CineMachine and Input System

Third person camera controls in Unity are difficult.

📄️ Unity: Third Person Free Look Camera

Free look third person camera with Cinemachine.

📄️ Timed Power Ups

This is a long an complex tutorial. Take your time and know that it will be frustrating at times.

📄️ Twin Stick Movement (Left Move, Right Look Direction)

Here we will use the input system to move a player in a twin stick format.

📄️ UI Buttons to Spawn and Despawn Objects (Grid Layout)

Download the example here.

📄️ Unity - Universal Render Pipeline and Input System

The Unity URP (Universal Render Pipeline) contains a new Input System.

📄️ Using JSON to read and write complex objects such player Position and player Colours

There is no live WebGL demo for this example due to it requiring saving and loading of data.

📄️ Using PlayerPrefs to save simple data

There is no live demo for this example due to saving and loading states not being available in WebGL.

📄️ Using Raycasts to highlight an object (enemy) when in view and reset when not

Click the image to load an interactive demo.

📄️ Using Visual Studio Code

It's relatively easy to use Visual Studio Code with Unity. However it doesn't always activate the intellisence (tips and autocomplete).

📄️ Version control with Unity and Github

via IFTTT How to setup and use core features of Github desktop with Unity.

📄️ VS Code - Extensions for Unity

For Unity you should install the following extensions in Visual Studio Code.

📄️ Youtube MLAPI Tutorial (SRCoder)

SR Coder has a great tutorial on YouTube regarding how to create a simple networking multiplayer.

📄️ Unity

Create a project in Unity.