Unity

The very basics and how to start

Session 1

Install it !!
Why Unity?
What's A game engine and why we should use it
Unity Basics UI and workspace panes
Intro to scene prototyping (build your apartment)

Install it !

https://store.unity.com/es/download?ref=personal

Download this repo

https://github.com/calderonsteven/prodigious-unity-lab

Very easy to learn

Tons of tutorials and a dedicated site with a configurable learning path

https://unity3d.com/es/learn

Multi platform

Multi language

Game Engine

A game engine is a software development environment designed to build video games.

The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes a rendering engine for 2D or 3D graphics, a physics engine or collision detection, sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading, localization support, scene graph, and video support for cinematics.

AKA a programmable program for build games

Unity UI

The Scene View

game designer and editor

The Game View

how the game will looks

The Hierarchy Window

gameObjects in scene

The Project Window

same as the finder/explorer but cooler

The Inspector Window

Contextual

property/component editor

Scene Navigation

Orbit: Hold Alt, and left-click and drag to orbit the Camera around the current pivot point.

Zoom: Hold Alt, and right-click and drag to zoom the Scene View. On Mac you can also hold Control, and left-click and drag instead

Selected to view

3D

Component based system

EXTRA STEPS: Camera and Skybox

Let's play with the primitives

Building a "Third-person player"

choose the primitives
gameObject Groups
transformation tools
components
component properties
(PRESS PLAY)

Let's build an apartment

I <3 Prefabs

Unity has a Prefab asset type that allows you to store a GameObject object complete with components and properties. The prefab acts as a template from which you can create new object instances in the scene