Unity 3D 2021 Essential Training

Learn the basics of level design, lighting, materials, and animation in Unity 3D.

Introduction

• Visualize a house project with Unity 2021
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Setting Up the Unity Project

• Installing Unity
• Project setup overview
• File management and project organization

2. Understanding the Unity Interface

• Intro to the Unity user interface
• Customizing the UI
• Key navigating shortcuts in Unity
• Unity documentation
• Unity roadmap

3. Working with Assets

• GameObjects and asset creation
• The Asset Store and Package Manager
• Guidelines for asset import
• Importing assets into Unity

4. Applying Materials

• Introduction to materials
• Creating and organizing new materials
• Material and texture properties

5. Prefabs

• What are Prefabs?
• Creating Prefabs
• Edit instances of the Prefab
• Prefab Variants

6. Level Building

• Introduction to ProBuilder
• Exploration of ProBuilder tools
• Block the floor with ProBuilder
• Finalize materials for objects

7. Creating and Implementing Animation

• Animation basics and editors in Unity
• Animator controllers
• Physics and rigid bodies

8. Collisions

• Unity collider components
• Applying colliders
• Optimizing collisions

9. Adding Audio

• Introduction to audio in Unity
• Adding ambient sound
• The Unity Audio Mixer

10. Unity Lighting

• Directional lighting
• Point and spot lights
• Area and emissive lighting
• Introduction to volumes

11. Baking Lighting

• Introduction to light baking
• Object and light parameters for baking
• Texels exploration
• Adding Light Probes
• Adding Reflection Probes
• Lightmap results and settings

12. Post-Processing

• Installing the post-processing stack
• Post-processing effects exploration
• Other quality enhancements

13. Timeline: Creating Cinematics

• Intro to the Timeline Editor
• Animating with Timeline
• Add camera moves

14. Introduction to Scripting

• Introduction to C# programming
• Writing the code
• Implementing the script

15. Packaging Your Unity Project

• Create a movie
• Packaging your scene

Conclusion

• Next steps