Unity 3D 2021 Essential Training

Course details

Unity is a powerful interactive development tool for mobile and desktop games, as well as real-time simulations and visualizations. In this course, Emmanuel Henri reviews techniques used in Unity visualizations and development and introduces the basics of level design, lighting, materials, and animation. Emmanuel shows how to set up a project and walks you through the Unity user interface. He demonstrates how to apply materials, add animation to bring your project to life, add post-processing effects, and more. To wrap up, he covers how to package and build a playable project.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Visualize a house project with Unity 2021
02 - What you should know
03 - Exercise files

1. Setting Up the Unity Project

04 - Installing Unity
05 - Project setup overview
06 - File management and project organization

2. Understanding the Unity Interface

07 - Intro to the Unity user interface
08 - Customizing the UI
09 - Key navigating shortcuts in Unity
10 - Unity documentation
11 - Unity roadmap

3. Working with Assets

12 - GameObjects and asset creation
13 - The Asset Store and Package Manager
14 - Guidelines for asset import
15 - Importing assets into Unity

4. Applying Materials

16 - Introduction to materials
17 - Creating and organizing new materials
18 - Material and texture properties

5. Prefabs

19 - What are Prefabs
20 - Creating Prefabs
21 - Edit instances of the Prefab
22 - Prefab Variants

6. Level Building

23 - Introduction to ProBuilder
24 - Exploration of ProBuilder tools
25 - Block the floor with ProBuilder
26 - Finalize materials for objects

7. Creating and Implementing Animation

27 - Animation basics and editors in Unity
28 - Animator controllers
29 - Physics and rigid bodies

8. Collisions

30 - Unity collider components
31 - Applying colliders
32 - Optimizing collisions

9. Adding Audio

33 - Introduction to audio in Unity
34 - Adding ambient sound
35 - The Unity Audio Mixer

10. Unity Lighting

36 - Directional lighting
37 - Point and spot lights
38 - Area and emissive lighting
39 - Introduction to volumes

11. Baking Lighting

40 - Introduction to light baking
41 - Object and light parameters for baking
42 - Texels exploration
43 - Adding Light Probes
44 - Adding Reflection Probes
45 - Lightmap results and settings

12. Post-Processing

46 - Installing the post-processing stack
47 - Post-processing effects exploration
48 - Other quality enhancements

13. Timeline - Creating Cinematics

49 - Intro to the Timeline Editor
50 - Animating with Timeline
51 - Add camera moves

14. Introduction to Scripting

52 - Introduction to C# programming
53 - Writing the code
54 - Implementing the script

15. Packaging Your Unity Project

55 - Create a movie
56 - Packaging your scene

Conclusion

57 - Next steps