Unity Tutorial 01

Screenshot of Unity Tutorial

This week I used Unity for the first time! I had trouble installing UnityHub at the start, but I didn’t realise that it was just a storage issue on my laptop…phewww, thank god it wasn’t anything serious.

I was very intrigued to finally start doing the tutorials this week and the tutorial videos didn’t disappoint. I personally found that the Unity tutorials were very easy to follow. The man explained the step by step instructions very clearly and slowly, this made it very easy to understand. I especially like the mini summaries at the end of each video, they were very helpful. 

My brain took in a lot of information from these tutorials such as:

• I learned new concepts and skills such as how to create a new project, how to import assets and how to add objects to the scene.

• I learned a lot of new functionalities such as positioning objects, positioning the camera and also using the rotation tool.
• I learned how to navigate around 3D space i.e keyboard shortcuts

• I learned all about the different tools we could use in order to interact with the objects.

• I leaned the difference between a “Game view” (what the users get to see) and a “Scene view” (what the game designer gets to see; behind the scenes)

• I learned how to create my own custom layout.

• I learned a little bit of game coding using C# Scripts

• I learned that by adding a RidgidBody and Collider component, it applies physics to the game.

• I learned how to program my code so that the camera follows the player.

• I learned how to organise my code.

Overall, most of the tutorial videos were very easy to understand, the coding sections sort of threw me off a little bit, however I did learn a lot of information throughout watching these tutorials. Although I know that this is just the start and that things will get tougher along the way, but I can’t wait to see what the future has in store!