The Complete Beginner's Guide to Unity for Game Development

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Volume 1 – An Introduction to Unity

Lecture 1: Download Course Files Here!

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Getting Started

Lecture 4: Setting Up the Interface

Lecture 5: Unity GUI

Lecture 6: Viewport Navigation

Lecture 7: More Viewport Navigation

Lecture 8: The Object Inspector

Lecture 9: Translate, Rotate and Scale

Lecture 10: Scene vs. Game Mode

Lecture 11: Asset Creation 2

Lecture 12: Creating a Project

Lecture 13: Importing Assets from Maya

Lecture 14: Preparing to Build a Scene

Lecture 15: Building a Scene

Lecture 16: Exploring the Scene in First Person

Lecture 17: Lighting the Scene

Lecture 18: Finishing the Scene

Lecture 19: Unity Fundamental Concepts

Lecture 20: GameObjects and Components

Lecture 21: Prefabs and Layers

Chapter 2: Volume 2 – Assets, Materials, and Terrain

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Assets Overview

Lecture 3: Searching for Assets

Lecture 4: Asset Browser

Lecture 5: Preparing Textures for Import

Lecture 6: Asset Packages

Lecture 7: Materials Overview

Lecture 8: Bumped Diffuse Material

Lecture 9: Bumped Specular Material

Lecture 10: Moving Further with Materials

Lecture 11: Getting Started with Terrains

Lecture 12: Sculpting Terrains

Lecture 13: Painting Terrain Textures

Lecture 14: Adding a Skybox

Lecture 15: Adding Trees to the Terrain

Lecture 16: Adding Grass to the Terrain

Lecture 17: Adding Detail Meshes to the Terrain

Chapter 3: Volume 3 – Lighting and Particles

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Light Types

Lecture 3: Ambient Light

Lecture 4: Render Paths

Lecture 5: Lightmapping Overview

Lecture 6: Baking Lightmaps

Lecture 7: Lightmap Resolution

Lecture 8: Lightmap Settings

Lecture 9: Dual Lightmaps

Lecture 10: Particle Systems Overview

Lecture 11: Getting Started with Shuriken

Lecture 12: Graphing Particles

Lecture 13: Particle Textures

Lecture 14: Completing the Particle System

Chapter 4: Volume 4 – Game Scripting and Audio

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating a Project

Lecture 3: Importing Assets

Lecture 4: Lights, Camera, Action!

Lecture 5: Rigid Body Physics

Lecture 6: Physic Materials

Lecture 7: Getting Started with Scripting

Lecture 8: Hello World

Lecture 9: Unity Documentation

Lecture 10: Starting to Code the Game Logic

Lecture 11: Detecting User Input

Lecture 12: Calculating Rotation

Lecture 13: Rotating the Maze

Lecture 14: Constraining Rotation

Lecture 15: Add a Collider

Lecture 16: Working with Triggers

Lecture 17: Audio Assets

Lecture 18: Audio Sources and Listeners

Lecture 19: Completing the Game

Chapter 5: Volume 5 – Post Processing, Debugging, Optimization, and Distribution

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Preparing for Image Effects

Lecture 3: Grayscale and Sepia Tone

Lecture 4: Fish Eye and Twirl

Lecture 5: Noise

Lecture 6: Bloom and Lens Flares

Lecture 7: Vignetting and Chromatic Aberation

Lecture 8: Toon Shading

Lecture 9: Debugging with the Stats Panel

Lecture 10: Exploring the Object Inspector

Lecture 11: Debug Printing with the Console

Lecture 12: The Profiler

Lecture 13: Building and Distribution

Lecture 14: Bonus Lecture: Further Learning with 3dmotive