Unity Tips: Position, Rotation, Scale

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to the course!

Lecture 2: What should you know before starting the course

Lecture 3: Don't hesitate to ask!

Lecture 4: How to use the repository

Chapter 2: Position

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Teleportation and Respawn – instant movement to the target

Lecture 3: Conveyor line – constant movement in one direction with vector addition

Lecture 4: Visualizing the direction by using the Debug.DrawLine

Lecture 5: Slowing down the conveyor – multiplying a vector by a scalar and Time.deltaTime

Lecture 6: Moving poker cards – Vector3.MoveTowards

Lecture 7: Delivering all cards simultaneously – Vector3.Lerp method

Lecture 8: 2D Player Controller – reading the player’s input

Lecture 9: Fixing straferunning – normalizing a vector

Lecture 10: Moving in a 2D Side-scroller – Set object velocity

Lecture 11: Jumping in a 2D Side-scroller – velocity vector addition

Lecture 12: Moving a platform – Mathf.PingPong and Mathf.Repeat

Lecture 13: Moving a platform using the animation

Lecture 14: Moving a player on a platform – transform.parent, transform.DetachChildren

Lecture 15: Calculating explosive damage based on the distance – subtracting vectors

Lecture 16: Creating a radar system – localPosition, TransformPoint

Lecture 17: Force a monster to look away – vector dot product

Lecture 18: Should a monster turn left or right? – vector cross product

Chapter 3: Rotation

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Rotating the 2D player controller by a certain angle – Transform.Rotate

Lecture 3: 3D Character Controller – Transform.EulerAngles

Lecture 4: Creating a camera that tracks the player's movement – transform.LookAt

Lecture 5: Creating a moving star circle array – Transform.RotateAround

Lecture 6: Quaternion basics, rotation around a single axis. Quaternion.Euler

Lecture 7: Rotating around 2 axes.

Lecture 8: 3D Spaceship – Quaternion.AngleAxis

Lecture 9: 3D Character Controller using Quaternions – transform.TransformDirection

Lecture 10: Aiming a 3D turret – Quaternion.LookRotation and Quaternion.RotateTowards

Lecture 11: Rotating a turret in 2D – Quaternion.FromToRotation

Lecture 12: Modern 2D controller – Input.mousePosition and Input.touch

Lecture 13: Shooting a bullet – let’s recap everything!

Lecture 14: Moving a Sun – Lerp, Slerp and SlerpUnclamped

Lecture 15: Creating your own quaternion – always Normalize the quaternion!

Lecture 16: Stand still to rotate a key – Quaternion.Inverse

Lecture 17: Lockpicking a safe – Quaternion.Dot and Quaternion.Angle

Chapter 4: Scale

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Make Alice grow or shrink – Scaling basics

Lecture 3: Moving shrinked Alice – scale-dependent methods

Lecture 4: Switching 2D player direction – Scale or rotate?

Lecture 5: Making a platform bigger – Scaling the parent object

Lecture 6: Slo-mo and Pause menu – Time.timeScale

Chapter 5: Outro

Lecture 1: Outro

Lecture 2: BONUS LECTURE