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| Welcome to my Discover
Unity 3D webpage! |
I
myself have recently
discovered Unity 3D, and I have been totally blown away by the power
and ease of use of this piece of software.
In my rush to learn Unity 3D as quickly as possible, I have uncovered
lots of fantastic tutorials and resources from around the wev to help
get started using Unity 3D.
And I thought I would share what I have learned here, to help others
Discover Unity and get up to speed even quicker than me!
As well as providing links to all the information I have discovered, I
have also started creating my own Unity 3D Assets, which I will be
making available to all via this website, from ready to use skyboxes,
to powerful scripts which are fully encapsulated and allow you to
change various features via parameters without touching the code
itself! Think of them as black boxes! |
| Getting Started with Unity
3D |
First
things first, get
yourself over to http://unity3d.com/unity/download
and download the 30-day trial of Unity 3D.
Once installed, when you run Unity for the first time, you
will be
prompted with the Welcome to Unity dialog, watch the Video Tutorials,
these are the fastest way to learn the Unity interface, and some basic
operations.
If you find watching video tutorials difficult, click on Unity Basics
toyblocks to view pdf versions of the video tutorials, this way you can
take things in step by step at your pace.
Another great pdf document is GUI Essentials, this really helps to
affirm what you have learned thus far. http://download.unity3d.com/support/Tutorials/1%20-%20GUI%20Essentials.pdf
Next, a great introduction to scripting can be found in the following
pdf document. http://download.unity3d.com/support/Tutorials/2%20-%20Scripting%20Tutorial.pdf
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| Learn more about Unity 3D! |
Now
you have learnt the
basics, and are quite confident in navigating your way around Unity,
and able to do some basic stuff, you will want to really get stuck into
the product.
I found a number of tutorial websites, including the Unity website
itself, and here are what I think are your best places to start!
Learn
Me Silly
Head
over to Learn
Me Silly, a website dedicated to providing excellent video tutorials on
a number of software products, and the Unity video tutorials are second
to none, and they are FREE, however donations are welcomed, and I
challenge anyone who does not find this information useful not to make
a donation.
Here you will find a five huge Lessons on using Unity, some of
which are broken into seven separate parts, the content here really is
invaluable. Plus all the project source files can be downloaded as well!
To start lesson 1 - FPS Terrain Walkaround follow the link below:
http://learnmesilly.com/index.php?currentPage=unity_lesson1¤tPart=unity1_1
These
lessons have
been created by Will Goldstone, a University lecturer from Bournemouth
in the UK.
Will
is also writing the
first book dedicated to Unity, it is entitles Unity Game Development
Essentials
You can find out more information at Will Goldstone http://www.willgoldstone.com
Or you can purchase the book so far in RAW form from the link below:
http://www.packtpub.com/unity-2-5-game-development-guide/book
The book is expected to be published by October 2009.
3D
Platform Game
If
you want to really dive
in at the deep end, then take a look and the 3D Platform Game on
Unity's own website, this tutorial is a whopping 125 page pdf document,
and you can also download the project source files.
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/3d-platform-game
UnityTutorials.com
This
is another great website dedicated to Unity 3D tutorials, one of which
is a Police Car Tutorial, this is available for $9.99, it is over 3
hours of instruction, and it shows you how to setup the logic and
scripting for a vehicle, its a great tutorial for anyone interested in
driving type projects. http://unitytutorials.com/Project/project.html
Unity
Developer Magazine
For the really serious Unity 3D user there is Unity Developer Magazine,
a bi-monthly printed publication. https://www.unitydeveloper.com
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Ok,
so now you know how
to use Unity 3D, and cannot wait to get started on a project
of
your own, however it would be nice to have some ready-made content for
your projects to get you started as quicky as possible!
Well in this section I hope to build a vast library of resources for
Unity 3D users.
The first place to find content for your projects, is in the example
projects from the tutorials above, and also in the Standard Assets that
are added to every new project you create within Unity 3D.
One freebie you will want to download is Terrain Assets from the Unity
website, this is a collection of plants, trees and textures.
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/assets/terrain-assets
Another freebie is a set of 18
FREE
Skyboxes
that I myself have created! Special thanks to 3delyvisions.com
for their beautiful sky textures.
This is the first of many Unity 3D Assets that I am planning to
release, click any of the images below to download a Unity Package
containing all 18 skyboxes, ready to be imported into any of your Unity
3D projects, you may use the skyboxes for non- commerical
and commerical projects, please just give credit to
A-Lab Software Limited and 3delyvisions.
Although these skyboxes are available for FREE to use both
non-commerically and commerically, A-Lab Software Limited would really
appreciate any Donations if you find these or any of the information on
this page useful.
By donating you help me to continue to
produce top quality Unity 3D resources.
Many thanks in advance!
Some
Unity 3D Assets I am currently working on or will be working on are as
follows:
- More
Skyboxes
- Updated
Camera Control Scripts
- Various
Tree Packs
- Building
Packs - Including a Castle Creation Pack
- Night
and Day Scripts
- Weather
Scripts, Rain, Snow, Thunder and Lightning
Plus many, many more...
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I am pleased to
announce our
second resource release for Unity, click the image above to
download our
FREE easy to use 32-page step by step guide detailing
how to
import Microsoft DirectX format 3D models into Unity, including
animated objects!
We share the secrets of the tools required and where to get them to
enable you to make use of the many freely available DirectX format
models from the web.
As well as showing you how to import this models into Unity, the guide
also provides information on where you can obtain a large collection of
game ready models, textures and audio files for FREE!
These include:
- 25+
People and
Monsters
- 20+
Vehicles
- 10+
Weapons
- 35 MIDI music files
- 120+
Audio Files
- 200+
WAV sound
effect files
- 4 MP3
game
soundtracks
Simply click the image
above
to download the guide in PDF format now!
Although
this guide
is available for FREE, A-Lab Software Limited would really
appreciate any Donations if you find the information contained within
the guide of use to you when working with Unity.
By donating you help me to continue to
produce more top quality Unity 3D resources.
Many thanks in advance!
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