Lesson 1 | Planning your 3D Gallery Project

Lesson 2 | Create Interaction in Your Project

Lesson 3 | Refine and Publish Your Project

In this lesson, learn to create a project plan for your 3D Gallery personal project and the importance of planning Unity projects and prototyping.

Unity Asset Store

First Person "All-in-One" Controller

Unity Interface Guide.pdf

Unity Shortcuts

Introducing your personal project

Start your project

Adding a simple primitive

Importing a first person controller from the Unity Asset Store

Helpful Shortcuts & Key Commands

Save, save and save some more!

This project is adapted from the Unity for Educators course where educators learn to create a 3D art gallery that can display student work. By completing this project, you will learn how to create your own navigable 3D gallery that you can use to display anything you want!

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Create a Personal 3D Gallery Project with Unity

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3D Gallery Assets.zip

Developing your 3D world

Adding colliders and lighting

Adding materials and audio

GALLERY PROJECT 5 Tutorial 2.1 Importing a 3D Model.mp4

GALLERY PROJECT 6 Tutorial 2.2 Adding Colliders and Lighting.mp4

GALLERY PROJECT 7 Tutorial 2.3 Adding materials and audio.mp4

In this lesson, you will learn techniques and functions in Unity to further develop your 3D Gallery Project, adding a 3D model, mesh colliders and audio.

In the previous lesson, you started your personal project in Unity and explored the user interface. Then, you added some basic models to guide you through the principles of using the camera and the Inspector panel.

In this lesson, you’ll explore three more tutorials that demonstrate how to:

Import a 3D model and scale it to fit the scene

Add mesh colliders to stop you falling out of the sides or through the floor 

Add sound effects that will change the way your footsteps sound as you move from room to room with physical materials

Important! You will need to download the assets folder in the tutorial materials tab above before you can follow along with the steps below. You can also locate the project materials from the “tutorial materials” tab at the top of this course page on Unity Learn; they are labeled 3D Gallery Project Assets

In Unity, in the Project panel, select the Assets subfolder, then click the + icon and from the drop menu, choose ‘Folder’ and name it ‘Models’. Double-click to go into this folder

From the downloaded assets drag all of the assets from the downloaded model folder into your new ‘Models’ folder

Select the cube in the Hierarchy panel. Right-click on it and choose Delete to remove it

Drag the ‘museum’ model from the Models folder into the Hierarchy panel in Unity

In the Inspector panel, change the Scale to 10 on the X, Y and Z axes

To view the scene properly, ensure the museum model is selected in the Hierarchy panel and hit F with your mouse over the scene window.

Holding down Alt and moving the mouse enables you to rotate the scene

Holding Alt-CTRL(PC) or Right-Click+CTRL(Mac) enables zooming in and out of the scene

Click the ‘museum’ model in the Hierarchy panel and open the dropdown menu next to it

Select ‘AngleRoom’ and then in the Inspector choose Add Component > Physics > Mesh Collider

Select ‘OctagonRoom' and Shift-click on ‘Walkway_3’ to select all rooms, then in the Inspector choose Add Component > Physics > Mesh Collider

Open the ‘Lights’ group by clicking the dropdown arrow next to it.  Select the first light, then Shift+click on the last light to select all the lights

In the Inspector panel, in the Light component, change the Shadow Type to ‘No Shadows’ to make it run more smoothly as shadows have been baked into the model texture

Still in the Inspector panel, increase the Range to 20 to make the scene brighter

Return to the Hierarchy panel, select the ‘Lights’ group, then move the light control in the Scene down a little on the Y axis to make the rooms a little brighter

Select the FirstPerson-AIO in the Hierarchy. In the scene, drag the controller inside the RoundRoom (where the welcome room will be) 

Rotate the FirstPerson-AIO to look at the ‘Welcome’ text. 

Switch to the ‘Game’ view to check how the project will look when it starts

Switch back to Scene View and ensure the FirstPerson-AIO Pack is selected in the project panel.

In the Inspector panel, scroll down to see where the AudioSFX properties are located.

Go back to the Project Panel.  Inside the Assets>First Person AIO Pack>DemoScene folder>Working Materials folder, you will find the Physics Materials folder. Select this to see the Physics Materials

Open the Museum group in the Hierarchy panel and click-drag the ‘Carpet’ Physics Material from the Project panel into AngleRoom in the Hierarchy panel.

Repeat by dragging the Carpet material onto the OctagonRoom and the RectangleRoom as well

Drag the Concrete Physics Material onto RoundRoom and repeat this for Walkway, Walkway_1, Walkway_2 and Walkway_3

With the FirstPerson-AIO selected in the Hierarchy window, scroll down in the Inspector panel to reach the Audio/ SFX setup, then expand ‘Rock and Concrete Clips’

Click ‘Add new physics material’. Drag the Concrete Physics material onto the field that says ‘None (Physics Material). This connects the sound to walking on Concrete

Now expand ‘Custom Material Clips’  and click ‘Add new physics material’. Drag over the Carpet Physics material to the field that says ‘None (Physics Material)’.

Press Play (or CMD+P) to test the sound effects as you walk in different rooms

In the next lesson, you will continue to develop your gallery project, including creating interactions between the player controller and the environment so that text appears on screen when the player approaches elements in the world.

Lesson 2 | Create Interaction in Your Project

1. Developing your 3D world

2. Adding colliders and lighting

3. Adding materials and audio

Complete this tutorial