Set up your project with Unity AI

Use Assistant to set up your scene

Using AI-generated assets responsibly

Use Animation Generator to bring your character to life

Use Material and Texture Generators to make the environment

Use Sprite Generator to make an avatar icon

Use Sound Generator for background audio

Finalize and share your project

Using AI-generated assets responsibly 

In this course, you’ll get hands-on experience with Unity’s built-in AI tools to accelerate your game development workflows. While building a character customization screen, you’ll use the Unity AI Assistant to solve problems, perform actions in the Editor, and write scripts. You’ll also learn how to generate and refine assets — like textures, materials, sprites, animations, and sound effects — using natural language prompts. Each tutorial focuses on a specific AI capability, giving you practical skills you can apply to any Unity project.

Prototype a scene with Unity AI

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Overview

Understanding AI models

Managing AI-generated assets

Next steps

Learn about copyright considerations and asset management techniques before using AI-generated assets in Unity.

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the key points to keep in mind when it comes to responsibly creating assets with AI, as well as how Unity’s built-in tools can help you manage those assets, especially when preparing your game for publication.

Three sprites side by side. On the left is an in-Game Icon: A glowing, stylized potion bottle with swirling golden liquid inside, viewed from above on a transparent background. In the middle is an in-Game Decal: A cracked stone floor decal with faint glowing runes and moss creeping through the edges, top-down perspective. On the right is a Stylized 2D Asset: A whimsical, hand-painted windmill with crooked wooden blades and a red shingled roof, in a bright fantasy style.

Unity AI gives you access to models from both Unity and external partners. Unity's first-party models (which have a "Unity" prefix in their model title, for example, "Unity Texture," "Unity Animation," "Unity Sound") are trained on licensed or open-source data and include safeguards to help prevent infringement of certain known intellectual property.

Third-party models are developed by external partners. While Unity works closely with these partners to reduce copyright infringement risks, you should treat assets generated by these models like any other content you import into your project and always review them before shipping to ensure they are appropriate for use and don't infringe on anyone else's intellectual property. 


Select AI Model window open, showing various third party texture models and Unity’s first-party Texture2D model selected.

To help you manage AI-generated content efficiently, Unity AI includes built-in tools. Any asset generated by Unity AI in your project is automatically labeled with “UnityAI” metadata, making it easy to find them later. You'll also see reminders in the Unity Editor to review your assets and ensure they do not infringe on anyone else’s intellectual property. For more information, please visit our Unity AI Guiding Principles page.


Ultimately, just like any asset you bring into Unity, it remains your responsibility as the developer to ensure you have the rights to use all content in your final game build.  If you plan to publish your game — especially for commercial purposes — we recommend treating generated assets as placeholders.

Note: Unity’s AI packages are currently in a pre-release state in our continued open beta. As a reminder, per our terms of service related to evaluation versions, you can only use Unity AI for non-commercial and testing purposes, until it becomes generally available.

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With some of the broader considerations about AI-generated consent now in mind, you’re ready to begin prototyping with Unity’s built-in Generators. 

Using AI-generated assets responsibly

1. Overview

2. Understanding AI models

3. Managing AI-generated assets

4. Next steps

Complete this tutorial