Add furniture to the kid’s room

Make a bouncy ball

Make a tower of prefab blocks

Adjust the lights, background, and camera angle

3D Essentials: More things to try

Mission 2 Quiz

Unity Essentials: 3D Essentials Quiz

Design a kid's bedroom with a bouncing ball and a tower of collapsing building blocks.

In this tutorial series, you'll explore Unity's capabilities by designing a kid's bedroom scene with dynamic elements like a bouncing ball and a tower of blocks. You'll learn new skills in 3D navigation, object customization, and using Unity's physics system. 

You’ll also create prefabs, adjust lighting, and capture your scene with a camera. 

This foundational knowledge is vital to creating any type of Unity project.

3D Essentials

Unity Essentials Pathway

Master the basics of Unity with the Unity Essentials Pathway. Perfect for beginners, this free learning journey introduces game development, 3D content creation, and Unity's core tools. Start building today!

Unity Essentials Pathway - Learn Game Development for Beginners | Unity Learn

Unity Essentials is the perfect place to start for beginners to Unity. No previous experience is necessary.

New to Unity? This guided learning Pathway includes everything you need to get started.

Designed for anyone new to Unity, this guided learning journey is your first step toward creating confidently in the Unity Editor and bringing your visions to life. In this learning Pathway, you’ll design different rooms of a house, learning the essentials of one key skillset as you complete each room.

Unity Essentials

Unity Essentials: Install Unity

Open the Unity Essentials project

Explore the Editor Interface

Master 3D scene navigation

Pass the Scene view flying test

Design a mural in the Scene view

Editor Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Editor Essentials Quiz

Explore a playground scene and design a mural to get comfortable with the Unity interface.

This tutorial series introduces you to the essential skills of navigating the Unity Editor.


You'll learn to navigate 3D space in a playground scene, using Flythrough mode and tools like Move and Rotate to design a mural.


Once you master these skills, you’ll have the foundation required for confidently creating in Unity.

Editor Essentials

Create an immersive soundscape

Audio Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Audio Essentials Quiz

Add immersive sound to a kitchen scene with a variety of different types of audio.

In this Audio Mission, you will learn the fundamentals of implementing different types of audio into Unity scenes. You’ll learn how to set the tone with background music, how to add realism with sound effects, and even how to implement spatial audio in a 3D scene.

Audio Essentials

Add a movement script

Create a rotating collectible

Collect the collectible

Programming Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Programming Essentials Quiz

Add code so that a player character can explore a living room and gather collectibles. 

In this Mission, you’ll program a simple interactive experience where you control a character in a living room scene and move around to collect objects. 

You'll be able to choose from a variety of characters and collectible objects. In our example, we'll use a robot vacuum that maneuvers to pick up dirt around the room.

Programming Essentials

Set up a 2D room

Complete your 2D Puzzle Game

Add an animated pet

2D Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: 2D Essentials Quiz

Create a top-down minigame similar to the 3D living room experience, but in 2D.

In this 2D Mission, you'll create a top-down 2D version of the interactive living room scene you created earlier. 

Just like in the 3D scene, you'll control a character, and try to collect all the objects in a room. By completing this scene, you'll learn how working in 2D is similar to working in 3D, but also how it’s different.

2D Essentials

Build your portfolio project

Publish to WebGL

Challenge: Add a bonus scene

Capture a video of your project

Share your project

Combine all of your scenes together into one cohesive portfolio project that you can share with others. 

It's time to collect all your good work together into a singular portfolio piece that you and others can play!

A portfolio, especially in the realm of real-time 3D (RT3D) and game development, is not just a collection of work, but a practical way of demonstrating your familiarity with essential tools and concepts. 

In this Mission, you will package all of your work from this Pathway into a single playable experience that you can easily share with others.


Publishing Essentials

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Overview

Easy: Make a perfect block tower with vertex snapping

Medium: Add different shaped prefab blocks

Expert: Add and frame custom artwork

Review and proceed to the next tutorial

2.C.2 - Easy - Make a perfect block tower with vertex snapping.mp4

2.C.3 - Medium - Add different shaped prefab blocks.mp4

2.C.4 - Expert - Add and frame custom artwork .mp4

Further develop your project and skills with optional challenges of varying difficulty. 

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Mission 2 - 3D Essentials

Try these optional activities to challenge yourself, build your skills, and improve your project!

Each challenge is tagged as Easy, Medium, or Expert difficulty so that you know what to expect. You can do one of them, all of them, or none of them — it’s totally up to you!

Easy: Make a perfect block tower with vertex snapping.

Medium: Add different shaped prefab blocks.

If you’re not interested in doing these challenges, skip to the end of this tutorial to mark it as complete. 

This optional challenge is classified as Easy difficulty. If you’re interested in completing it, read on. Otherwise, skip to the next step.  

A vertex (plural: vertices) is a point in where the edges of shapes meet — like a corner. In Unity, vertex snapping is a feature that allows you to perfectly align the vertices of different GameObjects to one another by snapping them together. 

Vertex snapping is a little tricky at first, which is why this is an optional challenge. However, if you master this skill, it can be very useful!


1.  Add a new Block prefab to a spot on the floor, then drag another two blocks onto the floor next to it. 

2.  Hold down the V key on your keyboard while you left-click one of the bottom vertices of a block you want to put on top of another.

3.  Drag your cursor toward the target vertex on another block, and the vertices will snap together.

4. Repeat this process to create a perfectly aligned tower that is three or four blocks high. 

This optional challenge is classified as Medium difficulty. If you’re interested in completing it, read on. Otherwise, skip to the next step.  

You created an interesting tower using simple rectangles, but the tower could be much more interesting if you incorporated a few different shapes, like cylinders, cones, and prisms. 


1.  In the Project window, go to _Unity Essentials > Prefabs > Shapes.

2.  Click and drag one of the shapes into the scene. 

3.  To make the shape detect collisions, add a Mesh collider component, then enable the Convex property. 

4.  To make it respond to forces, add a Rigidbody component. 

5.  To give the new block some color, either create a new material for it and apply it, or select an existing material using the object picker in the Mesh Renderer component. 

6.  Position the shape in an interesting position in your block configuration. 

Hint: You might want to scale these shapes proportionally. To do this, you can click and drag the central gray handle with the Scale tool, or you can select the chain link icon next to the Scale property in the Transform component to constrain proportions. 

Repeat this step for other blocks to try and make the collision more interesting.  

This optional challenge is classified as Expert difficulty. If you’re interested in completing it, read on. Otherwise, skip to the next step.  

This room is still sort of bland — it would benefit a lot from some custom artwork. Adding some artwork also allows you to personalize this room a bit more and make it your own.

To accomplish this, you’ll need to create a blank art canvas using a quad primitive, then import and apply an image of your choosing as the quad’s material. Finally, you’ll make it look a little nicer with a frame. 


1.  Right-click in the Hierarchy window, select 3D Object > Quad to create a flat one-sided object.

2.  In the Transform component of the quad, set its Y rotation value to 90 so that it will lie flat against the wall (or another multiple of 90, depending on which wall you want to put it on), then position it against a wall using the Move tool.

3.  Find or create an image you want to use for your artwork. 

If you don’t have one in mind, use one from one of the links below by opening the link, right-clicking on the image, and selecting Save Image As…:

4.  Create a new material in the My Materials folder named “Art_Mat” and apply it to your Quad GameObject. 

5.  To import your chosen image into your project, drag the image file from your file explorer into the My Materials folder in the Project window. 

This action will create a new copy of the image file in your Unity project folder. 

6.  In the Surface Inputs section of your Art_Mat’s Inspector window, for the Base Map property, use the Object picker (⊙) to select your image. 

7.  Adjust the Quad GameObject’s scale if necessary to avoid image distortion. 

You will likely want to stretch out the canvas to make it wider. 

8.  Duplicate the Quad (Ctrl+D (macOS: Cmd+D)), rename the duplicate "Frame", and make it a child GameObject of the Quad GameObject. 

9.  Adjust the scale of the Frame GameObject to 1.1 on all axes to slightly enlarge it compared to the art, then reposition it behind the other Quad GameObject to ensure it doesn't block the art.

10.  Create a new material in the "My Materials" folder, name it after your chosen frame color, set the Base Map to a nice frame color, and apply this material to the frame to finalize the frame's appearance.

If you want, you can create additional pieces of artwork using the same steps above! 

No matter if you chose to tackle a single challenge, complete them all, or skip them, you're set for the next step. 


Proceed to the next tutorial, where you'll have a chance to complete a quiz, and get credit for completing this project.

3D Essentials: More things to try

1. Overview

2. Easy: Make a perfect block tower with vertex snapping

3. Medium: Add different shaped prefab blocks

4. Expert: Add and frame custom artwork

5. Review and proceed to the next tutorial

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