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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Mission overview

Tutorial overview

Open the 3D Scene

Drag the bedroom prefab into the scene

Position the bedroom at the origin

Add a bed to the bedroom

Decorate with more furniture

Review and proceed to the next tutorial

Identify the defaults elements in a new scene, Create and manipulate GameObjects and configure their components.

Scene Building Essentials

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2.1.2 - Open the 3D Scene - VIDEO.mp4

2.1.3-add-bedroom-prefab - VIDEO.mp4

2.1.4 - Position Bedroom at Origin - VIDEO.mp4

2.1.5 - Add a Bed to the Bedroom - VIDEO.mp4

2.1.6 - Decorate with more furniture - VIDEO..mp4

Essentials_Pathway_M2_3D_Essentials.mp4

Open the bedroom scene and furnish it with various items to personalize the space.

Prefabs

Transforms

Games

Film

Automotive

Explain how primitives are typically used in a 3D Scene.

Describe the types of primitives available in Unity.

Import a premade asset into a project as a GameObject.

Add a GameObject to a Scene by dragging it from the Project window.

2.1 Define GameObject.

2.2 Explain how primitives are typically used in a 3D Scene.

2.3 Describe the types of primitives available in Unity.

2.4 Add a primitive to a 3D Scene.

2.5 Define Sprite

2.6 Import a Sprite into a Scene

2.7 Create an empty Sprite

2.8 Assign an image to an empty Sprite.

2.9 Import a premade asset into a project as a GameObject.

2.10 Add a GameObject to a Scene by dragging it from the Project window.

2.11 Add a GameObject to a Scene by dragging it from the Project window.

2.12 Create an empty GameObject.

Create GameObjects

Explain the Toolbar buttons used to manipulate objects.

Select a GameObject from both the Hierarchy window and the Scene view.

Link GameObjects in parent-child relationships using the Hierarchy window to create complex GameObjects.

Explain the relationship between the Scene view and the Inspector window.

Move, scale, and rotate a GameObject using the Toolbar buttons and the mouse in the Scene view.

Move, scale, and rotate a GameObject using the Transform Component in the Inspector window.

Position Sprites in 3D space in a 2D Scene.

Use 3D GameObjects in a 2D Scene to group Sprites.

3.1 Explain the Toolbar buttons used to manipulate objects.

3.2 Select a GameObject from both the Hierarchy window and the Scene view.

3.3 Link GameObjects in parent-child relationships using the Hierarchy window to create complex GameObjects.

3.4 Explain the relationship between the Scene view and the Inspector window.

3.5 Duplicate a GameObject.

3.6 Move, scale, and rotate a GameObject using the Toolbar buttons and the mouse in the Scene view.

3.7 Move, scale, and rotate a GameObject using the Transform Component in the Inspector window.

3.8 Position Sprites in 3D space in a 2D Scene.

3.9 Use 3D GameObjects in a 2D Scene to group Sprites.

Transform GameObjects

Mission 2 - 3D Essentials

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.  

In this first tutorial, you’ll fill an empty room with furniture, designing it the way you want. 

Kid’s bedroom filled with carpet, bed, and dresser. 

To begin, you’ll open the empty 3D scene where you'll design a kid’s room from scratch. To start, this scene will only contain the ground and the sky — it’ll be up to you to add everything else. 


In the Project window, navigate to _Unity Essentials > Scenes and double-click 2_KidsRoom_3D_Scene to open it. 

You'll see a big empty white ground object in front of a blue sky in the Scene view. 

Don’t worry if your view of the scene doesn’t match the view in the example!  

Now, you'll add the main structure of the bedroom using a prefab. 

Prefabs are pre-fabricated assets that you can reuse across your project. In this project we’ve provided you with a whole bunch of prefabs that are ready to use as you design this world, including a prefab of the actual room with the walls, floor, and windows.


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

2.  Click and drag the 01_Bedroom prefab onto the center of the ground in the Scene view. 

Important: If you accidentally double-click 01_Bedroom, you'll see a close-up of the prefab in the Scene view. Just click on the small back arrow at the top of the Hierarchy window to return to the main scene.

3.  Once the bedroom is in the scene, use your Frame, Orbit, Zoom skills to get a good view of the empty room:

Hold Alt (macOS: Option), and left-click and drag with your mouse to orbit around the room. 

Zoom with the scroll wheel or trackpad to get to a good distance. 

For consistency and ease of design, you'll position the bedroom at the exact origin — or center — of the scene, using the Transform component. 

Every single object in your scene has a Transform component, which allows you to control the object’s position, rotation, and scale.

The origin of a scene is position 0, 0, 0 on the X-, Y-, and Z-axes.


1.  In the Hierarchy window, select the 01_Bedroom GameObject. 

2.  Go to the Inspector window and set the Position values in the Transform component to X = 0, Y = 0, and Z = 0.

Note:  Remember to save your scene regularly with Ctrl+S (macOS: Cmd+S).  

Next, you'll add a bed against the left wall of the room. The bed will be a central piece of furniture around which other items will be arranged. 

There are many bed prefabs to choose from, so you’ll want to browse the options using the Preview window at the bottom of the Inspector window before you drag one into your scene.


1.  Navigate to _Unity Essentials > Prefabs > Bedroom and select each of the beds to preview them at the bottom of the Inspector window.

2.  Drag a bed prefab into your scene, then use the Move and Rotate tools to position it with its back against the left wall. 

Important: Don't double-click the bed prefabs in the Project window — just single-click them to preview them.

Tip: You can always undo any unwanted edits with Ctrl+Z  (macOS: Cmd+Z). 

Personalize your bedroom by adding some more furniture. Use your own design sense to arrange items like nightstands, dressers, and chests. 


1.  From _Unity Essentials > Prefabs > Bedroom, drag furniture items into your scene, then move and rotate them to your liking. 

Tip:  Frame and orbit around newly placed objects to make sure they’re actually located where you think they are.

2.  At a minimum, add a rug and one other piece of furniture. A rocking horse and basketball net might also be fun, since this is a kid’s room after all. 

Important: Leave one corner of the room empty so you have a place to put your block tower.

Note:  Remember to save your scene regularly with Ctrl+S (macOS: Cmd+S).  

Congratulations on completing the first steps on this room! You've successfully opened a 3D scene, added and positioned a bedroom prefab, and personalized the space with furniture. 

Here are some of the things you learned how to do along the way:

Add an instance of a prefab to a scene by dragging the prefab from the Project window.

Use the Transform component to position a GameObject. 


Proceed to the next tutorial where you'll make a ball bounce off a ramp toward the corner of the room.

Add furniture to the kid’s room

1. Mission overview

2. Tutorial overview

3. Open the 3D Scene

4. Drag the bedroom prefab into the scene

5. Position the bedroom at the origin

6. Add a bed to the bedroom

7. Decorate with more furniture

8. Review and proceed to the next tutorial

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