Create an immersive soundscape

Audio Essentials: More things to try

Mission 3 Quiz

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

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!

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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

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

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

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: Add a humming sound coming from the refrigerator

Medium: Source some new background music

Expert: Experiment with reverb zones

Proceed to the next tutorial

3.C.2 - Easy - Add a humming sound coming from the fridge.mp4

3.C.4 - Expert - Experiment with Reverb Zones.mp4

3.C.3 - Medium - Source some new background music_U6_V2.mp4

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

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Mission 3 - Audio 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: Add a humming sound coming from the refrigerator.

Medium: Source your own background music.

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

To fully round out the kitchen soundscape, you can add another ambient sound to the environment: an electrical humming sound coming from the refrigerator. 

This optional challenge is classified as Easy difficulty.


1.  Add an Audio Source component to the refrigerator and use the Fridge-Hum file for its audio clip. 

2.  Enable Loop, reduce the Volume, and set the Spatial Blend to 1 (full 3D).

Note:  If you want, experiment with different Min Distance and Max Distance values in the 3D sound settings to see what feels most natural for the refrigerator humming sound. 

You can personalize your project by adding your own background music. The Unity Asset Store is the perfect place to find audio for your project. You can filter by category (audio) and also by price. 

Important:  If you don’t use the Asset Store, check the license to make sure you have the rights to use any audio you download. This matters because we encourage you to publish this project later! 

For more information on licensing, see Copyright for creators. 

This optional challenge is classified as Medium difficulty.


1.  Browse the Unity Asset Store. 

You’ll need to be signed in and then select Add to My Assets for any assets you’re interested in. Then, use these instructions to learn how to import assets into your project.

2.  If you want to look for other music online, search for music with CC0 or CC-NC licenses. 

You can check out the Audio Files at Wikimedia Commons to start.  

3.  After you’ve added the files to the Audio > Music folder in your Assets folder, you can swap out the music currently set in the Audio Source component of your Background Music GameObject. 

A reverb zone in Unity is a spatial audio effect that simulates the way sound reflects and reverberates in a physical space, from echoing caverns to a soundproof padded room. 

Although it is not entirely necessary to add a reverb zone in this particular scene, it is very cool to see how they work and experiment with different reverb zone presets.

This optional challenge is classified as Expert difficulty. 


1.  In the Hierarchy window, right-click and select Audio > Audio Reverb Zone to create a new Audio Reverb Zone. This will add an Audio Reverb Zone component to a new GameObject in your scene.

2.  With the Audio Reverb Zone component selected, use the Move tool to position the reverb zone at the center of the kitchen.

3.  In the Audio Reverb Zone component in the Inspector window, locate the Reverb Preset dropdown. 

4.  Enter Play mode and experiment with some of the presets such as Concert Hall, Cave, Underwater, and others. 

Notice how all the sliders beneath the preset change with every selection.

5.  While you're playtesting, move in and out of the reverb zone to hear how the audio changes with distance.

6.  Exit Play mode and apply the preset you want. 

You’ll likely just want a simple Room preset for the most natural sound. You can also select the User preset to make custom edits to the reverb properties (such as decay time, density, and diffusion), but these are pretty complex and beyond the scope of this course.

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.

Audio Essentials: More things to try

1. Overview

2. Easy: Add a humming sound coming from the refrigerator

3. Medium: Source some new background music

4. Expert: Experiment with reverb zones

5. Proceed to the next tutorial

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