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

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

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

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

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Mission overview

Tutorial overview

Explore the Main Menu scene

Add your name

Design the menu scene

Configure the scenes in the build

Configure the Player Settings

Review and proceed to the next tutorial

Create and share a simple build of a Unity experience.

Publishing

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Product Manager at Unity

6.1.3 - Add your name - VIDEO.mp4

6.1.2 - Explore the Main Menu scene - VIDEO.mp4

6.1.4 - Design the menu scene - VIDEO.mp4

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6.1.5 - Configure the Scenes in Build - VIDEO_U6.mp4

6.1.6 - Configure the Player Settings - VIDEO_U6.mp4

Create a main menu scene to access all your work from one place.

Gizmos menu

Customizing your workspace

Build profile reference

Player

Games

Film

Automotive

Add the required modules for a basic build to the current Unity install

Adjust Build Settings to create a basic build.

Share a build as a Unity Learn submission

Configure a basic build of a project

Mission 6 - Publishing Essentials

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’ll package all of your work from this Pathway into a single playable experience that you can easily share with others.  
 

In this first tutorial, you’ll customize a main menu scene that will allow a user to access all of the scenes you’ve worked on from one place. 

A menu screen with the text “Your Name” on a left panel and a panel of buttons on the right under the title “Select your scene”.

First, let’s open the main menu template scene and explore its contents.  


1.  In the Project window, navigate to _Unity Essentials > Scenes, then open the 0_MainMenu_Scene.

2.  If you are still in 2D view from working on your 2D scene, deselect the 2D button in the Scene view. 

3.  If the gizmo icons are too large and obstruct your view, adjust their size for a clearer workspace. Go to the Gizmo dropdown in the upper-right corner of the Scene view and use the 3D Icons slider to reduce the gizmo sizes.

4.  Explore the scene and its contents. 

Feel free to expand and click through the GameObjects in the Hierarchy window to see how the scene is structured. 

5.  Enter Play mode and select the scene buttons. 

You'll notice that none of the buttons work as expected. You’ll configure them to work soon. 

You can personalize the Main Menu scene with your name to add a touch of individuality and signify ownership of your work. 


1.  In the Hierarchy window, expand Canvas > Panel_Name  > Name_Text, then select the Name_Text GameObject.

The Canvas is a special type of GameObject in Unity that all UI elements need to be inside.

2.  With Name_Text selected, locate the TextMeshPro - Text (UI) component in the Inspector window. Change the placeholder "Your Name" text to your name. 

Note:  Later, we'll encourage you to publish your project. Feel free to use only your first name or first name and last initial for privacy reasons. 

3.  If you want, explore other font properties within the TextMeshPro component to adjust the font size, style, and color.

4.  Save the Main Menu scene with Ctrl+S (macOS: Cmd+S).

Your Main Menu scene is what people will see when they initially open your project, so you'll want to make a strong first impression! In this step, you’ll design the environment around the floating UI panels to make the Main Menu scene more visually engaging. 


1.  To design this scene more efficiently, try positioning the Game view and Scene view windows side-by-side. 

Then, as you position objects, you can immediately see how they look from the user’s camera view. 

To do this, drag the Game view tab to the middle of the rightmost edge of the Scene view window and resize all windows to your liking. 

2.  Make sure you’ve exited Play mode.

3.  In the Project window, navigate to Prefabs > Rooms and drag one of the room prefabs into your scene to set a base for the background. 

The room should be somewhere around the origin (0, 0, 0).  

4.  Continue to decorate the scene with additional objects from the Prefabs directory. 

Experiment with placing objects in front of or behind UI panels to create a sense of depth.

5.  If you want, you can adjust the position and orientation of the UI panels. You can also adjust the camera's position and angle to better frame the newly decorated background.

Make sure that the main menu remains the focal point.

Note:  Remember to save your scene, and that you can always undo any unwanted changes with Ctrl+Z (macOS: Cmd+Z).  

In Unity, a build refers to the process of packaging your application into a standalone file that can run on a specific platform or device. One of the key steps in making a build is listing all of the scenes that should be included in your final application. 

In your new Main Menu scene, when you select a scene select button, it tries to load one of the scenes listed for your build. The first button will try to load Scene 1 in your build, the second button will try to load Scene 2 in your build, and so on. The problem is, you haven’t listed the scenes you want in your build yet, which is why those buttons don’t work. In fact, you might have noticed that there was an error in the Console when you selected those buttons that said, “Scene with build index: [number] couldn't be loaded because it has not been added to the build settings.”

In this step, you’ll select the scenes to include in your final build, which will allow your buttons to work properly. 


1.  In the Project window, navigate to Unity Essentials > Scenes.

2.  Use the Shift key to select all the scenes you worked on, excluding the Starter scene, starting from 0_MainMenu_Scene all the way to 5_TopDown_2D_Scene.

Note:  If you made a duplicate of any of your scenes, just select the one you want to include in your build. 

3.  Navigate to File > Build Profiles to open the Build Profiles window. You can also press Ctrl+Shift+B (macOS: Cmd+Shift+B).

4.  In the Build Profiles window, select Scene List from the left Platforms panel. If there are any scenes already present in the Scene List section, select them and press the Delete key to remove them from the list.

5.  Drag the selected scenes from the Project window directly into the Scene List section in the Build Profiles window. The build indexes on the right should range from 0 to 5. 

6.  Enter Play mode again to test the scene select navigation.

This time, the buttons should correctly load the scenes you've set up in your build. 

After loading a scene, just press Esc to return to the Main Menu scene and select a new scene. 

The Player Settings menu allows you to configure how your application behaves when it's running on different platforms. These settings include visual elements like the game's icon and splash screen, and technical settings such as rendering options and performance optimizations.

In this step, you’ll edit the application’s name, icon, and the size of the window it opens in. 


1.  Open the Build Profiles window again by navigating to File > Build Profiles.

2.  Select the Player Settings button located at the top of the Build Profiles window to access the Player Settings window.

3.  Within the Player Settings window, set your Company Name and Product Name. 

These details will be visible in the application's properties. Feel free to put your name as the Company Name and whatever you’d like as the Product Name.

4.  To set your app’s icon, select Select where there is currently no image for your Default Icon, then select a square image from your project files that best represents your portfolio. 

Try searching for “icon” to find some good options. If you want, you can also design your own square icon — you just need to drag it into a folder in the Project window to add it to your assets. 

5.  Navigate to the Resolution and Presentation section and select the Windowed mode option to ensure the application doesn't launch in full-screen mode by default. 

This will make it easier for users to close the application if they want. You might also want to set the Default Screen Width and Height to a typical 16:9 HD resolution of 1920x1080 or 1280x720. 

6.  You can now close the Player Settings window. 

Your settings will be saved automatically. 

Congratulations on packaging up all your scenes into a single application that showcases your work as a portfolio project, accessible from a single menu screen.

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

Adjust the display of icons in the Scene view using the Gizmo dropdown and 3D Icons slider.

Explain the role of the canvas GameObject in designing a user interface.

Adjust the properties of the TextMeshPro component to edit text and change its appearance.

Select the scenes of a Unity project to include in a build.

Enter the Player Settings that determine how the application is displayed on a target platform. 


Proceed to the next tutorial where you'll build your project to WebGL, making it easy to share with the world!

Build your portfolio project

1. Mission overview

2. Tutorial overview

3. Explore the Main Menu scene

4. Add your name

5. Design the menu scene

6. Configure the scenes in the build

7. Configure the Player Settings

8. Review and proceed to the next tutorial

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