About Unity Visual Scripting

Getting Started with Visual Scripting

Program a visual script

Configure your visual script with variables

Programming fundamentals in visual scripts

Challenge: Control your character with Visual Scripting

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Visual Scripting and how you can use it to create scripts in Unity.

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Overview

Welcome to Visual Scripting

Installing Visual Scripting

 Before you begin

About Visual Scripting

What’s next?

In this tutorial, you’ll begin setting up Visual Scripting for your first scripts. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to:

Add a Script Machine component to a GameObject

Save a Visual Scripting Graph as a project asset

Open the Visual Scripting windows in the Unity Editor

Explain and arrange the panels of the Script Graph window

Pan, zoom, and return to center in the Script Graph window

Before you begin

Prepare the Scene

Create the Script Machine

Create the Graph

Set up your Script Graph window

Once you have your Visual Scripting work area set up, you’re ready to explore the elements of Visual Scripting, called nodes, and learn how to add and arrange them into a logical flow. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to:

Use context menus in the Graph window, including the Fuzzy Finder

Use the Fuzzy Finder to create a node in a Visual Script

Identify the parts of a node: heading and icon, data type indicators, flow arrows, inputs, and outputs.

Read the Graph Inspector to interpret a node

Toggle the Dim feature of the Graph window

Connect nodes with flow arrows and connectors

Start and Update

Display the Fuzzy Finder

Find the unit you need

Examine a unit

Consult the Graph Inspector

Configure a unit

Change inline values in the Graph

What’s Next?

Variables are essential programming tools. With them, you can store, calculate, and manipulate the input values to the units of your scripts. 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Visual Scripting to create and manage several kinds of variables that have different scopes and uses. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to:

Create Graph, Object, and Scene variables and explain their uses

Add Get Variable units to a Graph using the Blackboard

Make variables available to be changed in the Inspector window

Troubleshoot adjusting variable values in Scene and Game views

Explain the Scene Variables object that appears in the Hierarchy of projects with Visual Scripts

Create a variable in the Blackboard

Object types

Manipulate a Graph variable

Create an Object variable

Manipulate an Object variable

One Graph, two GameObjects

Experiment with variables

What’s next?


If you are new to programming, Visual Scripting can be a useful learning tool that presents code as a logical diagram instead of a potentially cryptic language. 

This tutorial is for beginners who need a few more programming fundamentals before continuing to practical applications. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to: 

Apply Boolean logic and conditional branching in visual scripts

Use the switch statement in visual scripts

Make mathematical calculations in visual scripts

Comprehend simple code with essential programming structures such as variables, methods, and logic statements.

If you already know this material, please skip ahead to the next tutorial.

Problem to solve: render speeds vary

Add a new graph

Get the rotation rate

Add the Time unit

Add the Multiply unit

Apply the calculated value

Branch the flow

Change position with Vector3

Switch

Let’s put your knowledge of Visual Scripting, as well as your creativity, to the test. In this challenge, you’ll apply everything you have learned to create your own project with a moving character. In this challenge you will need to recall how to:

Use the Blackboard, Graph Inspector, and Graph windows

Create and Manage variables in the Blackboard

Use Graph, Object, and Scene variables correctly

Use the right object types for unit inputs

Branch the visual script’s flow with If and Switch

Apply units for moving and rotating GameObjects

IntroVisualScriptingFinal.zip

Challenge instructions

Publish your project

Next steps: Clive the Cat’s Visual Crypting

Submit your project

Start here to learn Visual Scripting, whether you are new to Unity or an experienced Unity programmer.

In this project, you will learn the windows and tools in Unity’s Visual Scripting user interface. 

If you are new to programming, you will learn the basics of programming along the way. Everything you need to know before starting this project is in the Unity Essentials Pathway. 

Introduction to Visual Scripting

Course Overview

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