In this official course from Unity, you will learn Real-time Animated Storytelling, allowing you to create your own 3D animations with cutting-edge technology. During the course, you will develop pre-visualization skills, learn to create an environment and props, animate characters, film a story, and refine your Scene with lighting and effects. As an artist and storyteller, you will learn how to leverage one of the most powerful new technologies to bring your ideas to life in real-time. As you complete the creative challenges and develop your own project, you’ll be able to share your new skills in our gallery and in your portfolio. Whether you’re a student who wants to be at the forefront of the entertainment industry, or a professional looking to upskill, by the end of this course you will have developed in-demand skills to make you stand out from the crowd. The 3D assets for this course were generously provided by our partner, Synty Studios, and are not for commercial use. If you would like to use any of the 3D assets from this course in commercial projects, please purchase one of the asset packs from Synty Studios’ Asset Store page.

Configuring an Xbox controller for user input in Unity is easily achieved through Unity’s new Input System, available as an installable Package. In this tutorial, we will set up a simple scenario that uses the Xbox game controller buttons.

In this tutorial, we’ll set up a Texture Sheet animation to randomly spawn different star images on the particles in a single emitter.

Starting with Unity 2018 LTS, meshes can spawn particles in a predictable order, dictated by the order of the vertices/faces. In this tutorial, we’ll emit particles from the surface of a plane, which has a simple ordered mesh.

Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) Lighting allows you to enhance your project’s visual appeal with ease. It uses a hybrid of Deferred and Forward Rendering Paths along with Tile and Cluster Renderers that allow the lighting to scale better than if you’re just using Unity’s built-in Rendering. In this tutorial, you will learn about HDRP and using it to light scenes.

The Sprite Mask is a useful tool in making unique effects such as character cards or portraits. It’s also useful in making detective, strategy, and even some logic based games. Having the ability to create Sprite Masks within the Unity Engine also relieves the need to have duplicate art assets for creating custom item effects, unique character cards, and more. Sprite Masks are used to hide, reveal parts of a Sprite, or a group of Sprites. The Sprite Mask only affects objects using the Sprite Renderer Component that have been configured to be used with Sprite Masks.

The Visual Environment component allows you to override a Volume’s settings for the sky (including sky type and whether its ambience is static or dynamic) and fog. In this workflow, we’ll create and confgure a Visual Environment Override.

In this tutorial we will be exploring the Universal Render Pipeline asset and its settings. We will create three pipeline assets that we can use in our project depending on what device or quality level we are targeting. You’ll want to first download the provided URP Demo Starter Project from the Tutorial Materials tab of this tutorial and open it in Unity.

Prior to Unity 2018.2, official Unity packages, including features such as engine extensions, were located in many different places such as Github and the Asset Store. Unity decided to make these packages centrally located and created the Unity Package Manager. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Package Manager so you can customize Unity with exactly the functionality you need.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the StreamingAssets folder to allow users to load their own images, songs, and even game levels into a project.