In this lesson, you will begin bringing a two-dimensional sketch to life in 3D by placing a few 2D background images and then laying out the surrounding city buildings using primitives. Often, in pre-vis, a layout artist will be provided with a sketch or storyboard of a Scene. Here, these artists can begin interpreting the appropriate depth and scale of their Scenes through the creation of simple geometry. This first iteration of a Scene sets the foundation for downstream departments (departments that traditionally come after pre-vis, such as sets, characters, lighting, etc.) to work from and expand upon.

You will learn how to add a background and a player that can move and rotate. You will also learn how to add particles to your GameObjects so that they look animated. Tutorial Outcome By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to Add GameObjects to the Hierarchy Add Components to the Inspector Transform GameObjects Make changes to GameObjects Key concepts: Rigidbody 2D Play mode Push script Rotate script Particles Parenting GameObjects Challenge Ideas: Change the spaceship from SpaceshipRed to SpaceshipBlue Add other Particles to the spaceship, by going to Project > Prefabs > Particles > select a particle

You will add health and define the winning conditions for the game Tutorial Outcome By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to Add script to keep track of the health of a player Make obstacles subtract a player’s health Display the health of a player Add User Interface design to the game Tag GameObjects Define the winning conditions Key concepts: Game level design Unity Playground scripts Game Ideas Dog fight game between two players Spaceship precision flying game Space racing game Challenge Ideas: Now that you have gotten started with Unity Playground, make a creative rescue mission game or something completely different! Want to use completely different characters and backgrounds? Check out: free game assets by Kenney: https://kenney.nl/

Unity’s audio system imports most standard audio file formats. It allows you to mix and master in real time, and it can replicate 3D spatial sound effects like echo, object movement (like the sound of a fast-moving car), and reverb. In this tutorial, you'll prepare in import audio files, and add Audio Source and Audio Listener components to your project.

Level of Detail, also known as LOD, helps with scene rendering by reducing the topology, or lowering the polygon count, of a given object within a scene based on the distance from the camera. Objects can have multiple LODs; the number of LODs is determined by the complexity of the object and how nicely the object will render when moving away from or closer to the camera. For most objects, one or two LODs would be sufficient, but when you’re working with hero assets (assets that the camera’s focused on), you may require additional LODs to prevent a “popping” of the asset when the distance to the camera changes.

This tutorial covers User Interface (UI) Components available in Unity, including Canvas, Button, Image, Text, Slider, and more.

Level of Detail, also known as LOD, helps with scene rendering by reducing the topology, or lowering the polygon count, of a given object within a scene based on the distance from the camera. Objects can have multiple LODs; the number of LODs is determined by the complexity of the object and how nicely the object will render when moving away from or closer to the camera. In this tutorial, you wil learn to create LODs.

In this section, you’ll learn about a few fundamental concepts of Unity Playground so you can begin creating your own fun interactive experiences.

The Frame Debugger is a handy tool that allows you to freeze playback for a running game on a particular frame to view the individual draw calls used to render that frame. The debugger also lets you go through frames one-by-one so you can see in greater detail how the scene is constructed. In this tutorial, you will learn about the Frame Debugger and how to use it for analysis.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Frame Debugger.