Challenge Overview: Use the skills you’ve learned in the previous two lessons to score on a basketball hoop. After you’ve scored, you will have to use the hierarchy and inspector windows to manipulate the way your catapult works. When you’ve found out how to make changes to your catapult, try the Free Play activities again using different catapult settings. When you’ve finished working with the catapult settings, look at the code that calculates the values you see inside the simulation. Challenge Outcome: Catapult will throw a cannonball through a basketball hoop Catapult settings and characteristics will be manipulated Editor code will be investigated Challenge Objectives: In this challenge, you will reinforce the following skills/concepts: Using mass and force sliders to send a cannonball to a specific location Use the hierarchy menu to select elements of your catapult Adjust the launch settings of your catapult using the inspector window in Unity Complete the Free Play activities without the use of the force and mass sliders Adjust the project settings and investigate the effect of your changes in the Free Play activities Look at the code that allows the physics editor to make calculations

In this tutorial, you will consider multiple options for enabling student collaboration and for saving and monitoring student work throughout your course.

In this tutorial, you will prepare for success in Unity’s Professional Development for Instructors by: Setting up access to key tools Learning how the professional development experience is structured Completing a brief pre-course survey

In this challenge, you’ll apply what you’ve learned throughout the Creative Core pathway to your prototype. By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to demonstrate your new skills from each domain in the Creative Core pathway.

While working on projects your students may find themselves working in teams. Collaborating across multiple devices can be a challenge, but Plastic SCM helps mitigate that by allowing editor-integrated collaboration between teams.

Learn which types of games can be used to accelerate learning, the process used to conceptualize and develop these impactful designs, and ways to support even non-technical students to develop Unity prototypes of these impactful designs.

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Overview: In this lesson, you will learn about a variety of different techniques to optimize your projects and make them more performant. You may not notice a huge difference in these small prototype projects, but when you’re exporting a larger project, especially one for mobile or web, every bit of performance improvement is critical. Project Outcome: Several of your prototype projects will have improved optimization, serving as examples for you to implement in your personal projects

Challenge Overview: Use your array and random number generation skills to program this challenge where balls are randomly falling from the sky and you have to send your dog out to catch them before they hit the ground. To complete this challenge, you will have to make sure your variables are assigned properly, your if-statements are programmed correctly, your collisions are being detected perfectly, and that objects are being generated randomly. Challenge Outcome: A random ball (of 3) is generated at a random x position above the screen When the user presses spacebar, a dog is spawned and runs to catch the ball If the dog collides with the ball, the ball is destroyed If the ball hits the ground, a “Game Over” debug message is displayed The dogs and balls are removed from the scene when they leave the screen

In this tutorial, you'll have an opportunity to gain some inspiration for the journey ahead from our established creators, and learn more about ways to pursue job skills in real-time 3D and Unity.