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Lesson 1.1 - Start your 3D Engines 

In this lesson, you will create your very first game project in Unity Hub. You will choose and position a vehicle for the player to drive and an obstacle for them to hit or avoid. You will also set up a camera for the player to see through, giving them a perfect view of the scene. Throughout this process, you will learn to navigate the Unity Editor and grow comfortable moving around in 3D Space. Lastly, you will customize your own window layout for the Unity Editor.

You will have a vehicle and obstacle positioned on the road and the camera set up perfectly behind the vehicle. You will also have a new custom Unity layout, perfectly optimized for editing.

Prototype 1 - Starter Files.zip

The first thing we need to do is create a folder that will hold all of our course projects, then create a new Unity project inside it for Prototype 1.

 (or somewhere else you will remember), right-click > create 

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For a reminder on how to create a new Unity project, you can reference 

Name the project “Prototype 1” and set the file location to your new 

, then wait for Unity to open your new project.

Make a course folder and new project

Now that we have an empty project open, we need to import the assets for Prototype 1 and open the scene

: Right-click on the file > Extract All.


Import the asset package into your Unity project
For a reminder on how to import packages, you can reference 

 drag to look around at the start of the road.

Import assets and open Prototype 1

Since we’re making a driving simulator, we need to add our own vehicle to the scene.

Hold right-click and WASD to fly to the vehicle, then try to rotate around it.

With the vehicle selected and your mouse in the Scene view, 

 You will orbit around the last object that you framed in the Scene view. So it’s important that you first Frame the vehicle (by pressing 

Add your vehicle to the scene

The next thing our game needs is an obstacle! We need to choose one and position it in front of the vehicle.

In the Inspector for your obstacle, in the top-right of the Transform component, click the more options button

Add an obstacle and reposition it

Now that we’ve set up our vehicle and obstacle, let’s try running the game and looking through the camera.

If you don’t see your camera preview, you need to enable the 

 option in the overlay menu in the Scene view. 

Locate your camera and run the game

In order for the player to properly view our game, we should position and angle the camera in a good spot behind the vehicle

 to move the camera behind the vehicle looking down on it

Move the camera behind the vehicle

Last but not least, we need to customize the Unity Editor layout so that it’s perfect for editing our project.

In the upper-right corner, change the layout from “Default” to “

window, open the dropdown menu in the top-right and select 

Customize the interface layout

Vehicle positioned at the start of the road

Obstacle positioned in front of the vehicle

We’ll really make this interactive by writing our first line of code in C# to make the vehicle move and have it collide with other objects in the scene

Unity Version 6.0