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Share your progress and continue

In this exercise, you’ll be asked to share your progress with others in Discord. You’ll also have the option of continuing with Unity Essentials if you’re interested.  

You’ve already completed the first Mission of the Unity Essentials Pathway. It’s not required, but if you’re interested in learning the essentials of creating 3D environments, you can continue on to the second mission. 

 mission, you’ll create a kid’s room from scratch, including a bouncing ball that knocks over a tower of building blocks. 

To complete the second mission, just go back to the Unity Editor, and follow the in-Editor instructions to master the 3D Essentials.

 Continuing on with this second Mission is entirely optional. Only continue if you’re interested in improving your Unity skills or if you want to evaluate more of the Essentials pathway for use with your students.

Optional: Continue on to Mission 2 of 3D Essentials

Make a 10-30 second video walk-through of what you accomplished in your Unity Essentials project, then submit it below to share with other educators. In the video, be sure to include the following information:

What you found most interesting or rewarding about the process.

What was challenging and how you worked through the challenge(s).

Can you see yourself using in-Editor Essentials project with your students? 

After you submit your video below, share a link to your submission on Discord to make sure they see your progress.

Submission: Share your progress

Confidently operate the Unity Editor from an empty default project. 

Unity Editor Essentials

NealEdu

Product Manager at Unity

Configure functional lighting for indoor and outdoor scenes in 3D Unity projects.

Beginner Lighting

ElizabethMidgley

2.1.1 - Overview - VIDEO.mp4

Games

Film

Automotive

Identify and describe the windows that appear in the Unity Editor’s default view.

Rearrange, dock, and undock windows in the Unity Editor.

Explain the differences between the Project and Hierarchy windows.

Explain the relationship between the Hierarchy window and the Scene view.

Explain when to use the Scene view and the Game view.

Explain the purpose and functionality of the Package Manager.

Use the Package Manager to add functionality to the Unity Editor.

1.1 Identify and describe the windows that appear in the Unity Editor’s default view.

1.2 Rearrange, dock, and undock windows in the Unity Editor.

1.3 Explain the differences between the Project and Hierarchy windows.

1.4 Explain the relationship between the Hierarchy window and the Scene view.

1.5 Explain when to use the Scene view and the Game view.

1.6 Start and stop Play mode (Game view).

1.7 Explain the purpose and functionality of the Package Manager.

1.8 Use the Package Manager to add functionality to the Unity Editor.

Employ essential features of the Unity Editor

Configure the ambient (diffuse environmental) light in your scene.

Configure indirect lighting to improve the overall lighting level in an indoor scene

Configure ambient (diffuse environmental) lighting in order to convey mood or enhance realism

In the 3D Essentials mission, you’ll create a kid’s room from scratch, including a bouncing ball that knocks over a tower of building blocks. 

Important: Continuing on with this second Mission is entirely optional. Only continue if you’re interested in improving your Unity skills or if you want to evaluate more of the Essentials pathway for use with your students.

Select the 3D Essentials mission from the in-Editor tutorial panel. 

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