Unity

Unity

What is it ?

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What is Unity ?

“Unity is a cross-platform game engine
developed by Unity Technologies, first
announced and released in June 2005 at Apple
Inc.'s Worldwide Developers Conference as a
Mac OS X-exclusive game engine. As of 2018,
the engine had been extended to support more
than 25 platforms” Wikipedia

Game Engine?

A game engine contains five components: The
main game program which contains the game
logic; a rendering engine which can be used to
generate 3D animated graphics; an audio engine
which consists of algorithms which are related to
sounds; a physics engine to implement 'physical'
laws within the system; and Artificial
intelligence, a module designed to be used by
software engineers with a specialist designation.

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2D Games

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3D Games

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Mobile Games, Console Games, PC Games, Web Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
f_Unity_games
FPS, RTS, Platform, Map,
Puzzle, VR

Some of the notable ones..
Hearthstone
Pokemon Go
Angry Birds (multiple)
Rust
Assassins Creed (multiple)
Deus Ex: The Fall
Call of Duty: Strike Team
The Elder Scrolls: Legends
Club Penguin Island
Hollow Knight
Beat Saber
Escape From Tarkov

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Multi Platform

Desktop: PC, Mac and Linux
Mobile: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Tizen
Console: XBox, PS4, 3DS, Switch
VR & AR: Gear, Daydream, Google Cardboard, Oculus, Steam VR, Playstation VR, ARkit, ARCore, Magicleap
Web

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So it’s for making games.

Yes, Unity is well known for making games..
BUT … Just calling it a game engine is not giving it justice.. It’s so much more..

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2D and 3D Animation and Film making

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3D Animation and Film making

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Architecture, Engineering, Construction

https://unity.com/solutions/architecture-engine
ering-construction

Those in IA subjects
run in building 1 …

Used Autodesk
products yet ?

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Design, Sales, Marketing

https://unity.com/solutions/architecture-engine
ering-construction

Those in IA subjects
run in building 1 …

Used Autodesk
products yet ?

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Training, Customer Experiences

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World Making

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World Making..

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World Making.. For fun or science

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The Unity Experiments

An interactive web site where you can learn how to use some of Unity’s features.

Everyone has been allocated their own account to use, and it will work until the end of the year.

unity.gametraining.com.au

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The Unity Experiments

The Unity Experiments is a site full of guided
tutorials to show you the concepts of making
worlds and making things move and then having
those things react to things happening around
them.

You need to complete an experiment to move on to
the next one.

To demonstrate completion for assessment, you will
need to upload code and/or screenshots to Google
Classroom.

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The Unity Experiments

Important..

People are going to move at a different pace to
those around them.. Do not judge your progress on
your friends work. We are watching your level of
effort more than your completion.

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The Unity Experiments

•Each experiment has an overview, activity and
an exercise:

•The Overview explains the new concept or
features you will be working on in each
experiment to prepare you for the hands-on
activity.

• The Activity contains a Step By Step Guide
containing images and videos to help you
complete the activity using the Unity®
software.

• The Exercise tests your knowledge of each
experiment using a series of fun activities such
as dragging and dropping words to complete a
paragraph, dragging words onto the correct
positions in images, multiple choice questions,
choose the correct statement games and more.

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The Unity Experiments

Audio prompts
You will see a lot of audio player
controls throughout the site.
They read out the text that is written in that
section. It’s your choice to read or listen.

Video Prompts
There are a lot of short demo videos that show
what to do in that section. The early ones have no
audio.
It is demonstrated on a mac, but the locations for
things are very similar.
The square in the bottom right is used to make the
video larger / go fullscreen

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The Unity Experiments

Can I work on this at home?
YES! This is why you are getting your account before
the holidays.

Is it free to install ?
YES! (If using it at home, you will need a licence key
- which we can provide for you for free as well)

Do I have to use Chrome?
YES! (if you want everything to work anyway)

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The Unity Experiments

What needs to be installed?
Unity
Read the info on, and download from the ‘Getting
Started’ folder on the unity experiments site.

Visual Studio Community 2017
It should install with Unity, but if it doesn’t, bring in
a USB and ask Miss for a copy.
Or download from:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

Whenever you need to do a microsoft login - Use
your student email address to login

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Starting Unity