The Game Design and AI Master Class Beginner to Expert

Introducing Arcade Studio

Get to know the workspace

Adding assets to your project

Navigating around 3D space

Moving objects

Publishing projects

Download our Example files

Intro to this section

Orbit Shot

Pan + Tilt Shot

Tracking Shot

Roll Shot

Handheld Shot

Dolly Zoom

Excellent job with cameras

Look At Cursor Location

Play Animation

Creating an Object Carousel

What is Unity

Navigating Unity's updates and new features

What you will learn

Getting to know the Unity Ecosystem

Overview of the Made With section of Unity3d.com

Overview of the Forum section of Unity3d.com

Overview of the Answers section of Unity3d.com

Overview of the Documentation section of Unity3d.com

Overview of the Asset Store on Unity's website

Creating a free user account with Unity

Downloading Unity Hub

Install Unity App versions and start new project

Link Visual Studio to Unity

Importing the 3D Game Kit

Creating assets | cube and sphere

Interface overview

Navigating around the workspace

Toolbar Tools

Toolbar Buttons

Project window

Scene view

Game view

Hierarchy window

Inspector window

Customizing your workspace

Wrap up

What you will learn

C# and .NET explained

IDE options

Setup / download Visual Studio

Workspace layout and Visual Studio edits

Link Visual Studio to Unity + Project Setup

Importing the Adventure Sample Game and Folder setup

Importing the Corridor project

Folder Setup

Explore the Console Panel

Problem Solving in the console panel

Anatomy of a Script

Syntax basics

Debug and String

Variable Type

Array

List

Array and list Inspector

Enum (enumeration)

Variable Attributes | Part 1

Variable Attributes | Part 2

Code example scene setup

Arithmetic

Shorthand Arithmetic

Conditional - if else

Conditional - if else if

Conditional Ternary

Multi Conditional and Expression

Switch Case Basics

Switch Case Enum

Loop Basics

Nested Loop

While Loop

Random Class

Foreach

Method Structure

Method and Parameter

Method Overloading

Method Return Values

Wrap up what you learned

Your Resources

What you will learn

Project Setup

Importing the 3D Game Kit

Basic scene setup

Scene Setup continued

Add material to a cube

Keyboard input & moving the cube

Move Back & Forth, Left, Right, Up, Down

Finding the input on translate in the api

Find input in API

Rotating around with input

Move and rotate together

Collision & rigidbody

Collision & rigidbody continued

Scaling by input

Color change with input

Particle system basics

Impact particle script

Creating a lightswitch trigger event

Triggering multiple elements at once

Triggering multiple elements at once continued

Triggering an audio clip

Triggers explained

Spawner basics

Adding values to spawned objects

Applying force to spawned object

Target hit point refactor

Camera lookat

Smooth camera follow

Camera states

Camera trigger state events

Camera minimap setup

Camera minimap follow

Camera minimap rotate

Camera minimap fullscreen

Player gravity setup - rotate to object

Player gravity rotation attractor

Player gravity rotation body

On mouse events

Raycast setup

Raycast - ray and hit

Raycast - object placement

Raycast - all and hits

Raycast - move object

Move to click position

Follow mouse position

Animation setup

Animator script

Animator Condition

Creating a GameObject

Creating Mesh

Moving mesh vertices

Load from resources

Wrap up what we have learned

Your Resources

What you will learn

Project download and install

Scene setup in the 3D Game Kit

Creating a blank scene for level 2

Overview of the camera settings and Cinemachine

Introduction to skyboxes

Terrain generation with the 3D Game Kit

Terrain setup with Unity Terrain Toolbox

Terrain creation with Unity Terrain Toolbox

Tree creation

Tree leaves creation

Interactables - acid moving pad

Interactables - door and pressure pad

Scene setup with prefabs - part 1

Scene setup with prefabs - part 2

Scene setup speed through

Painting objects with the instance painter tool

Creating an instance painter

Simple translator for moving platform

Create a collectable object with the ProBuilder

Adding material texture to the shield

Shield Placement

Equip the collectable shield

Shield final adjustments

Enemy detection radius setup

Enemy NavMesh setup

Enemy damageable max hit change

Player max hit and checkpoint change

Trigger door to next level

Lighting and progressive lightmapping

Basic GUI setup

Basic setup and programming for player health UI

Wrap up what you learned

Resources

What you will learn

Unity Project Setup

Project Download

UI Setup

Exploring the Project Package

Setting up your first scene

Building with tiles

Getting to know the moving platforms

Getting to know interactibles like doors and pressure pads

How to setup a door switch

Working with and setting up enemies

Create a pushable box and damageable items

Teleport positions and teleport to next scene

Setting up environment objects | acid and spikes

Player setup and downloading a replacement character

Swap your player character

Laying out a flat level map for reference while building

Prepping your new scene

Laying out the ground tiles with tile map

Setting up the Dropship

Destructibles, Teleports and pushers

Setting up movers to interact with

Setting up doors to interact with

Connecting keys to the doors

Scene cleanup and code edit

Level tile cleanup

Walkthrough gameplay check

Environment elements & enemy setup

Adding details to the scene setup

(speed-run-through) completing the details for the level

Adjusting the game lighting

Boss door trigger animation script 1

Boss door trigger animation script 2

Build out and wrap up elements

Gameplay full runthrough

Your Resources

What you will learn

Setting up the Unity Project

Download and Explore the Package

Demonstration of the Wheel Collider

Walkthrough of the Prefab Vehicles and Camera System

Laying out a Flat Rough Idea for the Racetrack

Building out the Track | Snapping Explained

Building out the Track | Continued Adjustments

Building out the Track | Final Details

Test Drive

Adding the Guardrails

Build the Terrain

Setup Track Option Number 2 - Scene 2

UI Speedometer Setup

Finishing the Speedometer

Setting up the UI Timer

Wrap up the timer and create the countdown UI

Cleanup project and setup scripts

Setting up the Countdown System

Timer and Manager

Setting up the Checkpoint Trigger

Creating The Track Manager Prefab

Implementing the Boost Pick Up Element

Implementing a Jump Pickup Element

Setting up the Track Jump Pad

Prefab Setup

Setting up the Minimap

Adding the Rearview Mirror Camera

Setting up the Lap Counter UI

Lap Counter Script Start

Lap Counter Script Finish

Laps Complete Script

Race Complete UI

Race Complete Buttons and Code

Scene Setups

Terrain Edits

Setting up Additional Vehicles

Main Menu UI Setup

Adding Images to the Main Menu UI

Main Menu UI Buttons and Saving the Game

Loading The Game | part 1

Loading The Game | part 2

Camera Updates and Additional Cleanups

Final Race Testing

Wrap up

Build and Run

Your Resources

What you will learn

Get to know Mixamo

Selecting your Mixamo character

Export Mixamo T-pose

Choose Idle, walk and run animations

Choose attack, heal and charge up animations

Unity scene setup

Import fantasy environment

Import Abe animations and T-pose

Extract Abe textures

Import 3rd person controller system

Humanoid setup on T-pose

FBX animation setup

Animation loop root

Character animator overview

Character animator controller setup

Animator idle behavior setup

Animator locomotion behavior setup

Overview extend controller behaviors

Animator attack behavior setup

Attack behavior script core code

Attack script finish and apply animator behavior

Charge up/taunt animation setup

Charge up/taunt script core code

Heal animator behavior setup

Healing script core code

Healing object trigger box

Healing interaction trigger script

Cleanup character prefab creation

Animation direction root offset adjustments

Particle effect package setup

Particle scene setup

Create staff weapon proxy

Attack particle effect - part 1

Attack particle - part 2 - translate forward

Adjust offset for all animations

Particle attack - part 3

Particle attack - part 4 - animation timing

Particle attack - part 5 - hit effect

Particle attack - part 6 - shoot direction

ProBuilder Install

ProBuilder basics

ProBuilder staff - part 1 - extruding

ProBuilder staff - part 2 - finalized object modeling

ProBuilder staff - part 3 - uv texture mapping

ProBuilder staff - part 4 - smooth and connect to hand

Character prefab update and charge up effect

Character prefab charge up effect coded animation

Character prefab healing effect coded animation

Cleanup and finalize character prefab

Abe character prefab in new forest scene

Rock object particle explosion

Cleanup walk run controls

Final joystick controls

Game build

Resources

Introduction

Project setup

Basic scene setup

Keyboard input

Directional movement

Finding the input from the api

Rotating around with input

Move and rotate together

Collision and rigidbody

Scaling by input

Color change with input

Lightswitch trigger event

Triggering multiple elements

Triggering an audio clip

Triggers explained

Spawner basics

Values to spawned objects

Force to spawned object

Particle system basics

Particle system - smoke stack

Camera LookAt

Smooth camera follow

Camera states

Camera trigger state events

Player gravity rotation setup

Camera minimap setup

Camera minimap code

On mouse events

Raycast setup

Raycast single ray

Raycast ray and hit

Raycast object placement

Raycast all and hits

Raycast all from a gameObject

Raycast move object

Move to click position

Follow mouse position

Animation setup

Animator script

Examples 13 and 14 level load

Gameobject Primitive

Gameobject and mesh

Moving mesh vertices

Load from resources

Wrap up

Unity3D The Fundamentals (Project Files)

Updated script for the next lesson on "color change with input"

Introduction

Project setup

Basic shapes

Select and delete

Material and texture

Basic level part 1

Basic level part 2

Texture websites

Apply textures and materials

Texturing part 1

Texturing part 2

Texturing part 3

Terrain setup

Terrain texturing

Terrain sculpt part 1

Terrain sculpt part 2

Skybox

Particle part 1

Particle part 2

Particle part 3

Particle part 4

Tree creator

Particle rain

Audio storm

Thunder strike code

Thunder strike audio

Finishing touches

Build the game

Sharing your game

Asset store level editor

Asset store terrain

Asset store textures / models

Unity3D Building your first level (Project Files)

Introduction

Setup

Navigation

Project setup

Object setup

Hierarchy setup

Materials and saving

Getting audio clips

Setup scripts

MagicOrb and moving objects

MagicOrb triggerEvent

MagicOrb particle setup

Cannonball setup

Random force

TriggerEvent and particle

Creating prefabs

Player basic movement

Player Weapon and socket setup

Player Weapon shooting

Turret setup and follow

Turret weapon shooting

Player health

Turret health

Turret hit color change

Manager and gui setup

Gui framework

Gui updating

Building the project

Unity3D Boss Battle (Project Files)

Introduction

Particle setup

Particle dust example

Particle dust

Fire simple 1 fire

Fire simple 2 glow

Fire simple 3 smoke

Fire simple 4 cleanup

Fire complex 1 fire

Fire complex 2 flames

Fire complex 3 glow

Fire complex 4 dark smoke

Fire complex 5 white smoke

Fire complex 6 sparks falling

Fire complex 7 sparks rising

Fire stream 1

Fire stream 2

Fire stream 3

Fireball 1

Fireball 2

Fireball 3

Fireball 4

Flame 1

Flame 2

Leaves falling 1

Leaves falling 2

Magic effect 1 base

Magic effect 2 edge

Magic effect 3 glow

Smoke 1

Smoke 1 different

Smoke 2

Smoke funnel 1 funnel

Smoke funnel 2 debris

Smoke funnel 3 interior

Smoke funnel 4 dust

Smoke funnel 5 scene check

Snow 1 light

Snow 2 heavy

Snow 3 storm

Snow test

Sunrays

Vapour steam

Water spray 1

Water spray 2

Water spray 3

Water spray 4

Introduction

Download

Install & run

User Interface

Primitives and selection

Move, rotate, scale

Navigate viewport

Viewport views layout

Viewport shading lighting

Material editor basics

Material editor texture

Material editor workspace

Material Texture UVW

Render basics

Animation basics

Animation scene

Edit options vertex edge face

Mesh

Edit mesh

Mesh tools

Hut scene setup

Hut wall

Hut door

Hut miscellaneous pieces

Hut Roof

UVW texture wall

UVW texture roof

UVW texture surfboards

UVW texture miscellaneous items

UVW texture bamboo

UVW texture door

Scene layout

Render image

Render animation

Maya Introduction (Project Files)

Introduction

Setup Body

Material Layers

Model Front View

Model Top View

Model Side View

Body Perspective View

Model Head

Head Perspective View

Head to body

Model Armor A

Model Armor B

Model Armor Head C

Model Armor Head D

Model Armor Head E

Model Armor Head F

Model Face A

Model Face Fang B

Model Face Fang C

Model Face Fang D

Setup Leg

Model Leg A

Model Leg B

Model Leg C

Model Leg D

Model Leg E

Model Leg F

Model Leg G

Model Leg H

Model Leg I

Model Leg J

Model Leg K

Setup Leg Armor

Model Leg Armor A

Model Leg Armor B

Model Leg Armor C

Model Leg Armor D

Apply Material

Setup Spider

Render Spider

Prepare Spider Model

Leg bones

Leg Rig

Leg Skin

Leg Parenting

Leg Copy

Leg ik

Add bones to body

Skinning the body

Rigging the body

Spider Root

Create Idle animation

Walk animation

Walk animation 2

Walk animation 3

Walk animation 4

Spider model and animation outro

Exporting Spider Model to Unity3D

Export Idle Animation

Export Walk Animation

Animation Setup

Script Controller

Introduction

Downloading

Welcome screen

User Interface

Primitives

Move, rotate, scale

Navigation

Viewport layout

Viewport views

Shading and lighting

Material editor basics

Material editor texture

Material textures UVW

Render basics

Animation basics

Animation scene

Edit poly

Edit poly general

Edit vertex

Edit edges

Drone scene setup

Drone body

Drone motors

Drone legs

Drone underside

Drone camera

Drone animation

Drone render

Introduction

Setup

Head setup

Head review

Body

Arm & Sholder

Upper Arm

Lower Arm

Leg to hip

Upper leg

Leg to Foot

Clean up

Unwrap review

Materials

Light material adjust

Lights and stage

Render

Rig

Skin

Pose

Animate

Export Robot Model to Unity3D

Export Idle Animation

Export Walk Animation

Animation Setup

Script Controller

Line

Shapes

Intro to Values Part 1

Values Part 2

Values part 3

Color Theory

Color Theory cont.

Drawing Construction

Drawing Tumbnails

Drawing Clean Lines

Blending with Brush Tool

Perspective

Composition

Art Studies

Practice Tips

Landscape part 1

Landscape part 2

Landscape part 3

Landscape Conclusion

Hard Surfaces intro

Soft Surfaces intro

Soft Surface example

Hard & Soft combo

Materials | Wood

Materials | Organic

Materials | Texture

Materials | Cloth

Materials | Metal

Using the Materials

Using the Materials cont.

Intro to Faces

Skulls & Skin

Construction workflow

Features

Features cont.

Concluding Example

Clothing and Drapery

Clothing and Drapery 2

Clothing and Drapery 3

Clothing and Drapery 4

Clothing and Drapery 5

Mechanical Objects

Mechanical Objects 2

Mechanical Objects 3

Mechanical Objects 4

Mechanical Objects 5

Mechanical Objects 6

Mechanical Objects 7

Mechanical Objects 8

Mechanical Objects 9

Mechanical Objects 10

Mechanical Objects 11

Character base sketch

Refining Sketch

Color pallet

Painting

Painting 2

Painting 3

Painting details

Painting details 2

Painting details 3

Final touches

Sketch Comp

Refind Concept

Expand Comp

Shape & Tweak

Light Test

Focal Point

Texture 1

Texture 2

Texture 3

Light

Scale Clean up

Narrative & Balance

Finalizing

Last FX

Thumbnail Ideation

Thumbnail Ideation cont.

Drawing for Direction

Drawing cont.

Painting Over

Painting Over cont.

Painting | Clean up 1

Painting | Clean up 2

Painting | Clean up 3

Painting | Clean up 4

Painting | Clean up 5

Painting | Clean up 6

Painting | Clean up 7

Detail & Refine 1

Detail & Refine 2

Detail & Refine 3

Detail & Refine 4

Detail & Refine 5

Final Effects