Learning Path: Unity: Conquer the 2D Game World with Unity 5

Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development 19 lectures 01:56:24 Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - The Course Overview preview This video gives an overview of the entire course. Creating a New 2D Project When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

Asset Organization Properly setting up the folder structure is important to maintaining a well-organized project.

• Review the appropriate folder structure and learn how to create new folders.
• View the folder structure within Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.
• View how the changes made in File Explorer or Finder affect the project.

Creating Scenes Understanding the use of scenes is vital to the development of games in Unity.

• Review what a scene is.
• Learn how to create and save scenes.
• View how to add scenes to build settings.

Sprite Import Settings Determining the correct import settings for your sprites is an important first step in working with sprites.

• Define a sprite.
• Learn how to import a sprite into a project.
• Learn how to select the correct settings for a sprite.

Sprite Editor Manipulating the region of a sprite helps make sure that it displays correctly within a game.

• Learn how to adjust pivot point and size of a sprite in single sprite mode.
• Learn how to slice a sprite into multiple sub-sprites.
• Learn how to adjust a sprite in polygon sprite mode.

Sprite Renderer The sprite renderer is the component that determines how sprites are drawn in a scene.

• Learn how to put a sprite in a scene.
• Learn the components that are automatically applied to a sprite 2d object.
• View the properties of the sprite renderer component.

Sorting Layers To get a scene to display correctly, you must make sure all of your sprites are appearing in the correct overlapping order.

• Change sprite overlapping order with z-coordinates.
• Add sorting layers.
• Add order in sorting layer.

Add order in sorting layer. Creating and using scripts is the key to working in Unity.

• How to create a script.
• How to open a script.
• How to attach a script.

Classes, Variables, and Functions Covering the basic structure and vocabulary of c# scripts

• Cover the structure and various definitions.
• Show how to initialize variables and use Debug. Log from within the script.
• Show how to initialize variables using the Unity Editor.

Accessing Components and Other Scripts It is important to be able to access components of various GameObjects.

• Access components of the GameObject a script is attached to using GetComponent.
• Access components of other objects using various methods.
• Access script functions and variables of various GameObjects.

UI Canvas and Panels Canvases are required to create UI elements and panels help to organize the layout appropriately.

• Learn what a canvas is and how to create one.
• Learn what panels are and how to create them.
• Start building a pause menu with canvases and panels.

UI Text and Images Learning how to create UI Text and UI images will help to make more appealing UI displays.

• Learn how to create UI text and the various properties of the UI Text object.
• Learn how to create UI Images.
• Put the UI Text and UI Images in for the pause panel being developed.

UI Layout and Recttransform Using appropriate layout will make items in your UI scale appropriately.

• Learn about setting the screen aspect.
• Learn how to use canvas scalar.
• Learn how to use anchors, pivot points, and the Rect transform to get items to position and scale appropriately.

UI Buttons Intractable buttons that perform tasks are a key functionality of Unity's UI.

• Learn how to create buttons and add different transitions to them.
• Learn how to program a simple pause menu script.
• Learn how to link the pause menu script to the buttons.

UI Event System You can perform events other than just click events on buttons.

• View the properties of the Event System that is created when you make a UI Canvas.
• Learn about the various events and inputs accepted by the Event System.
• Create Event Triggers to use different types of events on UI elements.

Planning the Adventure Taking the proper steps to make sure you organize your text adventure game will save you a lot of headache.

• Create a flow chart to organize the story of your game.
• Create a scene in your game.
• Duplicate that scene and change all the values to make additional scenes.

Loading Scenes Successfully navigating between scenes is an important aspect to Text Adventure games and any game with multiple scenes.

• Create a reusable script that can navigate between scenes.
• Update the Build Settings to include all scenes.
• Attach the script to all the buttons and have them navigate to the correct scene.

UI That Displays Through All Scenes Many UI elements need to be persistent throughout all game scenes.

• Create a script that keeps objects from being destroyed when a new scene loads.
• Stop the persistent object from being created multiple times.
• Create a scene that loads before all other scenes and automatically loads the next scene.

Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - Quiz Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development. 19 lectures 01:56:24 Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - The Course Overview preview This video gives an overview of the entire course. Creating a New 2D Project When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

Asset Organization Properly setting up the folder structure is important to maintaining a well-organized project.

• Review the appropriate folder structure and learn how to create new folders.
• View the folder structure within Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.
• View how the changes made in File Explorer or Finder affect the project.

Creating Scenes Understanding the use of scenes is vital to the development of games in Unity.

• Review what a scene is.
• Learn how to create and save scenes.
• View how to add scenes to build settings.

Sprite Import Settings Determining the correct import settings for your sprites is an important first step in working with sprites.

• Define a sprite.
• Learn how to import a sprite into a project.
• Learn how to select the correct settings for a sprite.

Sprite Editor Manipulating the region of a sprite helps make sure that it displays correctly within a game.

• Learn how to adjust pivot point and size of a sprite in single sprite mode.
• Learn how to slice a sprite into multiple sub-sprites.
• Learn how to adjust a sprite in polygon sprite mode.

Sprite Renderer The sprite renderer is the component that determines how sprites are drawn in a scene.

• Learn how to put a sprite in a scene.
• Learn the components that are automatically applied to a sprite 2d object.
• View the properties of the sprite renderer component.

Sorting Layers To get a scene to display correctly, you must make sure all of your sprites are appearing in the correct overlapping order.

• Change sprite overlapping order with z-coordinates.
• Add sorting layers.
• Add order in sorting layer.

Add order in sorting layer. Creating and using scripts is the key to working in Unity.

• How to create a script.
• How to open a script.
• How to attach a script.

Classes, Variables, and Functions Covering the basic structure and vocabulary of c# scripts

• Cover the structure and various definitions.
• Show how to initialize variables and use Debug. Log from within the script.
• Show how to initialize variables using the Unity Editor.

Accessing Components and Other Scripts It is important to be able to access components of various GameObjects.

• Access components of the GameObject a script is attached to using GetComponent.
• Access components of other objects using various methods.
• Access script functions and variables of various GameObjects.

UI Canvas and Panels Canvases are required to create UI elements and panels help to organize the layout appropriately.

• Learn what a canvas is and how to create one.
• Learn what panels are and how to create them.
• Start building a pause menu with canvases and panels.

UI Text and Images Learning how to create UI Text and UI images will help to make more appealing UI displays.

• Learn how to create UI text and the various properties of the UI Text object.
• Learn how to create UI Images.
• Put the UI Text and UI Images in for the pause panel being developed.

UI Layout and Recttransform Using appropriate layout will make items in your UI scale appropriately.

• Learn about setting the screen aspect.
• Learn how to use canvas scalar.
• Learn how to use anchors, pivot points, and the Rect transform to get items to position and scale appropriately.

UI Buttons Intractable buttons that perform tasks are a key functionality of Unity's UI.

• Learn how to create buttons and add different transitions to them.
• Learn how to program a simple pause menu script.
• Learn how to link the pause menu script to the buttons.

UI Event System You can perform events other than just click events on buttons.

• View the properties of the Event System that is created when you make a UI Canvas.
• Learn about the various events and inputs accepted by the Event System.
• Create Event Triggers to use different types of events on UI elements.

Planning the Adventure Taking the proper steps to make sure you organize your text adventure game will save you a lot of headache.

• Create a flow chart to organize the story of your game.
• Create a scene in your game.
• Duplicate that scene and change all the values to make additional scenes.

Loading Scenes Successfully navigating between scenes is an important aspect to Text Adventure games and any game with multiple scenes.

• Create a reusable script that can navigate between scenes.
• Update the Build Settings to include all scenes.
• Attach the script to all the buttons and have them navigate to the correct scene.

UI That Displays Through All Scenes Many UI elements need to be persistent throughout all game scenes.

• Create a script that keeps objects from being destroyed when a new scene loads.
• Stop the persistent object from being created multiple times.
• Create a scene that loads before all other scenes and automatically loads the next scene.

Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - Quiz Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - The Course Overview preview This video gives an overview of the entire course. Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - The Course Overview preview This video gives an overview of the entire course. Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - The Course Overview preview This video gives an overview of the entire course. Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - The Course Overview preview This video gives an overview of the entire course. This video gives an overview of the entire course. This video gives an overview of the entire course. Creating a New 2D Project When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

Creating a New 2D Project When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

Creating a New 2D Project When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

Creating a New 2D Project When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

When creating a new 2D project, it is important to select the correct mode.

• Create a new 2D project at start up.
• Observe the Scene view in 2D.
• View the project settings.

Asset Organization Properly setting up the folder structure is important to maintaining a well-organized project.

• Review the appropriate folder structure and learn how to create new folders.
• View the folder structure within Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.
• View how the changes made in File Explorer or Finder affect the project.

Asset Organization Properly setting up the folder structure is important to maintaining a well-organized project.

• Review the appropriate folder structure and learn how to create new folders.
• View the folder structure within Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder p ...