Learn Unity Games Engine & C# By Creating A VR Space Shooter

A beginners guide to Unity focusing on making a virtual reality game for the worlds leading headset. ***UPDATED***

Created by: Daniel Stringer
Lead 3D Artist & Developer at the Creative Engagement Group

What Will I Learn?

• Installing Unity Hub and the Unity Game Engine
• Navigating the Unity's user interface
• Importing and preparing 3D assets
• Getting Unity Ready for Virtual Reality a look at some Unity engine settings
• Creating A Moon Base - Creative session! use provided assets to personalise your moon base
• Lighting an environment using Unity directional lights, spotlights and baking
• Setting up the VR Camera - using Unity's XR interaction toolkit
• Take a look at the base in VR! - building to the Oculus Quest
• Adding your hands - use C# combined with animator blend trees to control your hands.
• Picking up your weapon - using Unitys XR interactions
• Shooting your gun - an intro to C#
• Using Unity's C# events system
• Spawning the asteroids - coding in C# to instantiate objects into our scene
• Creating a Game Manager, a C# class that looks after everything our game is doing.
• C# static variables
• C# Enums
• C# Interfaces
• Keeping track of your score - an intro to user interface in VR using Unitys canvas system
• Shooting the Asteroids checking collisions in C# within the unity physics system
• Creating a timer using C# to create a timer controlling play duration
• How to optimise your game for the Oculus Quest
• Bug fixing
• Post Processing
• Particle System

Requirements

• To experience the VR you will need a Meta Quest/Rift/Rift S
• How to download and install software would be an advantage.
• A small understanding of Unity - *But not essential
• A basic grasp of maths will help with a little part of the timer coding - *But not essential
• A little knowledge of C# would help *but not essential

Target audience

• Beginner game developers
• 3D Artists
• Technical Artists
• developers looking to get into VR