Unity from Zero to Proficiency (intermediate)

A step-by-step guide to coding your first game in C# with Unity

Created by: Patrick Felicia
Lecturer and Researcher

What Will I Learn?

• Code confidently in C# for Unity.
• Understand common coding mistakes and errors in Unity, and how to avoid them easily.
• Use Rigidbody physics to propel projectiles in the air.
• Instantiate, use and control Rigidbody objects from your script as well as explosions.
• Create a simple weapon management system.
• Create weapons (e.g., a gun and a grenade launcher), manage the collection of ammunition, and also implement a user interface to keep track of ammunition.
• Use Mecanim and NavMesh navigation to control an animated NPC that detects, follows, or shoot at the player.
• Create a fully functional game level with armed and intelligent NPCs looking for and attacking the player.
• Use Navmesh navigation so that the NPCs can find their way to the player.
• Use Mecanim to animate 3D characters.
• Control the animation and states of each NPC through your code.
• Create and use prefabs to speed-up your game creation process.
• Create and update a user interface.
• Create NPCs that can detect the player through vision.

Requirements

• This course assumes no prior knowledge on the part of the reader

Target audience

• You are a beginners in Unity or programming.
• You would like to become proficient in the core functionalities offered by Unity.
• You would like to teach students or help your child to understand how to create games, using coding in C#
• You would like to start creating games.
• Although you may have had some prior exposure to Unity, you would like to delve more into Unity and understand its core functionalities in more detail.