Game development for beginners
Step by step tutorial on how to get started with the basic things in Unity.
Unity has changed the way to import assets from the asset store in the recent Unity versions. Earlier you can open a window inside the Unity editor and import the asset directly to your project. But from Unity 2020 if you open the asset store window you will see the message as in the picture … Read more
Unity is one of the most used game engines by new developers. Like every other software Unity also requires proper setup and installation. Over the years Unity has made it simple to install and start your first game. Recently Unity has introduced Unity hub to allow multiple versions of Unity to be installed on a … Read more
A vector is something that has direction and magnitude. In Unity, vectors are divided based on dimensions. A three Dimensional vector is called as Vector3. A vector3 contains the magnitude and direction information for all 3 dimensions. In game development Vector 3 is mostly use to find the position of an object and distance between … Read more
Unity has been constantly updating its game engine to cater for the needs of game developers. With every Unity version you find lot of changes in how the game engine works. For a new developer, sometimes it is very confusing to even start a new project. In this tutorial, we are going to see how … Read more
Unity has been always been a 3D first game engine. Now they are trying very hard to make 2D game development as good as 3D. 2D lights in unity are definitely a step in the positive direction. Unity has introduced 2D lights as part of Universal Renderpipeline in 2021. In the earlier versions of Unity, … Read more
Many functions may seem complex at the beginning but turn out to be simple once you understand the concept. Unity coroutine is one such thing. A coroutine is a function that allows pausing its execution and resuming from the same point after a condition is met. You can start a coroutine and wait for its … Read more
Scenes are part of every game. Changing scene based on the game’s story or based on the menu is a common functionality required in all game engines. In Unity, the Scene Manager does that job. The Unity Scene Manager, as its name suggests, manages your scenes at runtime. It is a well-equipped class of Unity … Read more
Random number generation is used in a lot of applications. In games, random numbers are mostly used for level design to achieve the procedural generation of levels. Every random number generator uses a different algorithm. Unity random number generation uses Marsaglia’s Xorshift 128 algorithm. Though the generated number or sequence in Unity is pseudo-random, it is … Read more
When you add a Gameobject in the Unity scene the first thing that you notice in the inspector window is the transform component. Unity transform defines the position, rotation, and size of a Gameobject in the game world. transform might be the most basic component in Unity but it’s also the most important. You cannot … Read more
The very first thing that anyone notices when starting with scripting in Unity is the Unity Start and the Unity Update function. They are added by default in all the new scripts and there is also an explanation of what these functions do. But, there is confusion among new developers in how the Start and … Read more