Presentation - Project Files - Resources - Tutorials - Assignment
This week's presentation can be found here
- Our own tips, tricks and best practices for working with Unity, with a bunch of gifs
- A list of external tutorials to help you with specific topics, from learning the basics to creating a certain effect.
- Get graphics, sounds, code and other free stuff from the resources page
- Download and open Unity
- Create a new 2D project
- From Window->Package Manager, install Input System and Cinemachine
(click "Packages: In Project" and change it to "Packages: Unity Registry") - Download basics1.unitypackage
- With the Unity editor open, open the basics1.unitypackage file
- In the folder Class1/1_ENDSCENE, open the 1_endscene.unity scene file and press play
- In the folder Class1/0_STARTSCENE, open the 0_startscene.unity scene file
- Drag the prefabs from the folder Class1/Prefabs/Project_Start into the Scene view
- Finish the game! Use the Presentation, Unity Tips and Tutorials to help you on your way. And feel free to look at Class1/1_ENDSCENE/1_endscene.unity to find out how to get there!
- Camera Follow: Make the camera follow the player using Cinemachine Camera Settings. Drag the Player object into the Follow setting.
- Configure the Player: In the Inspector, select the Player_Start object and in the Inspector view, drag in the required component references: InputHandler, Animator, AudioClips and GroundCheck.
- Programming the Player: Open PlayerStart.cs and code;
- The Jump function
- The Move function
- The ResetPlayer function
- The OnCollisionEnter2D function
- The CollectCoin function
- Jump Sprite: Edit the player's jump sprite so that it's the correct one
- In Hierarchy view, select the PlayerStart->Graphics object
- Open the Animation window in Unity by selecting the menu Window>Animation>Animation
- Select the MarioJump_Start animation clip
- In Project view, find the Mario from the folder Class1/Graphics/Textures/PNG
- Click the triangle near the Mario file to see the different sprites
- Drag the correct sprite into the Animation window
- Add Coins: edit the coin prefab and add it to the scene
- In the folder Class1/Prefabs/Project_Start, double-click the Coin_Start prefab, and add the Coin script to the prefab
- Exit the prefab view, and drag the edited Coin_Start prefab somewhere into the scene
- Play Around: make your own level!
- Place a few new floors, some more coins and enemies
- Check out which sprites are available in Class1/Graphics/Textures/PNG and see if you can use those to make new objects for the game
- Get some new sounds and implement them
- Done with the game, and you wanna explore? Try out different 2D components, like very useful Platform Effector, create some 2D objects with RigidBodies and connect them with the different 2D Joints. Make organic looking hills and slopes with Sprite Shape. See if you can make a level with Tilemaps.
Don't forget to install Cinemachine and Input System! You'll get errors and the project won't run if you don't
When you open 1_endscene.unity, installed the packages and you press play, it should look like this:
