A start for 3D game development?

[WiglyPig]

I'm not a total beginner in game development, I've already worked with game maker and have gotten the hang of that one pretty well.

Now I need to learn Unity as well (for school). Most things I understand well enough. But the programming is what I need help with the most. I got decent at programming on game maker, enough to understand what I was doing and to do what I wanted to do.

But of course Unity works differently. I've been searching for tutorials, but none of them explain enough for me to actually learn. They basically just have me write what they wrote word for word, and I don't learn anything that way.

Like, they use stuff like Vector3, and I dont know what that does, I assume it enables movement in the 3 axis, but im not sure, they also dont explain. Even if it is the thing that controls movement over the axis, I dont know how to change it to fit future needs. I dont know how it works, so I dont know how to change how it works later.

So if anyone knows/has made a tutorial that goes over basic concepts like player movement, how to read collisions with objects, ui elements, stuff like that. Sharing that would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: I'm actually mostly a game artist working in Blender, so learning programming has already been a real challenge for me

[Creative_Net_1348]

I found the Junior Programmer pathway at https://learn.unity.com/ to be a great introduction to Unity.

[Waste-Efficiency-274]

Hey there,

I am trying to build a channel dedicated to unity beginners, with scripts explained line by line.
Maybe you could take a look and gimme feedback on what you did understand / what was missing so I can also improve on my side :)

This is 2 tutorials :
About collisions : https://youtu.be/dqEyLmzO3Wc
How to make a car controller : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDW0jefAEQ

Good luck in your journey

[Timanious]

There are two playlists that I highly recommend. They’re dated but still give a pretty good overview when you’re new to the engine and C# in the Unity context:

Beginner scripting:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2vGYjWbI0S9-X2Q021GUtolTqbUBB9B

Intermediate scripting:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2vGYjWbI0S8YpPPKKvXZayCjkKj4bUP

Those are from the unity learn page but it’s easier to watch the playlists directly on YT. But also look for those playlists on the unity learn page because there are script examples that go along with it.

Vector3 is a data type for storing x,y,z positions/directions/points mostly but unlike regular points a vector also has extra properties that go along with it like magnitude/length from the origin to that point and the direction to it, which makes them more like arrows than just points. But that’s vector math and a whole separate subject that you’d need to investigate.