Dan Higham gave a talk at FESuffolk on an introduction to unity.

1. Unity 3D
Dan Higham
dan@high.am
@danhigham

2. What is Unity 3D
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A tool / IDE for building 3D experiences /
games
Combines visual design tools with Mono
C# / Javascript / UnityScript
Extendable interface i.e PlayMaker

3. Interface

4. Deploy To?
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Stand-alone (Mac / PC)
Web (Unityplayer and Flash 3D stage
thing)
iOS
Android
XBOX 360
Wii

5. Unity Venacular
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Scene - A place to create stuff! For
example a game level
Game Object - An object within a game,
Cube, Sphere, Mesh, Camera, Light, Particle
System etc
Animation - A way of animating game
objects, currently very similar to animations
in Flash, timeline, frames and actions

6. Enough slides, let’s build
some shit...
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Create a basic scene, plane, lighting, player
Create a door, open / close animations
Create a script to open / close the door
on collision with the player
Do the same with a PlayMaker FSM
A brief look at the Physics Engine
Some other fun stuff if we have time....