Ask Me Anything About Unity

About this course

What do YOU want to know about Unity but have been afraid to ask? Do you think your questions are too trivial to become an entire course? Every day Dr Penny de Byl receives messages from her students asking for assistance on a wide variety of topics that would benefit from a short tutorial.  In this course, Penny puts her 25 years of game development, research and teaching into practice to answer your questions in a variety of popular short workshop based tutorials. Topics covered include:The Unity Entity Component and Job SystemTargeting MissilesIn-game Quest SystemsReading and Writing to a Database Animating Facial Expressions Introduction to Augmented Reality for Android and iOSObject PoolingWorking with Asset BundlesContents and OverviewSection 1:The course begins with a section examining the new Unity Entity Component and Job System where you will build a planet simulation with 50,000 planets that orbit and are under the gravitational influence of four suns.Section 2:Following this, a section examining the creation of target-seeking missiles will cover basic line of sight missiles that remain locked onto a target, after being fired, as well as the addition of a waypoint system that gives missiles interesting curved and funky trajectories.Section 3:The next section steps through the ground-up creation of an in-game quest system. Starting with a simple third person game environment, you will build a quest system which monitors player progress, as well as cover the Unity fundamentals of the UI system to support its presentation.Section 4: In this section you will learn how to access an online database from inside Unity to store game data.  Through the use of a free online database service, you wil