Unity Game Development Certification Online Training

Syllabus of Unity Game Development Certification Online Training

• Getting to Know the Unity Editor
• The Project Dialog
• The Unity Interface
• The Project View
• The Hierarchy View
• The Inspector View
• The Scene View
• The Game View
• Honorable Mention: The Toolbar
• Navigating the Unity Scene View
• The Hand Tool
• Flythrough Mode

• Dimensions and Coordinate Systems
• Putting the D in 3D
• Using Coordinate Systems
• World Versus Local Coordinates
• Game Objects
• Transforms
• Translation
• Rotation
• Scaling
• Hazards of Transformations
• Transforms and Nested Objects

• The Basics of Models
• Built-In 3D Objects
• Importing Models
• Models and the Asset Store
• Textures, Shaders, and Materials
• Textures
• Shaders
• Materials
• Shaders Revisited

• Terrain Generation
• Adding Terrain to Your Project
• Heightmap Sculpting
• Unity Terrain Sculpting Tools
• Terrain Textures
• Importing Terrain Assets
• Texturing Terrain

• Generating Trees and Grass
• Painting Trees
• Painting Grass
• Terrain Settings
• Environment Effects
• Skyboxes
• Fog
• Lens Flares
• Water
• Character Controllers
• Adding a Character Controller
• Fixing Your World

• Lights
• Point Lights
• Spotlights
• Directional Lights
• Creating Lights Out of Objects
• Halos
• Cookies
• Cameras
• Anatomy of a Camera
• Multiple Cameras
• Split Screen and Picture in Picture
• Layers
• Working with Layers
• Using Layers

• Design
• The Concept
• The Rules
• The Requirements
• Creating the Game World
• Sculpting the World
• Adding the Environment
• The Character Controller
• Gamification
• Adding Game Control Objects
• Adding Scripts
• Connecting the Scripts Together
• Playtesting

• Scripts
• Creating Scripts
• Attaching a Script
• Anatomy of a Basic Script
• The Using Section
• The Class Declaration Section
• The Class Contents
• Variables
• Creating Variables
• Variable Scope
• Public and Private
• Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Equality Operators
• Logical Operators
• Conditionals
• The if Statement
• The if / else Statement
• The if / else if Statement
• Iteration
• The while Loop
• The for Loop

• Methods
• Anatomy of a Method
• Writing Methods
• Using Methods
• Input
• Input Basics
• Input Scripting
• Specific Key Input
• Mouse Input
• Accessing Local Components
• Using GetComponent
• The Transform
• Accessing Other Objects
• Finding Other Objects
• Modifying Object Components

• Hour 10. Collision
• Rigidbodies
• Collision
• Colliders
• Physics Materials
• Triggers
• Raycasting

• Design
• The Concept
• The Rules
• The Requirements
• The Arena
• Creating the Arena
• Texturing
• Super Bouncy Material
• Game Entities
• The Player
• Chaos Balls
• The Colored Balls
• The Control Objects
• The Goals
• The Game Controller
• Improving the Game

• Prefab Basics
• Prefab Terminology
• Prefab Structure
• Working with Prefabs
• Adding a Prefab Instance to a Scene
• Inheritance
• Instantiating Prefabs Through Code

• The Basics of 2D Games
• The 2D Scene View
• Orthographic Cameras
• Adding Sprites
• Importing Sprites
• Sprite Mode
• Imported Sprite Sizes
• Draw Order
• Sorting Layer
• Order in Layer
• 2D Physics
• Rigidbody 2D
• 2D Colliders

• Basic UI Principles
• The Canvas
• The Rect Transform
• Anchors
• Additional Canvas Components
• UI Elements
• Images
• Text
• Buttons
• Canvas Render Modes
• Screen-Space Overlay
• World Space

• The Concept
• The Rules
• The Requirements
• The World
• The Camera
• The Background
• Game Entities
• The Player
• The Meteors
• The Bullets
• The Triggers
• The UI
• Controls
• Game Control
• The Meteor Script
• The Meteor Spawn
• The DestroyOnTrigger Script
• The ShipControl Script
• The Bullet Script
• Improvements

• Animation Basics
• The Rig
• The Animation
• Animation Types
• 2D Animations
• Creating the Animation
• Animation Tools
• Animation Window
• Creating a New Animation
• Record Mode
• The Curves Editor

• Animator Basics
• Rigging Revisited
• Importing a Model
• Configuring Your Assets
• Rig Preparation
• Animation Preparation
• Creating an Animator
• The Animator View
• The Idle Animation
• Parameters
• States and Blend Trees
• Transitions
• Scripting Animators

• The Concept
• The Rules
• The Requirements
• The World
• The Scene
• The Ground
• Scrolling the Ground
• The Entities
• The Power Ups
• The Obstacles
• The Trigger Zone
• The Player
• The Controls
• Trigger Zone Script
• The Game Control Script
• The Player Script
• The Move Script
• The Spawn Script
• Putting It All Together
• Room for Improvement

• Audio Basics
• Parts of Audio
• 2D and 3D Audio
• Audio Sources
• Importing Audio Clips
• Testing Audio in the Scene View
• 3D Audio
• 2D Audio
• Audio Scripting
• Starting and Stopping Audio
• Changing Audio Clips

• Preparing for Mobile
• Setting Up Your Environment
• The Unity Remote
• Accelerometers
• Designing for the Acceleromete
• Using the Accelerometer
• Multi-Touch Input

• Cross-Platform Input
• Virtual Controls
• Converting Projects to Mobile
• Amazing Racer
• Using Tilt Control
• Using a Touch Joystick
• Fixing the Disappearing Joystick
• Chaos Ball
• Captain Blaster
• Gauntlet Runner

• Managing Scenes
• Establishing Scene Order
• Switching Scenes
• Persisting Data and Objects
• Keeping Objects
• Unity Player Settings
• Cross-Platform Settings
• Per-Platform Settings
• Building Your Game
• Build Settings