

I’m now a Financial Maths student at University College Dublin, and occasionally I do freelance graphic design, web prototyping, and game prototyping. In this article, we run through all you need to know to get started using Unity.įirst, a little bit about me: I’m a hobbyist unity developer, 3d modeler and graphic designer who’s worked with Unity and Blender for over 5 years. Good luck on your journey, and we hope to see your wonderful creations on PC, Android, or iOS one day.Unity is a great tool for prototyping everything from games, to interactive visualisations. There are also projects on the Unity Learn site which will help you get acquainted with the various types of games you can make in Unity. This will take you through the early steps of working with the Unity Editor. Click on the first tutorial in the "Start with your first project". Download the documentation to start yourself off, but there's also a whole section of the Unity website (opens in new tab) dedicated to teaching you everything you need to know about the engine. Once you've installed Unity for Windows, it's time to dive into everything that's available to you. That's unlikely for most folks, so Personal is what you want to go with.

The Personal version is free up until you make $100,000 in revenue, at which point you have to pay Unity a cut of revenue. The Student version is totally free, but requires you to be an enrolled student at any accredited educational institution. As an individual user, you can either get the Student and Personal versions. If you want to mess with cutting edge features, there's also a beta version, Unity 2020.1.0. As of the time of this writing, the current version of Unity for Windows is Unity 2019.4.5.
