unity3d资料



Below you can find a list of resources and tutorials for learning the game engine Unity. The list will be updated as new resources are released. If you believe that you created an amazing tool or tutorial, please contact me and I am happy to add your work to the list.

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Unity website: http://unity3d.com/

Which license do you need? http://unity3d.com/unity/licenses

Download the free version of Unity to get started: http://unity3d.com/unity/download/
Pro Versions of each license are available here. There are subscription and one-time payment licenses available.

Unity Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#
Here you can download many professional resources and projects for Unity. Some of these resources and tutorials are free to use.
Tech Demos:  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/category/97
Tutorials: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/category/98

If you have no previous experience with Unity, start with these video tutorials which give a quick overview of the Unity interface and some important features. Over time, even some more advanced topics have been added here. This should be your first stop for getting started in Unity.
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules

Continue with a more in-depth text-based walk through of very basic Unity functionality and work flow  http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/UnityBasics.html

Unity features three scripting languages; JavaScript, C#, and Boo. Depending on your scripting language of choice, you might want to choose different tutorials to get started with Unity. Each tutorial link will also mention which scripting language is used. Most Unity tutorials available on the web are using JavaScript. Notice that JavaScript is commonly used for web applications. Unforunately, books which cover JavaScript are normally of little use for Unity's implementation of JavaScript. But worry not, a vast amount of tutorials will follow...

If you want to familiarize yourself with Unity's functionality more, browse through Unity's manual. You can skip the “Basics” section as we already went through this (see above).
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/index.html

The Scripting Reference can be found here: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/

Unity Videos (including Tutorials)http://video.unity3d.com/ 

Live Online Unity Classes (Archive)
http://unity3d.com/learn/live-training/archive

Upcoming Live Sessions
http://unity3d.com/learn/live-training/

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If you rather prefer to jump into the action, skip the manual and basic resources altogether and have a look at several books which have been published on Game Development with Unity (several recently added on 03/22/2012).
A complete list of Unity books and their descriptions can be found here:  http://gamefromscratch.com/page/Unity-Book-Roundup.aspx 

1) Matt Smith and Chico Queiroz published the "Unity 4.x Cookbook" which is an interesting format for learning a series of small, well-defined tasks and features about Unity. Instead of going through the development of a full game, you can use this book to easily look up individual topics such as how to build a minimap, how to use Mecanim or how to integrate interaction with the Microsoft Kinect in Unity. The topics range from a basic introduction to Unity to more advanced topics that even veterans might find useful. The book's code is written in C#.


2) Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner’s Guide by Thomas Finnegan is a comprehensive introduction to Unity Development in general and Android development specifically. I would not recommend it to an unexperienced first-time game developer, but with only some basic experience Finnegan’s set of four tutorial games are a great read with plenty of useful information about all aspects of Unity Android development, including 2D and 3D games. The book covers scripting in the C# language and does a decent job at explaining the logic of most written code. Each exemplar game introduces new concepts and the difficulty curve slowly and consistently climbs until the last chapter gives valuable insights into game optimization. Some discussed features require a Unity Pro license to get maximum value out of the book. Overall, I can recommend this Unity guide, as it currently is the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Unity Android development.


3) Author Will Goldstone guides you through a complete project and introduces most of Unity's functionality (using JavaScript). The book is available as print and digital version and all needed assets and resources can be downloaded with the book. It's been a helpful investment from my point of view.
http://www.packtpub.com/unity-game-development-essentials/book 
This forum thread discusses the book and its content. 
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=29041
The updated version of this book for Unity 3 can be found on Amazon.
Amazon Link

4) Ryan Henson Creighton more recently published "Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide". Find out more about the book here: https://www.packtpub.com/unity-3d-game-development-by-example-beginners-guide/book
and the forum thread - http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/61349-Unity-3D-Game-Development-by-Example

5) Craig Stevenson and Simon Quiq released "Unity 3 Blueprints: A practical guide to Indie games development". Their website provides all the art assests and code to create four classic games from scratch (Match the Pairs, Top-Down Shooter, Tower Defense, Marble Madness).
Amazon link

6) Sue Blackman wrote a book in which she guides the reader through the development of a Javascript-based project which resembles an adventure-type of game. Sue highlights the viewpoint of an artist working in game development. See the forum thread and the amazon link.
A new second edition is planned for release in late 2013.


7) Unity Game Development in 24 Hours by Mike Geig. Amazon Link


8) Unity 2D Game Development by Dave Calabrese. Amazon Link

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Unity 4.6 is just around the corner (featuring a brand-new UI system) with 4.5.4 being the current up-to-date version.

Check out a tutorial of the brand-new UI system from Buzz3D.

Download the latest version of Unity here: http://unity3d.com/unity/download/

See what's coming up in Unity 5:  http://unity3d.com/5

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You are now faced with the choice of tackling example projects provided by Unity Technologies or jump straight into user-generated tutorials. As the example projects are quite complex, I would suggest working through some video tutorials first. Nonetheless, here are the links for Unity's official example projects. They can be taken completely apart, reverse-engineered and reused for own projects.

Unity 4 Tutorial Project: Stealth
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/stealth

More Unity Example projects for a variety of topics can be found here:
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules
http://unity3d.com/learn/resources/downloads

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3dbuzz.com 
Series of Unity tutorials in C# (among many other tutorials about different tools and programming languages)
registration required (free)
website -  http://www.3dbuzz.com/ 
and http://www.3dbuzz.com/training/topic/unity?resetFilters=True for Unity specifically

Check out a tutorial of the brand-new UI system from Buzz3D.

Catlike Coding C# Tutorials - text-based tutorials that walk you through creating simple projects, the most complex being a side-scroller game. http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/
 
GamerToGameDeveloper Tutorials Series 1
This series of video tutorials covers the development of a multiplayer first person shooter prototype from scratch and focuses on C# scripting.
Website:  http://www.gamertogamedeveloper.com
 
GearTech Games 
A complete Unity project to learn from - for free on the Unity Asset store.
http://www.geartechgames.com/page2/page3/index.html
Asset Store Link: 
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/search/Palace%20of%20Orinthalian

LOD Tutorial  (Level of Detail, Unity3.5 Pro Feature)
By Manuel Scherer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX-9ofr2D5w   

Making Sense of Unity 
These video tutorials provide more indepth coverage of unity scripting using Javascript (not meant to be introductory material)

• lecture style explanations of concepts
• more entertaining and not like most other screen-capture tutorials :)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7AE076AFAFD3C305&feature=plcp
Website:  http://eteeskitutorials.com/

Technicat 
Introduction to Game Development with Unity including Workflow, Scripting, GUI, Version Control, etc. (for Unity Version 3)
http://drupal.technicat.com/games/unity.html

Terrain Tutorial In-Depth
text-based with screenshots
http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Terrain_tutorial 
forum thread
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=16941  

TornadoTwins Video Tutorials 
They show step by step how to create a simple game using Javascript.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TornadoTwins 


Other TornadoTwins projects:
http://www.fpscontrol.com/features (includes tutorials)
http://www.gameprefabs.com

Unity Gems
A website of text-based tutorials. This is a mix of introductory (intermediate) scripting tutorials and more advanced tutorials. Themes currently cover general tips for Unity scripting, Memory Management, Finite State Machines, Quaternions/Rotations and Coroutines. Some content for Boo and Unity Script is provided, several tips and descriptions are more conceptual and should be helpful regardless of the language that is used.
website:  http://unitygems.com/

UnityCookie (CGCookie)
A series of tutorials for an introduction to Unity and several scripting video tutorials (using Javascript)
http://cgcookie.com/unity/  

UnityScript Basics (Scripting Basics for Noobs)
If you're new to scripting, read up on this good introduction to scripting in Unity. Lots of analogies are provided which makes it really easy to understand. The details are explained for UnityScript, but the introduction is great for any scripting language. This content is not for the most recent version of Unity, but should be helpful nonetheless.
website - http://www.unityscript.com/lessons1/basics.php 

Walker Boys Studio - Unity Tutorials from the Guildhall at SMU (an extensive list of tutorials with more on the way). These are for Unity 3, but should still be relevant to get started with some tutorial projects.
http://walkerboystudio.com/html/unity_training___free__.html 

Will Goldstone, author of the Unity Game Development book, worked on a series of helpful video tutorials here (using JavaScript): 
http://learnunity3d.com/ (also http://learnmesilly.com/).
More recently by Will Goldstone: http://www.unity3dstudent.com/


Unity Tips
http://devmag.org.za/2012/07/12/50-tips-for-working-with-unity-best-practices/

PAID TUTORIALS

Design3.com (subscription-based tutorials, Unity-related content among other software like Maya, 3DS Max, Photoshop) [For Unity 3.5, not Unity 4]
http://www.design3.com/training-center/engines-sdks/unity

Digital Tutors - (250+ subscription-based tutorials) [Ranging from Unity 3.4/3.5 to Unity 4.2]
http://www.digitaltutors.com/training/unity-tutorials 

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Once you went through some or all of these tutorials, you should be creating your own content in no time. Next, I'll provide an overview of general resources for Unity. Whenever you need to find some information about Unity, scripting, projects, collaborations or anything Unity-related, check these links out:

Searching for resources - The All-In-One Unity Reference Search 
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=001712401338047450041:csfhqk-trfa 
credit goes to Robotduck for providing this link to the public; tremendous time saver (see http://robotduck.wordpress.com/)

Unity Scripting Reference 
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/index.html 

Unity Component Reference 
each available Component described in detail
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/index.html 

Unity Wiki (UnifyCommunity) 
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
UnityScript Keywords: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=UnityScript_Keywords

Unity Answers 
Invaluable when you have specific questions about Unity or Scripting
http://answers.unity3d.com/ 
This link should also get you started on learning Unity
http://answers.unity3d.com/search?q=learning+tutorial 

Unity Forum 
http://forum.unity3d.com/ 
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=30633 

Unity Feedback 
feature requests go here
http://feedback.unity3d.com 

Unity IRC 
Point your favorite IRC client to irc.freenode.net and join #unity3d to chat in real time. 

Overview of Unity Resources 
http://www.reddit.com/r/unity_tutorials/ 

Overview of Unity blogs 
http://www.reddit.com/r/unity_blogs/ 

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Unity Extensions

• Terrain Toolkit
  
• External Lightmapping Tool
  
• Locomotion System
  
• Explosion Framework
  
• Head Look Controller
  

http://unity3d.com/support/resources/unity-extensions/
overview of some extensions – Unity youtube and vimeo channels 
http://www.youtube.com/user/Unity3D 

Visual C# Express-  free IDE for your C# development
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-products#product-express-summary

AngryAnt 
One of Unity's developers provides projects to extend Unity's functionality (e.g. pathfinding and AI)
http://angryant.com/ 

Antares Project - Extensive Set of Tools to extend the Unity Editor - Open Source
Also available: Antares.dll (free for non-commercial work)
forum thread - http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=50843
Unity Asset Store:  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/search/antares

Starscene Software - Tools, Games and Utilities for Unity (purchase required for utilities) 
http://www.starscenesoftware.com
e.g. Vectrosity - Line Drawing Tool
http://starscenesoftware.com/vectrosity.html
Fractscape - Terrain Tool
Stitchscape - Stitch multiple terrains together

DF GUI - GUI builder (purchase required, not longer supported)
http://www.daikonforge.com/dfgui/

NGUI - GUI builder/editor (purchase required)
http://www.tasharen.com/?page_id=140 Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/2413

EZ Game Saver, EZGUI, SpriteManager2 - saving tool (purchase required)
http://www.anbsoft.com/middleware/

Overview of extensions on UnifyWiki 
http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Extensions 

LightUp (purchase required)
Extension of Google Sketchup (Lighting Solution) which works nicely for exporting lightmaps to Unity
http://www.light-up.co.uk/ 

Plugin for Kinect's Primesense Camera (unknown whether this works with Unity 4)
forum thread - http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/67982-Kinect-plugin

Strobotnik's Google Universal Analytics Plugin for easy data tracking within Google Analytics
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/11098

Tools for Visual Programming:
Antares Universe - Vizio (forum thread)
cost $75
Visual programming tool similar to the approaches of Quest3D and Virtools. Asset Store:  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/495

Playmaker by Hutong Games
cost $95 (on sale regularly)
Visual State Machine Editor (website and forum thread) Asset Store:  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/368

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Update Log:
9/20/2014 Added Buzz3D UI tutorial
08/29/2014 Cleaned up some old links, added Unity Tips
05/11/14 Updated books and link to Unity 5
11/07/2013: Updated links
09/09/2013: Cleaned up links, added Unity4 Cookbook, updated latest Unity version, added DF GUI
03/31/2013: Completely updated all links and removed a lot of old and dead content, added books and new Unity 4 sources
11/2/2012: added UnityGems (user tutorials)05/15/2012: added GamerToGameDeveloper tutorials (section user tutorials)