Basics...

The tutorials are excellent and thank you for those who’ve spent the effort to create them and help us.

I’ve learned how to play with the Angrybots demo and learn the tools and environment.

Perhaps I’m not looking in the right place for what I need, so now’s your chance to ‘tell me where to go’!

I need a tutorial that starts with what I see when I open Unity; a blank scene.

My initial goal, and we must all set a goal, or what’s the point, is to

  1. have a desert scene with a few hills, a couple of buildings, a road, and a couple of tanks. All of these items are free assets.
  2. When you ‘play’ you can move the tank and choose first person view or 3rd person view

Soooo… I can put a tank in my scene…but then there it is floating in the ether, lost in a void.

How do I make the earth? What sort of mesh (??) or what have you do I need to add to see ‘earth’ so I can apply a desert texture to it.

How do I make a road on my terra-nova?

R

Ok - I found it - GameObject-> Create Other → Terain

hey rachmann,

i can advise the Getting Started series from CG Cookie to you. It helped me really much to get into Unity. You can find it on http://cgcookie.com/unity/category/getting-started/ . Maybe you can skip the first parts But http://cgcookie.com/unity/2011/11/30/unity-creating-a-game-in-30mins/ could be right one.

Good luck.