I am a complete newbie re gaming, and I am teaching Year 9 students (Age 14-15).
The students are capable.
I am wondering if anyone can assist in letting me know what software from the unity website I should download and where we should start.
have a look at the unity tutorials and fear not, Im likely older than you, and I’ve taught myself. But download hub, and from hub install an editor. If you have a strict IT guy, you may have some issues if you have proxy servers, or restrictive GPOs to prevent kids being kids… (glad you clarified age of kids cos in my day we didnt have year 9 … )
If you arent comfortable, Id suggest this year is not the year to teach them this, even if you use half term and christmas hols
Run through the unity courses they have a lot, including networking and the like
Once you are happy enough, thens the time to teach them
Thank you. Unfortunately, there isn’t a choice re teaching Unity, and luckily I have a class that is collaborative and understanding and we work together to solve problems.
We have all downloaded the Hub but are not sure which editor we require. We can work out which ones we need for the varied laptops we have but we cannot work out if Unity 6 is the right one to go with. Do you have any advice? Thanks
The Unity Learn website has nicely guided courses. Can probably stick them onto the junior programmer course and let them work at their own pace: Junior Programmer Pathway - Unity Learn
They have certain versions they’re designed to work with, so can just download those and go along with it.
Thank you! I appreciate your support. I am planning on doing UNity Essentials Pathway.
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Like all things, each version has bought new bits with it, the fundementals dont change across, them, some settings availabilities, and such as the build screen has changed a lot since say the 2021 editor, but, as a whole if you’re setting yourselves up to make a game of your own design, id say start with 6. To follow the unity learn you do get told which version its designed round so the exact screens can match - as we all know how infuriating it is when you’re trying to learn and somethigns moved, changed, got a new name… and when new you may not know.
One of my only frustrations with unity is occasionally it says “I hate the thing you just selected because you have this option set” … now, 99% of the time you as a person didnt set it, that was the default setting, but what it doesnt say is where to find it, and somtimes, it feels like you need to meet a guy in a shadey back alley to exchange it (ok its not that bad, but it can be many many clicks away and while google is always good to help, it would be so much nicer if they would allow you to click and it take you to the right bit…)
It sounds like you have a good bunch. It just seems odd to me that unity would be part of the curiculum amd you wouldnt have sufficient time to have attained a reasonable working level of it before expected to teach it… Ive been on the end of a discord with some guy who paid for a higher eductational course, and the guy at the front of the class had zero clues, (admittedly I dont think he was trying to learn it with them which would have been at good start) he just kinda set tasks that had been told you must make them do x, and left them to it) and this guy was heart broken cos he paid a lot of money and wasnt getting what he paid for. I was listening to one of the lectures and well, it wasnt even a lecture, it explained the task, and was kinda off you go. Every answer was “I dont know”. I was trying to help you not be that teacher
Id also have suggested pluralsight but they took off a load of their training material to the point, I wouldnt bother… some of it was factually incorrect it and had terrible reviews.
There are also plenty of tutorials on youtube, as starting out how to get going tutorials.
Hi, I teach highschool and sadly there is a teacher shortage and I am currently putty : )
I have just tried to download
- 2022.3.22F1 to use with Unity Essentials
- 2020.3.48F1 to use with John Lemon’s Haunted House
For some reason I am unable to download Visual Studio for Mac…not sure what the impact of this would be? Hoping it is not critical to running these programs. I have an apple laptop.
So. You need a code editor, vs code for mac is apparently an hella bad idea, visual studio for mac is your better option unless you want expensive licensed software… so, you dont have to download it through unity hub, you can get it yourself - you will however then have to add unity bits I believe (I did barely try unity on a mac) to visual studio to make it play nice with unity.
If you’re going to use the visual scripting language (which most courses online dont) you can more safely ignore visual studio, so, in short, you do kinda need it
I don’t work on Mac but I heard totally opposite: Visual Studio being discontinued and VS Code being the right option. Am I wrong?
tbh, it wouldnt surprise me if it was just a simple personal choice and theres the fores and the againsts but actually both were fine.