I am new to unity and all of these editors mostly. i have been trying to learn but…people just push me to a tutorial. THIS is the problem. Most people who have no idea what they are doing don’t understand in the first place so a video is just a video and no interaction. You cant ask questions … you cant talk to it. Where is the hands on class or …well something to help the new people like me learn this/these programs ?
if you want something like an actual teacher, you’ll have to pay for it, if you’re willing to do that I’m sure there are plenty of people around willing to teach you (myself included), however if you don’t want to pay for lessons, then you’ll have to make do with tutorials, and if they are good tutorials, they will teach you everything you need step by step.
Here’s how to use tutorials… two easy steps:
Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:
How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:
Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.
Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes.
BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE!!
If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix your error. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix your error. Your error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.
Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.
Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.
Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.
Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!
The purpose of this forum is to assist people who are ready to learn by doing, and who are unafraid to get their hands dirty learning how to code, particularly in the context of Unity3D.
This assumes you have at least written and studied some code and have run into some kind of issue.
If you haven’t even started yet, go check out some Youtube videos for whatever game design you have in mind. There are already many examples of the individual parts and concepts involved, as there is nothing truly new under the sun.
If you just want someone to do it for you, you need go to one of these places:
https://livehelp.unity.com/?keywords=&page=1&searchTypes=lessons
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For really hands-on tutorials check out Udemy. It‘s paid content though but for specific subjects often the best place to get a hands on course from A to Z.
Generally most of the questions you will ask yourself have already been asked and answered both here on the Unity Forum and on Stack Overflow and other forums / articles.
When you have a question, google it and search if anyone has already asked and answered it.
If you don’t know how to use certain elements, Unity’s manual / scripting api is essential Unity - Manual: Unity User Manual 2022.3 (LTS)
The manual for c# is here Guida per C# - Linguaggio gestito da .NET | Microsoft Learn (this is in Italian, you can search for the translated one)
it is difficult to initially search for something in the manuals, you can search the internet by adding the word manual, the exact page you are looking for should come out.
And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can open a thread and ask what you don’t understand.