Interactive Tutorials feedback thread

[Adam-Buckner_1]

@UnityFan18

Hello,

This is incredibly exciting news for a hobbyist such as myself. I have always learned best through hands-on experience and these tutorials look amazing! This is exactly the type of tutorial that I find the most effective for me. Thank you so much to the Unity Team for offering so much wonderful educational content to learn the engine and help make scripting and other complex a little bit less daunting for those such as myself who don’t come from a programming background and are just starting to learning Unity and game development.

I have several questions about this incredible new way to learn.

1. Are the future interactive tutorials made by Unity something that would be free for each Unity license (Unity Personal, Pro, Plus) or will there be paid lessons that you can pay one fee and have unlimited access to that tutorial more akin to Udemy as opposed to a subscription service system such as Lynda.com?

2. Are there any plans to offer Unity Interactive Courses that are essentially an interactive version of courseware that is found on educational websites/colleges? Perhaps the courses could be set-up in different difficulty levels such as beginner, intermediate, and expert?

Some suggestions as well.

1. Perhaps this could also be used to partner with colleges for them to create interactive content/courseware for Unity.

2. Perhaps there down the line could be a way to browse and rate the interactive courses published by the community.

3. This would be an incredible resource to create more learning resources catered towards kinesthetic learners such as this
   https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/38910. Would love to see more learning resources that are better suited towards kinesthetic learners.

4. Have you considered using this to create interactive tutorials for content concerning other areas of the Unity game engine such as scripting and animation lessons etc? I can see this being used to create some excellent interactive scripting tutorials.

Lastly, I just wanted to thank the Unity Team for their continued investment in the learning materials for the Unity Game Engine. In addition, thank you so much for creating this learning resources which will benefit kinesthetic learners greatly. I am extremely excited for future interactive tutorials. I greatly appreciate it as a hobbyist and beginner to a field that can be extremely overwhelming and daunting.

UnityFan: thanks for the feedback. All of your suggestions are sound.

There are a number of initiatives afoot about education and learning.

We can’t really comment on them any more than we could about these in editor tutorials until they come to fruition, if at all.

The most I can say is that we are committed to teaching Unity to as broad an audience as possible and we want to keep it as free and unfettered as possible. There’s no point in downloading software you can’t use, no matter how powerful it is.

I’m glad you found these helpful.

[twilightZone]

Hello,
I am a pretty good developper but I am a beginner in Unity. Those interactive tutorials are very well made and very interesting. But to learn Unity you have to create hundreds of these tutorials.
Is it a good idea to look at the scripts in Content > game > Scripts for a beginner ??
Is it possible, for each lesson, to have the little snippet without the interactives screens.

Thanks a lot

[UnityFan18]

I was also wondering if it is possible to review the interactive tutorial on the asset store. I have already downloaded them and gone through each of the tutorials. However, I am not sure why it is not letting me leave a review for them on the asset store.

[willgoldstone]

@twilightZone

Hello,
I am a pretty good developper but I am a beginner in Unity. Those interactive tutorials are very well made and very interesting. But to learn Unity you have to create hundreds of these tutorials.
Is it a good idea to look at the scripts in Content > game > Scripts for a beginner ??
Is it possible, for each lesson, to have the little snippet without the interactives screens.

Thanks a lot

Hi are you asking if we can provide the scenes without the tutorial mode so you can look at the simple interactions? Yes, though we have a lot more content with this in mind incoming

@UnityFan18 not sure its probably just in a review queue though! Thanks!

[twilightZone]

@willgoldstone

Hi are you asking if we can provide the scenes without the tutorial mode so you can look at the simple interactions? Yes, though we have a lot more content with this in mind incoming

Very good news
Thanks a lot

[SIC-ITUR-AD-ASTRA]

Hi, the tutorials are not working for me and I’m receiving an error in the console.
I’m running a fresh install of Unity on MacOS…

[mav1984]

How to get started tutorial? Nothing happens

- YouTube

[JacekMackiewicz]

@mav1984

How to get started tutorial? Nothing happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9iI3BTutos

Hi mav1984,

From your video it looks like you are running Unity version 2017.1.1f1 - Interactive tutorials are only supported in 2017.2 and upwards (currently available as a beta release). When you download any version of 2017.2 (though obviously the newest version is recommended) you’ll see an additional link in the “Learn” tab called “Basic Tutorials”. From there you can download and try these new tutorials. Happy learning!

[JacekMackiewicz]

@SIC-ITUR-AD-ASTRA

Hi, the tutorials are not working for me and I’m receiving an error in the console.
I’m running a fresh install of Unity on MacOS…

Hi SIC-ITUR-AD-ASTRA,

Sorry to hear about your problem! Could you provide us with some more details? What Unity Editor version are you running and on what OSX? Did you download the tutorials from the “Learn/Basic Tutorials” section in the launcher and received the error immediately upon opening them? I just tried with 2017.2.01f and on OS X 10.12.6 and everything worked fine so I’m hoping with more details we can narrow it down

[tazforky]

I am hitting the same problem as SIC-ITUR-AD-ASTRA. I saw about Unity’s new Interactive Tutorials and was directed to the latest beta download. Latest beta points to 2017.3.0b4 for MacOSX, and I have 10.12.6 OSX.

The install is fine, when you download, then start the 1st interactive tutorial you get a dialog like below:

This project contains scripts and/or assemblies that use obsolete APIs.

If you choose ‘Go Ahead’, Unity will automatically upgrade any scripts/assemblies in the Assets folder found using the old APIs. You should make a backup before proceeding.

(You can always run the API Updater manually via the ‘Assets/Run API Updater’ menu command.)

If you accept the go ahead and update scripts, unity loads, no tutorial is available and 999+ errors are in the console. Collapsing the errors it has the following ones:

Editor: Metal support disabled, skipping device initialization

There are 50000+ of these and growing:
MissingMethodException: Method not found: ‘UnityEngine.Experimental.UIElements.VisualElement.get_parent’.

The details for one shows this for example:
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.ApplyMaskingSettings (Boolean applyMask) (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:628)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.OnTutorialPageCriteriaCompletionStateTested (Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage sender) (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:162)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage.ValidateCriteria () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Models/TutorialPage.cs:334)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage.SetupCompletionRequirements () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Models/TutorialPage.cs:227)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage.Initiate () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Models/TutorialPage.cs:199)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.SetUpTutorial () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:334)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.OnEnable () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:129)
UnityEditor.EditorWindow:GetWindow()
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow:CreateWindow() (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:18)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.UserStartupCode:RunStartupCode() (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/UserStartupCode.cs:15)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.UserStartupCode:InitRunStartupCode() (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/UserStartupCode.cs:43)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallUpdateFunctions()

I should also mention that Unity->About, Unity->Preferences, Unity->Modules all do nothing when I think they are supposed to popup dialog boxes.

I then exited Unity and started it from terminal with:
/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/MacOS/Unity -force-metal

This leads to a different error dialog on startup:
Failed to load window layout
This can happen if layout contains custom windows and there are compile errors in the project.

I click the default of restore default layout and once unity editor starts now the console is just full of the get.parent errors like before. At least the Metal Support Disable one is gone.

[mhnj7]

I just installed latest beta and having same exact issues tazforky described. I’m running on Windows 10. I did previously have latest stable version of Unity but removed it before installing the beta…not sure if that has something to do with it.

[JacekMackiewicz]

Thanks for providing the extra information everyone! I’ve found the bug in our database - we’re aware of it and it should be fixed soon! The tutorials work fine on 2017.2 so if you’d really like to try them for yourselves it just came out of beta today!

[mepi_pl]

2017.3 Installed and Interactive Tutorials seems not to be working: see screencast

- YouTube

[tazforky]

Thanks JacekPapaPolski. I can confirm that 2017.2.0f3 is now available online as of today. I removed the old install, installed the new one, and am able to run the interactive tutorial and start unity correctly.

[AlanMattano]

@willgoldstone Feedback: A 2017.2 , 2017.3 , 2017.4 , … Tutorials can be useful for including all the new features of that version (What’s included in that release). Each new release of Unity has many new existing features, improvements and changes. This Interactive Tutorial Course can be used as a complete guide for advanced users to all of the main new or updated features of the current release. Also, the screenshot can be handy for documentation.

[UnityFan18]

@AlanMattano

@willgoldstone Feedback: A 2017.2 , 2017.3 , 2017.4 , … Tutorials can be useful for including all the new features of that version (What’s included in that release). Each new release of Unity has many new existing features, improvements and changes. This Interactive Tutorial Course can be used as a complete guide for advanced users to all of the main new or updated features of the current release. Also, the screenshot can be handy for documentation.

I think this a fantastic idea! I would love to see the interactive tutorial be also used to showcase the new main features in each new Unity Release.

[AlanMattano]

Unity is growing fast and there is a lot of content. My fear is that Unity can grow much faster and release a lot of content, more than what we can handle to learn as India developers while we are making the game. For example, Just following the new realising of the asset in the asset store is hard.

@Adam-Buckner_1 This idea of Version Updates Interactive Tutorials can be a big time saver for the community because we, users, can copy and paste this new game objects, components, settings, prefabs and finally modify for the purpose, without the need of looking around how to achieve and make it work in our game. If a live session is also combined with this asset interactive tutorial then we are sure that we are not missing anything and we can follow this Unity exponential growing speed.

[unity_gmgdmihvguZBsg]

@JacekMackiewicz

Thanks for providing the extra information everyone! I’ve found the bug in our database - we’re aware of it and it should be fixed soon! The tutorials work fine on 2017.2 so if you’d really like to try them for yourselves it just came out of beta today!

Can you give us some update on the DB fix you mentioned for version 2017.3 please? How soon will it be available?

[WalterPalladino]

Hi Guys, I’m trying to download : Interactive Tutorial 1: Play & Edit Mode from the editor but I hit and hit an the Download button ignores me
Please HELP!!!

[AndersonDev]

Guys it is awesome! I waiting this so long. I am creating lessons for children based on Unity and this will be awful boost for interacting with Unity! I can highlight lesson tasks and add helps and tips on unity, wow. If you have some beta of tools, please let me know! Thanks!