New tutorials for 4.3?

News & General Discussion
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I’m curious if there will be available tutorials for when 4.3 comes out, that are aimed at beginners to Unity, but from a 2D pertspective versus 3D? All of the beginner tutorials for Unity right now all touch on learning the environment to make 3D games. With the release of the new 2D tools (with the release of 4.3) if there will be enough introductory and beginning tutorials that will teach one to use Unity, but only touch on the 2D stuff? I’d like to start learning/using Unity for 2D stuff, but I don’t want my learning process to be bogged down with the 3D stuff… yet.

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We had tutorials and example projects that were just completely incompatible with the Unity version that was released for a good part of 3.x’s release (2D platforming tutorial comes to mind) so I wouldn’t hold your breath for anything more than the 2D demo they showed and the documentation contained in that.

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Ya for a short while your best hope would to be to try and get the 2D demo project and check that out. Im sure that the Learn Team will pump some out fairly quickly, but I dont think they will be here on release day. It just doesnt make sense to make tutorials about 4.3 when a lot of GUI and interface changes are happening.

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I vote for more mobile tutorials, focusing on optimization for mobile and also controls :slight_smile:

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There will be tutorials for the 2D tools. They are a high priority for us but since we aim to get the tools to you as soon as we can, we don’t have a lot of time to make tutorials once they have been finalised. As such we plan to have a 2D overview video as close to release as possible. This will be a longer video covering as much as we can of the 2D features before we focus on specifics. In depth tutorials will be out after.

Also we will be making some tutorials that focus on touch screen controls, how to use them and hopefully the gyro controls as well.

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Is there any (very rough) indication of when 4.3 will be made available? I cannot wait to get into that 2D functionality.:smile:

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Don’t forget to make Box2D raycast available :slight_smile:

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here they give lots of technical details about it,
Unity Hangout 3: 2D

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Ah yes, very useful indeed.