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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

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In this chapter, we will learn how to install Unity and create a project with Unity Hub, a tool that manages different Unity versions and projects, among other tasks. Unity Hub gives easy access to community blogs, forums, resources, and learning portals; it also manages your licenses and allows managing different installs and projects.Specifically, we will examine the following topics in this chapter:

Installing Unity
Creating projects

Let's start by talking about how to get Unity up and running. If you already know how to install Unity, feel free to skip ahead to Chapter 2, Editing Scenes and Game Objects. If you are already familiar with Unity's editor, you can jump to Chapter 3, Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder, where we start creating the book's project.

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Published in: Jan 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835085714

Authors (2)

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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