If you have followed the above instructions: Not doing so may delay your child starting the course, and could impact how much work is completed during the course.
Please make a note of the email address and password that was used to create your Unit圓D account – this information will be required during the course, so kindly ensure that your child has this with them at the start of the event. Visual Studio is installed automatically as part of your installation of Unit圓D.Īs part of installing Unity, you will be required to create a Unity account – we recommend doing using the attendees personal email address. Wherever in the course you come across MonoDevelop, remember that the latest version of Unit圓D uses Visual Studio instead. Since then, a different IDE called Visual Studio has become the default IDE used in Unit圓D.
MonoDevelop is an IDE (integrated development environment) which is special software that is used to write computer code for a variety of platforms, one of which is games development.Īt the time the course was written, MonoDevelop was the default IDE for writing code inside of Unit圓D. Throughout the Unit圓D course, you will see references to an app called MonoDevelop, which is used from within Unit圓D. Once installed, open Unit圓D and ensure that you don’t get any errors whilst opening the software. Please click here to follow the detailed steps required for installing the Unity editor.
Choosing a Unity development license (if you don’t already have a Unity development license, we recommend the free “Unity Personal” license).Creating a Unity account, if you don’t have one already (requires a valid email address and password).Installation of the Unity Editor, is done from the Unity Hub and involves the following steps: Note: The Unit圓D code editor can take up as much as 1GB of space on your computer’s hard drive, so you may need to free up space on your as part of completing this installation. The version of Unity to be installed should be a minimum version 2019.3 or greater.
Step 2 – Installing Unity Editor (the code editor)Īfter installing Unity Hub and bringing it up onto the screen, we now need to install the Unity Editor.
The Unit圓D gaming engine has a set of minimum requirements that your home computer must meet in order to function properly. Please note that there is additional information that the course attendee is required have with them at the start of the course (see “Important!” section below). This process covers the following pre-course steps to ensure the attendee’s computer is set-up correctly for Unit圓D: