Unity Manual
Welcome to Unity.
Unity is made to empower you to create the best interactive entertainment or multimedia experience that you can. This manual is designed to help you learn how to use Unity, from basic to advanced techniques. It can be read from start to finish or used as a reference.
The manual is divided into different sections. The first section, User Guide, is an introduction to Unity's interface, asset workflow, and the basics of building a game. If you are new to Unity, you should start by reading the Unity Basics subsection.
The iOS Guide addresses iOS specific topics such as iOS-specific scripting API, optimizations, and general platform development questions.
The Android Guide addresses Android specific topics such as setting up the Android SDK and general development questions.
The next section, FAQ, is a collection of frequently asked questions about performing common tasks that require a few steps.
The last section, Advanced, addresses topics such as game optimization, shaders, file sizes, and deployment.
When you've finished reading, take a look at the Reference Manual and the Scripting Reference for further details about the different possibilities of constructing your games with Unity.
If you find that any question you have is not answered in this manual please ask on Unity Answers or Unity Forums. You will be able to find your answer there.
Happy reading,
The Unity team
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Table of Contents
- User Guide
- Unity Basics
- Building Scenes
- Asset Import and Creation
- Creating Gameplay
- Instantiating Prefabs at runtime
- Input
- Transforms
- Physics
- Adding Random Gameplay Elements
- Particle Systems
- Mecanim Animation System
- A Glossary of Animation and Mecanim terms
- Asset Preparation and Import
- Working with humanoid animations
- Generic Animations in Mecanim
- Bringing Characters to Life
- Mecanim Performance and Optimization
- Mecanim FAQ
- Legacy animation system
- Navmesh and Pathfinding (Pro only)
- Sound
- Game Interface Elements
- Networked Multiplayer
- Getting Started with iOS Development
- Unity iOS Basics
- Unity Remote
- iOS Scripting
- iOS Hardware Guide
- Optimizing Performance in iOS.
- Account Setup
- Features currently not supported by Unity iOS
- Building Plugins for iOS
- Preparing your application for "In App Purchases"
- Customizing the Splash screen of Your Mobile Application
- Trouble Shooting
- Reporting crash bugs on iOS
- Getting Started with Android Development
- Getting Started with Native Client Development
- Getting Started with Flash Development
- Flash: Setup
- Flash: Building & Running
- Flash: Debugging
- Flash: What is and is not supported
- Flash: Embedding Unity Generated Flash Content in Larger Flash Projects
- Example: Supplying Data from Flash to Unity
- Example: Calling ActionScript Functions from Unity
- Example: Browser JavaScript Communication
- Example: Accessing the Stage
- Example: Flash Vars
- FAQ
- Upgrade Guide from Unity 3.5 to 4.0
- Unity 3.5 upgrade guide
- Upgrading your Unity Projects from 2.x to 3.x
- Unity 4.0 Activation - Overview
- Game Code Questions
- Graphics Questions
- How do I Import Alpha Textures?
- How do I Use Normal Maps?
- How do I use Detail Textures?
- How do I Make a Cubemap Texture?
- How do I Make a Skybox?
- How do I make a Mesh Particle Emitter? (Legacy Particle System)
- How do I make a Splash Screen?
- How do I make a Spot Light Cookie?
- How do I fix the rotation of an imported model?
- How do I use Water?
- FBX export guide
- Art Asset Best-Practice Guide
- How do I import Models from my 3D app?
- Workflow Questions
- Mobile Developer Checklist
- How to deliver an application to the Apple Mac Store.
- Advanced
- Vector Cookbook
- AssetBundles (Pro only)
- Graphics Features
- AssetDatabase
- Build Player Pipeline
- Profiler (Pro only)
- Lightmapping Quickstart
- Occlusion Culling (Pro only)
- Camera Tricks
- Loading Resources at Runtime
- Modifying Source Assets Through Scripting
- Generating Mesh Geometry Procedurally
- Rich Text
- Using Mono DLLs in a Unity Project
- Execution Order of Event Functions
- Practical Guide to Optimization for Mobiles
- Practical Guide to Optimization for Mobiles - Future & High End Devices
- Practical Guide to Optimization for Mobiles - Graphics Methods
- Practical Guide to Optimization for Mobiles - Scripting and Gameplay Methods
- Practical Guide to Optimization for Mobiles - Rendering Optimizations
- Practical Guide to Optimization for Mobiles - Optimizing Scripts
- Structure of an Unity XCode Project
- Optimizing Graphics Performance
- Reducing File Size
- Understanding Automatic Memory Management
- Platform Dependent Compilation
- Generic Functions
- Debugging
- Plugins (Pro/Mobile-Only Feature)
- Textual Scene File Format (Pro-only Feature)
- Streaming Assets
- Command line arguments
- Running Editor Script Code on Launch
- Network Emulation
- Security Sandbox of the Webplayer
- Overview of available .NET Class Libraries
- Visual Studio C# Integration
- Version control integration (Team license only)
- Using External Version Control Systems with Unity
- Analytics
- Check For Updates
- Installing Multiple Versions of Unity
- Trouble Shooting
- Shadows in Unity
- IME in Unity
- Optimizing for integrated graphics cards
- Web Player Deployment
- HTML code to load Unity content
- Working with UnityObject2
- Customizing the Unity Web Player loading screen
- Customizing the Unity Web Player's Behavior
- Unity Web Player and browser communication
- Using web player templates
- Web Player Streaming
- Webplayer Release Channels
- Using the Chain of Trust system in the Web Player
Page last updated: 2012-11-14