Unity Guide

Unity Set Up Guide

Installing Unity Hub

First, head here by clicking on the blue text. You will see unity’s main download page. Click the download button highlighted in Image 1

It will take you a few seconds to download it.

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Then, head to your downloads folder and double click on the UnityHubSetup 


Leave everything to default, and click the blue recommended buttons in the set up process as shown in Image 2


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Creating an Account

After completing  the installation, it will ask you to sign in. If you don’t have an account already, you can create an account. Click either, shown in red in Image 3 and then enter your details. 

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Adding a License 

After you have created your account, you need to add a license. And guess what? It’s 30 dollars a month! 🤣Just kidding, it’s free for personal plans and that plan will suit your needs almost always in your game dev journey. However, you can get a student plan for free if you are 16+ and a post-secondary or secondary student and it gives you most of Unity Pro plan’s benefits. You can add a free personal license by clicking what's shown on Image 4, 5 and 6. Then, it will ask you to agree to terms and I suggest you read it sometime because I believe it includes limits to your plan such as how much money you can make. After that you’re all set to install Unity Editor!

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Installing Unity Editor - Unity 6

Minimum Specs


Windows

Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer

X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support, ARM64

DX10, DX11, DX12 or Vulkan capable GPUs

Hardware vendor officially supported drivers

macOS

Big Sur 11.0 or newer

X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support (Intel processors)

Apple M1 or above (Apple silicon-based processors)

Metal-capable Intel and AMD GPUs

Apple officially supported drivers (Intel processor)

Rosetta 2 is required for Apple silicon devices running on either Apple silicon or Intel versions of the Unity Editor

Linux

Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04

X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support

OpenGL 3.2+ or Vulkan-capable, Nvidia and AMD GPUs

Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system, Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver, or AMD Mesa graphics driver. Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (Kernel, Compositor, etc.)

Source: Unity Manual

Recommended Specs

This is a section for my personal recommended specs. Please do not go and buy a really expensive device just for this. Anything above minimum specs above will work, but you will lose a lot of time just waiting for it to load. However, if you’re into game development and plan to do it more and you need it for other things like broadcasting, I would look into getting a high-end device. I experimented with unity with a variety of different computers, and obviously an Intel i9 processor works best, but I find Intel i7 or Ryzen 7 fine for most of unity’s features. However, anything below that is either really slow or doesn’t work. Intel i5 chip would be the bare minimum for running unity. Unity gets very hardware intensive quickly and you must have good specs or it will crash. For a Mac OS, I would recommend anything released within the past 5 years. M chips are the best because they perform well.

Installing Unity 6

Finally, you will now get to install the recently released unity editor, Unity 6. Fun fact: they skipped from 2022 (year naming) to 6000 like they made groundbreaking breakthroughs and they had to skip to 6000, but it’s just basic upgrades. Unity 5 was in 2015…


If you are going to work on our game, please install unity version 6000.0.24f1 by going here. If you install some other version like 6000.0.24f1, you will need to delete that install and install the correct version. For future projects, it does not matter which version it is, as long as it matches everyone else’s version.


Alternatively, you can follow Image 7, then click Archive, and click the first blue link that says download archive, which will lead here, then scroll down to find 6000.0.24f1


Congratulations and good luck in every project you will make!

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GitHub Desktop Set Up Guide

What is GitHub?

GitHub is based on the version control software called Git. Version control exists to keep track of changes in a software code. It is commonly used in small to large teams for collaboration due to many factors. We will be using GitHub and GitHub Desktop to store and share the Unity project which includes the code.


Installing GitHub Desktop

Before we begin, please head to GitHub homepage to sign up if you haven’t already, and please use your default browser (if you have multiple) to sign in as we will need it later.


First, head here and click Download for ___(insert Operating System)___. Head to your downloads folder and then open the GitHubDesktopSetup file. It should install automatically, and once that’s done click the blue button (Sign in to GitHub.com) as shown in Image 8.


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After logging in, you’ll be prompted to return to GitHub Desktop which you should do to complete the sign in on the app. 


GitHub Desktop Usage

In this section, you will learn about how to use GitHub Desktop


*I am currently unable to open GitHub desktop so there will be no images for a bit.


Vocabulary Info


Steps to Collaborate