Creating 2D Games in Unity 4.5 Workshop Part 1

This is a step by step guide of everything you need to know to make a 2D game in Unity 4.5. Each video has been indexed for your convenience.

#1 - Introduction:

-INTRODUCTION-
1:42 You need proficiency in C#
3:00 C# Courses
4:20 MMO Series
5:45 Requires Unity 4.5

#2 - Intro to 2D:

-SCENES AND CAMERA-
1:30 Scene view orthographic
3:00 Main camera also orthographic
3:41 Difference between orthographic and perspective
4:53 Orthographic camera does not use 3rd axis
6:08 Perspective camera utilizes foreshortening
6:46 Why switch between 2D and 3D?
7:52 Object could be invisible due to Unity being 3D
9:15 Camera different than scene view

-SPRITES-
12:15 Intro to sprites
13:21 Importing sprites/textures
14:34 Types of sprites (2D vs. 3D)
16:05 Texture atlases and performance increase
19:20 What happens when you place textures
21:21 Shaders and colors (colors independent)
23:45 Telling Unity that a material is an atlas
25:20 Sprite mode
26:24 Ways to cut a sprite into pieces
30:47 Make sure you drag out specific subtextures
33:26 Setting pivot point for sprites
35:40 Holding control to stretch sprites
37:12 How to set sprite scale
39:10 2048x2048 textures
41:08 Slicing non-grid textures using automatic option
44:30 Automatic mode won't work perfectly in all cases
48:14 Fixing errors caused by transparent feathering
52:36 Fiking verlapping auto sprite cuts
55:31 Placing newly imported sprites
56:19 Default pivot points are important
1:00:10 Sorting layers

#3 - Prefabs and Player:

-PREFABS-
1:31 Setting layers to prevent accidental clicking
2:50 Creating a prefab and benefits for tiling
4:25 Snapping objects in Unity
5:58 Pixel to unit conversion
8:32 Why prefab single objects?
13:10 Pungi stick prefab explanation
15:30 Creating player
17:24 Scaling macro prefab
18:54 Why chop up parts of player?
20:49 Parenting body parts to player prefab
22:01 Setting player layer and assigning parts to layer
23:20 Codifying body parts
23:52 Prefabbing player
25:30 Saving

#4 - Moving Platforms

-SCRIPTING-
1:11 Creating first C# script (path definition)
2:32 Script view in Visual Studio
4:08 Visualizing path view on Unity using gizmos
5:20 Ensuring there are enough points to make path
7:13 How to create a path definition in Unity
8:52 Setting point array in C#
10:35 Componants of game objects in relation to scripting
13:03 Setting icons make them clickable
13:47 Creating script that will receive reference
15:39 How to return a numerator
17:45 Return statements won't work
19:20 Iterator syntax
22:37 Indexing the code
23:06 Creating 2nd follow path script


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