Unity Platform

Unity’s platform is so rich -it lets artists, designers, developers and creative writers works in collaboration to create immersive and interactive experience.

It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux — create once , deploy anywhere. Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Inc.’s Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X-exclusive game engine.

Installing Unity & Getting Started with Game Development

Unity have different choices of plans and pricing- as under:

For Individuals: Students or Personal..

For Teams: Plus, Pro and Enterprise edition.

Unity 2020.3.0 latest— Install this version from Unity Hub

Unity Hub is the primary way to install the Unity Editor, create projects, and manage your Unity experience. It provides a central location to manage your Editor installations, Accounts and Licenses, and Projects.

Installing the Unity Hub

The Unity Hub is a management tool that one can use to manage all of your Unity Projects and Installations — for all different Platforms as shown below select option of your choice and click INSTALL.

It will install Unity 2020.3.0f1 under Installs tab- along with it shows all previous version already installed.

Note:It’s good to have your UnityID, and create a new one , if not exists.

It has different sections — Projects, Learn , Community along with Installs.

Projects tab as under shows all existing projects.

Click New, to add New Project with version of your choice and select Templates of your choice to create 2D, 3D or high definition RP etc .

Once provided Project Name and Location under Settings section, Click CREATE- where it generate Unity Interface for the user as shown below:

Unity Provides digital experiences — Games, Automotive, Transportation & Manufacturing, Film, Animations & Cinematics, Architecture, Engineering & Construction . Its scope is beyond in the field of Health -with XR, VR and Augmented Reality where there is learning , research and innovative opportunities.

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