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Many UI Toolkit users stick with only the basics, which result in bland, uninspired UIs - in this video you'll learn how to create more engaging, juicy animations with UI Toolkit to make your game ...

Learn about a powerful feature in UI Toolkit - Data Binding. In this video we'll explore how to use the Data Binding feature in UI Toolkit for Runtime UIs to bind data to elements on the UI so they...

In this tutorial you'll learn how to control your camera's movement with the new input system & Cinemachine 3. If you've been using Cinemachine 2 you'll find some major changes in how you interact ...

In this video you’ll learn about a powerful node in Unity Shader Graph, the Parallax Occlusion Mapping Node. This allows us to FAKE rendering 3d depth on a totally flat plane. In many modern games ...

In this video you'll learn about the Unity Localization Package and how to use it to add translations into your game. Gamers want games in their native language so targeting only English is not goo...

In this video you'll learn how to use the most important tool to optimize your game - the PROFILER!

In this video you'll learn all about the Blackboard in Unity Behavior including how to create new variables on the Blackboard, assign values in the Inspector, and assign values in your code!

Learn about Action Nodes in Unity Behavior, some key aspects of using them, and very importantly, how to create your own custom actions!

In this video you'll learn about Control Flow nodes in Unity Behavior, what they do, and how to use them. Unity Behavior is a new FREE Behavior Tree tool available in the Package Manager starting w...

In this video you'll become familiar with the core concepts of Unity Behavior, including a live example.

Learn a pattern of designing and developing your UIs in UI Toolkit that will allow them to scale up as you create more, and more complex UIs for your game!

In this video you'll learn about the Keyboard and Mouse APIs from the new Input System and how you can use them to poll for input in Update() just like you did with the old input system Input.GetKe...

In this video you'll learn what Templates are in UI Toolkit and how they can make creating your UIs much faster and easier.

Learn how to implement a player-controlled orbit around a target with Cinemachine 3, like I did in this Minigolf microgame!

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In this video you'll learn about 3 CRITICAL EditorWindow Tips you need to know if you're working with custom Editor Windows in Unity!

In this tutorial you will learn how to set up OffMeshLinks via the NavMeshLink component to add ladders into your game!

In this video you'll learn how to perform Mesh Combination at Runtime in Unity! You'll see how I implemented it specifically in my free and open source minigolf microgame and learn the process for ...

In this tutorial you'll learn WHY ghost collisions happen as well as a couple of ways you can avoid ghost collisions.

Learn how I used ScriptableObjects to spawn tiles and prefabs into my single game scene to support INFINITE numbers of levels! Using a simple editor tool and the Tilemap, I crafted the levels in th...

In this video you'll learn how to create an Editor Window with UI Toolkit by the example of my level save and load window. This includes creating fields with UXML, reviewing the USS styles I used, ...

In this video you'll learn how I used the tilemap (2d) tools to build out my 3d levels quickly and easily for my free and open source minigolf microgame!

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In this video you'll learn the high level concepts I used to make my latest free and open source Minigolf Microgame. In the next few months I will be covering each of these in detail with their own...

Learn how to recreate all the standard surface inputs (PBR) on the URP/Lit Shader in Unity ShaderGraph!

In this video you'll hear about my top 3 lessons learned and re-learned from making my free and open source microgame: Chicken Defense. You've probably heard some of these before, but somehow I'm s...

Learn how to implement an Event Bus strictly in code, and in a more-designer friendly, ScriptableObject driven “event channel” implementation!

Learn how to use a Render Texture and Render Layers to set up a minimap using UI Toolkit!

Learn how to make a Ghost Placement or Hologram Shader in Unity ShaderGraph. You'll learn how to create procedural scan lines as well as the edge glow (fresnel).

AI pathfinding avoidance can be tricky. In this video you'll learn the basics of enhancing the built-in NavMeshAgent avoidance to have them walk around some targets or even run completely away from...

Learn how to use the Unity Spline Package to generate a smooth procedural mesh between a set of points.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to create an animated "click indicator" shader using ShaderGraph and a very simple script. Once you understand the basics here, I challenge you to enhance it and c...

In this video I'll take a first look at Muse Animate (release 0.2.5) which promises to generate humanoid animations from simple prompts like "walk forward". I'll give my first impression of this to...

In this tutorial you'll learn all about NavMeshQueryFilter and how to use it to distinguish between different baked NavMeshes that are baked per Agent Type using the NavMeshSurface component.

In this video we'll explore using the Animation Rigging package on non-humanoid ("Generic") models in Unity. The use case we'll use is creating a Stomp animation for a Llama!

Learn how to extend our ScriptableObject gun system to support shrapnel shooting shotguns (or any other type of multi-bullet-per-shot gun)!

Learn all about Physic Materials in Unity. What they are, how they work, and how to create them!

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In this tutorial you'll learn 3 different ways to have lights flicker or twinkle in a shader (no code required!).

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Learn how to create an Embers shader that doesn't require a sprite sheet or external texture! We'll be using automatically generated tri-mapped noise to create this effect.

Learn how blend between 2 (or more) textures using Vertex Colors. This gives you a similar experience to using the Terrain Tools to paint on a Terrain, but on a mesh!

Learn how you can save and load a player's loadout when using ScriptableObjects for your gun configurations. You'll also see how you can adapt what we've done so far for a loadout screen to integra...

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Learn how to implement bullet penetration with both Hitscan/Raycast shooting and Rigidbody bullets!

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Learn how you can implement Enemy AI with a Finite State Machine. This is a full implementation using Unity Hierarchical State Machine (Unity HFSM), a code-driven state machine framework for Unity.