New Site: Unity Cookie Powers Up

by Wes Burke

UnityCookie opens it’s doors!

We are excited to open up Unity Cookie to the community of CG Cookie. We have now expanded our family of sites to 7 which are operating under the Cg Cookie umbrella. In our network we now have: BlenderCookie, MaxCookie, Mavenseed, ModoCookie, ConceptCookie, Blender Artists, and now UnityCookie.

What you can expect from Unity Cookie

We’ve enlisted the help of Patrick Boelens, and Gabriel Williams to help keep the site fresh with weekly tutorials and downloads. Wes and Jonathan are hoping to contribute some time to the site as well on the education front.

We will be covering as many different topics as we can through the life of the site, and most of this is and will be based on your feedback. We’ve opened up a Unity Cookie specific tutorial topic suggestion form below, and this is listed in the footer of the site.

Traditionally downloads and resources have worked well on the other sites, but for Unity Cookie we wanted to work in prefabs and packages that are ready for download and usable in-game.

The gallery system is similar to the rest of the network, though these categories are meant for screen shots of in-game environments in Unity, User Interface etc.. Key thing being in-game screens shots on what you’ve pulled off with Unity 3D.

Initially the site will not be committing to an EVERY Friday Citizen release with the site being so new, but will be working to get there. :)

Getting Started With Unity

Following the lead from Blender Cookie we worked to create a “Getting Started with Unity” section on the site. These sections are essential if you are brand new to the software and looking to obtain a crash course. These are short videos meant to give you a quick overview of the software. We are also going to be offering more in-depth introductions videos over the next few weeks.

UnityCookie Newsletter

With the new site we are now offering a site newsletter. Inside the newsletter we will be offering periodic site updates, special offers and anything that may be going on around the studio. Join the Newsletter

Enough of my rambling… on to the site!

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Discussion

56 Responses to “New Site: Unity Cookie Powers Up”
  1. Ezequiel Galán de Lucca
    Posts: 1

    be a very good job as always, I admire them for being so generous and dump all their experience in programs despite being free, it would be almost impossible to learn yourself. Thank you.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 11:07 am
  2. oldboy
    Posts: 4

    You guys are just… AWESOME! OMG I can’t wait to see more on this site… Thanks so much for your work and efforts!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 11:17 am
  3. Jeff Bessette
    Posts: 16

    I kept checking that count down timer every few days. Glad to see Unity Cookie up and running!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 11:46 am
  4. wicked208
    Posts: 3

    so cool, i am very excited with this, i want to give my feedback, c# programming topics, there are lot of js out there, c# its more powerfull, safe coding, and less tutorials around. anyways thanks very much for unity cookie

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 11:47 am
    • Patrick Boelens
      Posts: 109

      Hey Wicked,

      Your feedback has been duly noted, but I feel the need to point out that JavaScript is pretty much equally powerful as C#, as they’re both just dialects of UnityScript. As for safe coding, I’m guessing you mean the script typing, which you can turn on by placing “#pragma strict” at the start of your JS files. =)

      And of course welcome to the new Cookie!

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  5. Speedyexe
    Posts: 1

    First HA!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 12:32 pm
  6. James Fell
    Posts: 3

    OMG i have waited soo long for this website :)

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 1:39 pm
  7. devin
    Posts: 1

    just started learning Unity and here comes unitycookie. Already a big fan of cgcookie. Wes and Jonathan are awesome.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 12:30 pm
  8. Joshua Pearson
    Posts: 1

    Yay! I’ve been waiting all week!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 12:45 pm
  9. Jerry Doherty
    Posts: 5

    Cool, Will it include using blender with it???

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 1:33 pm
  10. David
    Posts: 4

    I’m glad to see this up and running as well! With regards to learning Blender, Blender Cookie has been the best resource by far for me. I’ve been learning/playing with Unity going on 9+ months, I’ll be interested to see what you guys have to offer ;)

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 1:40 pm
  11. Dustin Reed
    Posts: 4

    Can you slow down the featured item slider? You can’t really read what it says before it is going to the next slide.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 2:36 pm
    • Wes Burke
      Posts: 34

      Sure thing – if you also place your mouse over a slide, it should pause until you remove the mouse.

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       Nov 30, 2011 at 2:41 pm
      • Dustin Reed
        Posts: 4

        On the current slider slides 1 and 3 pause for longer that 2 and 4.

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         Nov 30, 2011 at 2:52 pm
      • Dustin Reed
        Posts: 4

        It looks good now. Thanks for fixing it. Hopefully you did something to it. haha

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         Nov 30, 2011 at 2:58 pm
  12. Sebastian Falkner
    Posts: 5

    Wow, thats cool!
    I look forward seeing advanced turoials, because I learned the other things from Youtube Videos :)
    I’m already able to create my own FPS and Racing games :P

    Greetings,
    Sebastian Aka TheCSharpFreak

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 2:42 pm
  13. oldman44
    Posts: 10

    Welcome Patrick & Gabriel to the CG Cookie Family. Being completely new to Unity look forward to learning to use it with Blender. Having downloaded Unity, but not yet installed it; I would be very much interested in seeing a tutorial on the best way to do that and a recommended directory structure along with a suggested “Work-Flow”.

    Thank You,
    OldMan44

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 2:52 pm
    • Gabriel Williams
      Posts: 37

      Thanks Oldman :)
      There is, actually, a tutorial on downloading and installing Unity for the first time- we really wanted to show the process of starting with Unity completely from scratch! As for things like best practices, directory structure, and work-flow, etc- well, maybe we’ll hit that up too?

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      • oldman44
        Posts: 10

        Gabriel,

        Where do I find the tutorial you mentioned? Also last night I tried to install Unity & after it installed it came up and said it was only a 30 day trial. I thought that the basic Unity was free. I am only a hobist & cannot afford to buy Unity as much as I would like to.

        -OldMan44

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      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 42

        Hi Daniel,

        Only the Pro version is a 30 day trial; soon as the 30 days is up your Unity version will automatically revert to the free version.

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  14. Josh Clark
    Posts: 1

    Been looking forward to this for a long time thank you

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 2:58 pm
  15. Richard Damian
    Posts: 2

    Looking forward to using UnityCookie.

    Great ideas like this are the reason I belong to CGCookie.

    Thanks again,
    Dick

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 3:09 pm
  16. Alberto de Jesus
    Posts: 1

    What’s “Consistant”?

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 3:10 pm
  17. David
    Posts: 1

    THANK YOU!!! I’m about to purchase the vehicle modeling series and become a citizen and this site opening is like a free bonus!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 3:23 pm
  18. dante vargas
    Posts: 5

    Fcking awesome dudes!! i can’t wait to learn!!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 pm
  19. andrei belean
    Posts: 1

    FINALLY!Now I can learn blender and unity from the same web.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 4:00 pm
  20. YoungApprentice
    Posts: 5

    OHMYGOSHIMSOEXCITED! I have been waiting for this for forever! I appreciate this a lot, guys. THANK YOU!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 4:31 pm
  21. Jamie Osman
    Posts: 3

    Any chance of a citizen discount to celebrate.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 4:56 pm
    • Wes Burke
      Posts: 34

      We don’t have any discount specials, but we have a comment contest on Blender Cookie with a prize of a year membership, and a quick 2 hour comment contest on Unity Cookie’s facebook page right now! http://www.facebook.com/unitycookie

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      • Jamie Osman
        Posts: 3

        Thanks for the reply.

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  22. Andy Davison
    Posts: 1

    Definitely not my thing but I have nothing but the greatest respect for you guys doing this. You help so many people with your tutorials and these will do the same. Well done.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 6:23 pm
  23. arnaud couturier
    Posts: 1

    Congratulations guys!
    I’m slowly moving from BlenderCookie to ConceptCookie, and maybe UnityCookie.

    What about a 3DCoatCookie ;)

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 6:37 pm
  24. Paul Murphy
    Posts: 1

    I love you guys so much , thanks a lot i was just starting to slack off with unity.

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 7:28 pm
  25. Mike Pegelow
    Posts: 14

    I really don’t know how greatful i am right now, all what i want to say is THANKS A LOT!!

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     Nov 30, 2011 at 11:34 pm
  26. Matthew Morris
    Posts: 8

    NETWORKING!!! WITH UNITY’S NATIVE NETWORKING LIBRARY !!!

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     Dec 1, 2011 at 12:31 am
    • Matthew Morris
      Posts: 8

      Oh yeah i forgot to ask, what scripting language will you guys use mostly? a .js to c# tutorial would be nice, because i am fluent now in .js and can kinda read c# but not write it! thanks this cookie community is amazing!!! everything i am been looking for!

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      • Matthew Morris
        Posts: 8

        lol *have* been looking for!

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  27. Imagenation Games
    Posts: 3

    awesome! :D

    me and my team was waiting the entire november for unitycookie to release :D

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     Dec 1, 2011 at 1:50 am
  28. Paul
    Posts: 1

    And when UDKCOOKIE? :)

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     Dec 1, 2011 at 5:11 am
  29. Gary Parkin
    Posts: 33

    Cheers all! This is going to be great. I started playing with Unity a few months ago but never got much out of it.

    (As long as you’re adding stuff to the sites, can you please add cookies so we don’t have to log in every time?)
    I had to add that. LOL :)

    After all I learned about Blender here, I’m looking forward to learning Unity.

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     Dec 1, 2011 at 7:20 am
  30. David Lee
    Posts: 11

    This was SUCH a good idea :)

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     Dec 1, 2011 at 11:17 am
  31. haqzaf
    Posts: 2

    Hi,Wes, Patrick Boelens, and Gabriel Williams
    Welcome gentlemen,
    Another door open to good quality educational contents and practical uses using Blender,Unity.
    I, followed few tutorials by Ptrick,empowering me to model, texture,create sci-fi panels, creating various maps.They were full of educational contents.Hope, this spirit will continue.My time will be spent here more productive.I may point out,recently I, model a gauge.This subject is vast practical and interesting. here is my link.

    http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/art/Create-Low-Poly-Gauges-270859983

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     Dec 1, 2011 at 10:56 pm
  32. Chris Skinner
    Posts: 1

    Wow this is a great idea! I’ve messed around with Unity a bit but hopeful these tuts will provide a bit more focus.

    Looking forward to it guys.

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     Dec 2, 2011 at 3:27 am
  33. Glenn De Backer
    Posts: 1

    One thing I hope is a tutorial how to build a simple (indoor) level in Blender and import it into unity. There is a lot of information on the internet, but a real tutorial I didn’t find.

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     Dec 2, 2011 at 7:12 am
    • Gary Parkin
      Posts: 33

      I agree. An indoor level, with Blender models would be great. Or maybe even a way to go outdoors too.

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  34. kenneth plumley
    Posts: 6

    eagerly waiting to be a pupil to these masters. thanks again cg cookie. #1 cg related site on the web!!!! (at least in my opinion)

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     Dec 2, 2011 at 12:29 pm
  35. kenneth plumley
    Posts: 6

    was wondering if you guys could make an extendable chain tutorial for unity. think the god of wars chains of Olympus.

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     Dec 3, 2011 at 3:54 pm
  36. Jeff Bessette
    Posts: 16

    I’m curious if you guys will be doing any tutorials on making games for IOS/Android. While I’d love to make “the next GTA” I think games smaller in scope aimed at those platforms or more feasible for me and others. I wasn’t sure if you can use the free Unity version to make games for those platforms or if you need the pro version to do so.

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     Dec 4, 2011 at 12:43 am
    • Andrew Molloy
      Posts: 2

      Neither.

      iOS and Android are separate licenses from Unity Technologies. In fact there are 4. If you have the free Unity you can get basic Android and basic iOS licences for $400 each. If you have Unity pro then there are pro licenses for Android and iOS at $1500 each.

      The 30 day Unity Pro trial if you’ve just installed it includes an iOS pro trial too.

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       Dec 6, 2011 at 10:01 am
      • Andrew Molloy
        Posts: 2

        Actually I think you can mix and match the basic/pro Android iOS licenses with the basic/Pro versions of Unity but I’m not 100% sure on that.

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         Dec 6, 2011 at 10:06 am
      • Jeff Bessette
        Posts: 16

        Thanks for the info! I’ll need to read the licenses at some point, but no where near capable of making a full game yet. lol. I’ll use the free version and UnityCookie to learn my way around Unity before I get to that point. Hopefully UnityCookie helps me get there quicker!

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  37. BlendNZjnr
    Posts: 1

    Is Unity free too?

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     Dec 9, 2011 at 6:21 am
  38. elias39
    Posts: 1

    woooooooooooow

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     Oct 27, 2012 at 4:51 am

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