Info: Become Unity certified and show employers you have the Unity skills they are looking for. Improve your chances of landing that dream job doing what you love most—making games. This course helps you study for the Fundamentals portion of the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer exam. Using these lessons, you can validate your knowledge of game design and programming against a benchmark of proficiency and earn a professional credential to help communicate your abilities to employers. Instructor Alan Thorn covers objectives such as creating a new project, adding and manipulating game objects, organizing and optimizing your work, and importing and using assets from other programs, such as meshes, textures, and audio. Each lesson should refresh your knowledge and prepare you for real questions you’ll face on the exam.
Title: Lynda – Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer Animation and Cinematics
Info: Unity boasts powerful animation features that can help you bring characters and objects to life. In this course, instructor Alan Thorn gets you acquainted with the game engine’s animation capabilities as he prepares you for the user animation and cinematics portion of the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer exam. Learn how to create animations and work with animation events, as well as how to import character models and rigs from third-party applications. Plus, see how to use timelines to create cinematic sequences, work with multiple objects and characters, and leverage Cinemachine to build virtual cinematography that adds an extra layer of drama to your games.
Title: Lynda – Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer Audio and Effects
Info: Become Unity certified and show employers you have the skills they are looking for. Improve your chances of landing your dream job—making games, architectural visualizations, or films. This course helps you study for questions from the sections of the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer exam that deal with audio and particle systems. Instructor Alan Thorn explains how to import audio and trigger playback of 2D and 3D sounds. He also explains how to control volume and add audio effects like pitch adjustments with mixers. In chapter five, Alan reviews particle systems, the tools for generating effects like rain, fog, explosions, fire, and more. He teaches you how to use the built-in particle effects package and generate systems from scratch, as well as configure particle collisions. Each topic maps to a related question on the exam, and will help you enhance the believability and quality of your Unity projects.
Title: Lynda – Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer Materials and Lighting
Info: Become Unity certified and show employers you have the Unity skills they are looking for. Improve your chances of landing that dream job doing what you love most—making games, architectural visualizations, or films. This course helps you study for the lighting and materials portion of the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer exam. Instructor Alan Thorn discusses the basics of creating materials, exploring the main render pipelines in Unity 2020, as well as how to work with both URP and HDRP materials. He also helps you get started with lighting, exploring standard and area lights. Then find out how to boost the performance and efficiency of your Unity projects with light mapping, light probes, and occlusion culling. Plus, learn how to apply post-processing effects such as blur, depth of field, and color correction.
Title: Lynda – Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer Scripting with C#
Info: Become Unity certified and show employers you have the Unity skills they are looking for. Improve your chances of landing that dream job doing what you love most—making games, architectural visualizations, or films. This course helps you study for the sections of the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer exam that deal with scripting and publishing. Instructor Alan Thorn covers the basics of scripting, demonstrating how to create a C# script in Visual Studio, print to the console, and create useful scripts that make 3D objects move and react. He also discusses making timed behaviors, generating path-finding data for helping nonplayer characters (NPCs) navigate environments intelligently, and using finite-state machines to help NPCs make decisions. Plus, learn how to create convincing patrol, chase, and attack states for an enemy character.
Title: Lynda – Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer UI and 2D Games
Info: Got a great idea for a 2D game? In this course, explore the fundamentals of user interfaces, animation, and level design in Unity as you learn how to create a 2D game of your own. The concepts covered in this course can also help you prepare to tackle the sections of the Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer exam that focus on user interfaces and 2D gaming. Instructor Alan Thorn covers the basics of creating a user interface, explaining how to make labels and buttons that allow users to interact with your scenes. He also goes into the fundamentals of creating sprite animations, configuring your 2D world, and working with 2D tiles.
