The project setup
At this point, I assume you have a fresh installation of Unity and have started it. You can perform the following steps:
- With Unity started, navigate to File | New Project.
- Select a project location of your choice somewhere on your hard drive and ensure that you have Setup defaults for set to
3D. - Once completed, click on Create. Here, if you see the Welcome to Unity pop up, feel free to close it as we won't be using it.
Level design 101 – planning
Now just because we are going to be diving straight into Unity, I feel it's important to talk a little more about how level design is done in the gaming industry. While you may think a level designer will just jump into the editor and start playing, the truth is you normally would need to do a ton of planning ahead of time before you even open up your tool.
Generally, a level design begins with an idea. This can come from anything; maybe you saw a really cool building, or a photo on the Internet gave you a certain...
