Getting started with Unity

Kinga Osińska

3 min readMar 30, 2021

Unity Hub

Now it’s time to install Unity and create your first project. Click this link and download Unity Hub.

Unity Hub is a tool that helps you manage your projects and Unity versions.

You need to create an account on Unity3d.com and then sign in on Unity Hub.

Installing Unity

Select the latest version of Unity and click “Next”

You can have several versions of Unity. Unity Hub will manage them all.

Now you can choose on what platform you want to build your projects.

First project

After installing Unity it’s time to create your first project. Click on Projects -> New. If you have more than one version of Unity installed then you need to choose which one you want to use for your project.

Choose the name and location of your project and click CREATE

Editor Overview

Let’s go through the panels that we see in Unity:

Scene - this is where you will design and build your game.
Game - what we see in this window is the same as what the player will see when playing.
Hierarchy - all the elements in the scene are listed here.
Project - these are all the files assign to your Unity project.
Inspector - this panel shows detailed information of element that you select from the Hierarchy.
Console - this panel is very useful when we write scripts. This is where we will be informed of all errors.