Interactive Tutorials feedback thread

Looks interesting!

In the video, you said "Unity HUB". Yet the window title is just "Unity" (in what I thought is called the Unity Launcher). Do you think it makes sense to rename the window to "Unity HUB", hopefully making it easier to differentiate between Unity and Unity HUB.

 

AUF...

 

Very interesting for Asset Store publishers or Unity itself.

But is there an API for publishers?
I gave it a try to the first tutorial, it was funny and easy.

One little problem, if mouse clicks were intercepted, keyboard shortcuts were not.
At this point, I'm not even sure if it is a bug.

 

I am a college professor teaching unity to beginners, and this seems like both a fantastic tool to use for teaching, and potentially higher level learning!

Can't wait for the tools!

thanks!

 

We do a bunch of teaching users to use Unity as part of our little MMO project (see my sig.), I would *love* to be able to expand this to make our own suite of tutorials for our users. Will the creator tools for this be launching with 2017.2?

 

As an asset developer I would like to add my voice to others supporting the ability for asset developers to make tutorials to help our users learn how to use our assets.

 

Will we be able to edit these or create our own? I teach Unity to kids of varying ages it would be great if our instructors could make these more or less difficult depending on the students

 

Pitching in as an UAS publisher. Would love to use this for my visual scripting asset Bolt. Is there an experimental API build available somewhere already?

 

Did not yet grab to see how this works under the hood, but +1 to making it easy for us publishers to create tutorials too if it is not yet.

 

Agreed. It'd be great to be able to make our own tutorials and put them on the asset store

 

Seems like a great concept. Will this also be available as a tool for unity players, or just the editor?
I was wondering if it could be a new way to create 'new player' tutorials more easily.
thanks.

 

The basic tutorials work great, not found any issues with them, I hope you add more of these. I've only tried one of the video tutorials and I am not able to advance, I maybe missing something though? I am trying the survival shooter tutorial and the first thing the video asks me to do is save a scene in the scenes folder. There isnt a scenes folder and if I make one and then save the scene a message comes up saying "The scene needs to be saved inside the assets folder of your project" my scenes folder is in the assets folder.

 

Thanks for your response, I got around it by starting a new project and adding the survival shooter asset pack then launching the project, this allows me to save a new scene to the scenes folder. What I was doing before was going to the tutorials and selecting "start" next to the tutorial name after it downloaded the files, this wouldn't allow me to save a new scene and I have attached a screen capture to show you exactly what I did to replicate that error.

Link to screen cap:

 

Hello,

This is incredibly exciting news for a hobbyist such as myself. I have always learned best through hands-on experience and these tutorials look amazing! This is exactly the type of tutorial that I find the most effective for me. Thank you so much to the Unity Team for offering so much wonderful educational content to learn the engine and help make scripting and other complex aspects of game development a little bit less daunting for those such as myself who don't come from a programming background and are just starting to learning Unity and game development.

I have several questions about this incredible new way to learn.

1. Are the future interactive tutorials made by Unity something that would be free for each Unity license (Unity Personal, Pro, Plus) or will there be paid lessons that you pay one flat price to "buy" the tutorial and have unlimited access to that tutorial more akin to Udemy as opposed to a subscription service system such as Lynda.com?

2. Are there any plans to offer Unity Interactive Courses that are essentially an interactive version of courseware that is found on educational websites/colleges? Perhaps the courses could be set-up in different difficulty levels such as beginner, intermediate, and expert?

Some suggestions as well.

1. Perhaps this could also be used to partner with colleges for them to create interactive content/courseware for Unity.

2. Perhaps there down the line could be a way to browse and rate the interactive courses published by the community.

3. This would be an incredible resource to create more learning resources catered towards kinesthetic learners such as this
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/38910. Would love to see more learning resources that are better suited towards kinesthetic learners.

4. Have you considered using this to create interactive tutorials for content concerning other areas of the Unity game engine such as scripting, animation, graphics, physics, etc lessons? I can see this being used to create some excellent interactive scripting tutorials.


Lastly, I just wanted to thank the Unity Team for their continued investment in the learning materials for the Unity Game Engine. In addition, thank you so much for creating this learning resources which will benefit kinesthetic learners greatly. I am extremely excited for future interactive tutorials. I greatly appreciate it as a hobbyist and beginner to a field that can be extremely overwhelming and daunting.

 

Thanks for your screen capture. We are investigating. For further issues with the survival shooter thread, can you please post in that relevant thread?

Thanks again for spotting and recording that.

 

UnityFan: thanks for the feedback. All of your suggestions are sound.

There are a number of initiatives afoot about education and learning.

We can't really comment on them any more than we could about these in editor tutorials until they come to fruition, if at all.

The most I can say is that we are committed to teaching Unity to as broad an audience as possible and we want to keep it as free and unfettered as possible. There's no point in downloading software you can't use, no matter how powerful it is.

I'm glad you found these helpful.

 

Hello,
I am a pretty good developper but I am a beginner in Unity. Those interactive tutorials are very well made and very interesting. But to learn Unity you have to create hundreds of these tutorials.
Is it a good idea to look at the scripts in Content > game > Scripts for a beginner ??
Is it possible, for each lesson, to have the little snippet without the interactives screens.

Thanks a lot

 

I was also wondering if it is possible to review the interactive tutorial on the asset store. I have already downloaded them and gone through each of the tutorials. However, I am not sure why it is not letting me leave a review for them on the asset store.

 

Very good news
Thanks a lot

 

Hi, the tutorials are not working for me and I'm receiving an error in the console.
I'm running a fresh install of Unity on MacOS...

 

How to get started tutorial? Nothing happens

 

I am hitting the same problem as SIC-ITUR-AD-ASTRA. I saw about Unity's new Interactive Tutorials and was directed to the latest beta download. Latest beta points to 2017.3.0b4 for MacOSX, and I have 10.12.6 OSX.

The install is fine, when you download, then start the 1st interactive tutorial you get a dialog like below:

This project contains scripts and/or assemblies that use obsolete APIs.

If you choose 'Go Ahead', Unity will automatically upgrade any scripts/assemblies in the Assets folder found using the old APIs. You should make a backup before proceeding.

(You can always run the API Updater manually via the 'Assets/Run API Updater' menu command.)

If you accept the go ahead and update scripts, unity loads, no tutorial is available and 999+ errors are in the console. Collapsing the errors it has the following ones:

Editor: Metal support disabled, skipping device initialization

There are 50000+ of these and growing:
MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'UnityEngine.Experimental.UIElements.VisualElement.get_parent'.

The details for one shows this for example:
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.ApplyMaskingSettings (Boolean applyMask) (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:628)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.OnTutorialPageCriteriaCompletionStateTested (Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage sender) (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:162)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage.ValidateCriteria () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Models/TutorialPage.cs:334)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage.SetupCompletionRequirements () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Models/TutorialPage.cs:227)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialPage.Initiate () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Models/TutorialPage.cs:199)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.SetUpTutorial () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:334)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow.OnEnable () (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:129)
UnityEditor.EditorWindow:GetWindow()
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.TutorialWindow:CreateWindow() (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/Editor Windows/TutorialWindow.cs:18)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.UserStartupCode:RunStartupCode() (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/UserStartupCode.cs:15)
Unity.InteractiveTutorials.UserStartupCode:InitRunStartupCode() (at Assets/Plugins/Interactive Tutorials/Editor/UserStartupCode.cs:43)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallUpdateFunctions()

I should also mention that Unity->About, Unity->Preferences, Unity->Modules all do nothing when I think they are supposed to popup dialog boxes.

I then exited Unity and started it from terminal with:
/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/MacOS/Unity -force-metal

This leads to a different error dialog on startup:
Failed to load window layout
This can happen if layout contains custom windows and there are compile errors in the project.

I click the default of restore default layout and once unity editor starts now the console is just full of the get.parent errors like before. At least the Metal Support Disable one is gone.

 

I just installed latest beta and having same exact issues tazforky described. I'm running on Windows 10. I did previously have latest stable version of Unity but removed it before installing the beta...not sure if that has something to do with it.

 

2017.3 Installed and Interactive Tutorials seems not to be working: see screencast

 

Thanks JacekPapaPolski. I can confirm that 2017.2.0f3 is now available online as of today. I removed the old install, installed the new one, and am able to run the interactive tutorial and start unity correctly.

 

@willgoldstone Feedback: A 2017.2 , 2017.3 , 2017.4 , ... Tutorials can be useful for including all the new features of that version (What's included in that release). Each new release of Unity has many new existing features, improvements and changes. This Interactive Tutorial Course can be used as a complete guide for advanced users to all of the main new or updated features of the current release. Also, the screenshot can be handy for documentation.

 

I think this a fantastic idea! I would love to see the interactive tutorial be also used to showcase the new main features in each new Unity Release.

 

Unity is growing fast and there is a lot of content. My fear is that Unity can grow much faster and release a lot of content, more than what we can handle to learn as India developers while we are making the game. For example, Just following the new realising of the asset in the asset store is hard.

@Adam-Buckner This idea of Version Updates Interactive Tutorials can be a big time saver for the community because we, users, can copy and paste this new game objects, components, settings, prefabs and finally modify for the purpose, without the need of looking around how to achieve and make it work in our game. If a live session is also combined with this asset interactive tutorial then we are sure that we are not missing anything and we can follow this Unity exponential growing speed.

 

Can you give us some update on the DB fix you mentioned for version 2017.3 please? How soon will it be available?

 

Hi Guys, I'm trying to download : Interactive Tutorial 1: Play & Edit Mode from the editor but I hit and hit an the Download button ignores me
Please HELP!!!

 

Guys it is awesome! I waiting this so long. I am creating lessons for children based on Unity and this will be awful boost for interacting with Unity! I can highlight lesson tasks and add helps and tips on unity, wow. If you have some beta of tools, please let me know! Thanks!

 

Can't wait for this tool, Is there a beta version to try?

 

would be nice to have a lighting interactive tutorial for indoor only scene, outdoor only scene, and a mixed indoor/outdoor scene.

 

They were really fun and easy, I wish I had them when I started learning Unity last month! Can't wait for some more advanced tutorials in this style. Thanks!

 

Nice initiative! Playful and educational, well done! Thank you! :thumbup:

 

I have to say that when I first heard of it, it sounded really cool and with a lot of potential. I thought about the exact same thing (interactive tutorials could be the future). As a Unity teacher that could be a great tool for me.

I do find some things that can improve the experience from my point of view (I don't know if you are planning to implement that or already did):
1. Focus on voice instructions instead of text
2. The tutorial window doesn't have to be there -> maybe it can be optional as backup (but as I see the ultimate experience it doesn't require that at all).
3. The need to click on the Next button isn't necessary (from the UX perspective the focus is too much on the tutorial window than on Unity itself.
4. As addition I would like to suggest to let the user (if possible) to "watch" like in a normal video -> but one that plays in the unity editor the current step. What I mean by that is to see mouse movement and the whole process inside unity and than the option to repeat that as well.
5. Milestones - like for each step in the tutorial you could go back to and reset all the mistakes to the last step (similar to the restart button - but not from the start)
6. I assume that's a bit of a problem to approach, but if the User could as well interact with the code is a similar way -> that would be 10/10.

Anyway, thanks for the new features and innovation! I use Unity for 8-9 years and I'm proud to teach and use Unity and spread the word around.

 

A big problem with the interactive tutorials: There seems to be no way to download them so they can be accessed in an offline environment.

Unity supports offline installation, activation, and use, but for some reason it's not possible to use this feature without a live internet connection. This is an unnecessary limitation.

The asset store allows adding these tutorials to my assets, but doesn't support downloading them to a different computer to later import into Unity.

 

t’s Huge.
Learning by doing things is definitely more efficient than just watching videos tutorials.
I suggest to have access at any time to the menu of the Tutorial.
Those interactives tutorials you have done are particularly well done and clear, in my opinion.

The way of e-learning evolve too, integration of Bot is one of them and much more better to learn quickly.
There’s also something to do with facebook messenger Bot which will be probably more easy and quick to setup than interactive tutorials.
I really hope all major actor of Tutorials industries like lynda, Puralsight, Courseware… will work on this way.

To have a complete formation to learn Unity from A to Z by interactive tutorials will be great !

Do you have any idea when the system will be open to the community ?

 

Hi!
Is there any tutorial or docs how to create same interactive tutorial?