Ton of questions, need some help :)

1)[Solved] So I'm brand new to this program. I'm just now watching some of the tutorials and I've noticed something, in the videos, the program's interface is a darker grey, and arranged differently. What is the cause of this, and can I change my interface to look like in the videos? It would make following the tutorials much easier.

2)[Solved] Say if I were to submit some 2d assets to the store for people to purchase, but later down the road I add animations to my assets and want them available in the store as well. Is it possible to update my submitted 2d asset with an 'update' that adds these animations to the submission? If so, is it also possible to change the price of the submitted asset to have people pay more since I've added animations? Or is it possible to make a submission with just the assets, and another submission with the assets and animations with different pricing.

3)[Solved] I noticed the '24 hour sale' thing in the asset store. Does someone from unity chose to randomly put something on sale? Do you submit your project to go on sale? How exactly does this thing work?

4)[Solved] How do I know how big to model things?

5)[Solved] Why are people posting their triangle counts in their assets in the store? What is the use of knowing this information? (Keep in mind, I'm new to all this)

6)[Solved] If I want to have 2 models that are the same, but one has a different texture, I'm assuming I need to make an entirely new asset with this new texture? Or is there another way of going about this?

Thanks for any feedback!

 

Wow, surprised no help yet ):

 

Well, it is Sunday
#1 It may be the Professional Skin in your Preferences
plus you can move things around and make your own layout.
I have about 4 layout I have saved and switch between them depending on what tasks Im performing.

#2-3 I haven't sold anything in the asset store to help you there

#4 Scale can be modified at pretty much anytime you want to, I use MayaLT as my modeler of choice
and Ive set a unit size thats pretty much my unit size in Unity. But if I had to change that scale I could
open up the import settings and change that scale at import. Some people just use the scale in the transform as well.
Some both.

#5 no 3D engine or device has unlimited polygons. There is a limit in storage size and a limit in playback numbers.
Im old school meaning I've been doing games for almost 30 years now. When we made the jump from 2D to 3D
the number of polygons was critical to understand. We created actual polygon budgets. Character were allowed these many, and background object test many, etc...
Some of this still is important to this day, while we can have millions, there still is a limit, a budget.
Understanding how big a model is is easy to understand by the triangle count.
Unity uses triangles in their mesh. While I model in square poly's, they are convert to triangles at import/playback time. Do we need to know the triangle count, sure, but we could also take the pylon count and double it to get the same number

If my character is 1,000 triangles and the background is 1,000 triangles, and the character looks like crap, then maybe i lower the triangles in the background to 700 and give that extra 300 to the character.
I stayed in my 2,000 budget and moved the triangles where its most needed.
Like I said, old school

#6, I modify my game objects all the time by changing their shader/texturemap. All of this can be controlled by script or even an animation item. I will also change the tint of a texture map based on some event, also controlled by a script.
I have a spider character emery in my current game. I have 1 animated model, and 8 texture maps.
And spawn time, the spider model is randomly given one of the 8 maps, so the hoard of spiders looks like a mass of spider when in reality its a single mesh, without multiple maps controlled by a script at run time.


#7 Don't be surprise when you don't get an answer 5 minutes after you post. We all have jobs to do. The forum is a place to help when you can, not a job.

 

@superpig Thank you for all the input, it was very helpful and exactly what I needed for every question!

@artysta I was only surprised because I posted in another forum and got replies instantly, but when I posted here, it felt like forever.

 

I actually use the New Posts feature more than going to each forum. Im not even sure which forum this was posted to.