What is the best way to learn unity 3d?

Fair enough, I understand there are 1000s of tutorials out there, and finding the good ones in your chosen program$$anonymous$$g language can be hard, but my above links should help. If you gave more info for what language you program in and what type of game you want to make. But the video series I linked is a perfect way to get to know how to use the unity interface, the stage, gameObjects and components, etc. And they are only about 5$$anonymous$$s long each. That should definitely get you started and comfortable using unity. Sorry, but this question comes up alot, I wonder how so many people find this 'site without the ability to use a search engine and filter the results to what they are looking for.

As someone arriving here from Google, I don't think this answers the question at all. He asked what the BEST way to learn it is. "Google It" is a terrible answer. For instance, none of the tutorials will help you in choosing a good architecture for your game. Thats the kind of stuff people generally get out of working with seasoned developers or reading THE RIGHT book. I think a more appropriate would be to choose ONE OR TWO of your 1000's of resources and state why IT is the best way to learn Unity. Your answer helps me 0%. Also, you should try answering questions without berating the person asking the question about searching for things. Everyone who is interested in Unity3D can obviously search for things and knows that they should, they obviously have just reached a dead end.

I'm guessing the right answer to this is to read a book or work with someone who already knows it well and has a real project under their belt. But which book?

Unity Answers is for answering specific technical questions. For questions or discussions such as "How to ..." or "What is the best way to ..." are questions for the forums. You also have to take into account how many times this question keeps reappearing, although the answer has been given several times.

There is a most excellent book and accompany video series (that I have linked in the answer) : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unity-3-x-Game-Development-Essentials/dp/1849691444/ref=pd_sim_b_1

I'm sure google will return that at some stage. So to recap :

• Unity Answers is a place for questions that can be answered! Avoid asking questions here that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion.

• Unity Forums is a place for discussions, opinions, showing off your work, getting feedback, and general community chatter.

If you are having problems with code you have written, or the settings in Unity , then this is the sole purpose of Unity Answers.

• http://answers.unity3d.com/page/faq.html

• http://video.unity3d.com/video/7720450/tutorials-using-unity-answers

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The question is subjective and argumentative. There is no definitive answer. What language, what techniques, what does the OP specifically want to learn about? There is no one single definitive answer. Anyone who wants to learn anything should never just use one single source. And if you follow any of my advice, and even start with unity3Dstudent, then from there you can branch out and start learning from multiple sources.

Unity is a legitimate, professional game engine on which many professional users and studios develop games and applications on. But I think too many users see it more as a Ben 10 Game Creator.

Perhaps simply start by actually reading the documentation and Unity Scripting Reference :

• http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/$$anonymous$$anual/index.html

• http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/index.html

• http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/index.html

There you will find a wealth of information and script examples.