From the course: Unity 3D 2019 Essential Training

Introduction to ProBuilder - Unity Tutorial

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Introduction to ProBuilder

- [Instructor] ProBuilder is an amazing tool to help you build simple geometry directly inside of Unity. It's great for building simple structures and level blocking before you get any detailed 3D meshes into your game. In most cases, people will use it to block a level and raise simple structures and then replace them with the models 3D artists provide them. In our case, we'll use it to add some items to our empty backyard. So let's get started by adding ProBuilder to Unity. So let's go outside of the house and this is where we're going to start working. So one of the things that we're going to do fairly quickly is remove that floor here and here. because what's going to happen once we add a pool here, these floors are going to show through. So with ProBuilder, we're going to rebuild the floor here and we're also going to block the area for the pool and the fences. So here's what we're going to do first. We're going to delete those, and make sure to keep note of what are the actual maps that we're using in the concrete, because we're going to reuse them when we build out with ProBuilder. So make sure that you double click here and this one is concrete cast-in-place. And then also double click on the normal map so can note where that one is. So this is concrete cast-in-place, flat gray, and this is a normal map. So those are the ones that you need to remember. All right, so once we do this, let's go ahead and delete that floor. So what you can do is simply make it not viewable. So if we click on this guy, we should see in our scene here where it is. And then what you could do is go up here and then simply remove the cross check here it's going to disappear. And the same for this guy, and this guy like So. perfect. So once you've done this, let's go ahead and installed ProBuilder. So the way to install ProBuilder, you need to bring the package manager from the window and then find ProBuilder in the list here. It should be right here and then all you have to do is click Install. One of the things that I want to mention right away, and this is going to happen from time to time, if you have a version that doesn't work inside of Unity because of unity, introducing new features and new ways of doing things with their own versions. What you could do is click on the arrow on the side here and see all versions and test other versions if you want to. Sometimes you're going to have preview versions of some of these tools and you can actually test them and install them inside of Unity. But for the time being we're going to install 4.1.0 Once ProBuilder is done installing, you can close the package manager and if you click on the Tools you should see now ProBuilder. So let's go ahead and open the ProBuilder window and this is what you're going to see. So these are all the tools that we're going to use to create one, the blocking for the pool. We're going to create the fences and redo the floor inside of our house.

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