Project creation and setup - Unity Tutorial

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to get started at creating our architectural visualization. And the birthplace of all Unity projects is right here inside Unity Hub. When you download Unity from its website, the application you'll get is Unity Hub, and this is the launchpad for creating any new project. Whenever I create a new project, the first thing that I do is move to the Installs tab to check out which version of Unity I have installed on my computer to be sure I'm using the latest, most reliable version. And you can see from my Installs tab that I have two versions available: Unity 2019.4, which is the longterm support version, and Unity 2019.3, a slightly older version. I recommend that you always use the latest version available to you. Throughout this course, I'm going to be using 2019.4. If you're using 2019.4 or above, and you're in the 2020 release cycle, for example, you should be absolutely fine to download the course files and follow along. So in this case, I'm going to be using 2019.4. If you don't see any release here, or perhaps you want to different one from the one that's listed, you can easily download and install a new version. By moving up here to the right-hand side and clicking on the Add button, this will display a range of different versions available for you to download to your computer. You can see that in my case, Unity 2019.4, right, that is currently grayed out because it's already on my computer. It will gray out versions that you already have. So you only have access here to the versions to install. So in this case, I don't need to install anything here. I can switch back to my Unity Hub and jump up to the very top option, which is the Projects panel. This lists different Unity projects that you might have previously saved and which are hanging around on your computer. It will display any of those kinds of projects right down here in the project list, where you can just select projects and it will open them up inside the Unity engine. But in our case, we're going to be creating a completely new architectural visualization project, which means I need to move up here to the right-hand side and click on the New button to display here the New Creation dialog. Now, from this menu, I need to give my project a meaningful name over here in the Project Name field. So in this case, I'm going to use ArcVizLobbyENV for environment. And then on the left-hand side, under the Template section, we have a range of different settings that we can apply to our newly created project, and these settings are really important, so do make sure you check these out. By default Unity's going to choose 3D, but I don't really want to choose that. I'm going to select the high-definition render pipeline, that's what RP stands for, and this allows me to achieve the best visual quality that Unity has to offer. We want our architectural visualization to look great, so I'm going to choose the high-definition render pipeline. However, if you're building your architectural visualization for mobile devices, perhaps you want to put it onto an iPad and get your client to check it out on a mobile device. Then you're probably want to build your project by using the universal render pipeline instead. But in this case, I'm going to be showing my architectural visualization on a PC so I can go ahead and choose the high-definition render pipeline, and then moved down here to click the Create button, and Unity goes ahead and creates my ArcViz project. In the next movie, I'm going to pick up where we've left off here and jump into the Unity engine, ready to get started at creating our new ArcViz project.