THIS TOOL IS AWESOME - ProGrids Tutorial Video Lecture | Build a Game: Unity Tutorial (English) - Game Development

some man walks into a bar and says have
you heard about unities new grid system
it's really great especially because the
old one was so bad and the bartender
goes oh snap so unity recently acquired
poly brush and Pro Builder which are two
really powerful tools for artists and
along the way they also picked up
progress procreates is an awesome grid
based snapping solution I personally
just started using it and I can say that
I'm never ever going back
pro-gard's makes it extremely easy to
quickly sketch out levels place and
align objects or just keep your OCD in
check so let's have a look at how to use
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alright let's delve right into it to
make sure you have Pro Grid installed
it's currently hosted on the asset store
so we'll go window and select asset
store here you can search for
appropriate and hit the red button to
download and import it will of course
have a link for this in the description
and right away you should see that in
your project window that's a folder
called pro core then to enable pro grids
and show all the settings we go to tools
Pro grids and we open the programs
window and right away we can see the
visual appearance of our grid changes
and we get all these buttons in the
upper left hand corner and if I just
select my cube here you can see a weird
thing happens for some reason the grid
changes if I then select the ground the
grid changes right back the reason for
this is that we currently have a setting
enabled that will change the grid for
the selected object to disable this
we'll go to the left here and click on
the lock icon and
you can see that we can select any of
our objects and the grid will stay the
same also make sure to go to the top
left and change from Center to pivot if
it isn't already and now we can actually
start moving our object around the grid
and you will see it snaps right in place
we can easily change the size of the
grid by using this setting at the top in
fact we don't even have to touch it we
can just use the plus and minus commands
in order to change it so this makes it
much quicker to adjust how you want your
snapping to be if we do click on it
however if we get some general snapping
settings mainly we can choose whether or
not we want to snap when scaling if we
enable this and change to our scale tool
you can see that our object snaps here
as well we can also choose what units to
use for our grid most of the time we are
going to be using the default meter but
really the most important setting here
is what is called predictive grid and
this is something I noticed right away
when I started using it this setting is
totally a matter of preference some
people love it I really do not let me
show you what it does so right now if we
move around our cube our grid stays the
same because we are kind of viewing it
from above but if I go ahead and change
my view to kind of a side view you'll
see that the great changes as soon as I
move the cube and if we go and view it
from the other side here and move it we
get another grid on this axis and this
is what is called the predictive grid we
always choose what grid to show manually
by selecting either X Y C or a full 3d
view if we want to see all of the axes
at once but most of the time when I'm
building I like to only see the Y grid
so I like to go to the top here and
simply disable predictive grid and now
it doesn't matter where I'm viewing my
object from it will always stay the same
unless I decide to change it if your
grid kind of gets in the way we can
always disable it up here now snapping
will still be turned on but the grid
will be invisible we can just turn it
back on but if we wanted to turn off
snapping we can do that with the on and
off button here turn that often of
course now the object is moving smoothly
another really useful feature is that we
can align objects that
on within the grid to the grid by simply
pressing a button say if we increase the
size of our grid here and move our
object kind of outside it and we want to
snap it back in place well then we
simply use this button right here that
snaps all selected objects to the grid
and whether the cube snaps right back
now I'm gonna decrease the size of our
grid again I'm gonna turn snapping back
on and I'm gonna move it back up here
finally there are actually a bunch of
preferences that we can adjust to
further configure this tool to that we
go to edit preferences and in this
window we can go under Pro grates and
then we can see we can adjust the color
of the different grids as well as the
Alpha value here we can also change some
of the grid settings as well as change
all the different shortcuts if you're
unsatisfied with your settings simply
hit reset and yes and they will change
right back to normal one setting that is
pretty important to note is the snap
method currently this is set to snap on
all axes now what this means is that if
we go ahead and select our ground for
example which is currently moved
underneath our grid and we try and move
it over on the X we can see that we can
successfully move the ground but it does
snap up in place on the Y even though we
were only trying to move it on the X
this is of course because pro builder
tries to keep all the objects aligned
with the grid on all axes which in some
cases is really great but in this case
we want to have our own Y value so if we
undo this and change the setting to snap
on selected axis and try and do the same
you can see that the object now only
snaps on the axis that we're currently
moving it in and that's pretty much a
quick introduction to progress now of
course one of the greatest things about
this asset is that it works seamlessly
with pro builder say we're working with
a model inside of pro builder and we
want it to snap to the grid well we
actually don't need to do any setup we
can just go ahead and use it and right
away you will see the snapping working
this makes it incredibly useful for
great boxing and creating levels that
are always aligned
pretty cool that's pretty much it for
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