MODELING IN UNITY?! - ProBuilder Tutorial Video Lecture | Build a Game: Unity Tutorial (English) - Game Development

so pro builder has been acquired by
unity and it's now free for everyone to
use
prova there is an amazing tool for
quickly modeling assets and levels
within the unity editor and I personally
think it's really great for prototyping
you can make some incredibly beautiful
things using pro builder
well I can't what other people can and
let's no doubt it's a really useful tool
so let's jump right into it also special
thanks to Patrick McKinney Diego kike
infinity PBR and your I Omar for their
support on patreon so before we can
start using pro builder we need to
include it in our project as of
recording this video the pro builder
tools aren't part of unity by default
instead we have to go to the asset store
to download it I'll of course have a
link for this in the description once
it's downloaded you should see a pro
core folder in your project now we can
go to the top under tools go under Pro
builder and let's open up the pro
builder window and this is going to open
up a new window with a bunch of icons if
we right-click on the blank space here
we can choose between icon mode or text
mode this is really just a matter of
preference
I often switch between them when I'm
looking for a particular setting but
most of the time I spend in icon mode
now I'm using Pro builder together with
pro grids to easily snap everything to
the grid and that's also why you seen
the green gridlines here it's totally
optional but if you want to set that up
as well I suggest you check out our
video on programs and now we're pretty
much ready to get started
so the first tool that I want to show is
the polygon shape tool if we click this
we can quickly draw out a shape I'm
certainly gonna press my mouse button in
order to insert some points and I'll
draw out a nice space for our level here
once you're satisfied simply close out
the shape and we then use our mouse to
control the height of the extrusion I
think about two units seems fine we can
always go in and adjust afterwards and
once you're happy hit enter this
completes our shape and it's now an
object that we can move around the scene
so that's how you can easily get started
with creating objects in Pro builder but
pro builder is also great for modifying
objects after the fact at the very top
here we have four different icons these
are basically our selection modes
currently we're in object mode so we
select an entire object at a time we can
also switch to vertex
selection this allows us to select
individual vertices and you'll notice
that we can easily move these around
using the default unity move tool I'm
just gonna undo that we also have a
selection move for edges these are the
lines that connect between vertices as
well as faces beside these surfaces that
fill out our geometry so in my case here
I'm gonna select the face at the bottom
I'm then gonna switch to the scale tool
by hitting R and if I just go ahead and
scale this up you can see what happens
it kind of stretches out our model this
is fine in some cases but what I want is
to create some extra geometry underneath
our current platform to do that I hold
down shift and then scale and you can
see that we are now creating an extra
surface underneath we then choose the
right size for this and then gonna
switch to the move tool and again I'm
gonna hold down shift and move in order
to extrude out the surface I'm gonna
make this two units wide as well again
I'm gonna switch to the scale tool hold
down shift and extrude inwards in order
to kind of form a pillar and don't worry
about the glitching here that's just
because the lighting is currently
calculating and finally I'm gonna switch
back to the move tool hold down shift
and move it down in order to extrude out
a pillar so now we kind of have a
platform standing on top of a pillar and
it's kind of resembling a watch tower if
we want it we could easily go in here
and add extra detail for example we
could switch to at selection and in
order to quick select the entire ring
that goes around our pillar we can
simply double click and now we could try
moving this down a little I think that
looks pretty cool in order to better see
what we're looking at I'm just gonna
take our directional light and just
decrease the intensity to something like
point eight now depending on what mode
we're currently in and what we have
selected we're going to see different
icons in our pro builder window and you
might find that these are pretty
overwhelming in the beginning luckily
they are color-coded in order to make it
easier to find the setting you're
looking for if we select the top face of
our model here we can use all the red
icons in order to change the geometry
say we wanted to add a bevel we'd click
the icon right here and voila we've now
created a bevel all the way around our
surface right next to the bevel we have
a button that will subdivide the surface
we can also flip the face
normal as well as detached faces all the
tools that are marked with blue have to
do with selection the ones that I use
the most here is the ability to grow and
shrink your selection this is the gross
selection button and this shrink
selection button lets switch into object
mode and here we can use all the green
buttons to affect our entire object we
could for example mirror objects and
notice that this is one of the settings
that has a little cog here which means
that we can change some options on the
setting by simply holding down alt and
clicking and here we could for example
change what access we want to mirror on
I'm just gonna delete that
another handy setting is that we can
actually take our model and export it
using this button right here if you hold
down alt we get to choose what format we
want and a bunch of other settings this
is super useful for great boxing and
prototyping a level because you can lay
out your level and see if it place nice
and once you're satisfied you can take
your pro builder level and bring it into
an actual 3d modeling software and there
you can replace objects and add detail
to make it look much better and then
simply bring it back into unity and
finally the orange color at the top is
for all of the editors this is where we
created our new polygon shape and that's
actually another way to create objects
which is really powerful and that's
using this shape generator it's the
first button in the top left and if we
click this we now get a new window as
well as a preview of the object that
we're currently generating I'm just
gonna go and move up our preview here so
we can actually see it and this allows
us to easily generate a bunch of
different shapes if we go to the shape
selector we can change from cube to
prism their options for doors pipes
cones arches and one that I use all the
time which is extremely useful is it has
a stayer generator this tool is just
amazing I want to go ahead and get rid
of the curvature so I'm gonna set that
to zero I'm also going to move it over
and move it down a bit I'm gonna rotate
it by about 90 degrees and so it's
nicely centered I'm gonna leave the
width at around to that set the height
to two as well and I think actually does
the
we'll be fine and around too as well if
we want to adjust the amount of steps we
can simply change that here I think I'm
gonna add in a few more steps here once
you're satisfied with all of your
options simply hit build pro builder
generates the object and it's now like
any other that we can see in our scene
if we go and close this window we can
maybe add a tiny bit more geometry to
our level I'm gonna open up the polygon
shape tool and I'm just quickly gonna
draw something out I definitely like the
look of that so I'm gonna go ahead and
create another stair for this I'm gonna
select the stair tool I'm gonna move up
the stair place it where I want it and
this one I want to add curvature to so
I'm gonna set the curvature to around 90
I'm gonna rotate it move it over let's
change the height to one and I actually
think that looks pretty nice and then
I'm gonna hit build stair and I hope
that you're starting to see just how
easy it is to quickly create levels with
this tall now once we're satisfied with
our model its of course nice to be able
to add some colors and materials to it
to do that let's open up the material
editor here we can drag in all the
materials that we want to be able to
apply to our models this of course the
default prototype one which is the one
that's currently applied I've also
created two materials beforehand a blue
material and a red material and if you
want to create your own simply right
click go create material we can call
this one green material and you can
pretty much use any settings that you'd
like here probably also have some
shaders that you can use the default
shader simply use the standard vertex
color you can choose a texture I'm just
gonna go with the default grid box here
and we can maybe tinted a green color
and now we can simply drag it into the
material editor just like all the others
then to apply a material to one of our
objects we simply select it so I'm gonna
select the topmost object here and you
can see the shortcuts that are mapped to
the different materials right here so in
my case I'm gonna press alt for in order
to apply the green material and there we
go for the stairs here I'm gonna add a
blue material and if we only want to add
colors to a certain part of an object
well then we simply select the object we
go into face mode and I'm gonna select
all the faces around
the edge of this tower here and then we
simply press the material that we want
so I'm gonna select a red material for
this one and there we go
now I'm just using simple colors to
illustrate the concept here but you can
add as much detail as you want to your
materials if you want to use metallic
maps and normal maps and height maps you
can simply use the standard shader also
sometimes it's nice to be able to
manually edit you reads on an object
luckily pro builder actually comes with
a UV editor as well let's select our top
object here and hit F to focus on it we
then open up the UV editor here this is
a nother window and here we can actually
see the UVs that make up our object say
we wanted to change the UVs on the top
surface here well we can simply move it
over scale it up and rotate it just as
you would in the normal unity editor in
fact if you wanted to create a custom
texture specifically for this object we
can press the small camera button here
in order to render out or you v's so
that we can paint on top of them in our
texturing software pretty cool oh and
did I mention that right away our
objects should actually already have
colliders I'm just gonna add a quick
rigidbody to our scene here and if I now
hit play we can see that the ball
collides with our environment yay that's
pretty much it for this video on pro
builder I expect a lot of these features
and you want to go through some changes
now that it's part of the unity
ecosystem so stay tuned for that
also I'm pleased to announce that we now
have an official breakfast discord
server it was created by some awesome
guys from the forum and it's a great
place to meet other developers get
feedback on your projects and just hang
out you can join now by using the link
in the description on that thanks for
watching and I will see you in the next
video also it's great to have classes
now because I can do this and people
take me seriously thanks to all the
awesome patreon supporters who donated
in March and a special thanks to Patrick
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