Before starting work on your VE2 application, you must first setup a Unity project, import the VE2 tools, configure your project settings, and your scene.

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While no longer strictly required, it is strongly recommended you back up your projects in a version control system such as Git

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Before beginning setup, please ensure you have enough storage space! 30GB is the recommended minimum

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Installing Unity and Creating a Project

As VE2 is Unity-based, you will first need to setup Unity on your machine. You can find system requirements in the Unity documentation.

Note, if you are using one our lab machines, Unity should already be installed

• Setup Unity Hub

  • Create a Unity account: https://id.unity.com/en/conversations/bd9462bf-cc4b-45f1-850a-996ed8c627db01bf
  • Download Unity Hub https://unity.com/download
  • Open Unity Hub and login with your account

• Download Unity version 6000.3.4f1 - it must be this exact version!

  • Navigate to the following link https://unity.com/releases/editor/archive
  • Find Unity 6000.3.4f1 and click the blue ‘Unity Hub’ button to download through Unity Hub
  • A dialogue should open asking you to “Add modules”, there are three you should tick
    • “Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022”
    • Windows Build Support (IL2CPP) towards the bottom
    • Documentation (Right at the bottom)

  Adding a license

  • Instructions to add a license

Creating a project

• In Unity Hub, select “New Project”
• Select “Universal 3D (Core)”
• Give your project a sensible name
• Ensure the location for your project is a relatively shallow folder. For example, something like C:/UnityProjects/MyProject rather than something like C:/Users/MyName/Desktop/Work/Projects/Unity/MyProject etc. If you already have a repo setup, you’ll want the Unity project to live in your repo’s local folder
• Create project, this will take a few minutes

GitIgnore Setup (Optional)

If you’re backing up your project in a Git repo, you should set up a .gitignore file. Unity generates all kinds of files that we don’t need (or want) to track in our repo. To handle this, we can use a .gitignore file