Make a 3D Portals clone in Unity® and Blender from scratch! (Udemy.com)

Nice course that teaches picking up and dropping of objects, creating buttons for opening doors and creating portals on selected walls to transport to the corresponding portal. It also lets the student know how to build a game menu and jump between levels. Global game state and other things. There is an internal section that shows students how to use Blender to build and texture game assets and then get the asset into the game. Note: The transitions from lesson to lesson are a bit fast and I've had to stop and reload the previous lessons many times to get the last knowledge that I missed while trying to apply the lesson to my code. The instructor knows this subject well but sometimes can be too fast when checking options and adding components to the game objects, you will need to rewind often. This doesn't take away from the course but is a bit annoying. Don't get me wrong as this class teaches the student a lot of information and was a great find for me.

Overall the Unity section of this course is well taught. The instructor describes what is going on and you really feel like you're learning while doing what he's doing. It's really cool seeing everything come together and by the end of it you have a working barebones Portals game! I would have liked there to be challenges for us to do though. The instructor was good, but at times, it felt like I was just simply watching him do the project, so I would pause the video and see how far I can go before I needed any help. It's not a major qualm, but something that can make future course better in my opinion. Where this loses one star is the blender section. The instructor does not do a good job at explaining everything and how blender works where it gets to a point where you're lost at what's going on, no matter if you slow down the video or re-watch the previous video. I opted just to download everything from the course resources and use that instead of going through the blender section since I couldn't wrap my head around what was going on. Other than that, this is a good Unity course that will get you to making a cool game.

I'm enjoying this course a lot and it is teaching what I'll get a lot of use out of - at around 40% in I'm conversant in what I want from this course. The instructor goes through fundamentals at each stage in a progressive and steady pace. There have been a few times I was a little overwhelmed but it was just a matter of patience. The instructor has used key words that I easily researched for more information - I really like that as it removes needless delay of trying to be all things to all people.

I rate the Unity lectures a 5 and the Blender lectures a 1. If you are new to Blender then you will struggle mightily with this course. The Blender lectures were very difficult to follow, the teacher used keyboard shortcuts exclusively, and most of the time would not mention what keys he was pressing. There was very little explanation as to why we were doing things. There were also a graphics program (Crazy Bump) that was used that were not specified in the requirements. It was assumed that you had this programs and knew how to use them (I had to skip these parts). There were also some sessions using photoshop, which I did not have and there was very little explanation as to what the instructor was doing, that Icould not follow along in the program that I did have (Gimp). I spent many, many hours trying to build the Blender objects. When I tried to import them into Unity they looked different than in Blender and I had absolutely no idea why. I finally noticed at the very end of the course that the blender assets were available to download. I would highly recommend trying to build the Blender assets yourself, but when you begin to get frustrated, download the supplied assets and use them. This will save you a lot of time and aggravation. Again, the Unity teacher was very good and that part of the course I enjoyed very much.

Ive taken a bunch of these. This guy moves at exactly the right pace for me and knows how to keep it interesting. Sticking with this for now. A lot of hype built up.

The instructor is very thorough and detailed. I've already picked up some tricks that I never considered previously for constructing rooms. Already feel it's money well spent.

So far, so good. The course work is progressing in a logical flow. The techniques are very well described. My hearing sucks, so a clear voice is important and the presenter's voice is very easy to understand. I'm taking several courses at once and this is the one I keep coming back to the most often. Update: I'm now about halfway through and my above description has not changed. However; as the topics get more advanced, the speed of the presentation starts to seem to be getting rushed. I'm doing more and more pause and repeats. I would have liked a better explanation on the Action keyword, and I'm still not certain what the "callback" methods are all about. Sometimes I just type in what I'm told and move on; revisiting it later. None of this is a cause for me to lower the rating though, as I feel it's me that has the learning deficiency, not the presentation. I'm having fun with this and look forward to each new presentation.

As a first time user of Unity all this information is great. I am really excited to make my first game and then many more games in the future.

I still don't know this guy's name (can't understand it), but he is far and away the best Unity instructor on Udemy for basic building of games and understanding the pieces. I've been doing his Legend of Zenda course in parallel, and this looks equally good.

The Unity section of the course is great. Everything is explained well and the instructor takes time to cover a decent amount for a short course. Personally, I thought the course was worth it for this section alone. However, f you've got little or no experience of blender, you will have in incredibly hard time following along with the blender section. This seems to be exacerbated by the order of the videos, with the most complex model being created first. Very little is explained and the instructor uses solely keyboard shortcuts, very quickly.