Setting Up for Unity

Before reading the article, you may want watch the video explanation below.

What need to be setup?

Unity

• Set Unity Development with VS Code

• Set PlayMode Tint in Unity

VS Code

• Enabling code completion (For recent versions of Unity)

• Install the C# & Unity Debugger extension from the VS Code Marketplace.

Using Visual Studio Code

Because Visual Studio Code is lightweight. Therefore, as a learner, you might want to use it with Unity until you need complex features in Visual Studio,

Setup Playmode Tint

Setting the Playmode Tint is crucial because there will be time where you tried to make changes to the properties while in playmode, and those changes are gone once you stop playmode.

Enabling Code Completion

To enable code completion, first you need to download and install

1. .NET SDK

2. .NET Framework Developer Pack.

This will help you write code faster with code hints and completion.

To understand what is code completion and hints for C# & Unity, check out this URL below

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity

You will also need to add Extensions.

Add the following

1. C#

2. Debugger for Unity