Make a 3D Portals clone in Unity® and Blender from scratch!

Overall, a great course. Learned some new things with the rendering textures (for the portals) and with normal/specular maps. Would be nice if they dedicated a few lessons on sound (besides what comes with the character controller). They build the code and graphics from scratch, surely they can add some sound using a site like freesound.org to grab sound clips from. But, overall, I like this style of course - prototyping the game - building the graphics from scratch - integrating the graphics. Just need to get sound incorporated and I can start giving them 5-stars. :)

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.