There are also projects on the Unity Learn site which will help you get acquainted with the various types of games you can make in Unity. This will take you through the early steps of working with the Unity Editor. Click on the first tutorial in the 'Start with your first project'. Download the documentation to start yourself off, but there's also a whole section of the Unity website (opens in new tab) dedicated to teaching you everything you need to know about the engine. Once you've installed Unity for Windows, it's time to dive into everything that's available to you. That's unlikely for most folks, so Personal is what you want to go with. The Personal version is free up until you make $100,000 in revenue, at which point you have to pay Unity a cut of revenue. The Student version is totally free, but requires you to be an enrolled student at any accredited educational institution. As an individual user, you can either get the Student and Personal versions. If you want to mess with cutting edge features, there's also a beta version, Unity 2020.1.0. This index is updated manually.As of the time of this writing, the current version of Unity for Windows is Unity 2019.4.5. Fetch the installers with wget or similar. You can extract the download URLs that you need from the JSON blob. Which components exist varies between major Unity releases the editor is usually called Windows64-Editor. 'Windows64-WindowsStoreNETTargetSupport' : '' 'Windows64-WindowsStoreIL2CPPTargetSupport' : '', 'Windows64-WindowsIL2CPPTargetSupport' : '', 'Windows64-FacebookGamesTargetSupport' : '', For example, is a valid installer index.Īccessing an installer index will return a JSON blob which might look like this: jsonĪ version number is typically on the form of 2018.2.5f1.

Installer indices for each version of Unity will be on the format. You can get the version number of the latest release - a major version, a minor version, or a beta - by visiting the following URLs:Įach of the URLs will return a raw version string, such as 2018.2.5f1. Finally, fetch the installers that you need. Then, fetch an index of available installers for that version.

How to useįirst, determine which version of Unity that you want.

It is intended to be used for performing automated installation of the Unity client. This is a manually-maintained index to Unity installer releases.

Unity download editor