Unity Tools Basics

Part 1:

Navigating the Scene View

Right-click is your friend! While in the Scene View, move your mouse while holding down right-click to look around the Scene. While still holding right-click, you can use the WASD keys on your keyboard to move forwards, backwards, left and right around the Scene! You can also use the Q and E keys to move your camera directly down or up! Moving too fast? Too slow? You can use your scroll-wheel to speed up or slow down the movement speed of your camera, while still holding right-click of course!

Part 2:

Manipulating GameObjects in Unity

Now you may be thinking, if right-click is my friend, is left-click my enemy? Absolutely! Left-click would make a terrible friend because they manipulate others, such as gameobjects in your scene!

Left-click an object in your Scene such as the Main Camera or the Directional Light, you can alternatively select these objects by clicking on them in your Hierarchy. Once you have an object is selected, head over to the top left above the Hierarchy to see all your tools for moving, scaling, and rotating objects.

From left to right we have our Hand Tool, Move Tool, Rotate Tool, Scale Tool, Rect Tool, Move/Rotate/Scale Tool, and lastly our Editor Tool. For this part of the tutorial, we will ignore the Rect Tool and the Editor Tool for now.

Hand Tool

The Hand Tool is actually for manipulating the scene view, as it will let you click and drag to pan the camera up, down, left and right.

Move Tool

The Move Tool is used for moving an object on an X, Y, and Z direction by clicking and dragging one of the three arrows that appear on the object.

It can also be used for moving an object on an X, Y, and Z plane by clicking and dragging on one of the three squares that appear at the center of the object.

Rotate Tool

The Rotate Tool is for rotating an object in one of FOUR directions, you have your X, Y, and Z coordinates, and then you also have an outer circle for rotating on the plane that you are currently facing.

Scale Tool

The Scale Tool can be used for making an object bigger or smaller, you can scale them uniformly, or scale them on just one axis!

Every one of these tools are vital for creating and controlling what’s in your scene. Each one is equally important as it is powerful, almost comparable to infinity stones… one should not be able to wield such power…

Infinity Gauntlet Tool

Perfectly balanced… as all things should be…