Visual Scripting is available in Unity 2020! – Bolt Overview

Visual Scripting is now possible in Unity 2019 / Unity 2020 via Bolt! You might be asking why, and this video will answer it. Essentially, Unity acquired Bolt from Ludiq for a couple months ago, and now Bolt is available for FREE!

Using Bolt you can now visually code your games instead of writing actual code. It's really cool!

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Video chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Acquisition info
2:05 Blog post review
06:28 Getting started with Bolt
08:43 Bolt asset packs
09:33 Outro

Read the full blog post by Unity through the link below!

Video footage in the 'Acquisition info' by Smart Penguins:

[sykoo]

Any OG's remember that intro? I found it on my old computer and HAD to use it in this video. Thank you for sticking by for so long!

[sykoo]

Just to confirm for anyone who might still be wondering;
*1)* Bolt is available now for Visual Scripting *outside* of DOTS
*2)* Unity's internally built Visual Scripting tool is coming later *for* DOTS projects

[Psyonx]

Bolt Tutorials + covering all the bolt kits would be realy nice !!!

[emir_audio]

I felt emotional when i see the old intro :) (I improved a lot thanks to you Sam)

[russellthorburn]

Disclaimer: I am probably at the high intermediate level for C# coding and have only a small amount of experience with any kind of visual scripting.
I get the idea of Playmaker as it's a higher level abstraction of the C# used in Unity which simplifies things but, as always, at the cost of flexibility. I'm misty on the idea of Bolt as, from my brief inspection, it appears to me to be absolutely identical to writing C# code except that it takes up more space because it consists of pictures and arrows rather than text. I'm sure I'm missing something here because it seems to me that if you can use Bolt then you can use C# scripts and make the C# scripts faster and more concise.What am I missing here? I love the idea of visual scripting in general but Playmaker makes more sense to me than Bolt does. Thanks in advance for educating me on why Bolt is cool.

[chetanamali]

yes please make the whole series on bolt

[sykoo]

Every got any of that *COPYRIGHT STROKE*? Hate when that happens..

[audiobirdi]

Thank you for letting us all know about this! :D Was planning on buying Bolt, but now I don't need to! Thanks Sykoo! :)

[TryLss]

Pretty late but I’m just starting to get back into creating games after about 1 year. Definitely going to keep checking out your channel and thanks for all the information!! 🙏🏼💜🔥

[MrGooGone]

I ended up being able to make a controllable cube, and a camera that would look at the cube. So the camera is in the center of the "room" spinning around on the Y axis as the cube moves around. My main problem was trying to keep the X and Z controls for the cube relative to the CAMERA's orientation rather than the world. Since all third person tutorials for Bolt have the camera stuck at a specific camera view, I'm kinda stuck. Also I need for the Y axis for the cube jumping to stay relative to the world Y axis, while X and Z movement are relative to camera view orientation. That way having the cube jump will always be relative to "up" in the world. The game idea is basically a moving box you control and parkour upwards in some kind of facility. (Think something like a Telltale game where you control a third person character while the camera simply looks at the character rather than moving with them.)

[NghtRder]

I like the idea of visual scripting but it just seems so complicated to understand compared to just writing code, but I can see how non coders could benefit. I am definitely looking forward to a thorough tutorial on bolt so I can give it a go

[tekz]

Unity: Lets built a visual scripting tool
Unity: Oh there is already one available at the asset store
Unity: Lets grab that shit and our tool.

Ludiq: Ehm .... hello?

For me it sounds exactly like that

[preflopstore]

Yes more bolt tutorials and I’ll smash that like button!

[jayboy]

I'd definitely want to see a series done on this!

[Dhairya_Mistry]

found you through a comment in how to mae a game without code (of braceys)in the comment section you are amazing I just subscribed

[Apollomoon]

Evan though I'm an unreal user your channel got me into game development
In the first place about a year ago Thankyou.

[TimeWisely]

I would absolutely love if you made visual scripting tutorials. I have very little experience in C# it would be awesome if you do Bolt tutorials!

[chetanamali]

I have one Question that instead of C# scripting we can direct learn bolt for Making games in starting for learning game development???

[RozgarAhmed]

Can Bolt be used to develop android app on unity 2020.2 With
project settings Player
Scripting Backend IL2CPP
Api Compability level* .NET Standard 2.0
Target Architectures ARMv7 and ARM64

[trailoftheark]

Yes please for a Bolt beginners tutorial. It would be helpful to keep in mind that it's for Unity beginners too. Great stuff, thanks!