Your First Week

The tools are installed and you have read How We Work. Now run the whole loop once on something small. You don't need to learn everything before touching anything.

Do one small thing, end to end

Ask your lead for a small, real, low-stakes asset, like one prop, one sound or one room. Not a practice exercise, but something that will actually ship. Then take it all the way through with the matching recipe open beside you:

Recipe11Area
Add a Soundaudio
Add Translationscontent
Build a Levellevel-design
Check Your Workmeta
Import & Exportcontent
Make a Buildcode
Make a Hairstyle3 days
Make a Kit Piece3 days
Make a Prop3 days
Make a Texture Settexture
Run Testscontent

The asset itself isn't the point. You get to touch naming, folders, export, version control, and the checker in one sitting, in the order they actually happen. Reading about those five separately teaches you much less than doing them once in sequence.

Get it looked at

Ask someone to review it before you consider it done. Specifically ask them to check:

  • the name: is every token right, and does it put the file where the file actually is?
  • the pivot, if it is a mesh. Bad pivots cost level designers the most time later.
  • the texture set: right category, right folder, all maps present

Learn the daily loop

By the end of the week this should be automatic:

  1. Pull before you start. Always.
  2. Lock the files you are about to edit.
  3. Work.
  4. Run the checker: Workspace Check, the Blender add-on's panel, or Run Tests.
  5. Commit and push, using the commit format, with the .meta files alongside their assets.
  6. Release your locks.

Step 4 is the one that gets dropped first and costs the most. Step 6 is the one that makes you unpopular.

Read your role's pages

Roles gives you five pages, not fifty. Read them properly now that you have context for them; they land completely differently after you have made something.

By the end of the week

You should be able to answer these without looking anything up. If you can't, that's a gap in these pages rather than in you. Tell us.

  • Where does a file called SM_Prop_Furniture_Table_01.blend live, and why is there no lookup table?
  • What happens if you rename a Unity asset in Explorer?
  • You and someone else both changed the same .fbx. What do you do?
  • Where do you look up whether it's Cobble or Cobblestone?
  • Who decides a rule is wrong?