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  • Welcome to MONA
    • What is a Space?
    • Unity Overview
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      • Setting up MONA in Unity
      • Introduction to Unity
      • Setting up Simple Assets
      • Metaverse / WebGL Limitations
      • Creating 3D Assets
      • Applying Materials & Unwrapping UVs
      • Importing Assets into Unity
      • Adding Colliders
      • Adding Lighting
      • Adding a Custom Skybox
      • Setting up Canvases
      • Uploading to your Wallet
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        • Space Overview
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        • Test Your Space
        • Troubleshooting
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        • Lightmaps (Unity Lightmapper)
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        • Animation in Unity
        • Importing Animation
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        • Adding Audio
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        • Embedded Video
        • User Interface (UI)
        • Creating Custom Shaders
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      • Optimise your Space
        • Prefabs
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        • Optimizing your Space
      • Adding Interactivity
        • Visual Scripting
          • Web Request Node
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          • Creating Animation
          • Using Animator
          • The Reactor Component
          • Reactor Overview
      • MONA Tools
        • Template Utility
        • MONA Capture
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        • VOX Importer
      • Submit Your Space
        • Submitting your Space
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        • QA Process
        • Mint Your Space
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      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Troubleshooting
    • Creating Assets
      • Asset Requirements
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      • Optimizing your Mesh
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      • Example - Cyberpunk Car
    • Creating Avatars
      • Getting Started with VRM
      • VRM Requirements
      • VRM Creation
        • Using Mixamo for Rigging
        • Adding Custom Bones to the Rig (Optional)
      • Creating your Avatar using UniVRM
        • Importing UniVRM into Unity
        • Creating the VRM using UniVRM
        • Adding Spring Bones in UniVRM (Optional)
      • Creating your Avatar using 'VRM for Blender'
        • Adding 'VRM for Blender' into Blender
        • Using 'VRM for Blender' for Rigging
        • Adding a Material
        • Assigning VRM Details
        • Exporting the Avatar
      • Uploading your VRM
      • Using Avatars in WebAR
      • Submitting your VRM to the Mona Marketplace
      • Mint Your Avatar
      • Troubleshooting
    • Resources
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      • Useful Unity Packages
      • Updating the Template SDK
      • Importing Mozilla Hubs Spaces to MONA
      • Importing AltspaceVR spaces to MONA
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  • ⬛Explore
    • How to Use MONA
    • Using VRM Avatars
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    • Explorer's Frequently Asked Questions
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      • Uploading your Images
      • Add Images to a Canvas
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      • Setting up OBS Studio
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    • Collector's Frequently Asked Questions
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  • Downloading Unity
  • Installing Unity
  • Signing in to Unity
  • Downloading the MONA Template
  • Starting a new MONA Space
  • Testing the Space
  • Summary

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Setting up MONA in Unity

This tutorial will cover how to install the right version of Unity and then open the MONA SDK.

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As much as you may use other tools to create your assets, such as Blender, Maya, Rhino, and so on, Unity is the game engine that we use to put all our assets together in one place.

When creating spaces for MONA, we need to set up the space in a certain way so that it will work in a browser. The MONA SDK is used with this in mind and it will also have all of the resources you need in MONA to make an amazing space.

Downloading Unity

The version of Unity is very important to note. MONA uses 2022.3.6 with the Standard Render pipeline, sometimes called the in-built render pipeline.

  • Save the file.

  • Double-click on the saved file to install Unity Hub.

  • Open the program once installed.

Installing Unity

Make sure to install the WebGL module!

If you do not do this, your space will not work in MONA. If you miss this, you can use Unity Hub to add the module by using the Settings / Add Modules button.

Signing in to Unity

You will need to sign into Unity to use it, as you will need a Unity License. You can use a free Personal License to do so.

  • Go to the top left of the Unity Hub and select 'Create Account' if you don't have one already, or 'Sign in'.

On the rare occasion that you have issues with signing in and, therefore, being unable to open Unity, you could try making sure your VPN is off and that Unity Hub is allowed through your Firewall before trying to sign in.

Downloading the MONA Template

You must download the MONA SDK to start all spaces for use in MONA.

Starting a new MONA Space

Once you have the required Unity version installed and access to the MONA SDK, you need to unzip the MONA SDK to a new destination folder. This will be the project moving forward. If you want to back up your project, you can just copy and paste this project folder and open the copy to continue working.

  • Unzip the MONA SDK zip to your preferred location.

  • Use Unity Hub to open the project by using the 'Open' button at the top right.

  • Once in the project, use the 'Mona' menu and select 'Add Mona Scenes'.

  • Right mouse click on the 'Untitled' scene in the hierarchy window and select 'Remove Scene'.

Testing the Space

It is possible to build and test this space in the browser.

  • Go to the top and press ‘Playground’, it will open file explorer with the Playground files and load a browser at the playground website for you.

  • Drag your Playable files folder from Explorer onto the Playground input in the browser

  • Test your first MONA space!

Head to the Getting Started Building doc if you would like a more in depth tutorial on getting started with Mona.

Summary

In this tutorial, we went over installing the right version of Unity, opening the Mona SDK, and doing a quick test of the space in the MONA Playground.

Go to and use the ‘Download Unity Hub’ button.

directly into the Unity Hub (after Unity hub has been installed), or go to the to install Unity 2022.3.6.

Download it from Github .

Download the SDK by pressing 'Code', then 'Download Zip' on the Github page, or cloning the repository. For more information on this, go .

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unity3d.com/get-unity/download
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