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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Pickups Script the Fly Movement

Posted by Jacob Domina
Jacob Domina
Courses Plus Student 1,767 Points

Where did Mono go?

Went to continue with the courses but, when loading up the script Mono couldn't be found and only opened MS visual. After reinstalling Mono I got Xarmin instead? Both don't have using unity accessible to them.

Jacob Domina
Jacob Domina
Courses Plus Student 1,767 Points

using unityengine*

Tyler Corum
Tyler Corum
3,514 Points
Tyler Corum
Tyler Corum
3,514 Points

You may be able to go into Edit > Preferences > External Tools and make sure to choose MonoDevelop

1 Answer

Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points
Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points

Which version of Unity did you install? The latest version (possibly since 5.3 or 5.4, I can't remember) comes with Visual Studio Community Edition instead of Monodevelop on Windows. You should also make sure you selected Unity Visual Studio tool to install in the installer too. To be honest VS is much better than Monodevelop in my opinion although it's still Monodevelop that's the default/installed IDE on mac. I wouldn't bother trying to work around it if you have the latest Unity installed, just use Visual Studio that installs by default with it, unless you have a personal preference and know what you're doing to set up a different IDE/text editor with Unity. A lot of the videos on Treehouse were made before Unity switched to VS on windows. But there's not that much difference really for most things and it's now actually a difference anyway between installing Unity on a mac or a PC. Just use the one that Unity opens by default.