Getting started

If this is your first time hearing about Virtual Dawn Academy, please see our about-section and license-section

To gain access to our SDK, start by joining Virtual Dawn Portal:

VD PORTAL LOGIN


Our SDK requires you to purchase/own a few paid 3rd party assets. Contact @Croatoan or @van_mardigain in discord to show that you own at least the minimum required assets for the SDK.
If you want to discuss your project and recommended assets (no need to purchase all of them!), contact us to set up a time for a meeting.

List of the minimum and recommended assets can be found here: 3rd Party Assets

After getting access to VD SDK, head to the documentation

SDK strengths

Unity Events

Unity's Invoke and UnityEvents trigger functions dynamically at runtime, allowing flexible method calls without hardcoding.

Mission System

The Mission system tracks tasks with Objective components, which trigger actions based on completion conditions.

Asset Manager

Asset library full of premade interactive and interactable objects within Unity editor.

Scriptable Objects

Wide variety of scriptable object systems to be used in unison with other tools.

Work Flow Guidance

Here we explain how we use our own tools, please see our:
Workflow Guide

Hardware and Software Recommendations:
  • Windows 10/11
  • SSD/NVME with 20gb+ free
  • Microphone for discord communication
  • VR capable GPU (minimum GTX 1050 or equivalent)
  • Supported VR-device (Meta Quest, Pico Neo, Valve Index, HTC Vive; on some cases we may be able to loan one for you.)
Supported Unity Versions:
  • Unity 2022.3.4f1 (being tested)
  • Unity 2021.3.xx (should work fine)
  • Unity 2021.3.24f1 (current main version)
  • Unity 2020.3.xx (works but not recommended)
  • Unity 2019.4.xx (works with old deprecated SDK, but not recommended)