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🌱 C# Beginner

15 lessons 2.5 hours

These tutorials cover the beginner principles of using C# when working with the Stride game engine. Start here if you are new to Stride.

Note: These tutorials do not serve as an introduction to C# itself. While having some coding experience is helpful, it is not mandatory to get started with these tutorials.

To create the C# beginner tutorial project:

1. Start the Stride launcher
2. Create a new project
3. Select the template: Tutorials -> C# beginner

Each scene is loaded as a child scene and demonstrates a sample script.

Stride C# beginner YouTube tutorial series

All tutorials are accompanied by a YouTube video. You can watch the entire C# Beginners playlist here.

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All tutorials

Introduction

Learn about the C# beginners project template, how entities and components work, different types of scripts, and more.

📺 Watch the Introduction tutorial

Getting the Entity

Learn how to retrieve the entity, retrieve the parent entity, print debug text, and more.

📺 Watch the Getting the Entity tutorial

Child entities

Learn how to get a specific child entity, retrieve children in a list, and access children of children.

📺 Watch the Child entities tutorial

The transform

Learn how to access the Transform component, get the local position, and get the world position.

📺 Watch the transform tutorial

Editor properties

Discover how to define various editor properties, create lists, and hide public properties.

📺 Watch the Editor properties tutorial

Getting a component

Understand how to get a component, remove a component, and access methods of other components.

📺 Watch the Getting a component tutorial

Adding a component

Explore adding a component, removing all components of one type, and creating a component if it doesn't exist.

📺 Watch the Adding a component tutorial

Delta time

Learn how to retrieve delta time, create a simple timer, and make a simple countdown timer.

📺 Watch the Delta time tutorial

Cloning an entity

Learn how to clone an entity, add an entity to the current scene, and add an entity as a child to a parent entity.

📺 Watch the Cloning an entity tutorial

Removing an entity

Explore cloning new entities using a timer, removing entities using a timer, and removing an entity from the scene.

📺 Watch the Removing an entity tutorial

Mouse input

Understand how to manage holding down a mouse button, clicking or releasing a mouse button, and using the mouse wheel.

📺 Watch the Mouse input tutorial

Keyboard input

Discover how to handle holding down a key, clicking a key, and releasing a key.

📺 Watch the Keyboard input tutorial

Virtual buttons

Learn how to define a virtual key configuration, bind input to the configuration, and use the virtual buttons.

📺 Watch the Virtual buttons tutorial

Linear Interpolation

Explore calculating 'lerp' values, lerping between `Vector3` values, and using random values.

📺 Watch the Linear Interpolation tutorial

Loading content

Discover how to load content from code, unload content, and attach models to entities.

📺 Watch the Loading content tutorial

Instantiating prefabs

Learn how to instantiate a prefab, load a prefab from content, and parent a prefab entity.

📺 Watch the Instantiating prefabs tutorial