Organizing the project

There are different ways to organize a project within Unity, therefore giving a bit more freedom. In this section, we propose one method, which we will use during the development of the project in this book.

The key idea is to organize the different assets by type (and not, as in other methods, by their position within the level).

First of all, let's understand how Unity organizes assets. All of them are placed inside a folder named Assets, which can be found also inside the Project folder. Therefore, all our assets should be contained in this folder or subfolder. In order to create a new folder, right-click on the Project panel and then Create | Folder. As a result, a new folder is created within the folder you clicked. Since we don't have any folders, it will be a subfolder of the Assets one. We have the option to rename it as we want. If you miss this, you can just select it and then click on it again (but not too fast, otherwise Unity will consider this as a double-click and it will open the folder), as shown in the following screenshot:

We need to create the following folders (you should only create the ones in bold, since we will not use the other ones):

At the end, we should see the following in our Project panel (I'll add the Animation folder in Chapter 4, No Longer Alone - Sweet-Toothed Pandas Strike, when we will see animations, but feel free to add it immediately if you like):

There is something else to know about the folders in your projects. If you create folders with some specific names, Unity will treat them in a special way. We are not going to use them; however, it's worth giving them a quick look:

Coming back to our folder, we need to import the package that we have downloaded. This can be done in a number of different ways, but the easiest way is to drag and drop the folder of the package within our Graphics folder.

If you need to select an asset to use, in the bottom-left corner of the Project panel, there is a slider that allows you to increase the size of the icons in the Project panel. This function is useful when there are a lot of assets and we need to find the right one without knowing the name, or when exploring new packages we don't know yet. The slider is highlighted in the following screenshot for your convenience: