Welcome to "Mastering Unity Muse," an in-depth course designed to guide you through Unity’s powerful new Muse Generative AI tool, enabling you to create stunning textures, sprites, animations, and more, all within the Unity ecosystem. Unity Muse is available as a 15 day free trial - plenty enough time to get through this course and gain a thorough understanding of how AI is revolutionising game development.

In this course, you’ll explore the cutting-edge concept of latent diffusion, gaining a deep understanding of how this AI model is trained to generate high-quality images. Whether you’re new to generative AI or an experienced developer looking to integrate AI into your Unity projects, this course offers something for everyone.

With hands-on tutorials, challenges, and walkthroughs, this course provides a thorough grounding in using Muse for creating textures, sprites, and animations. You’ll begin by learning how to use the Muse Texture tool, where you’ll start writing prompts to guide the creation of textures, utilize reference images and patterns, and refine your generated textures using various editing options.

Throughout the course, you’ll be challenged to create your own set of textures, transforming non-seamless textures into seamless ones and applying these to 3D game objects. You’ll also delve into creating PBR materials from these textures to decorate rooms and furniture in Unity.

In the sprite generation section, you’ll learn to install and use the Muse Sprite Generator, explore adding extra characteristics to your prompts, and create your own sprite styles using the Style Trainer. By the end of this section, you’ll have the skills to generate and refine 2D backgrounds, and edit sprites to meet your desired outcomes.

The course also covers the Muse Animate module, where you’ll gain a quick overview of its features, set up characters, and use Muse-generated animations. You’ll get a crash course in walk cycles, explore animation curves, and learn how to manipulate and manually adjust animation keyframes to add custom actions.

Finally, you’ll dive into the Muse Behavior Tree tool, where you’ll create and debug behavior trees, learn how to script custom actions using generative AI and use Muse Chat to create simple scripts, modify code, and even develop procedural terrain.