Getting Started with Beginners Blocks¶

The Beginners Blocks are a collection of simple blocks aimed at the Brain Builder beginner who wants to quickly get started with visual scripting. While some Unity familiarity helps, it is not necessary.

For this example, we will use the scene below:

A cube at the center of the view, the camera placed in ortographic mode looking down along the Y axis. Now, lets control this cube using our arrow keys by utilizing the Beginners Blocks. Add a brain to the cube and select it in the inspector by finding the Brain option in the Brain Builder directory of the Component menu:

Brain Builder pops up and the Beginners Blocks will be ticked in the brain list in the lower left. The actual blocks will be available under the Custom Blocks and Custom Values folder in the palette:

Drag Key Up and Move forward to the canvas and arrange them like:

Play the game. Now, you can control the cube by pressing the up arrow key on the keyboard.

Use the other keyboard blocks and movement/turning blocks to create a complete controller for your cube:

And you’re done! It is as simple as that to get going with Brain Builder.

But wait, don’t you want to know what Key Up means? Or what Move forward does? Since the Beginners Blocks themselves are implemented in Brain Builder, all you have to do is click on the Beginners Blocks in the brain list. There, you can see what the blocks you just used actually does. Feel free to adapt them to your needs, but beware that they might be overwritten when you update Brain Builder.