Unity: Getting Started with Filebase!

Creating an environment in Unity can be daunting without the help of an artist or creating the assets yourself. This is where Filebase comes into play for your Game Dev journey.

What is Filebase?

Filebase is a website hosted by GameDevHQ and includes thousands of game-ready assets ready to be imported into Unity. These assets can vary from props, buildings, characters, weapons, vfx, and more. It can be found here:

Filebase for Unity — GameDevHQ

However, It does come at a cost. It is $50/year or just $5 per month. This is a great value for the amount of assets you get from it.

Once you make an account you can search the database for any assets you might need for your game. On the homepage, navigate to the “search assets” tab.

Finding the right assets

Let’s say you are making a racing game and you need some cars for your Unity game. Let’s try searching the word “car” and see what happens.

Great! We found some cars let’s click on the race car 01.

The page gives you details about the asset and then allows us to download it. Let’s download it. We should receive a zip file. Now we can open it and see what we received.

We get a zip folder that has a Unity Package and a folder for Mac OS users. I am using windows, so let’s double click the Unity package while we have Unity open.

We get a window that allows us to import the assets into our Unity project. Let’s do that.

If we look in our Projects folder, you will notice we now have a GameDevHQ root folder. This holds all of our assets that we import into Unity. Inside that folder we have:

Filebase>3D>Vehicles>Land>Race_Car_01_FBX

This is the file path for our asset.

What is FBX?

It is a 3D model saved in the Autodesk Filmbox format. It can be used and shared across a variety of digital modeling and content creation programs. Game developers and animators often use FBX files and Unity prefers them too!

Now that we have our FBX, we can click and drag it into our scene view!

That’s it! We now have a great Car asset that we can use for our Unity project!