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Toolbar and playback

Learn the toolbar buttons and Play/Pause/Step controls.

What is the Unity Toolbar?

The Toolbar is the tool strip located at the top of the Unity Editor. You can access essential controls and some tools used while working on a project from this area.

Toolbar
[Transform Tools] [Play] [Pause] [Step]

The Play, Pause, and Step buttons are especially useful when running and testing a game.

Play, Pause, and Step controls

Play enters or exits Play Mode. Pause temporarily pauses the running game, while Step advances the paused game by one frame.

Play  → Run the game
Pause → Pause the game
Step  → Advance one frame

These controls help you inspect game behavior and control specific moments during testing.

Practice Print playback controls

Create variables representing the three playback controls in the Unity Toolbar. Print the values Play, Pause, and Step on separate lines in that order.

Starter code

Player.cs
using UnityEngine;

public class ToolbarInfo : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        // Oynatma denetimlerini tanımla
        
        // Denetimleri sırayla yazdır
    }
}

Sample solution

Player.cs
using UnityEngine;

public class ToolbarInfo : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        string playControl = "Play";
        string pauseControl = "Pause";
        string stepControl = "Step";

        Debug.Log(playControl);
        Debug.Log(pauseControl);
        Debug.Log(stepControl);
    }
}

Expected output

Play
Pause
Step

Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Which button should you press to run and test the game in Unity?

  • Step
  • Play Correct answer
  • Inspector
  • Pause

Explanation: The Play button runs the game and lets you test the gameplay in the Game window.

2 Pause the game

Question 
string control = "____";
Answer 
string control = "Pause";

Explanation: Pause temporarily stops the running game. You can use the Play control to resume or exit Play Mode.

3 Toolbar controls

Term Meaning
Play Enters Play Mode
Pause Temporarily pauses the game
Step Advances one frame
Toolbar Contains tools and controls

All lessons in Beginner

1 What is game development?

  1. Intro to game development
  2. Game engines
  3. 2D and 3D games
  4. The game loop
  5. The scene concept
  6. Summary - Game dev fundamentals

2 Unity setup

  1. Installing Unity Hub
  2. Creating your first project
  3. The editor interface
  4. Toolbar and playback
  5. Saving the project
  6. Summary - Unity setup

3 First scene project

  1. Project overview
  2. Camera and light
  3. Your first cube in the scene
  4. Adding a material
  5. Testing in Play mode
  6. Summary - First scene

4 The GameObject concept

  1. What is a GameObject?
  2. Components
  3. The Hierarchy window
  4. Editing with the Inspector
  5. Tags and Layers
  6. Summary - GameObject

5 C# script basics

  1. Your first C# script
  2. using and namespace
  3. Class structure
  4. Variables and types
  5. Output with Debug.Log
  6. Summary - C# basics

6 MonoBehaviour

  1. What is MonoBehaviour?
  2. The Start method
  3. The Update method
  4. Awake vs Start
  5. SerializeField and public
  6. Summary - MonoBehaviour

7 Transform

  1. What is Transform?
  2. Changing position
  3. Moving with Translate
  4. Changing rotation
  5. Local vs world space
  6. Summary - Transform

8 Input

  1. The Input class
  2. Axis input
  3. Mouse input
  4. The new Input System
  5. Movement vector
  6. Summary - Input

9 Physics (Rigidbody/Collider)

  1. What is a Rigidbody?
  2. What is a Collider?
  3. Applying force with AddForce
  4. Collision events
  5. Trigger events
  6. Summary - Physics

10 2D Sprite

  1. What is a Sprite?
  2. SpriteRenderer
  3. Sprite import settings
  4. Sprite sorting
  5. Preparing sprite animation
  6. Summary - 2D Sprite

11 Godot basics

  1. The Godot editor
  2. A new project
  3. The scene tree
  4. The Node concept
  5. Saving the project
  6. Summary - Godot basics

12 GDScript

  1. What is GDScript?
  2. extends and variables
  3. Function definition
  4. Output with print
  5. Type hints
  6. Summary - GDScript

13 Node and Scene

  1. Node2D and Sprite2D
  2. Saving a scene
  3. Scene instance
  4. The _ready method
  5. The _process method
  6. Summary - Node and Scene

14 Beginner final

  1. Challenge 1: Print a score
  2. Challenge 2: Movement vector
  3. Challenge 3: Godot ready
  4. Challenge 4: Collision log
  5. Challenge 5: Final synthesis