Adding Google Street View Images to Unity Project - unity3d

I'm completely new to Unity and I'm starting to work on a little game for my class. The scenario says that the main character should be placed in my home town.
Since I'm not capable of modeling my town, I tried making skybox from google street view images using free plugin I found. It looks ok, so I tried adding an avatar, and that's where I'm having troubles.
When adding an avatar, he falls trough the floor, I suppose because its only image underneath him. Then I tried adding box below his feet, and now he levitates in squat position abowe it.
Has anyone any suggestions or ideas on how to fix this? Or maybe some suggestions on different vay of doing this would also be apprechiated.
Here is a photo of what it looks like now:
https://postimg.org/image/ehklr8sg5/

The reason your character falls is because there is no "floor" yet. The skybox is nothing but a special cube that wraps infinitely around your scene. With the street view images it may appear like the character is standing on solid ground based on the optical illusion of the skybox, but they're actually floating in space. When you press play, the physics engine starts, gravity takes hold, and your character falls.
There are a number of ways to prevent them from falling.
Disable Gravity on Character
This is only a good idea if you're not planning to use physics in your game.
Select your character's root node in the Hierarchy
In the inspector, find the RigidBody component
Uncheck Use Gravity
Add Floors
Add something with a collider on it that doesn't have a RigidBody. The collider will prevent the character from passing through it and the lack of RigidBody will ensure it doesn't also get affected by physics or gravity.
Create > Plane
Set its transform position to 0, 0, 0 so it's centered in the world
Scale it up big enough for your character to land on
Uncheck the Mesh Renderer in the inspector to make the plane invisible

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How can I remove small part of collider of game object in unity 2d

click here for gif show of what I want
I want to remove mesh of object when user click on object and also remove its collider to make another object fall from that removed mesh area...
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Creating the destructable ground particles
One way to achieve whats shown in the gif is by creating a prefab of e.g. a circle collider that is instantiated in the area of where the dirt is in your gif. It acts as a "ground particle" and keeps the objects above itself.
You instantiate a lot of them in the area so it acts as a big collider although it is actually a whole array of smaller colliders.
Implementing the interaction logic and deactivating the ground particles
Ater that you implement the functionality of dragging the mouse over the ground particles, removing them. That is also not difficult. Shoot raycasts into the screen at the postition of the mouse (remember to use Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint) and get the collision information (confer to https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider2D.Raycast.html). With the collision information you can get the reference to the instance of your ground particle(raycasthit.other.gameobject) which is then disabled through script(gameobject.setActive(false)).

Unity - How to give some flexibility to colliders

Hi I'am new to Unity and I was trying to implement a game using tetris blocks.
The game's goal is to build the highest tower before it collapses. However there is a problem in my implementation which is seen in the picture below.
I achieve the building a tower task by activating the rigidbody gravityscale when it collides with something. With that way it can collapse after touching somewhere not before. But I want to have the flexibility of some collisions. In the situation seen in the picture below, that 'T' block will collide with the point in the red circle before landing safely and gravityscale of the rigidbody will be set. So it will drop but I don't want it to happen becasue the collision area is too small. I want to make it land safely with some flexibility.
I tried to make colliders' size 0.9 but that just disrupts the scale of the world.
Can I do something like this :
If collision happens, check collision area and if the area is lower than lets say 0.1, do not trigger rigidbody gravityscale.
what about using capsulle collider 2D with small radius?

box colliders next to each other bug

I work on a game in which you can build your own level and play it. You can create a cube, with a box collider, and move it where you wants. You can also change its color. But when you put two cube next to the other, the character will detect a collision on Z axis. As my character collider is a capsule, it make my character jump. If I put a box collider instead of capsule, my character is stopped.
Here is a explanatory video: https://youtu.be/xuqs1zcdDlk
I tried to overlap both colliders, but problem is still here. Colliders have exactly the same height. How should I solve this??
Go to Edit > Project Settings > Physics, and try your game changing the Default Contact Offset value untill 0.
Good luck for your game, can't wait to play it !

Side scroller style scene with gravity

I've started learning sprite kit and I think I've got the basics but now I'm struggling with something.
I want to create a game that has a 'Streets of rage' type feel to it whereby the user can move up and down, but isn't jumping, they're still on a 2D plane. But I also want them to be effected by gravity e.g stairs etc. like the following picture.
Am I right in assuming that I should have my background image with colliders around the blue and brown edges, and then create a physicsbody collider located at the feet of my player/players so that it looks like they can move against the background, but when their feet reach the top it would stop?
Could I then place other obstacles like rocks etc on that path that they would be able to collide into, but that could also sit over the path and the sky? How would I handle the fact that these could be constantly colliding depending on the position?
I appreciate there isn't any code here, but I'm trying to understand the concept around this before I jump in coding a solution.
Thanks
I would use a categoryBitMask to separate the different planes of objects.
And I would play with collisionBitMask/contactTestBitMask depending from the plane the player is in, in addition to the z-order.
Thus you can have a rock that collides your player if they are both in the same line else the player would walk behind/front.

How to move a tile (sprite) with drag and drop in Unity 2D?

I would like to move a tile with drag and drop in Unity 2D. The tile is a sprite. The scene is an 'Unblock me' or 'Blocked in' like gameplay.
Because the tiles in real life correspond to physical objects it seemed be to a good idea to model them with colliders and rigidbody. The border of the table surrunded with invisible colliders. I hoped these will constrain the moves of the tiles realistic, when the player moves them.
Then I implemented a simple (mouse based) drag and drop behavior which is worked perfectly except the moved tile penetrates to other tiles and the border, and sometimes jumps over them. Then I learned if I am overriding physics by explicitly setting transforms position (which I do exactly in my drag and drop implementation), this will happen. OK I accept, I should set only forces, ect. on rigidbody never directly the position.
Now the question:
I am stuck here. I still want to drag and drop like user experience, and some realistic visual result. When in the real life a player moves a tile, it seems it is "glued" to its finger. How can I achieve this (ot at least similar) with just applying forces? Any suggestions or point similar existing sample/blog code?
(I know as a backup plan I can omit all the physics and constrain the tile positions by code, and create some tweens to move the tiles. Is the real solution (what I am asking for) so complicated I should vote on this backup plan?)
Edit
According to comments I've added a video:
There is nothing wrong with the way you are manipulating your dragging. The beauty of developing is being able to do things in your own way. If it works for your game, then don't fret.
Now, i recommend:
Create a new physic material. Assets > Create > Physic Material
Set your new physic material inspector settings both to 0
Attach the physic material to all your wall object colliders. This should allow for your object being dragged to move smoothly against the walls without chopping.
Do a check to see if your mouse is over another collider. If so, then stop the movement in that direction.
Since your movements seem to always be on a single axis, on collision, tell your object to snap to the edge of the wall object. You know the Wall position and scales, also you have the position and scales of the object being dragged. with that you can write a function that will offset it to the correct position when the collision occurs.
Let me know if any of that works out :P