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Mastering UI Development with Unity

Mastering UI Development with Unity

By : Dr. Ashley Godbold
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Mastering UI Development with Unity

Mastering UI Development with Unity

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By: Dr. Ashley Godbold

Overview of this book

Mastering UI Development with Unity covers the creation of captivating, functional UIs for player interaction and engagement. Learn design considerations, animation, particle effects, and UI optimization for various genres and platforms. Implement UIs using Unity's UI systems and input systems, creating visually engaging elements like HUDs, menus, and progress bars. Discover how to develop and implement UIs across multiple platforms and resolutions with practical examples. By the end, you'll confidently develop game UIs with technical and aesthetic considerations using Unity's versatile UI elements.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Part 1: Designing User Interfaces
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Part 2: Unity UI Basics
11
Part 3: The Interactable Unity UI Components
17
Part 4: Unity UI Advanced Topics
22
Part 5: Other UI and Input Systems

Examples

I mentioned earlier in this chapter that a common usage of masks and scroll views is a menu with multiple items in it. So, for this chapter, we’ll only create one example, a scroll view from a pre-existing menu, by mimicking the layout of the Scroll View UI object.

Making a scroll view from a pre-existing menu

To help organize the project, duplicate the Chapter11-Examples scene that you created in the last chapter; rename it Chapter12-Examples. Open Chapter12-Examples and complete the following example within that scene.

I want to be able to add more items to my Inventory Panel and allow the player to scroll through the items. I could create a new UI Scroll View item and update it to look like my current Inventory Panel, but that would be more hassle than it’s worth. So, instead, I will convert the current Inventory Panel to a scrollable view. After it is complete, it will look like the following figure:

Figure 12.17: The scrollable menu we will build

Figure 12.17: The scrollable...

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