Sign In Start Free Trial

Book Overview & Buying
Table Of Contents

Learning NGUI for Unity

By : Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

4.7 (6)

Learning NGUI for Unity

4.7 (6)

By: Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

Overview of this book

Project teams rarely forget to work on the technology, but they often forget to work with the people, and no matter how amazing your new technology is, it’s useless unless people use it efficiently.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Getting Started with NGUI

1. Getting Started with NGUI

Overview

Final build

Importing NGUI

Creating the UI Root

Displaying text

Widget parameters

Displaying a sprite

Under the hood

Summary

2. Creating NGUI Widgets

2. Creating NGUI Widgets

Control prefabs

The Prefab Toolbar

Buttons

The Options window

Popup List

The input field

Adding a checkbox

Slider

Summary

3. Enhancing Your UI

3. Enhancing Your UI

NGUI components

Enlarging buttons on hover

Menu appearance

Menu disappearance

Switching to options

Back to the menu

Scene initialization

Hiding and showing the volume box

More tween components

Draggable windows

Scrollable text

Close buttons

Localization system

Anchors

Summary

4. C# with NGUI

4. C# with NGUI

Events

Creating tooltips

Tweens

Event delegates

Keyboard keys

Saving options

Persistent UI

Summary

5. Atlas and Font Customization

5. Atlas and Font Customization

Texture atlas

Creating a new atlas

Adding sprites to the atlas

Fonts

Displaying large textures

Summary

6. The In-game User Interface

6. The In-game User Interface

The game

Draggable power sources

Moving the player

Player name display

The elemental source switch

The elemental switch charging process

The unavailable button

Launch from the main menu

Summary

7. 3D User Interface

7. 3D User Interface

Introduction to 3D user interface

The 3D environment text

Lighting effects

Summary

8. Going Mobile

8. Going Mobile

Switching to Android

Preparations

Testing the game

Corrections

Customizable UI

Unity Remote

The profiler

Debugging on the device

Summary

9. Screen Sizes and Aspect Ratios

9. Screen Sizes and Aspect Ratios

The adaptive UI

The flexible UI

Multiple bitmap fonts

Multiple atlases

Switching atlases

Switching fonts

Summary

10. User Experience and Best Practices

10. User Experience and Best Practices

How it all started

Definitions

User interfaces in games

Heuristics

Testing your game

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with NGUI

The Next-Gen User Interface kit is a plugin for Unity 3D. It has the great advantage of being easy to use, very powerful, and optimized compared to Unity's built-in GUI system called UnityGUI.

Using this plugin, you can create main menus and in-game user interfaces. It also comes with useful generic methods and an event system that can come in handy.

In this first chapter, we'll import the plugin in a new project and create our first UI. After displaying texts and sprites, we'll take a look under the hood to understand NGUI's global structure and review its important parameters.

CONTINUE READING

83

Tech Concepts

36

Programming languages

73

Tech Tools

Unlimited access to the largest independent learning library in tech of over 8,000 expert-authored tech books and videos.

Innovative learning tools, including AI book assistants, code context explainers, and text-to-speech.

50+ new titles added per month and exclusive early access to books as they are being written.

Learning NGUI for Unity

Search

Your notes and bookmarks