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Learning NGUI for Unity

Learning NGUI for Unity

By : Charles Bernardoff (EURO)
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Learning NGUI for Unity

Learning NGUI for Unity

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By: Charles Bernardoff (EURO)
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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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Getting Started with NGUI
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1. Getting Started with NGUI
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Overview
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Final build
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Importing NGUI
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Creating the UI Root
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Displaying text
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Widget parameters
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Displaying a sprite
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Under the hood
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Summary
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2. Creating NGUI Widgets
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2. Creating NGUI Widgets
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Control prefabs
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The Prefab Toolbar
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Buttons
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The Options window
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Popup List
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The input field
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Adding a checkbox
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Slider
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Summary
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3. Enhancing Your UI
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3. Enhancing Your UI
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NGUI components
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Enlarging buttons on hover
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Menu appearance
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Menu disappearance
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Switching to options
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Back to the menu
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Scene initialization
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Hiding and showing the volume box
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More tween components
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Draggable windows
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Scrollable text
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Close buttons
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Localization system
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Anchors
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Summary
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4. C# with NGUI
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4. C# with NGUI
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Events
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Creating tooltips
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Tweens
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Event delegates
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Keyboard keys
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Saving options
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Persistent UI
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5. Atlas and Font Customization
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5. Atlas and Font Customization
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Texture atlas
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Creating a new atlas
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Adding sprites to the atlas
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Fonts
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Displaying large textures
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6. The In-game User Interface
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6. The In-game User Interface
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The game
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Draggable power sources
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Moving the player
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Player name display
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The elemental source switch
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The elemental switch charging process
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The unavailable button
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Launch from the main menu
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7. 3D User Interface
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7. 3D User Interface
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Introduction to 3D user interface
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The 3D environment text
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Lighting effects
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8. Going Mobile
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8. Going Mobile
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Switching to Android
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Preparations
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Testing the game
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Corrections
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Customizable UI
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Unity Remote
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The profiler
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Debugging on the device
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Summary
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9. Screen Sizes and Aspect Ratios
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9. Screen Sizes and Aspect Ratios
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The adaptive UI
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The flexible UI
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Multiple bitmap fonts
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Multiple atlases
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Switching atlases
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Switching fonts
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10. User Experience and Best Practices
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10. User Experience and Best Practices
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How it all started
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Definitions
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User interfaces in games
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Heuristics
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Testing your game
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Index
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User interfaces in games

Generally, usability aims at removing all the difficulties a user may encounter while interacting with an object or a service. Our role is to make the user's life easier.

In games, the main difference is that the product is hardly fun unless a certain level of challenge is involved. Thus, it is important to define from the beginning where we want to implement this challenge and remove the rest of the difficulties.

This ensures the player focuses his attention on developing his competencies and overcomes the intended challenge—and not another non-relevant difficulty, such as trying to switch weapons.

Some objectives should be hard to accomplish, but the interface and interaction system must drive you to accomplish them. Difficulties that interfere with the entertainment goal should be solved to maximize the player's experience.

In the next section, we will review usability methods to tackle issues that are not part of the game.

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