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Mastering UI Development with Unity

By : Ashley Godbold
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Mastering UI Development with Unity

By: Ashley Godbold

Overview of this book

A functional UI is an important component for player interaction in every type of video game. Along with imparting crucial statistical information to the player, the UI is also the window through which the player engages with the world established by the game. Unity's tools give you the opportunity to create complex and attractive UIs to make your game stand out. This book helps you realize the full potential of Unity's powerful tools to create the best UI for your games by walking you through the creation of myriad user interface components. Learn how to create visually engaging heads-up-displays, pause menus, health bars, circular progress bars, animated menus, and more. This book not only teaches how to lay out visual elements, but also how to program these features and implement them across multiple games of varying genres. While working through the examples provided, you will learn how to develop a UI that scales to multiple screen resolutions, so your game can be released on multiple platforms with minimal changes.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Input functions for buttons and key presses

There are quite a few ways to access key and button presses via code. How you do this depends on whether you have the key specified as an axis in the Input Manager and whether you want the key to register once or continuously. I'll discuss a few in this text, but you can find a full list of the functions at https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.html.

A script named KeyPresses is attached to the Main Camera in Text example scene of Chapter4, The Event System and Programming for UI, and contains all the code demonstrated in this section if you'd like to play around with key presses.

GetButton

If you have a button defined as an axis in the Input Manager, you can use...