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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)

Examples

In this chapter, we'll expand on the scene we've been building further and also add in a new scene that occurs between our start screen and our main game screen.

Animated text

First, we will create a new scene that acts like a "cut scene" between our start screen and our gameplay scene. It will include our cat, introducing itself. The text will animate in as if it is being typed, and the user will have the option to speed it up by pressing a button. Once the text is fully displayed, pressing that same button will either show the next block of text or go to the gameplay scene. The text windows will appear as follows:

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