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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)

Summary

Wow! This chapter was intense! There was a lot to cover, as this chapter set the groundwork that will be used throughout the rest of this book.

In this chapter, we discussed the following topics:

  • Creating UI Canvases and setting their properties
  • Creating UI Panels and setting their properties
  • Using the Rect Tool and Rect Transform component
  • Properly setting anchor and pivot points
  • Creating and laying out a basic HUD
  • Creating a background image
  • Setting up a basic pop-up menu

The next chapter will cover how to create different automatic layouts that will let us line up our UI in grids.