Enhancing your UI | NGUI for Unity

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Let's add a welcome textbox with instructions for the user. This text will be scrollable using the mouse wheel or a simple click-and-drag. It will look as shown in the following screenshot:

At the start, it will scroll automatically. Let's create it now:

Select our Nickname container GameObject, duplicate it by pressing Ctrl + D.
Rename this new duplicate as Help.
Select this Help GameObject and perform the following steps:
1. Drag our Title GameObject in the Container field in its UIAnchor.
2. Set its Side parameter in UIAnchor to Bottom.
3. Set its Pixel Offset in UIAnchor to {0, -50}.
Attach a Panel component by navigating to Component | NGUI | UI:
1. Set its Depth to 1.
2. Set its Clipping parameter to Alpha Clip.
3. Set its Clipping Size to 440 x 85.
Attach a Collider object to it by navigating to NGUI | Attach and set its Size to {440, 85, 0}.
Delete the Input GameObject from Help.
Select our Label GameObject from Help and perform the following steps:
1. Change its Font to SciFi Font – Normal.
2. Remove its...

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NGUI for Unity

By : Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

NGUI for Unity

By: Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

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NGUI for Unity

By : Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

NGUI for Unity

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