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Mastering UI Development with Unity

You're reading from   Mastering UI Development with Unity An in-depth guide to developing engaging user interfaces with Unity 5, Unity 2017, and Unity 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125520
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Ashley Godbold Dr. Ashley Godbold
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Preface 1. Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts 3. Automatic Layouts 4. The Event System and Programming for UI 5. Buttons 6. Text, Images, and TextMesh Pro-Text 7. Masks and Other Inputs 8. Animations and Particles in the UI 9. World Space UI 10. Mobile-Specific UI 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Canvas Group component

You can add a Canvas Group component to any UI object. It allows you to adjust specific properties of the UI object it is attached to and all of its children at once, rather than having to adjust these properties individually. You can add a Canvas Group component to any UI object by selecting Add Component | Layout | Canvas Group (you can also just search for Canvas Group) from the UI object's Inspector.

You can adjust the following properties using a Canvas Group component:

  • Alpha: This is the transparency of the UI objects within the Canvas Group. The number is between 0 and 1 and represents a percentage of opaqueness; 0 is completely transparent, while 1 is completely opaque.
  • Interactable: This setting states whether or not the objects within the group can accept input.
  • Blocks Raycast: This setting determines if the objects within the group will...
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