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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

Masks

Masks affect the visibility of objects within their shape. If an object is affected by a mask, any part of it outside the mask's restricted area will be invisible. The restriction area of a mask can either be determined by an image with the Mask component or a Rect Transform with the Rect Mask 2D component.

With UI, masking is primarily used for scrolling menus, so items that exist outside of the menu's area will not be visible. However, it is also used to cut out images. For example, the following image shows a cat's image being cut out by a circular mask:

Circular Mask Example in the Chapter7Text Scene

You may note that the edges on the cat with mask don't look great. To avoid this, ensure that you use sprites with appropriate image resolutions and try different Filtering modes on the Sprite's Import Settings.

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