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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

UI effect components

There are three effects components that allow you to add special effects to your Text and Image objects: Shadow, Outline, and Position as UV1.

Shadow

The Shadow component adds a simple shadow to your Text or Image object.

You can change the color and transparency of the shadow with the Effect Color property. The Effect Distance property determines its position relative to the graphic to which it is attached. The Use Graphic Alpha property will multiply the color of the shadow with the color of the graphic on which the shadow is attached. So, if this property is checked and the alpha (opacity) of the original graphic is reduced, the alpha of shadow will reduce as well, with the resulting shadow being a...

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