You're reading from Unity UI Cookbook Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

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ISBN-13 9781785885822

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Unity

Concepts

Game Design

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Francesco Sapio

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. UI Essentials

Introduction
Setting up a 2D texture to be a bordered sprite
Resizing the UI according to the screen size and resolution
Adding and placing an image in the UI
Adding a circular mask to an image
Making an image scrollable
Making text scrollable with a vertical slider
Selecting buttons through the keyboard
Using UI layout components

2. Implementing Counters and Health Bars FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
Implementing a score counter
Implementing a lives counter
Creating a modular coin counter
Creating a symbolic lives counter
Implementing a linear health bar
Implementing a radial health bar
Creating a health bar with armor
Using multiple bars to make a multibar
Developing a kingdom hearts health bar style

3. Implementing Timers

Introduction
Implementing a numeric timer
Creating a linear timer
Implementing a radial timer
Creating a mixed timer
Creating a well-formatted timer
Developing a well-formatted countdown that changes

4. Creating Panels for Menus

Introduction
Creating a toggle group
Showing the slider value as a percentage
Adding upper and lower bounds to the slider
Making UI elements affected by different lights
Making a draggable panel
Making a resizable panel
Creating a drag-and-drop element
Developing an MP3 player

5. Decorating the UI

Introduction
Creating an extendable element with a final fade effect
Creating an extendable and rotating element with a final fade effect
Creating bars that go up and down
Making a floating UI element
Adding shadows to text
Adding outlines to text

6. Animating the UI

Introduction
Appearing and disappearing menu
Creating a menu with an entrance transition
Creating a menu with an idle animation
Animating a button when the cursor is over it
Creating a pop-up menu
Animating hearts of the symbolic lives counter
Changing animation of the hearts of the symbolic lives counter through the script

7. Applying Runtime Customizations

Introduction
Making a button that changes color
Creating a slider that changes colors gradually
Creating a slide shower using a discrete slider
Creating a slider that changes a single color channel
Making an input field with personal text validation at runtime
Making an input field for a password with a lower bound limit for characters
Changing the cursor at runtime

8. Implementing Advance HUDs

Introduction
Creating a distance displayer
Creating a directional radar
Developing a subtitle shower

9. Diving into 3D UIs

Introduction
Creating a 3D menu
Adding a smooth tilt effect
Creating and placing a 3D UI
Making an animated 3D UI warning

10. Creating Minimaps

Introduction
Creating a minimap
Implementing advanced features for minimaps

Index

Chapter 8. Implementing Advance HUDs

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Creating a distance displayer
Creating a directional radar
Developing a subtitle shower

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