Setting up the UI and HUD using Prefabs

With the Canvas set up for our UI, we can start adding the UI components. However, we still need one last thing that is quite easy to include in the project, which is the TextMeshPro (TMP). The TMP is the Unity replacement for the UI Text and Text Mesh features and provides more control over text formatting as well as great performance. If you are already familiar with the old Unity UI, the TMP has almost the same names and features, but in a more robust package.

The TMP package comes by default on the latest versions of Unity, which includes the Unity 2023 version that we are using to develop our RTS game. Any new project will have this package installed, but if you want to double-check, go to Window | Package Manager and select the Packages : In Project option to see all packages that are currently included in our project. TextMeshPro should be on the list as an installed package. If you cannot see it, select the Packages : Unity Registry...