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NGUI for Unity

You're reading from   NGUI for Unity The NGUI plugin for Unity makes user interfaces so much more efficient and attractive. Learn all about it in this step-by-step tutorial that includes lots of practical exercises, including creating a fun 2D game.

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Published in Jan 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783558667
Length 182 pages
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Let's add a welcome textbox with instructions for the user. This text will be scrollable using the mouse wheel or a simple click-and-drag. It will look as shown in the following screenshot:

At the start, it will scroll automatically. Let's create it now:

  1. Select our Nickname container GameObject, duplicate it by pressing Ctrl + D.

  2. Rename this new duplicate as Help.

  3. Select this Help GameObject and perform the following steps:

    1. Drag our Title GameObject in the Container field in its UIAnchor.

    2. Set its Side parameter in UIAnchor to Bottom.

    3. Set its Pixel Offset in UIAnchor to {0, -50}.

  4. Attach a Panel component by navigating to Component | NGUI | UI:

    1. Set its Depth to 1.

    2. Set its Clipping parameter to Alpha Clip.

    3. Set its Clipping Size to 440 x 85.

  5. Attach a Collider object to it by navigating to NGUI | Attach and set its Size to {440, 85, 0}.

  6. Delete the Input GameObject from Help.

  7. Select our Label GameObject from Help and perform the following steps:

    1. Change its Font to SciFi Font – Normal.

    2. Remove its...

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