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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2014

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ISBN-13 9781783558667

Length 182 pages

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Tools

Unity

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

NGUI for Unity

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Preface

1. Getting Started with NGUI

2. Creating Widgets FREE CHAPTER

3. Enhancing your UI

4. C# with NGUI

5. Building a Scrollable Viewport

6. Atlas and Font Customization

7. Creating a Game with NGUI

Index

We will now learn how to turn our menu into a draggable window. Let's add the correct component to it and study its parameters, which are as follows:

Select the Panel GameObject.
Rename it as MainMenu.
Attach the Draggable Panel component to it by navigating to Component | NGUI | Interaction.

The MainMenu GameObject now has a UIDraggable Panel component attached to it.

The following are the 13 parameters for setting values in the UIDraggable Panel:

Drag Effect: This is the effect used while dragging the panel to have a smoother drag.
Restrict Within Panel: This uses the parent panel to restrain the draggable panel within its clipping bounds.
Disable Drag If Fits: If the content fits the parent panel's clipping bounds, dragging will be disabled.
Smooth Drag Start: This avoids a "jump" effect on drag start.
Reposition Clipping: This repositions the Clipping to the Top Left Corner immediately.
IOS Drag Emulation: Dragging movement speed is reduced when overpassing the...

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