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Unity 2021 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217616
Pages 816 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Shaun Ferns Shaun Ferns
Profile icon Shaun Ferns
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements 2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs 3. Inventory and Advanced UIs 4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds 5. Creating 3D Objects, Terrains, Textures, and Materials 6. 2D Animation and Physics 7. Characters, Game Kits, and Starter Assets 8. Web Server Communication and Online Version Control 9. Controlling and Choosing Positions 10. Navigation Meshes and Agents 11. Cameras and Rendering Pipelines 12. Shader Graphs and Video Players 13. Advanced Topics - Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More 14. Particle Systems and Other Visual Effects 15. Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR)

Interactive text entry with Input Field

While we often just wish to display non-interactive text messages to the user, there are times (such as name entry for high scores) where we want the user to be able to enter text or numbers into our game. Unity provides the UI Input Field component for this purpose. In this recipe, we'll create an Input Field that prompts the user to enter their name:

Figure 2.25 – Example of interactive text entry 

Having interactive text on the screen isn't of much use unless we can retrieve the text that's entered to be used in our game logic, and we may need to know each time the user changes the text's content and act accordingly. In this recipe, we'll add an event handler C# script that detects each time the user finished editing the text and updates an extra message onscreen, confirming the newly entered content.

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Published in: Sep 2021 Publisher: Packt ISBN-13: 9781839217616
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