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Mastering UI Development with Unity

You're reading from   Mastering UI Development with Unity An in-depth guide to developing engaging user interfaces with Unity 5, Unity 2017, and Unity 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125520
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Ashley Godbold Dr. Ashley Godbold
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing User Interfaces 2. Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts FREE CHAPTER 3. Automatic Layouts 4. The Event System and Programming for UI 5. Buttons 6. Text, Images, and TextMesh Pro-Text 7. Masks and Other Inputs 8. Animations and Particles in the UI 9. World Space UI 10. Mobile-Specific UI 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Examples

Now let's jump into some examples! We'll be creating a layout for a basic heads-up-display (HUD) and a background image that stretches with the screen and scales at multiple resolutions.

Before we begin setting up our UI, let's set up our project and bring in the art assets we will need.

We'll begin by setting up our project:

  1. Create a new Unity Project and name it Master Unity UI Project. Create it in the 2D mode.
We're selecting 2D Mode because it will make importing our UI sprites a lot easier. When in 2D Mode, all images import as Sprite (2D and UI) images rather than Texture images, as they do in 3D Mode. You can change to 3D Mode at any time by navigating to Edit | Project Settings | Editor and changing Mode to 3D.
  1. Create three new folders named Scenes, Scripts, and Sprites:
You don't need the Editor folder, but, if you'd...
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Mastering UI Development with Unity
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