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Unity 2021 Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 2021 Cookbook Over 140 recipes to take your Unity game development skills to the next level

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217616
Length 816 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Shaun Ferns Shaun Ferns
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Matt Smith Matt Smith
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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 FREE CHAPTER 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)

Adding a horizontal scroll bar to the inventory slot display

How can we cope with many inventory slots that don't fit in the space provided? One solution is to add a scroll bar so that the user can scroll left and right, viewing five at a time, say, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.29 – Example game with a horizontal scroll bar

Let's add a horizontal scroll bar to our game. This can be achieved without making any C# code changes; that is, everything can be done through the Unity UI system.

To implement a horizontal scroll bar for our inventory display, we need to do the following:

  1. First, increase Height of Panel-background to 110 pixels.
  2. In the Inspector window, set the Child Alignment property of the Grid Layout Group (Script) component of Panel-slot-grid to upper-left. Then, move this panel to the right a little so that the inventory icons are centered on the screen.
  3. Add a UI Panel to Canvas and name it Panel-scroll-container. Then, give...
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