You're reading from Mastering UI Development with Unity Develop engaging and immersive user interfaces with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235394

Length 638 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Designing User Interfaces

2. Chapter 1: Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Mobile User Interfaces

4. Chapter 3: Designing VR, MR, and AR UI

5. Chapter 4: Universal Design and Accessibility for UI

6. Chapter 5: User Interface and Input Systems in Unity

7. Part 2: Unity UI Basics

8. Chapter 6: Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts

9. Chapter 7: Exploring Automatic Layouts

10. Chapter 8: The Event System and Programming for UI

11. Part 3: The Interactable Unity UI Components

12. Chapter 9: The UI Button Component

13. Chapter 10: UI Text and TextMeshPro

14. Chapter 11: UI Images and Effects

15. Chapter 12: Using Masks, Scrollbars, and Scroll Views

16. Chapter 13: Other Interactable UI Components

17. Part 4: Unity UI Advanced Topics

18. Chapter 14: Animating UI Elements

19. Chapter 15: Particles in the UI

20. Chapter 16: Utilizing World Space UI

21. Chapter 17: Optimizing Unity UI

22. Part 5: Other UI and Input Systems

23. Chapter 18: Getting Started with UI Toolkit

24. Chapter 19: Working with IMGUI

25. Chapter 20: The New Input System

26. Index

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Overview of UI Toolkit

As you may recall from Chapter 5, there are three total UI systems that can be used within Unity. Up to this point, the focus of this book has been on Unity UI (uGUI), which can be used to make in-game (aka runtime) UI. However, if you want to make UI that can be viewed in your Editor, you will have to use a different system. The two systems that can be used to create Editor UI are IMGUI, which we will discuss in the next chapter, and the UI Toolkit. However, while IMGUI can only be used to make Editor UI, the UI Toolkit can be used to make both runtime and Editor UI.

Figure 18.1: Comparing the three UI systems

Unity’s goal is to replace the uGUI system entirely with the new UI Toolkit. However, it is still in development and does not have all the functionalities that uGUI does. For example, the UI Toolkit cannot make UI that is positioned in the 3D world, like what we discussed in Chapter 16. It can only make UI that overlays...