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NGUI for Unity

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.

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Published in Jan 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783558667
Length 182 pages
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Creating draggable barriers


It is time to create our draggable barriers. The player will be able to drag-and-drop the BarrierObject prefab in the Viewport GameObject. This BarrierObject prefab will look as shown in the following screenshot:

The BarrierObject prefab

First, we need to create our BarrierObject prefab's holder that will contain the draggable object:

  1. Select our UI GameObject.

  2. Create a new child with Alt + Shift + N and rename it as Barrier.

  3. Open the Widget Tool wizard by navigating to NGUI | Open and perform the given steps:

    1. Select Sprite for the Template parameter.

    2. Select Dark sprite for the Sprite field.

    3. With our Barrier GameObject selected, click on the Add To button.

  4. Select our new barrier's Sprite (Dark) GameObject and perform the following steps:

    1. Rename it as Background.

    2. Set its Sprite Type to Sliced.

    3. Set its Color Tint to {0, 250, 250, 170}.

    4. Set its Depth value to 0.

    5. Set its Dimensions to 200 x 200.

  5. Select our Barrier GameObject.

  6. Attach a collider to it by navigating to NGUI | Attach...

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