You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development Learn to use the latest Unity 2022 features to create your first video game in the simplest way possible

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236919

Length 712 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Creating a Unity Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Editing Scenes and Game Objects

3. Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

4. Importing and Integrating Assets

5. Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting

6. Implementing Movement and Spawning

7. Physics Collisions and Health System

8. Win and Lose Conditions

9. Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

10. Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

11. Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

12. Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

13. Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing

14. Sound and Music Integration

15. User Interface Design

16. Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit

17. Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

18. Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger, and Memory Profiler

19. Generating and Debugging an Executable

20. Augmented Reality in Unity

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Creating a responsive UI

Nowadays, it is almost impossible to design a UI in a single resolution, and our target audience display devices can vary a lot. A PC has a variety of different kinds of monitors with different resolutions (such as 1080p and 4k) and aspect ratios (such as 16:9, 16:10, and ultra-wide), and the same goes for mobile devices. We need to prepare our UI to adapt to the most common displays, and Unity UI has the tools needed to do so.

In this section, we will explore the following UI responsiveness concepts:

Adapting object positions
Adapting object sizes

We are going to explore how the UI elements can adapt their position and size to different screen sizes using advanced features of the Canvas and RectTransform components, such as Anchors and Scalers.

Adapting object positions

Right now, if we play our game, we will see how the UI fits nicely onto our screen. But if for some reason we change the Game view size, we will see how...