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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

Summary

UI Images and Text make up the vast majority of graphical user interfaces.

In this chapter, we discussed the following topics:

  • Creating UI Text objects and setting their properties
  • Importing fonts into Unity
  • Using markup format with UI Text objects
  • Creating UI Images and setting their properties
  • Using the various UI Effects components to further customize our graphical UI
  • Creating TextMesh Pro-Text Objects and setting their properties
  • Creating text that animates, as if being typed out
  • Creating a custom font to be used with UI Text objects
  • Creating text that wraps along a curve and renders with a gradient
  • Creating horizontal and circular progress bars

Next, we will cover other input types as well as masks.

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