- Unity UI Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Unity UI Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. UI Essentials
- Introduction
- Setting up a 2D texture to be a bordered sprite
- Resizing the UI according to the screen size and resolution
- Adding and placing an image in the UI
- Adding a circular mask to an image
- Making an image scrollable
- Making text scrollable with a vertical slider
- Selecting buttons through the keyboard
- Using UI layout components
- 2. Implementing Counters and Health Bars
- Introduction
- Implementing a score counter
- Implementing a lives counter
- Creating a modular coin counter
- Creating a symbolic lives counter
- Implementing a linear health bar
- Implementing a radial health bar
- Creating a health bar with armor
- Using multiple bars to make a multibar
- Developing a kingdom hearts health bar style
- 3. Implementing Timers
- 4. Creating Panels for Menus
- 5. Decorating the UI
- 6. Animating the UI
- Introduction
- Appearing and disappearing menu
- Creating a menu with an entrance transition
- Creating a menu with an idle animation
- Animating a button when the cursor is over it
- Creating a pop-up menu
- Animating hearts of the symbolic lives counter
- Changing animation of the hearts of the symbolic lives counter through the script
- 7. Applying Runtime Customizations
- Introduction
- Making a button that changes color
- Creating a slider that changes colors gradually
- Creating a slide shower using a discrete slider
- Creating a slider that changes a single color channel
- Making an input field with personal text validation at runtime
- Making an input field for a password with a lower bound limit for characters
- Changing the cursor at runtime
- 8. Implementing Advance HUDs
- 9. Diving into 3D UIs
- 10. Creating Minimaps
- Introduction
- Creating a minimap
- Implementing advanced features for minimaps
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Limiting the boundaries of the minimap camera
- Rotating the minimap according to where the player is facing
- Smoothly rotating the minimap compass to point towards the relative north of the game environment
- Improving the lighting within the minimap
- Ideas for implementing the minimap in closed environments
- Other techniques for minimaps
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover these recipes:
- Implementing a numeric timer
- Creating a linear timer
- Implementing a radial timer
- Creating a mixed timer
- Creating a well-formatted timer
- Developing a well-formatted countdown that changes
In this chapter, we are going to implement different kinds of timers and countdowns. These serve many different purposes in games, such as indicating to the player how much time he has left to complete a level or after how long he will be able to use a certain ability again. Timers are also a good way for players to experience flow throughout the game. On the other hand, countdowns can indicate how much time is remaining to complete a task, depending on the aspect of gameplay that we are trying to represent with a timer — for example, to let a player know how much time is remaining to complete a task, or how much time has elapsed since the task began. Both timers and countdowns are effective methods of altering the dynamics of gameplay.
We will begin this chapter by seeing how to create a numeric timer. From this, you will learn how to create graphic timers and, finally, how to implement a countdown that changes over time.
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