- 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:
- Creating a 3D menu
- Adding a smooth tilt effect
- Creating and placing a 3D UI
- Creating an animated 3D UI warning
In this chapter, you will learn how to implement some 3D effects as part of the UI. Often in modern games, menus are in 3D. This is done for many reasons, sometimes to make them more visually pleasant and interesting. In some cases, UI elements are placed in the 3D world along with other game objects. For example, when a player goes to collect a pickup, some information may be displayed to him about that object. This chapter will teach you how to do this effectively in Unity. Some of the skills that will be covered in this chapter will be advanced features for placing UI elements within a 3D space and taking advantage of the z axis. In order to do this, we will also cover various scripts that enable our UI to interact with the 3D world to exchange input/output with the UI.
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