Questions tagged [gui]
Graphical User Interface. A term used to describe the tools available to the player to interact with the game.
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How to move objects across a canvas with consistent speed on different screen resolutions?
I am making a rhythm game in Unity. I have been using Transform.Translate for moving images on a canvas as the music notes. However, I cannot consistently use this method on different screen widths. ...
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Use arrow keys to navigate between specific toggles, not all UI elements
I'm making a game where the player needs to select a object out of three and navigates between then with the arrows of the keyboard, and I'm using toggles to make this system.
But the problem is that ...
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Is there no UI culling for unity?
I don't understand, am I missing something?
I have hundreds of moving images on screen that only need to render and do their logic/physics when they are in the canvas.
Otherwise they can just ...
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Best way to make a Side Panel UI with Libgdx? (Java)
Take this image for example, the game is called Realm of the mad god, and it has this side panel filling the whole screen height with the player info.
To reproduce it, Is there any way to make the ...
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Monobehaviour script method does not appear as an option for UI button's On Click
I have the following script, and when I try to use a UI button to call the CheckGuess method, it does not appear as an option:
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Controlling Source Image From Script
I am trying to make a health system where hearts display how much health you have. On each heart, I have an Image component. I am trying to control what source image the Image component uses from a ...
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Unity button tint
unity button tint allows me to give a few colors to different modes of the button: normal, highlighted, pressed, and selected colors.
I want to fully disable the "selected" mode color, since whenever ...
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Unity UI's Image component renders without anti-aliasing?
I tried the sprite's import settings with point filtering, with billinear filtering, I also tried changing my canvas' UI Scale mode to Screen Space - Camera, but nothing seems to fix it.
I also tried ...
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Drawing rectangle around a target on screen
I am just started with Unity and C#. I need in my work to do rectangle on a scene. I have a 3D scene, say some warehouse and there is an object. Camera is animated and moving towards the object. Is it ...
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How to make a 'Picture-book Cutscene' in Unity 2D with simple 2D images?
I'm trying to implement a simple cutscene system in my Unity game, preferably one that allows cutscenes to play at the start and end of each of the levels.
What I was imagining was pretty similar to ...
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UI Sprite in Unity3D is badly drawn? (Possibly anti-aliasing problem)
I move a
28x42 Image,
in a 11x17 RectTransform
in Update,
with anti-aliasing on,
without compression,
with point filtering.
But sadly its visuals aren't smooth, it's flickery, even in a standalone ...
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How do I display the next speaker image in my dialogue?
I am working on a dialogue system and while the text part works, the UI for the Dialogue Boxes does not.
When I click on the Continue button, I want the script to go down the Elements [] and use the ...
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How to position/transform vertices for 2D UI in shaders?
I am building a 3D engine and have a rendering abstraction that focuses on writing shaders. Most my 3D shaders have gl_Position output like:
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Unity UI Objects edges are not smooth
I have this Unity UI Image placeholder and here is the snapshot
As you can see its edges are not smooth. First I thought this is editor problem but after making the build it remains the same. What i ...
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Maintain UI position with Aspect Ratio Fitter and anchor preset is set to stretch
So i have a text UI using Aspect Ratio Fitter with Aspect Mode Height Control Width and i set anchor preset to stretch upward .
To make it easier to understand , i want my text to stretch upward ...
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GridLayoutGroup items maximizing area with scalable items
How can I make GridLayoutGroup to scale children keeping their aspect ratio, with no overflows?
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UI clicks hitting the GameObjects below
I've made a simple script which makes a mesh with a collider act like a button. However the mesh button get clicked through the UI.
I figured out how to fix this in editor, however this problem still ...
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Pan over an image like a map using scroll container in godot?
I want to create a level select screen, the aspect ratio for my game screen is 576*1024 and the image, I am using is 2048*2048. What I want is for the user to scroll the screen and navigate along the ...
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How to create a countdown timer that shows hours, minutes and seconds in unity?
Kind of an easy question but everything I have found on this topic is either outdated or only counts down numbers and not time which is what I need. How can I go about creating a countdown timer where ...
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LibGDX Scene2D a different way of implementing a GUI scale setting other than multiplying everything by a constant?
I have a bunch of UI elements for my game. I have an inventory, HUD, hotbar, in-game menu etc. Now I want to scale these based on a setting. I import the settings from a file and basically put it in a ...
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What is the order of execution of OnClick and PointerUp in Unity?
I have an UI element in Unity with a Button and a Event Trigger component. The Button component calls a method when the OnClick event is triggered, and the Event Trigger component calls another method ...
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Unity - Shader graph - How to recreate fill function in UIImage
I am trying to create a circular health bar that would deplete on the Y-axis. This works fine on a normal image with Image type filled and fill method - vertical but I want the texture to be animated. ...
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How do I make an actor move to the foreground temporarily in LibGDX scene2d?
I have an inventory UI which is a table in scene2d. Then the table had a bunch of Containers which are basically inventory slots. They have a transparant grey background color. Then in each container ...
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Small health bar above entity is drawn differently when the entity is rotated differently
Here is a simple positioning code for my health bar:
transform.position = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(target.position - 0.2f * target.up);
Here is the prefab:
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How to create brush that paints or erases in Unity(Mobile)?
Kind of a simple question but I have no idea where to start. Basically I just want to use my finger to drag along an image and either paint on it or erase the image texture entirely (presumable using ...
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How to communicate to an inventory item which character it's being used on?
Currently, I have an Inventory that is a ScriptableObject, which means it's not tied to any specific game object or player ...
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How to create game database editor interface like Age of Empires' AGE
Age of Empires had this powerful AGE (Advanced Genie Editor) tool to let players mod the game data with ease. You could see all the game's databases through this tool and play with them to make your ...
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Issue with button instantiation and variables in Unity3D
Im currently trying to make a system where an inventory of buttons are created and upon runtime the buttons are placed into a GUI component(Panel). I used a list of buttons which gets created on start ...
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PUN2 > Displaying all players' HP to a single pannel of a UI
I've set up a scoreboard-like UI to display all players' in the room as shown in the capture above.
What I'd like to do is to display each player's own status info - Life amount as of now then ...
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Unity Input System On-Screen Button doesn't work with touchscreen 2019.3.2f1
I am trying to make my player jump whenever the space button is pressed (if a keyboard is present), and I'm adding a on-screen button for players on mobile. The on-screen button works fine in the ...
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How to adapt my mobile game for different aspect ratios?
Before I start, I'd like to note that I work in the Unity Engine, but the basic theoretical stuff should be similar just about anywhere.
It's not really hard to get the game's camera/World view or UI ...
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How do I move/select menu options through UI joystick and buttons?
I have a working Menu system in my game. I am able to move across the menu using Up/Down arrow keys and select those options using the enter key. The problem is how do i get that arrow key ...
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How can I continue to rotate a 2D UI Object using OnPointerEnter when object is on its side? (OnPointerExit is triggered)
I have been wracking my brain on this for days. I'm trying to create a nice looking hand of cards, when the card is hovered over, it bobs up and down and rotates. This is triggered by OnPointerEnter, ...
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Different resolution for UI?
I'm developing my first game for mobile devices in Unity3D. My game uses a 720p-resolution. Currently the UI uses the same one. So far so good.
I heard that professional game-developers create their ...
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How to automatically scroll vertical text?
I've a GUI, and a panel with a Text control.
I simply want to do an automatic vertical scroll effect (circular).
Problems I've to solve:
- How to identify if text on my textbox is "too much" and ...
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How to create GUI or Menu for games?
I've advanced quite well in OpenGL and in graphics. However I lack a lot of experiences.
I have had this question in my mind since the beginning of my venture,
how do I create UI or Menu for my game?...
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how to make ascii ui like in dwarf fortress
Only one text field, and inside it - different sections, menus, and popups, all in ascii. How to make that?
I mean something like this:
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In Unity, how do I make text/annotations appear when I mouse over GameObjects in playmode?
How do I make text appear when I mouse over GameObjects in-game? What is the Unity jargon for this? I'm assuming it's 'annotations'.
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Bubble Text appears issue?
I'm trying to make a dialogue between characters using bubbles witth text. But the text appears not clear to player.
The Cam is far from the canvas 13.5f. What to do fix it ?
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Enemy Indicator shows both front and back
I made a simple enemy indicator which show image over the game object which look like this:
You can see that red exclamation mark is over the cube.
Note that Canvas is Space Screen Camera, so I had ...
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Health bar without image collapsing to the centre in Unity 2D
I am trying to create a health bar that collapse symmetrically to the centre. The color palette of my game is minimal and the health bar is only one color that does not change with size. I am new to ...
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Mapping decibel range to linear audible intervals
I am working in an engine that encodes sound as decibels (dB). Let's assume the decibel range of human hearing is -60dB to 0dB.
Audibility is not linear across this range.
So my question is...
How ...
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Rotating TextMeshPro InputField around Z axis makes its text disappear?
I have a TextMeshPro InputField, and if I rotate it around the Z axis, its text disappears.
If I rotate it by 2 and 2 degrees, it slowly gets "cut off".
How could I solve this? I want to rotate a ...
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Which Python package/library is best for this kind of game? [closed]
I'm wanting to make a small scale version of the game Hearthstone and other 2d games that I can implement self-learning ai in. I was wondering which python GUI would be best to display them. It would ...
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Is my UI good practice?
I've made a basic UI with the following interface in Unity:
I have a few different states that I want to switch between by pressing buttons - the "in-game" the "menu" and "submenus". There's buttons ...
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Prefabs x coordinate of position is getting mysteriously updated after destroying and reinstantiating them
Project brief
I am trying to make a gamified version of to-do where the player enters tasks and is rewarded with points and a tree grows with the progress.
What I am trying to do
I have a list of ...
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Unity open UI from ScriptableObject
I have a Canvas that has multiple UI Panels in it for an inventory, crafting, etc. To open these panels I currently have a ...
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Can't change anchor position and TextureRect size
I'm making UI, and want to set anchor to middle of the image, but changing anchor from Layout -> Anchors Only or setting Anchor value directly doesn't work. The value was updated, but anchor point not ...
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Can I create new UI elements and use them from Unity?
I created the following class, that should be used to display numeric text in a UI canvas (score, lives, etc.):
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How to access the parent of a cloned prefab?
I have a menu that gets populated at runtime with buttons whose text components are based on objects that the game manager has in its databases. At the start, the menu is empty:
See that "A" graphic? ...
