Unity UI Cookbook

Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive



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Price$25.90 - $49.99
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AuthorFrancesco Sapio
PublisherPackt Publishing
Published2015
Pages284
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101785885820
ISBN-139781785885822
EBook Hardcover Paperback

With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it with C# scripts, it's possible to realize the potential of this system and bring an impressive UI to games.

This guide is an invaluable collection of recipes if you are planning to use Unity to develop a game. Starting with the basic concepts of the UI components, we'll take you all the way through to creating complex interfaces by including animations and dynamics elements.

Based on real-world problems, these recipes will start by showing you how to make common UI elements such as counters and healthbars. You will then get a walkthrough of how to manage time using timers, and will learn how to format them.




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