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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125520

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

2. Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts

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

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Index

Canvas Group component

You can add a Canvas Group component to any UI object. It allows you to adjust specific properties of the UI object it is attached to and all of its children at once, rather than having to adjust these properties individually. You can add a Canvas Group component to any UI object by selecting Add Component | Layout | Canvas Group (you can also just search for Canvas Group) from the UI object's Inspector.

You can adjust the following properties using a Canvas Group component:

Alpha: This is the transparency of the UI objects within the Canvas Group. The number is between 0 and 1 and represents a percentage of opaqueness; 0 is completely transparent, while 1 is completely opaque.
Interactable: This setting states whether or not the objects within the group can accept input.
Blocks Raycast: This setting determines if the objects within the group will block the raycast from hitting things behind it.
Ignore Parent Groups: If this Canvas Group is on an object that is a child...

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Authors (1)

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Ashley Godbold is a programmer, game designer, artist, mathematician, and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Master of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design, and a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media where her dissertation research focused on educational video game design. She also authored Mastering Unity 2D Game Development: Second Edition (Packt Publishing) and the first edition of Mastering UI Development with Unity. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games and watching anime with her husband, daughter, three cats, and dog.

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