Unity UI Cookbook
图书信息
| 作者 | Francesco Sapio |
| 出版社 | Packt Publishing |
| ISBN | 9781785882005 |
| 出版时间 | 2015-12-29 |
| 字数 | 226.8万 |
| 分类 | 进口书,外文原版书,电脑,网络 |
读书简介
Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive About This Book Design and develop interactive and professional user interfaces (UIs) for games in Unity Discover how to implement and deal with various in-game UI elements that will impress your players This practical recipe guide will help you to efficiently create powerful and remarkable UIs using C# code Who This Book Is For If you are a game developer with some experience in Unity and C# and want to create the best interactive experience fast and intuitively, then this book is for you. If you are an intermediate game developer or an expert, these recipes will help you bring out the power of the new UI Unity system. What You Will Learn Implement different kinds of counters and healthbars Deal with timers and find out how to format them Animate and vivify UI elements Handle runtime customizations Add complex Head-up displays (HUDs) Design and implement 3D UIs Integrate minimaps in the UI In Detail 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# *s, 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. You will move on to decorating and animating the UI elements to vivify them and give them a professional touch. Furthermore, you will be guided into the 3D UI world and into HUD *ing. Finally, you will discover how to implement complex minimaps in the interface.Style and approach Interactive, easy-to-follow recipes will help you create and implement UIs that make gaming an exhilarating experience.
目录
Unity UI Cookbook
Table of Contents
Unity UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. UI Essentials
Introduction
Getting ready
Setting up a 2D texture to be a bordered sprite
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Slicing with less than nine sections
See also
Resizing the UI according to the screen size and resolution
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Adding and placing an image in the UI
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Rotating the image and changing the pivot point
Adding a circular mask to an image
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Making an image scrollable
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Making text scrollable with a vertical slider
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Scrolling multiple columns at once
Scrolling horizontally
Selecting buttons through the keyboard
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Using UI layout components
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
2. Implementing Counters and Health Bars
Introduction
Implementing a score counter
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding a remove points function
Using boldface in the rich text
Getting the score
See also
Implementing a lives counter
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing the number of maxLives
Getting the number of lives
See also
Creating a modular coin counter
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Removing coins
Adding score if the number of lives has reached the maximum
Getting the number of coins
See also
Creating a symbolic lives counter
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Implementing a linear health bar
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Implementing a radial health bar
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Having a health bar that isn't necessarily 360°
See also
Creating a health bar with armor
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Using multiple bars to make a multibar
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Developing a kingdom hearts health bar style
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
3. Implementing Timers
Introduction
Implementing a numeric timer
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Getting the time variable
See also
Creating a linear timer
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Running code when the timer expires
Creating a double-sided timer
See also
Implementing a radial timer
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating a mixed timer
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing the number of decimal points shown
Using a linear timer instead of a radial timer
See also
Creating a well-formatted timer
How to do it...
How it works...…
There's more...
Getting the time variable
See also
Developing a well-formatted countdown that changes
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Getting the time variable
Running code when the time expires
Increasing tension by adding decimal points when the time is close to expiring
See also
4. Creating Panels for Menus
Introduction
Creating a toggle group
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Giving the player the privilege not to choose one of the options
See also
Showing the slider value as a percentage
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding upper and lower bounds to the slider
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing the color when a bound is reached
Expressing bounds as a percentage
Limiting the value that we can set in the Inspector
See also
Making UI elements affected by different lights
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Making a draggable panel
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating a draggable area for the panel
See also
Making a resizable panel
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating a drag-and-drop element
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Checking for dropped objects
Developing an MP3 player
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Showing the name of the song
5. Decorating the UI
Introduction
Creating an extendable element with a final fade effect
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing the speed for each axis
Fade-in instead of Fade-out
See also
Creating an extendable and rotating element with a final fade effect
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating a shining effect
Creating a better shining effect
Using more than one axis to create 3D effects
Having control over each axis
Creating a butterfly
See also
Creating bars that go up and down
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding a phase to use more than one bar
Adding bounds to our bar
Adding bounds and a phase
See also
Making a floating UI element
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating a shaking effect
Creating a sparkle effect
Creating a better butterfly
See also
Adding shadows to text
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating 3D letters
See also
Adding outlines to text
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating a nice, soft outline
Creating better 3D letters
See also
6. Animating the UI
Introduction
Appearing and disappearing menu
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Freezing time
Creating a menu with an entrance transition
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Freezing time
Creating a menu with an idle animation
How to do it...
How it works...
Animating a button when the cursor is over it
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Stretches back the button to the same speed of the Highlighted animation
Creating a pop-up menu
How to do it...
How it works...
Animating hearts of the symbolic lives counter
How to do it...
How it works...
Changing animation of the hearts of the symbolic lives counter through the script
Getting ready...
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding a speed controller to customize speed in the Inspector and at runtime
Customizing each animation
7. Applying Runtime Customizations
Introduction
Making a button that changes color
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing another image instead of the one attached to the button
See also
Creating a slider that changes colors gradually
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating a slide shower using a discrete slider
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding a text label to show the number of pictures
Making the slider continuous
Automating the slider setup
Adding pictures at runtime
See also
Creating a slider that changes a single color channel
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing all other color channels
Changing the alpha channel
Integrating with lights instead of image components
See also
Making an input field with personal text validation at runtime
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Checking the string when the player finished to type
Using for cycles for dynamic filtering
See also
Making an input field for a password with a lower bound limit for characters
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Giving feedback to the player on why the string is not acceptable for the input field
See also
Changing the cursor at runtime
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Animating the cursor
See also
8. Implementing Advance HUDs
Introduction
Creating a distance displayer
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Testing the script
Optimizing the code by using a delayed update through coroutines
Multi target detecting
Beep sound
Increasing the ratio of the beep sound according to the distance
See also
Creating a directional radar
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Testing the script
Changing the projection plane
Closest target detection
Adding a delay in the radar through a coroutine
More ideas on how to use the radar
Developing a subtitle shower
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Testing the script
Adding a picture of the character who is talking
Adding the name of the character who is talking
9. Diving into 3D UIs
Introduction
Creating a 3D menu
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Quick shadows
See also
Adding a smooth tilt effect
How to do it...
There's more...
Starting from the original rotation
Converting the speed in the smoothness factor
Inverting the axis
Asymmetric range for the rotation
Changing the reference of the mouse from the screen to an arbitrary rect
Creating and placing a 3D UI
How to do it...
There's more...
Using the 3D world
Making an animated 3D UI warning
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Transforming the update function into a coroutine
Always orienting the warning towards the player
Adding a floating effect
See also
10. Creating Minimaps
Introduction
Getting ready
Creating a minimap
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Setting an orthographic camera
See also
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
- 特征工程入门与实践（（土）锡南·厄兹代米尔）
- 难惹(第2卷)（梦萌）
- 不要在草台班子里拼命努力（HCJ）
- 00后整顿职场指南（赵雪）
- 为爱赴死因爱而生（读书堂）
- 内部审计工作指南:穿透实务核心（郭长水,纪新伟 主编）
- 谦逊的问讯:以询问开启良好关系的艺术(原书第2版)（(美)埃德加·沙因,(美)彼得·沙因）
- 数据资本论（[美]阿莱克斯·彭特兰[美]亚历山大·利普顿 [美]托马斯·哈德乔诺）