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Unity UI is a UI toolkit for developing user interfaces for games and applications in Unity. It is a GameObject-based system that uses Components and the Game View to arrange, position, and style user interfaces.

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I am attempting to draw a box around a selected target in my space game. I had this working fine using normal techniques when my canvas was set to Screen Space - Overlay. However my setup is that ship ...
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I have a nested ScrollRect, or more specifically a scrollable list inside one of the items in another scrollable list. Think of it as a scrollable menu with one of the items including a scrollable ...
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I'm working on a point and click system in Unity and I have a contextual menu that appears when you right click on an object. In this menu, there's a button called "search" that moves the ...
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I made a simple survey from a guide on YouTube. The trouble is that dropdowns are not mentioned in there, and I have totally no idea how to get the selected text value from it. I tried multiple ...
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There's an section of the documentation that refers to something that may be the answer, but unfortunately, if I keep holding with my finger the draggable object, even when I'm not moving my finger, ...
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In the script below, "btn" is a local variable in OnEnable() method. It's said that local variable is deallocated (lost) when leaving the countaining method. Why this one (btn) is not ? Nb: ...
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I'm new to Unity and coding (C#), so sorry if this is a novice question. Is the OnDrop function only usable for UI elements? I am currently making an ARPG Card game ...
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I'm having an issue figuring out how to make the scroll move slower than very fast mouse drags/swipes. I've tried changing the scroll sensitivity, inertia deceleration rate, and the EventSystem's drag ...
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I have a simple mobile game where every time I touch the screen, the car changes direction. The thing is, I need to implement a pause button, but when I click pause I need the car to stay still and ...
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In my game, the player drives a car and when the car reaches the end of the road, I want a different road prefab to be spawned. I have multiple road prefabs, and want to be able to spawn one when the ...
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I am having some issues with the UI and the Input system. What I am trying to do is "simply" to make a menu appear and disappear upon pressing a certain key. To do so, I created an animator ...
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I am using the Unity UI Toolkit and I would like to create my own TextField class (ie. input field, similar to the one I'm typing in now to write this message) with better functions using the Label ...
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I'm using UILineRenderer to draw curve of the map. The one thing I'm finding is that the drawing is pixelated despite adding more data points. setting the quality in game view to 4K UHD, and ...
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I've run into a problem where using the CanvasGroup component to fade in/out several Image components under a hierarchy produces an unwanted result, where each individual sprite that overlaps with ...
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I have a UI that I want to animate via PointerEnter and PointerExit, but if an event gets fired while an animation is in progress, it makes the animation jump to the start point of that animation clip ...
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I'm trying to place a 3D object on top of a UI Image But nothing works. Can anyone give an example of how to add a 3d model on top of a UI Image in a 2d game. The strange thing is that I have all the ...
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I'm creating some sort of database editor window, and one of the things I needed to do was show the default inspector for the currently selected scriptable object. It was a bit complicated to achieve ...
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Using the built-in text UI, is there a way to animate only a selected number of letters? What I want to do is something like the word "you" in this video and "I'd" in this one
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I'm using Unity UI Toolkit in Unity 2021.2. Looking at the following example: ...
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I have a main menu scene in which the buttons work using button component's animation transition. I created a simple animation for them that changes their vertex color to blue when selected. The ...
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I read from the book that 0 - 7 layers are reserved layers in Unity but when I open layers on Unity its showing me that I can use layer-03, 6 and 7 and so on. So can I say that only 5 layers are ...
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Trying to understand the Unity UI system. I have a panel that contains a button that should hide the panel. When I wire the button up to the method that hides the panel, I can see in the console that ...
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I'm trying to do simple card game. I want players to drag and drop cards from hand to table, from deck etc. The simplest and cleanest solution for drag and drop I found is to use Image object on ...
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I am learning about Actions/Events in Unity and just built a system around them which works. However, it seems I just got lucky and I'm not sure why. Roughly, my class in a simple illustrative form (...
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I am creating an editor tool that requires me to enable / disable components and or gameObjects via script while in edit mode. Currently everything that has to execute in edit mode is called from <...
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I am trying to write a real time Line Graph Renderer using the UI system in Unity 2019. Meaning I need to change the data on the fly and have the graph update. What i have found is that OnPopulateMesh ...
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Im basicly looking to create this image: I have all these parts and black background as a separate image so the ideal thing would be to place them with border between them but I could also probably ...
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I am struggling to figure out how I can add a UI prefab on screen in code so that it appears "anchored" at the bottom center of the screen. I realize this might be a common question. I ...
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Basically I have an image that represents a map where you go from one level to another. I was planning for this image to repeat it selfie while you go up thru the map to new levels( something like the ...
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I have a layer rendering issue, where the top layer of content will sometimes not render to screen as it appears that the bottom layer is rendering on top (even though it's behind in world space). It ...
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Is there a way to force a Unity canvas set to "Constant Physical Size" to scale based on an arbitrary DPI value for testing purposes? It seems to only respond to the meta-data from the ...
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Trying to make some inspector controls that both modify the same thing but in different ways, and I want them to both update when the other is edited. Won't bore with the details but there's a reason. ...
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is there a way to deserialize .unity and ProjectSettings file in binary format down to yaml? I provide an example of one of such ...
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My app will feature tokens to fund some in app functions. If someone clicks a menu button to run a paid function and has insufficient tokens, they should be prompted with a new token purchase menu to ...
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This is probably basic question but can I set the point from which fill starts. I know about down, up, left, right options but I want more control with start point, for example I want my fill to start ...
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It seems Unity UI Image supports Image Type 'Tiled', but I'm not sure how to get the tiling to work both vertically and horizontally. Can someone help me understand?
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When I'm typing into a tmp input field on a mobile keypad, I can't instantly edit another input field by clicking it!? I have to click off the keypad to loose focus on the current before I can click ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqqf5Y8LyR8&t=23s&ab_channel=ErikLoyer So I want to achieve a transition like from the above video, specifically at 0:23 the TRACK, but there is a 3 Dimensional ...
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I've got some UI elements and a 3D mesh imported from blender. I've tried stuff like sorting layers, so that I render my 3D mesh below a canvas UI element(side panel), for which I put my 3D mesh ...
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I am trying to set a variable from the value of a DropDown menu in Unity. I wrote a script as follows, attached it to the dropdown and set it to run it in Unity under: On Value Changed (Int32). I have ...
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I'm trying to place one in our field right below another, all ui belonging to an overlay canvas. I tried doing a few different ways subtracting height from different position types including rect ...
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I am trying to make a scrollable list with premade elements that you can add using a button. The problem is that the list's Content element needs to be exapanded as ...
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Using UI Panel component is convenient in the sense that the panel will always be stretched to the size of the screen at any resolution, unlike a sprite (in simple mode) the size of which depends on ...
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In Unity I created a Panel with 3 children (An UI Image (LogoAch), and 2 TextMeshPro components (Name, Progress)). It looks something like down below: I saved this as a prefab and I try to instantiate ...
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When in distance the shadows are appearing correctly but when getting near to the shadows it is getting clipped in a weird way. I was not able to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm using Vector Graphics for my SVG Images, though when I try to use it as a UI image (for a button) The image doesn't look as I expect, unless I use a Sprite Renderer. But unfortunately I can't do ...
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I've coded something in Unity using C# (see below) for a dialogue scene separate from the actual game. On the click of a button from the game, the player is taken to this dialogue scene where the ...
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I'm working on a timeline UI element in Unity, that looks like this: I generate the bottom ticks by instantiating a number of times over the length of the parent RectTransform, and offsetting them on ...
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I am searching now for almost an hour and I cannot figure out how correctly to select the background image and position of a visual element. The query docu is really poor, there is literally nothing: ...
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