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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 starting to work on optimization for my app. I need to understand the information Unity displays about file sizes. For example, just to prove a point, here is a 2.2 KB completely blank PNG which ...
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I'm making a small game for the first time and enjoying it thus far. The only thing that keeps bothering me is that I can't find a human explanation of what the graphic raycaster does. What's the ...
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Here's what I want: Here's what I got: What is this procedural image unmasking called? Popcap didn't do image-splitting (source images below), but I feel like I'm missing the obvious here. (Source ...
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I have an issue with my Unity 5 game. When I click on the Pause button, my character jumps before the game is paused. My script detects the click to trigger the jump jump before the pause button. I ...
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What does this Yellow Outline Represent around Text Mesh Pro Text objects in Unity? I don't see any regarding them in the inspector making it so that I have eye-ball it in the scene view to make it ...
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I am a complete beginner in Unity and, after having search for a while, I am still not sure if it is actually possible to achieve what I would like to do. My goal is to have a game where the screen is ...
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As you may know, Unity can have issues correctly rendering transparent 2D Sprites/Textures exported from Photoshop or Figma. Reason being that most of these tools operate in Gamma color space while ...
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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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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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I'm new to Unity and C# and have been struggling to figure out how to solve this. What I'm looking for is a way to make text display whenever a button is selected. (ex. Player selects a difficulty ...
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Hi have created some buttons from sprite and I added image and button components on it. I am just using sprites because In my game the camera can be moved on x and y. But I don't want my button to ...
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Some weird "ball" is showing when I select an element in Unity, preventing me to see the object itself: I've tried to hide some layers, but even with all layers hidden it's still here: Do you know how ...
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I'm using Unity UI Toolkit in Unity 2021.2. Looking at the following example: ...
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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'm making the main menu for a small game I'm making, and when I was learning how to make buttons etc. In order to make the buttons have a sound effect when pressed and so on, I was told to add an ...
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I created a custom UI Button: However, when I use the sprite as the image for a button it doesn't fill out the whole "Collision" area: This is an example of how I want it to fill the "...
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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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I would like to show race progress in my UI. My minimap is like sketch below: Blue dot represents progress and red dot is finish line. I would like this to work in UI so only blue dot would move. If ...
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Image sprite is created programmatically _image.sprite = Sprite.Create(texture, ...); Should I destroy it before replacing with a new one? P.S. My question comes ...
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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 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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I've been recently working on a videogame, and I'm trying to make a script that will destroy the game object it is applied to whenever the right mouse button is clicked on it. It doesn't function at ...
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I have been working with Unity for some time, and I am trying to get a better understand of the UI system. I am a mobile developer and am redesigning the UI but I am unable to achieve what I want. My ...
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I've already uploaded this question in the Unity forums but only got a response but not an answer or solution. Here's a link to the original post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/emission-material-on-...
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I have an issue that is driving me crazy. All these lines are 2 in height, but when moving around the screen they change thickness. As you can see the top line is thinner. What can be done to make ...
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As title, I know Button can be triggered onclick by button.onClick.Invoke(); But how to simulate onclick event of Selectable? Thanks for the help.
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I am trying to make a digital clock (24:00 type), where each number is an individual image, that should change. So, I want to change sprites for multiple images in one piece of code. But when I ...
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I'm trying to display file names including their directory. When the file path gets too long for the text box, I want to align it right, because the filename is more important than the directory. I ...
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Does Unity fire any events when the user clicks these buttons? Or is there a way how to hook up code to respond to these actions?
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for some pickable object, I display a UI canvas. It's attached to a scene gameObject. Sometimes the Canvas UI overlaps with some other objects. I need to make sure the UI is always renderer on top of ...
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I have a card game, where I'd like to be able to zoom in on a card if it's right clicked. I coded to make sure that if the zoomed card would go over a screen boundary, instead we would anchor it such ...
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I'm digging into Unity's new UI Toolkit, and so far I like it a lot; but there are a few things bugging me about it. I have a dynamic list in my UI which keeps track of way point paths, and it changes ...
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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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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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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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Imagine you'd like to highlight a 3D GameObject by drawing a (translucent) UI panel above it. The UI panel should cover the object exactly. Therefore the object's bounds, as it is seen from the camera,...
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Within my Unity Project in my code, (see below), I have a button called Check which executes when CheckPress() function is called. I read two approaches by which this can be done. Appraoch 1: Using <...
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I was following a tutorial on how to create a dialogue Box in Unity, and in one part of the tutorial the tutor imports UnityEngine.UI and creates an object of type <...
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I'm going to try out the community here once more, I haven't had very good look in the past with getting help. I'm iterating through a series of List() and I'm creating a bar graph and a line graph ...
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I'm currently trying a new approach on a Card Game in Unity. To capsuling my Card Prefab i have a root GameObject with the ...
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I have a prefab with some fixed sizes on itself and its elements: Then added a Aspect Ratio Fitter and a Preferred Height: . When using that prefab from a container with Horizontal Layout Group with ...
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I built my entire game in Unity based on my Android phone resolution, both for UI and object sizes. Now, everything looks good for a 1080 x 2400 resolution, but I know that's not the aspect ratio of ...
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My canvas scaler does not work when the UI is instantiated dynamically. It does work well in iPhone 6.5 inch simulator: The problem is when I use 5.5 inch or smaller simulator: It does not follow ...
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In Unity UI I have a TextMeshPro Button and some TextMeshPro Text like in the following image: Is there any function in a Tween Library like DOTween that could make the text look like its coming out ...
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I'm working on a project where I have a main UI (Screen Space - Overlay canvas) and various game objects that have little popups above them (World Space canvas) that the player should be able to click ...
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I have a UI Document on a gameobject. while hovering on a UI button when i press mouse 4 on my logitech g502 it gives me an error. I did this by accident when i pressed mouse 4 instead of left ...
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Been struggling with this one for a while. I've found a few other posts across Stack Exchange and the Unity forums that seem to have the same problem, but their solutions don't work for me (at least ...
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I am making a unity mobile game, I have a simple scene and a canvas with a few buttons and these buttons have scripts that detect if the button was pressed and released. Here is the code for doing ...
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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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