📲┃ui-ux

[nimble stirrup]

For future reference incase anyone is curious as well
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetAsLastSibling.html

[nimble orbit]

@mortal robin I did eventually fix my raycasting issue, it was a rendering problem of all things

BUT

...No Button object on the UI element is clickable, neither is my IPointerClickHandler being fired

[nimble orbit]

Figured this out too, turns out I had a Canvas Group blocking it

Now I can't click on a TMP input field in world space

Clicking on buttons works fine, but I can't focus an input field

[crimson owl]

Is it true that it's better to code your UI animations?

rather than use Unity's In-built animation tools

[jagged monolith]

Yes, you can search this up. Here's official word on it https://unity.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips#optimal-use-animators-ui-elements

[crimson owl]

Ah okay, thanks.

honestly probably should have already known

[jagged monolith]

I use DoTween for animation like this and it works great

[crimson owl]

I'll have a look into it

since the animations I do are pretty simple.

at most, its just a twirling path, with some fading

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/851170518907224064/1072014812063735888/HexTest_-_UITest_-_PC_Mac__Linux_Standalone_-_Unity_2020.3.14f1_Personal___DX11__2023-02-06_17-43-41.mp4

[primal leaf]

Does anyone have working blur in URP when there is sprites and other UI in background? I need it to work like frosted glass, Seems things work if there is 3D object behind it but not when there is sprite or other UI.

[bitter cobalt]

hey, any reason why a Pointer click event trigger stopped working after I added the related gameobject into a grid layout group?

[jagged monolith]

Select the EventSystem while playing to see what your pointer is interacting with

[bitter cobalt]

oooh youre a life saver, i have no experience with unity's UI

[nimble orbit]

Anyone know how to get a TMP Input Field working on a world-space canvas? I can't seem to get it to receive pointer events OR get keyboard focus

But if I place a Button, or add a script that implements IPointerClickHandler, I do get pointer events on that. So I know my event system and graphic raycaster are working properly

[wide locust]

Do you now why the color go on the text above?

[mortal robin]

You're modifying the material that both texts are using

[wide locust]

Yeah it's good, I solve the problem thanks

[cursive jasper]

I'm having issues with a scrollbar ive setup and I've followed a few guides all the way through and I am not sure what's going on, but despite the icons existing in the scene editor they won't actually show up in the simulation, and they do have sprite renders, and I think the layering seems to be fine, so I'm stumped

[cursive jasper]

Ok scratch that it's probably something with the layers and following more guides and forum posts has got me more lost

here image of test

[errant brook]

My UI isn't showing up on my camera, here's my setup

[jagged monolith]

Don't use a sprite renderer. Use UI images

There are some fundamentals you should know when working with unity UI so I'd recommend finding a tutorial video on that

[errant brook]

Got it, thanks!!

[twilit kayak]

I have a problem with the canvas , i'm trying to make a simple pause menu, but whenever i switch the game view, the canvas stays at the right side of the screen

[mortal robin]

as long as you're using a screen space canvas, the canvas will always cover the entire screen

[twilit kayak]

I tried lot of solutions but nothing helps

It always looks like this

[mild kernel]

Because you're using a screen space canvas. What do you want it to look like?

[low pike]

Don't develop UI with the game view set to 'Free Aspect'

[mortal robin]

Looks like what

[twilit kayak]

I already fixed it

[neon terrace]

is there a ui component similar to this? you use the arrows (or arrow keys) to scroll through different options

dropdown isn't exactly what i need as i dont want a huge list to plop up

or do i simply just add a text field, 2 buttons and then increment or decrement an int that will in turn change the current element in an array that displays the text?

[mortal robin]

this

[neon terrace]

👍 gotcha

[dusky vault]

How do i add selectables for the drop down button?

Add all the options

Right now its just blank

[dusky vault]

It should show options here

[deft vigil]

How can I make ui fix for the screen size?

[slender epoch]

Hello. I have an Image UI game object. The Source image is a Texture Type Sprite. Somehow I automatically have a box2D collider by default and I cannot turn this off. How to delete or remove this box2D collider? This is definitely a collider, I have tested it.

[mortal robin]

Press the ... and "Remove Component" on the collider

[runic dock]

i have a text mesh pro and im getting this weird box around the letters with bright colors on the text. anyone knows what is causing this?

i think it was because it was set to bold

[wide locust]

The letters are highlighted?

I thinks it's for this the box around your letter

[slender epoch]

I have asked a wrong question, but now I have found the answer. Thank you for responding anyway.

[queen yarrow]

How can i disable this option? I don't want that a button stays selected

It makes the buttons buggy, per code or per unity, how to disable this?

[rapid ferry]

if navigation isn't needed you could disable it

[queen yarrow]

Thanks, it helped

[novel stag]

how do i anchor a object to the left and also let it stretch at the same time

[tacit steppe]

my prefabs are larger than the resolution I have set and it's throwing off the UI. Is there a way to make prefabs have the same resolution that the main canvas has?

[mortal robin]

instead of using Button, use an event trigger and just add an OnPointerClick listener

[queen yarrow]

interesting, i'll take a look, thanks

[wind wigeon]

Would anyone here know why the hitbox for clicking is much bigger than the actual button component in my scene?

i.e. i click credits even when im way off of it, the border extends all the way to even overlap plays button

I colored the border of the button just to show that its not that, or atleast thats what I would assume, idk whats happening here

[pliant saddle]

Hello. I have an issue with UI. When I turn on Anti aliasing all UI in my game view disappears. Have anybody encounter with this problem. Any help and ideas will be appreciated.

[dense iron]

Howw'd you guys implement a map panel containing nodes(cities) and edges(roads) and each time a player wins a mini game the appropriarte city changes color?

[next moth]

Hi, anyone here uses Doozy?
I'm trying to create my first flow graph but I can't edit nodes in the inspector, everything is greyed out.

Same thing goes for nodes from the examples.

Is this because I got the free version?

[toxic pasture]

guys how do i make UI like that? (straight line following object)

i dont know key words to google it

[jagged monolith]

I would use this function to drive the position of screen space UI elements https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToScreenPoint.html

[vernal granite]

hi there
how do you guys handle controller navigation on a grid layout?

[queen yarrow]

Anyone knows this issue and the fix?

[low pike]

not from that info
is it a world space canvas?

[queen yarrow]

The position is relative to the world yes

tsf.position = obg.localPosition + new Vector3(0, (float)0.5, 0);

The Text is how you see, parented to the Panel, a Cube

Since with local position it would be somewhere in the sky, i needed to use position to get it over a not Canvas object. tsf is the Blue panel

[low pike]

you don't move UI elements around with .position

but with your answer, it sounds like you don't understand what I asked

[queen yarrow]

Oh yea

That's my mode

[low pike]

When moving a World Space canvas around, you'll move the transform around. But, no matter the canvas render mode, you move the UI elements around with the RectTransform

transform.postion != UI positions

[low pike]

This doesn't quite make sense either.

The TMP is a child of PickUp_Tablet.. is this an actual cube? Not UI?

[queen yarrow]

Yeah

[low pike]

Don't put 3d objects on a canvas like this

[low pike]

If you just want text on the cube, use the 3d TMP - which doesn't require a canvas

If you want more than just text, then use a world space canvas, as a child of the cube, and size it correctly

for non-canvas TMP

[queen yarrow]

oh wait, there is Text mesh with tmp too?

Sorry, im new with Tmp

It got replaced, i see

I'll try out quick

[queen yarrow]

Thanks, that was what i was searching for

[fast geyser]

#💻┃code-beginner message I was directed to this channel could someone help me?

[mortal robin]

Set your canvas scaler Screen Match Mode to "Match Width Or Height"

[fast geyser]

Same issue ^^'

I can provide any more info needed

i fixed it, i just basically had to set the scale in the script file

[sweet heath]

There is a way to check if the Image is visible? I'm using a Mask for minimap, i have like 400 icons on the map and i want to run some code only to the visible icons.

[wispy furnace]

My text is supposed to appear when I build and run the code but it doesnt show

when I run it like this, it shows

@low pike?

This is how it looks from the scene

[frank osprey]

When editing UI, think as if the objects in the world didn't exist, and vice-versa.
It's just how Unity renders your Canvas so it's visible for you to edit. Once in play mode, it will adapt to your camera size.

It's completely normal that it appears so large

[fossil prism]

no need to change it

[wispy furnace]

is it like this

which one would my canvas need to be

[frank osprey]

No, you should not change that

[fossil prism]

you onlly do that when you want UI on world objects

not your usecase

[wispy furnace]

How do I make it so that the UI shows when I build and run

[frank osprey]

Anchor them properly

Let's take an example

[fossil prism]

switch your canvas scaler to scale with screen size

[frank osprey]

Select your EXP counter there and show its Inspector

[low pike]

That's so anchored to the center instead of the top

[wispy furnace]

it did this

[low pike]

Press T

[low pike]

told ya

[fossil prism]

that is not your Canvas Scaler

if you don't put it to scale with screen all this anchoring is pointless.

[fossil prism]

ok good

[wispy furnace]

when I change it to scale with screen size it does thus

[frank osprey]

Yep see the square that says "middle center" at the top-left of your Rect Transform?
This means "position the object relative to the screen's center point"

[fossil prism]

it's fine now you need to pivot them

and they will stick correct

[frank osprey]

You need to tell it to position relative to the top-left for the HP bar, top-right for EXP, and top-center for level

Click the square icon and it'll show presets

[fossil prism]

this ^^
Holding Alt when you do that will also snap it correctly in position

[wispy furnace]

so since my exp is on the right

[frank osprey]

You'd want it to stay on the top-right corner whatever the screen resolution is, right?

[wispy furnace]

do I have to just readjust the sizes now

[frank osprey]

Yes

Anchoring looks good now, seeing the 4-triangle icons

[wispy furnace]

Im going to run it now

[wispy furnace]

thank you it worked

[wispy furnace]

thank you as well

[frank osprey]

You can test it out quickly by entering play mode and resizing the window. It'll adapt the UI if set up correctly, no need to waste time making a build

[wispy furnace]

what does world space do on canvas scaler?

[fossil prism]

yes def poup the Game window when working with UI

[fossil prism]

puts your canvas at a specific point in the world

you can scale it like a regular gameobject

rotate it

etc

[wispy furnace]

oh

[frank osprey]

You use it if you need to put UI objects at a specific position in the world. Think digital wall-mounted clock or computer screen

[low pike]

When working with UI , press T to work with the UI tools

[low pike]

change the reference resolution to whatever resolution the game window was in when you first made this UI

2560x1440

[wispy furnace]

what would this change?

[meager quartz]

reckon this is a usable layout for UI for a bestiary/compendium sort of thing

i feel like maybe its overcomplicating it
maybe i just cut out the regions entirely

[daring sky]

hi there
does anyone know a way to determine child placement in a grid layout group?
like determining which child is above, left, or right, etc to the current one

[thick sundial]

Hi there.

@low pike

[low pike]

I don't know without putting it together myself and working it out.. which I'm not gonna do.
Post the question and relevant screenshots, someone else might know off the top of their head.

[glass cloud]

Hi I'm trying to make my sprite size same to all devices regardless of resolution but I tried it in unity emulator it doesn't work
https://codebeautify.org/alleditor/y23adba0d

[undone lichen]

if i have a button with negative space at the edge, but I don't want this space to cause a button click if clicked on, can I change the buttons clickable area?

[finite abyss]

need help! i have a grid layout with a bunch of buttons. unity has highlighted, selected and pressed states for buttons but it seems like when im using a keyboard or controller to navigate it completely ignores the highlighted state of a button. how can i keep a button highlighted that was last selected with a controller or keyboard?? i cant find a solution

[mortal robin]

UI Navigation generally works pretty much "by default"

can you share a little more details about your issue?

Are you using a mouse and keyboard/controller at the same time?

[finite abyss]

hey no i dont want to use the mouse at all but the navigation is completely different for mouse and gamepad/controller. when i click a button with the mouse and move to another it keeps that highlighted state and the button stays looking highlighted too. with gamepad it does not do that. i have images for selected,highlighted,pressed,disabled.... but it seems like the gamepad instantly switches the button to pressed state just by navigating to it

so the last pressed button will never be highlighted

and there is no selected state

its very weird. most people when i was searching for a solution want to have that keyboard behaviour when using the mouse ,too. and i want it the other way around 😄

here im using the mouse first and then switch to gamepad. you can see the difference

[mortal robin]

when i click a button with the mouse and move to another it keeps that highlighted state and the button stays looking highlighted too
No the mouse will cause the button to show the "highlighted" color. Which is not even a thing when it comes to joystick/keyboard

Joystick/Keyboard will actually select the new button and deselect the old. This is actual UI navigation in action

so the last pressed button will never be highlighted
Correct, if you want this behavior you'll have to create it yourself

[finite abyss]

okay :/ i slowly understand whats going on.i think i need to make a custom mouse pointer or something. thanks

[celest lodge]

why isnt this working? i have a custom button script.

this is my button script

why doesnt it change to the pressed button sprite?

[high osprey]

@rapid ferry These are the sizes of children, and the size parent (before and after applying the content size fitter, this is after actually)

The reason you cant see the children below the "screen" is because there is a mask, but they are indeed there, just invisible

[rapid ferry]

their inspectors?

[high osprey]

inspector of child (theres also rect transform)

and this is the parent

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rapid ferry]

where is the layout group component? try to unchecking the child force expand

[high osprey]

i cant find it honestly

unity is just lying

what is child force expand?

[rapid ferry]

that is actually fitter already btw, what else do you need to do with them?

[high osprey]

ummm, well i need to adjust the size of a parent to be this (u made it yellow) size, so that then it adjusts itself to the scroll, since the parent ("CharactersButtons") is the content of the scroll

[rapid ferry]

use grid layouts on the CharacterButtons

then adjust that

[high osprey]

well, i cant really do that

there is this one thing, called Character Line
and that breaks this entire idea

its this object

and i dont think it will work in the grid

[rapid ferry]

oh I see, yeah that would ruin the whole thing

I am thinking of using separate verti and hori layout group, but that is kind of hard to maneuver

want to do it?

[high osprey]

ummmh idk how to really

[rapid ferry]

ill tell you step by step

[high osprey]

alright

[rapid ferry]

okay, right click the charbuttons, add empty

[high osprey]

i already got lost lol, charbuttons u mean the parent right? CharacterButtons?

[rapid ferry]

then add verti group

[high osprey]

and add empty gameobject?

[rapid ferry]

the ChracterButtons gameobject lol, you name it that way

[high osprey]

yeye

and im adding an empty child gameobject to it?

[rapid ferry]

yes

[high osprey]

alright

ok whats next

[mortal robin]

I don't recommend overriding Button. Simply implement IPointerDownHandler and IPointerUpHandler or use Event Trigger

by overriding button you're removing the normal behavior

[celest lodge]

how would i use these things?

never mind i figured it out, thank you!

[inland cobalt]

Hello guys!
I need some help with the UI implementation
I have an element that is a part of vertical layout group, and that element has to be expandable, when I press button, it reveals additional options

How can I implement that extendable element?

Here are the screenshots:

[dense iron]

Whay does TMP not showing all the greek letter of the alphabet? What settings do I need here?

[rapid ferry]

do you guys have an idea how to do a ui looking like this with this kind of 3d distortion

like a futuristif hud

or just give me some keyword so that I search how it's called

please

yeah something like this

[runic dock]

so im trying to make some ui automatically get the height of a text mesh pro, but it seems like the TextMeshProUGUI.textInfo.lineCount is inconsistant. Sometimes it says 4, when its actually 5. and 6 when its 10. and other times it says 4 when its 10+. though somehow its consistant to what it gives me, it just does not make any sense to me. anyone knows what is going on here?

the only logical thing i can think of is that it only counts the lines within the bounds of the text. but idk why it would do that and not count all lines

[low pike]

Is there a reason you're not using the content size fitter component?

[runic dock]

uh, didnt know that was a thing

[dense iron]

What's the difference between an Image and a Panel?

[jagged monolith]

The only difference is the preset values in the Rect Transform

[low pike]

And the Image component on a Panel has a source image auto applied

[queen yarrow]

Now back with a similar issue again. The "Use Hotkey" a UI Image(Using because the Transparency on the Sprite), doesn't show up on the game view, like the last time i put the mesh cube and the TMP as child of the mesh cube into the canvas and moved them together. The Image has a Fake Parent script attached, means i can use it like it would be the child of the Cube(the Blue background).

Now there are things that got thought my mind:

1.There is a problem with moving UI Elements around, because the UI is relative to the screen(Makes sense i think because the Canvas has a Area to put the UI Elements in, if they are out of that Area, they are out of Screen)

2.I need to use a Mesh Cube again, but i don't know how to keep the transparency of the Image/Sprite, so the Corners stays like it should

3.There are other and/or better methods for doing this

Ignore the fact that i attached 2 Fake Child scripts, fixed now(This isn't a solution to the problem, just to not get confused by that)

[trail oar]

In a VR app I have a pop-up UI menu with buttons and a couple of check boxes. The right-hand primary button enables and disables the menu. When visible I can of course click the buttons and check a box but... (this is funny) when I toggle the UI menu closed and then open again the last element is clicked again.

So if it was a checkbox that I turned off, when I close the menu and reopen it, it toggles it and it is on again. If the last item was a button (like Play) then it presses Play again.

Any ideas what I've missed and/or how to stop the behavior?

[thorn zinc]

thoughts on a "Confused" status icon?

I do like having the halo but seeing them side by side it's a little busy compared to the other one.

[peak notch]

what if you removed the bottom question mark

[coral violet]

Hello, I am trying to instantiate one of my UI gameObjects in another UI window. The corresponding code that I use to instantiate is the following:

public void InstantiateSelectAchievement(GameObject selectAchievementGameObject)
{
GameObject gameObject = Instantiate(selectAchievementGameObject, AchievementParent.transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
gameObject.transform.SetParent(AchievementParent.transform);
gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().sizeDelta = selectAchievementGameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().sizeDelta;
gameObject.GetComponent<Button>().enabled = false;
}```
The original UI gameObject (selectAchievementGameObject in the code) is shown in picture 1 and it is a child of a layout group, shown in picture 2. AchievementParent is shown in picture 3. However when I try to instantiate my gameObject the width of the UI is 0 (like shown in picture 4) and I have no idea why. Help would be very much appreciated thanks in advance 🙂

[nimble orbit]

I have a selectable Window object in my scene (actually, several). And each window may have child selectables on it (for example, input fields and buttons)

Is it possible to detect, on the window, when any child selectables are selected?

I wanna make the window look focus when it or a child is selected, and make it look unfocused otherwise

[stoic hill]

Scifi HUD in URP https://youtu.be/OmCjPctKkjw

[snow shuttle]

would anyone know how to solve this issue, i want to center this image (the basic tower) no matter how many children there are in the outer panel

trying to make it so if I duplicate the tower image it automatically centers everything

I'm just switching from Godot so I don't know how to do this exactly

oh I figured it out

[snow shuttle]

the MainUIContainer is blocking the buttons in its children

[mortal robin]

can you just turn off raycast target for MainUIContainer's graphic (Image?)?

you don't need it to be clickable right?

[snow shuttle]

I don't need it to be clickable, just tried to turn it off but it still didn't work

it still says I'm hovering over it

oh shoot sorry it didn't uncheck

okay so now it's not showing me as hovering over anything lol

OH my bad I figured it out

one of the things was randomly not Raycast Targetable

thanks for the help <3

[glass cloud]

Hi can anyone please help me
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/1194ux2/set_scale_of_sprite_to_same_size_on_different/

[late solstice]

Hi anyone know why my sprite are begin imported as Default Asset instead ofTexture2D?

[low pike]

what file format is it ?

[late solstice]

solved it. thank you!

[late solstice]

Hi guys. Is there a way I can use dds as UI instead of .png?

[low pike]

never heard of dds, there won't be built in support for it

[late solstice]

Right now the dds is working more like a texuture but i want it to work like the "Exit Game" button which is just png

i guess there is no way to fix it 😦

[indigo dew]

in UI builder how to set on hover animation: background-colour of button changes like it's filling from left? Also scrolling text animation for button names

[maiden tinsel]

how to enable or disable Canvas via C# script?

[mortal robin]

A Canvas is just like any other Behaviour and can be disabled via the enabled property

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Behaviour-enabled.html

[maiden tinsel]

like this?

[mortal robin]

sure

[maiden tinsel]

nice

[mortal robin]

you'd write false to disable it ofc

[maiden tinsel]

i forgot to use GetComponent<>() before

thx for help

[mortal robin]

You don't really need GetComponent - you can directly reference it in the inspector too

public Canvas myCanvas;```

[maiden tinsel]

ok thanks

[trail oar]

As I wrote above. In a VR app I have a pop-up UI menu with buttons and a couple of check boxes. The right-hand primary button enables and disables the menu. When visible I can of course click the buttons and check a box but... (this is funny) when I toggle the UI menu closed and then open again the last element is clicked again. I've discovered something. It appears to be connected to enabling and disabling the UI panel. Doing that causes the events to fire as far as I can see and that causes the focused item to "fire".

I set the UI events with "obj".onValueChanged.AddListener() if that has anything to do with it.

[sand mantle]

Hey so I have a VerticalLayoutGroup of messages (with a title and a body). How can I make it so the body of the messages scales the message background size vertically (possibly using a Content Size Fitter) if the text is a TextMeshProUI and starting from scratch? I've tried multiple combinations without luck, thanks!

[maiden tinsel]

why is it such a bad quality?

in editor it looks normal

[queen yarrow]

Why is this so pixelated?

UI Slider

[ionic beacon]

Is that a zoomed-in play mode?

[queen yarrow]

Yeah, but got it fixed by enabling "Generate Mip Maps"

[obsidian dust]

How to I make my UI more zoomed in

its huge, but when I play it its really small

[sterile wedge]

You don't judge UI based on the scene view. Look at the game view

[obsidian dust]

I got it all fixed, but thanks tho

[frigid zephyr]

i want these buttons to stretch to fit the bottom to the top

this is the parent

a button looks like this

when i scale the screen smaller however, the spacing and scale does not adjust to fit the new screen height

[dapper scarab]

buttons hitbox (?) dont corespond with their size and position

[maiden tinsel]

i have a problem with ui, in editor it's clear but in game it's kinda pixelated and ragged

[hard nimbus]

could be anti-aliasing

[maiden tinsel]

Is there a way to disable that?

[hard nimbus]

can you send the camera settings?

also you're zooming in, could be an issue as well

you have the scale set to 1.3x

[maiden tinsel]

I will send it kinda later, I’m away from my laptop now

ok, i am on my laptop now. i will send you these settings

[low pike]

you're zoomed in

[maiden tinsel]

ohh

wtf how i could be this dumb bruuh 💀💀🗿👌🗿🗿

thx for help man

[low pike]

Tick Control Child Size height

[toxic pasture]

guys i need the keywords

idk what was that called

[toxic pasture]

hello?

[rapid ferry]

thx

[azure flame]

@ocean sedge Check that your button is clickable at all.

[ocean sedge]

im having problems with my button not doing anything when clicked

[ocean sedge]

i added a debug.log

[azure flame]

does it work at runtime. Shows change state on mouse over

[ocean sedge]

m_OnClick.m_PersistentCalls.m_Calls.Array.data[0].m_MethodName```

thats the button its linked to

uiOpener.Clicky

the function in the screenshot above

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class uiOpener : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static bool uiBool;
    public UnityEvent OpenUIButton;
    public GameObject uiObject;

    private void Awake()
    {
        uiObject.SetActive(false);
        Debug.Log("awake");
    }

    public void OnClicky()
    {
        Debug.Log("click");
        uiObject.SetActive(true);
        OpenUIButton.Invoke();
    }
}

this one

[azure flame]

I mean can you see the button work on the screen.

Button has tint color that can change on click or mouse over, Does it work at all

[ocean sedge]

you mean like its tint

nah no tint

[azure flame]

Is your EventSystem active? Select it and look at it

[ocean sedge]

this is what i see when i click on it when not running the game

[azure flame]

Then you have some other UI element covering the button. Text rects and invisible images would block raycasting.

[low pike]

OnClicky?

What's with the 'y'?

Has it been assigned to the UnityEvent in the inspector?

[azure flame]

For starters turn everything off except the button and test if it works. Then find what covers it

Yes, they didn't move their entire question. Event is assigned, seemingly to a correct object.

[ocean sedge]

aight ill check them now

i checked the ones i thought

and nothing happened

[ocean sedge]

i cant find iut

*it

[azure flame]

EventSystem at runtime also shows debug screen in the inspector. Extend it from the bottom if it's not. You can see what object mouse is over and read what blocks raycast.

[ocean sedge]

oh ill check it

[azure flame]

Also just place a simple button on a new scene and make it work. Note all the parts making it work and compare.

[ocean sedge]

dimed

nevermind

its just not registering

[ocean sedge]

my other buttons work

with the same script

[low pike]

Has this canvas got a Graphics Raycaster component on it?

[ocean sedge]

not from what i can see

[low pike]

so add one

[ocean sedge]

that works

thank you so much

and thanks fogsight for helping too

[low pike]

Did you not create that canvas from right mouse click?

[ocean sedge]

nah

[low pike]

that's your problem 😉

[ocean sedge]

xd

thanks

[frigid zephyr]

checked it, stil not working

also when i scale the screen to be wider, the buttons expand past the window borders

[low pike]

0 spacing

[meager quartz]

whats the word when text entries are displayed like this

t
te
tex
text

where each letter loads in quickly 1 after another

i want to look up for a tutorial on how to do this but i dont even know what its called 💀

[grave lily]

maybe this?

you can do this using coroutines, where on every x miliseconds you update the text label

[meager quartz]

thanks

[azure flame]

@grave lily Please read server rules about giving ChatGPT answers. If you want to get an answer actually research the topic yourself.

[azure flame]

For typing effect you would want to look into StringBuilder because you will assign a letter to the same string each time and assign it back. So you need an efficient text object to work with to not create huge amount of garbage manipulating strings.

@meager quartz For the question you've deleted. Concatenating strings the usual way creates new string each time you do an operation.
Why and how to use StringBuilder:
https://jonskeet.uk/csharp/stringbuilder.html

[grave lily]

sure, it just told me how is it called

[fading creek]

where can i find the image for this sprite? it says Resources/unity_builtin_extra but i can't find it anywhere in the projects files

[cyan musk]

Hey, Im trying to select a piece of text through code, but nothing seems to be happening other than the text just flashing for a moment.
working with TMP_InputField

I tried googling but nothing worked yet

[worn kayak]

https://gyazo.com/2c02dcd683935358beb335137bb7cd4b
In typical RPGs, you can hover your mouse over a stat in the stat sheet to see an explanation of what it does (as shown in the screenshot- credits:Brotato). How can this be adapted to work for mobile devices?

[dense crystal]

looks like TMPro is no longer working with Rect Mask 2d's softness property.

just wondering if anyone has a solution

[lyric edge]

Hi, I am using custom cursor in my it works but the cursor is really big in my game, I am using a Cursor pack from assetstore with comes with 64x64 and 256x256 textures

What is the solutions to decrease the cursor size

At run time

[grand moth]

hey! i am trying to make a gameover screen panel, but can anyone please help me as to why my gameplay (pink) screen has shrunk? and the canvas size is massive?

[mortal robin]

This is normal for a screen space canvas

Double click the canvas in the hierarchy window

Think of the big rectangle as your screen

UI elements in the middle of the rectangle will be in the middle of the screen

[grand moth]

ohh

it looks like this in the scene view

and this in the game view

[grand moth]

when i try to shrink the panel it doesnt show up in the game view

[grand moth]

could i make a game over screen with tile maps ? or is panel the only way?

[mortal robin]

You shouldn't be shrinking anything

[mortal robin]

Your game view is zoomed in 2x

[grand moth]

oh how do i zoom it out?

[mortal robin]

http://answers.unity.com/answers/1486700/view.html

[grand moth]

great thanks !!

[ocean sedge]

my game looks fine using unity simulator for phones, how do I make it automatically scale depending on device, as you can see my game is cropped on my phone

[sterile wedge]

Show your canvas scaler on your canvas

[ocean sedge]

someone helped me it works now

if anyone needs to know change the canvas scaler to change resolution

[fringe jay]

for a simple HP Bar, any suggestions on how to set the anchors of the retransform for a slider?

[low pike]

for a simple HP bar, don't use a slider

For any HP bar, don't use a slider

[low pike]

use an Image set to filled

[fringe jay]

Filled? How does that work?

[sterile wedge]

It's a setting on the Image component. Try it

[worn minnow]

New UI

[fringe jay]

I don't see it

[sterile wedge]

There's not much to the Image component.. please poke around. I think it's called Type. Might be Simple by default

[fringe jay]

Oh I’ve already figured it out and made 2 Health bars

[cyan heron]

what can I do to fix this for text mesh pro?

[cyan heron]

got it to work on a different font

[cyan heron]

why does my font look normal in the scene view but not in game view?

[pliant saddle]

Can you guys tell how improve visibility of ui element. I have sky background and ui lines are light blue. And the health bar is partially transpaent in the middle. The fill part is green. I'm adding reference image. But i our project we use it at sky background to make UI less distracting. Maybe to change size of element maybe to change something else target platform android VR. We use URP in our project.

[cyan heron]

it seems the issue is if the game view is set to an aspect ratio and not fixed pixel size

[lusty plaza]

It's either too small or you've set the wrong size for the font asset

[cyan heron]

@lusty plaza the problem was the game view being set to an aspect ratio instead of a fixed resolution

[lusty plaza]

Yeah, in aspect ratio it's probably rendering at a lower resolution, which makes the pixels in the font bigger than the pixels on the screen

[cyan heron]

thx tho

[dreamy warren]

why do i not see my sprites in game view

[mortal robin]

what sprites are you expecting to see?

Where did you put them?

What components are they using for rendering?

[dreamy warren]

so im making a computer you can open n stuff and see some files and text(lore) but i only see the text, i use sprites for a window and the file icons

[dreamy warren]

canvas

[dreamy warren]

#💻┃code-beginner #archived-code-general #archived-code-advanced one of these

[mortal robin]

Is this supposed to be UI?

You're not using the correct components if so

You should have using Image, not SpriteRenderer

[dreamy warren]

oh

yes it is

[dreamy warren]

thanks :)

[dreamy warren]

that did it

[fresh saddle]

Does anyone have a simple guide or anything that can tell me how to create a Listview within UI builder? Everything I see uses gameObjects, but my whole UI is built within UI Builder. I

I should also mention its a runtime UI

[mortal robin]

#🧰┃ui-toolkit

[fresh saddle]

my b

[frigid vale]

How could I pull out something like this? I want the character on my TB RPG to be folded paper, but how can I put UI that changes on the texture?

it this the right channel for this question? I am new to this server.

[mortal robin]

draw the UI to a render texture

use that render texture in a material on your folding paper

<@&502884371011731486> ^

[frigid vale]

thanks

[north magnet]

All of a sudden my font asset became corrupted or something, and the Japanese kana table was reduced to like half of the characters, and some Chinese characters don't render. I haven't changed any settings, but who knows. What may cause things like this to happen to font assets?

I found some warnings relating to this in my console

I also imported the same font asset from a different project where it seemed to work well. It had more characters this time, but I also notice that the characters missing this time are the same as last time

it seemed to have gone well up until the まみむめ row, so is my Unity having problems importing?

I used the same font file on GIMP, it completes the whole table

[crystal cloak]

I have map that is randomly generated. It instantiates node points which are prefab gameobjects at random positions and connects them with lines.

How do I get these map nodes to be navigable via keyboard/controller?

[mortal robin]

Well you'd generate a graph data structure from your nodes and edges, then on input you just check the neighbors of the current node in your graph, decide which neighbor (if any) should correspond to a given input direction, and move to said nide

[crystal cloak]

I think where I am missing something is how do I make the instantiated GOs also act as UI elements. I can add a button to the prefab. I thought Unity had a built in system where it would use the event system to navigate the UI buttons.

[mortal robin]

If we're talking about UI then yes

I thought you were not talking about UI

[rapid ferry]

Hi! I'm looking for a quick tutorial on UI that tries to stay on a world point but stays on screen if the point in the point goes outside the camera

[north magnet]

If this is the right place to ask about Font Assets, I was wondering if there was a way to "add on" to a font asset (I forgot to include the ASCII set in my hex list) without recreating the whole thing. Mine took like an hour to create because it had like 8000 characters to deal with. Thank you very much for your time.

[wild pebble]

It has been over hour since you asked so...

[humble patrol]

simplistic ui test

[low pike]

You can have fallback fonts in TMP

[viral trout]

How do I set a max width for an UI element? Thats not 300px

[north magnet]

Thank you, I'll look up more on fallback fonts

How do they work? I couldn't find a documentation on them, just a few forum threads on specific issues people had

[low pike]

the TMP docs have a page about them

[north magnet]

oh right

[frigid oracle]

I have been struggling to get this to work for hours now. I have a <font="OpenDyslexic">word</font> tag and whatever I do, TMPro seems to be unable to recognize it. I tried putting it in my own Resources folder under "Fonts" and changed the settings for "path" in TMPro to "Fonts". No luck. I tried putting it in "Fonts & Materials", in the TMPro Resources folder and changed the settings back to their defaults. No luck there either. The spelling is correct, the file is named OpenDyslexic.asset but TMPro seems to be unable to recognize it no matter what I do. 😦 NEVER MIND. I switched it to the root and that worked. Switched it back the way it was and now that works. No clue why it wasn't working before.

[winged wren]

Hello, I have a question about how should Unity's UI tools be used in my situation:
I have a rectangle, where on the left side will be an image (it has to be 1:1 aspect ratio) and on the right side will be 3 text components (look at attached image). I want to make this rectangle responsive. What do I mean by that is: when I resize the rectangle, I want image to stay 1:1 aspect ratio, I want it to be the same height as the rectangle, I want the text in the right side to start where image ended.
I tried putting horizontal layout group on the parent of image and text parent (all text components are in one parent) and I put aspect ratio component on the image, but it shows warning, because it shouldn't be done this way. So how should it be done?

The warning text:
Parent has a type of layout group component. A child of a layout group should not have a Aspect Ratio Fitter component, since it should be driven by the layout group.

[maiden tinsel]

how to make it less pixelated so it wont look like it was made in ohio?

[low pike]

Use TMP , not Text

[maiden tinsel]

There was no check mark option in tmp

I want to make an option that lets you disable or enable antialiasing

So I need to make a check mark option

[low pike]

I'm sure you can work out how to Delete the text component and add the TMP component

[maiden tinsel]

Ok

[gleaming dagger]

Hey fellas I have a question that probably has a very simple answer I'm just not too familiar with UI tools. So I have a background sprite in my canvas for both my Date and Hour texts. Right now their edges are quite sharp and I want them to look more fading-out ish on the edges. How could I do that?

[sterile wedge]

Try looking into rect mask 2d

[gleaming dagger]

okay thank you I'll look at some tutorials on it

[wild pebble]

Does it really look that bad in game view?

[maiden tinsel]

yeah.

[wild pebble]

Are you using Text or TextMesh component (i dont mean tmpro)

[maiden tinsel]

i am using tmpro, no idea what is textmesh

i want to make a dropdown menu using tmpro but when i change label text and play it, the text resets

i need to watch a tutorial on youtube

[thorn zinc]

Should player Deck and Opponent Deck be the other way around?

(because in the duel the player is on the bottom.)

[mortal robin]

#archived-game-design yeh?

[thorn zinc]

it was more of aesthetic question. Is that not a ux question? "Where on the screen should that ui element be?"

[mortal robin]

Yeah I suppose it fits

And yeah I think you should be consistent

[ebon monolith]

is it possible to get a game object components via button click?

[mortal robin]

can you elaborate on your question. Get the components where?

to do what with

[ebon monolith]

i want to reference this game object image component so i can make another image equal to it, i know i can just use public to reference it but i have many other images here and that would be a lot of work, so i was wondering if i can get the image component from the object that is being clicked on

[mortal robin]

of course

[ebon monolith]

how

[mortal robin]

Isn't the object being clicked on the button?

You either assign the Image in the inspector, or use GetComponent<Image> on the button object

presumably if it's a prefab - you'd only have to do the inspector assignment once. Or, again, use GetComponent

[ebon monolith]

its not a prefab

[mortal robin]

probably should be, TBH

otherwise you're going to have to configure every one of these buttons manually

[ebon monolith]

but the button just triggers functions, how would i use get component

[mortal robin]

inside the function

naturally

[thorn zinc]

sounds like the pseudocode you want is
assignSprite(gameObject g){
selectedGameObject.getComponent<Image>.sprite = g.getComponent<Image>.sprite;
}
putting that in some sort of image-assigning controller. presumably the object are selecting is already stored somewhere?

[ebon monolith]

the script is on the canvas so this wont work

or i did it wrong idk

[mortal robin]

pass the GameObject you want the image from in as a parameter

[ebon monolith]

example?

[mortal robin]

example of?

How to use parameters in C#?

[ebon monolith]

im not really that experienced with coding

[mortal robin]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_method_parameters.php

[thorn zinc]

ok so if you have a gameobject that has a controller script in it, you can drag it from the hierarchy to the on click event in the inspector.

[mortal robin]

if your function takes a parameter

[ebon monolith]

understood nothing, im just only used to unity scripting

[mortal robin]

Unity scripting uses C#

[ebon monolith]

still quite diffrent

[mortal robin]

Nope

it's normal C#

Highly recommend investing a few hours to learn the basics:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/csharp-first-steps/?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website

You won't get that far without knowing C# basics

[ebon monolith]

thanks

[ebon monolith]

@mortal robin i tried this but didn't work yet no errors , what did i do wrong?

[sterile wedge]

Can you show where you call this function?

[ebon monolith]

from a button

that is attached to a gamebject with an image

[sterile wedge]

Show how you have the button set up to call this?

And honestly if you don't understand parameters and want to wave it off, you will not get far as Praetor said

Start with some c# basics first

[ebon monolith]

i find trying things much more affective then watching tutorials

[sterile wedge]

@ebon monolith

This isn't a video

[ebon monolith]

o

[sterile wedge]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/creating-ui-buttons#

[toxic pasture]

guys why i cant click button in Screen Space - Camera canvas?

[vast flint]

so guys I have a list of buttons and I want to add an sprite to the highlighted button amongst them
I 9-sliced the sprite so that the borders don't get stretched and only the blank part does but that's not happening
those are the settings of the sprite and button

[vast flint]

this is how I expect it to be stretched but can't figure out

[errant egret]

Hello 👋

I have game objects laid out in a Grid Layout Group

I'm facing two challenges now:

1. I have a code to enlarge on hover. The thing is, I wanted it to stay on top of everything else in the grid when it enlarges. Changing the Z value is not having any effect. Is the Grid overriding it? What can I do?

2. How can I make the grid overlap elements more if the list continues to grow?

Help much appreciated, thank you!

[meager quartz]

From what i understand ui elements ignore Z value, i think you have to use scale instead

[modest wing]

The UI gets in a weird angle when i look up or down, My render mode is camera so that it has post processing applied to it

[runic dock]

so i have this prefab here. which is a popup text box. The popup object is a panel with a vertical layout group and a content size fitter, and the container object has another vertical layout group so that whatever text is displayed on the info object it will always fit the text. But this UI is not scaling to the screen size. is there any easy way to do that without writing code or should i write a script that reads the sceen size and scale the entire object acordingly?

[cosmic herald]

did unity have support for stuff like 3 tabs which you can navigate between and when you selected one it will allow you to navigate in the tab's menu itself so basically you are restricted to a few UI elements until pressing confirm

like this so you navigate between the tabs first and when you press the confirm key it will lock and allow for you to look at the options in the tab menu

[soft sail]

Unity's UI doesn't include much when it comes to templates like this, or at least as far as I'm aware of. This one shouldn't be too hard to recreate though, as you'll just need to make a script with a few pointer events to toggle what's to display.

[cosmic herald]

Yeah, mostly want to create a system so i can only have a few ui components active for navigation until something is selected

[hot roost]

With a worldspace canvas. When the UI is hidden; enable = false on the canvas component vs disabling the whole gameobject...is there a big performance difference?

[maiden tinsel]

is it a good technique of making a game menu? just disabling or enabling it whenever player pauses it/plays?

[low pike]

It's an ok way of doing it yeah

[maiden tinsel]

nice

[maiden tinsel]

i want to make an option that lets player turn vsync on or off, which ui element should i choose?

[indigo dew]

Why the border is not showing?

this the asset

but it's showing like this

[shrewd topaz]

Faced with a problem when creating AssetBundle for font to use localization - the resulting file comes in 400kb and does not work when using, does anyone know the solution?
(Original TMP file with sd16 is 30mb)

[fringe jay]

So I have 2 Player hud blueprints for during the labrynth, which would you say looks better?

[fresh coral]

im trying to make the mask transparent

i was using the yellow circle to get the shape but i want the cricle to be transparent and the image under it to still be visable

any1 know how i can fix this?

[mortal robin]

Can't you uncheck "show mask graphic"?

[restive patrol]

Hi! Is it possible to use GridLayoutGroup only on demand? What I want is just place child elements like grid cells but not like GridLayoutGroup do it by default with set dirty and calculate only on next frame

[wraith copper]

why is my textmeshpro text on button blurry

[low pike]

provide details/ screenshots

[maiden tinsel]

i feel like my toggle is kinda buggy, when i'm pressing it with a controller it sometimes doesn't press at all or when i want to toggle it on it toggles on and toggles off after a 0.1second

[maiden tinsel]

i am spamming A button on xbox controller all the time on this video

[wide torrent]

Is there some way to only update a layoutgroup on start, and now every frame?

[nimble sequoia]

I have Ui which is anchored to the corner, but when I go into maximised view, it goes out of view

how do i fix this?

[mortal robin]

show the maximized view?

Are you sure your game view window isn't just zoomed in or something?

[nimble sequoia]

just

found that it might be due to my animation

but either way, im not zoomed in

yep, the animation was anchoring it on the x- coord

[low pike]

Press T and work with the UI gizmos

[nimble sequoia]

I've fixed it all! Just had to re-do the animations on the new animation anchors

irritating though!

[honest belfry]

Is there a way to make a ScreenSpace - camera canvas act like a WorldSpace canvas? Essentially, i need the canvas to be the exact same dimensions as the screen and resize dynamically with the window, but I want it to be placed in the world so that the player can naturally encounter it in the game environment. Is there a trick perhaps using multiple cameras or something to achieve this functionality?

[mortal robin]

resize your world space canvas based on some camera calculations

[honest belfry]

would i just do this in an update function or are there events to detect window changes?

[low pike]

Pressing 'T' wasn't a suggestion to fix anything. It was a recommendation of what you should always do when working with UI

[fossil talon]

I have a empty gameobject with only a content size fitter (content) and an empty gameobject with only a layout element (Node) with preferred size & width set. When i set content size fitter to preferred size on vertical, height gets set to 0. According to my googling, content size fitter should fit to the children. Whats am i doing wrong?

[low pike]

if Node is an empty game obejct, there is no content on it to size from

[fossil talon]

Thought layout element would override that? either way, I added an image to node and got the same result

[nimble sequoia]

Thanks for the tip, Ill try that next time

What does it do?

[celest lodge]

I have an issue where when i drop an object into a object thats in a gridlayout group, it doesnt go to the right place? how can i fix this?

[boreal grotto]

sry for the way in which I sent the message

This is the canvas in my hierarchy

[low pike]

You haven't shown enough info. Show the inspector for ScoreMenu and HighScoreMenu

[boreal grotto]

there

HighScoreMenu is exactly the same

[low pike]

1- Never scale UI by the transform scale, always use width/ height
2- Why does it have a mesh renderer? I think you’ve used the wrong TMP

[velvet seal]

Can we mask UI without being a child in the hierarchy? For example under the same parent, the transforms beneath will be masked by an object above them.

[soft sail]

If you use another canvas component you can then assign the render order between them, but this creates an additional draw call. Not that big of a problem, but if you're creating something for mobile, ya have to be careful as too many canvases will affect the performance.

[pulsar heart]

Hello I have a scroll view with a child that has a vertical layout group and a content size fitter, the scroll function works, but the content is visible outside of the scroll area. ive been struggling with this for a long time and don't know what I'm doing wrong, probably the most frustrating easy seeming issue that's persisted

[velvet seal]

That's handy, I'll check that out tomorrow

[soft sail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-G-W93jhYc

[low pike]

more canvases is better for performance

https://youtu.be/_wxitgdx-UI?t=1409

[cyan sentinel]

@errant egret this is the better place to ask for UI layouting.

[errant egret]

Thx @cyan sentinel , reposting here:

Howdy folks

I'm having issues with Canvas > Scale With Screen Size

Simply put.. the UI layout looks different on each resolution. It's not scaling as I had expected 😓

Do you know any good tutorials/guides about it? What could be my mistake?

[cyan sentinel]

Can you show your inspector?

Of your canvas

[errant egret]

I wonder if it's because I have the Pos X / Pos Y manually set for a few of my UI elements? IMO the scaler should scale that as well 🤔

[cyan sentinel]

Well, if you do not set it relative to parent objects but absolute, the scaler will not know what you expect it to scale it in responsive terms

can you show like two screens of what you get and what looks wrong?

[errant egret]

Does that mean I need to position everything through scripting?

That's any resolution with 16:9 (very simple example)

16:10 looks like this

[cyan sentinel]

Can you put your screen match mode to either width or hight?

like 0 or 1 instead of 0.5

[errant egret]

0.0

1.0

[cyan sentinel]

Yeah, you set your stuff to absolute values, so it tried to either fit your width or height of relative points. You gotta learn how to do responsive UI, so it can scale to any size you want. Did you checkout the unity learn tutorials about UI?

[errant egret]

Are you referring to this one? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/HOWTO-UIMultiResolution.html

In short, what would be the fix? That I position my elements through scripting so that I can calculate the actual distance in world vs screen point?

[cyan sentinel]

No no, no scripting at all

You just make them fit the parent and set your anchor min and max to work as you expect

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-ui-in-unity

[jovial shore]

Hi, Im starting to use the UI and canvas in a serious project, so i need to know how to properly do things in the UI now,
My first question being how can I get my images to scale with the Canvas itself, and if there is a way to quickly see a preview of the in-game without having to Play it

[north magnet]

Hello, I have an issue regarding TextMeshPro and Unicode displaying. This is the right channel for tmp, right? Basically, TMPro.TextMeshPro.text is modified through a script, but the unicode characters don't update. They still managed to update when tinkering through editor.

[cyan sentinel]

Not sure what you mean with "In-Game"? You see in sceneview what you put in the scene, so you could just use ExecuteAlways and let your code run in edit mode too, but that can be some big hassle

[errant egret]

Sorry @cyan sentinel but that tutorial is not making any sense to me lol

I don't even have the 4 triangles anchor showing

[cyan sentinel]

maybe there is a functino for TMPro to update the layout on the component and rerender it?

[jovial shore]

Might be easier if I describe what im doing
Im making a quick info bar for my player with Health Ammo etc, for that I want a transparent black background and I am having trouble with setting the actual size,
This is how I would like it to look in the end, my canvas and images scale with the window size, I wanted to know how can I play with the size of that respective rectangle without having too much trouble.

[cyan sentinel]

There is no UI, or am I blind?

[jovial shore]

left down is a blackish rectangle

Im just starting on that

I just wanted to know how can I do that easier

without having to do this

basically playing around the scale until something looked decent

ahem

forget all that talk I just realized I can just hide my game view screen and the canvas wouldnt get squished in a bad way

[cyan sentinel]

You can also set your gameview to a aspect ratio instead of free aspect

[jovial shore]

That could also work, I know it might depend on some things but I assume the 16:9 is a generally good option?

[cyan sentinel]

Yeah, you can always use anchoring to adapt to screen sizes or full responsive design to make it fit EVERY resolution.

[north magnet]

Couldn't find the function, does anyone have any knowledge on TextMeshPro and Unicode usage through script?

[cyan sentinel]

can you show your code, what you trying to do?

[north magnet]

sure, something like this:

[cyan sentinel]

And what do you get?

[cyan sentinel]

Like you dont get back that string at all?

[north magnet]

no, the unicode string builds correctly, and as the video shows the text gets set to that unicode string, but the unicode shows as its literal self and not the converted unicode characters

[north magnet]

here's the attached clip

[jovial shore]

Anyone knows a platform where I can make my own simple sprites for the game?

Also, I imported a quick and dirty sprite made in paint but I can't color it, it stays the same color from paint.

[north magnet]

sprites as in 2D?

[cyan sentinel]

Ohh, now i got it, sorry, missed that part.How are you setting the text there?

You are sure you included those numbers in your font of TMPro?

[ionic beacon]

@"\uff0e" etc means that the strings should be treated literally, the @ character specifically tells it "don't treat these as Unicode sequences"

and you can't build Unicode escape sequences from parts

[cyan sentinel]

totally missed that @ part 😄

You might wanna use a lookup table / array / Dictionary to return your unicode characters instead of that number array string combine which is not gonna work

[north magnet]

ohh

so do i do "\\uff05"?

"\uff05" doesn't work, seems like \u isn't an escape sequence

[ionic beacon]

"Doesn't work" in what way?

[north magnet]

well, "\uff05" raises an error

[ionic beacon]

what error

[north magnet]

sorry i was opening my laptop discord

[ionic beacon]

line 5834 😬

[north magnet]

lmao

[ionic beacon]

are you sure it's that line?

[north magnet]

yeah

[ionic beacon]

so no

Like I said, you can't build escape sequences from parts. They're compile-time constants

[north magnet]

what are parts in this context?

[cyan sentinel]

you cant create a new string that gets handled as a character

[ionic beacon]

It has to be a constant, like "\uff05". You can't do "\uff0" + "5"

[north magnet]

ohh

so this would become the ideal solution?

[ionic beacon]

I'd use the term "easiest" instead of "ideal"

[cyan sentinel]

you could still use a dictionary or simple list with your custom class that holds the case as number and the character related to it and just query your list

[north magnet]

oh right arrays exist lol

i use those sorts of solutions just slipped my mind

[cyan sentinel]

Hardcoded values are bad practice most of the time if you can avoid it and a list of characters that could extend later is one case 🙂

[pulsar heart]

thank you

but i have one more question: how come the scroll bar is beginning from the bottom instead of the top

when i run it it starts there

[cyan sentinel]

you have to set your textfield anchors to the correct ones so they anchor at top or bottom as you like

[pulsar heart]

my anchors are set to the top center now but it still begins from the bottom

like these anchors right?

[cyan sentinel]

not sure if it was the textfield itself or the container holding it. Can you show both rects?

[pulsar heart]

the text field as in the grid content field or the literal items inside the scroll area

[cyan sentinel]

It might be the pivot which needs to point on top too. Let me check real quick

[pulsar heart]

thank you yeah i am unsure why this is happening

[cyan sentinel]

So this is my content holder

[low pike]

make sure this is set to 1 by default

[cyan sentinel]

And inside that, its just a textmeshpro field with lot of text

[pulsar heart]

for some reason when i set the value to 1 and then save it, it goes back to 0

like without even running it

[cyan sentinel]

Did you try the pivot like on my screenshot?

[pulsar heart]

apologies whats the pivot

[cyan sentinel]

check my screenshot 😉

[pulsar heart]

i did lol

[cyan sentinel]

below the anchors min max? 😉

[pulsar heart]

ahh my eyes don't work

lmao

sorry

[cyan sentinel]

😄

[pulsar heart]

my pivot on the GridContent is also already .5 and 1

[pulsar heart]

the grid content screenshot

[cyan sentinel]

Wait, what is button choose, are those textfields?

[pulsar heart]

no

those are button prefabs

[low pike]

If the value of the sidebar is at 0, it's not a pivot issue

find what is setting the value to 0

[pulsar heart]

it cannot change from 0

[cyan sentinel]

Is your grid content setting its height correctly to fit the content?

[pulsar heart]

how would one embark on that journey

[pulsar heart]

i think so lol it looks right

[pulsar heart]

how do you find what is affecting that

is there a method or guess and check lol

[cyan sentinel]

The Scrollview does that on its own if the content behaves like that.

[low pike]

look for references to it, what's your code doing

[cyan sentinel]

do you reference the scrollbar or scrollview at any point?

[pulsar heart]

i mean i reference it when i use it for the scroll rect

i dont think anything else

[cyan sentinel]

Yeah, thought so.

[pulsar heart]

and i also mean it's doing that without content

like on save

[cyan sentinel]

what is the height of your content container when you create those buttons?

[shrewd topaz]

Hi, I’m sorry to have repeated this, but I can’t solve this problem.

I am engaged in fan localization of the game similar to the Jackbox, and face the problem of TMP font, the original font - does not support the Polish language.

My created TMP font, after converted into Asset Bundle, does not work, any ideas?

[pulsar heart]

this happens before buttons are made

or before it knows about buttons lol

like before i run it the value changes after i set it

[cyan sentinel]

Yes, because there is no content so the max value it can reach is 0

[pulsar heart]

hm

but it allows me to set it to 1

just not save it

[cyan sentinel]

We should stop theorising 😉

For sake of testing. Create a default scrollview

Select the content gameobject, add a grid layout group and content size fitter to fit vertically, then add your prefab in edit mode until you reach the boundaries and see what the scrollbars do

[pulsar heart]

man whenever i ctrl z a prefab my unity crashes

[cyan sentinel]

Yeah sometimes Unity can make simple things hard

[pulsar heart]

it begins adding space to the top instead of the bottom

of the scrollbar

[low pike]

where do the new buttons get added

[pulsar heart]

inside code

but this time i manually added them

to check

like while it wasn't even running

[low pike]

I mean.. do they go below the previous ones or above

[cyan sentinel]

And your content rect transform is set as the one in my screenshot?

[pulsar heart]

I am unsure how to answer this lol

They get added in the order of the array in the code

[pulsar heart]

Without the top two check boxes you set

But I think I’ve tested those before as well

Like the control child size

[low pike]

The layout element dictates where the children go.

if you have it set one way it will do
123
456

another way will do

456
123

if you have it the second way, then the content is being added on top of the rest and the scrollview is growing upwards, not down

[pulsar heart]

The dates look chronological lol

I’d assume it’s right

[low pike]

Do not assume

[pulsar heart]

The joke is kinda assume I mean it shows it exactly

That it’s in chronological order

[low pike]

It's a drop down box on the layout element. Just check it.

[pulsar heart]

What should the drop down box be

Again apologies for my lack of understanding

[cyan sentinel]

I still think its an issue with your anchors and pivots, but gotta go now, sorry.

[pulsar heart]

Thank you for trying yeah idk

Hopefully I can make it work lol

[cyan sentinel]

Just put oin the example scrollview everything to top pivot and anchor and use a default object isntead of your prefab for testing. Go from there

[pulsar heart]

i had to change the direction of the scroll bar to right to left even though its vertical im not going to ask but it works

[boreal grotto]

Thanks

[wild cairn]

Hey,
I'm using "UIHorizontal" button to change the Slider component value. Everytime I press the button, the normalized value gets changed by 0.1.
Is there a way to customize this changed value, to say, 0.05?

[iron relic]

is it possible for something to have a SortingOrder only within its context?
i.e. ive got a panel with sorted stuff and I put this panel on top of itself, i dont want the things from the behind panel to show through

[mortal robin]

I put this panel on top of itself
What does this mean

[iron relic]

my bad i'll post a screenshot to make it clearer. So for example the green box should not overlap with the P1 pin

(im not using a Canvas btw)

[mortal robin]

i would expect either:

• they are separate canvases (which you can stack using canvas depth)
• the hierearchy looks like:
  Bubble
  • bubble contents
    Bubble
  • bubble cintents
    .. etc..

[acoustic oasis]

Does anyone know if there's a built-in way to make the cell sizes flexible of a grid layout element? I have a list of images underneath each other but I don't like how there is so much space around the smaller item.

[mortal robin]

You need to give the child objects LayoutElements

[pulsar heart]

is there a reason why this class wouldnt work? i.e. for the inactive it returns 191, 191, 191 somehow

[acoustic oasis]

I don't think this solved my problem. I can't seem to find a Flexible Padding setting in layoutElements, or flexible grid size

[acoustic oasis]

I belive Color needs a value between 0 and 1, and not RGB colors

[pulsar heart]

i also tried that but its not true

like dividing them all by 255

they all become black

[acoustic oasis]

maybe add ,1 at the end?

for the transparancy

[pulsar heart]

a color is outputted

its 191, 191, 191

full transparency

[acoustic oasis]

These gave me pure 255,0,0 and 0,255,0

[pulsar heart]

that's why this is so odd to me

it outputs a color not there

[pulsar heart]

it worked after being very exact with my intentions lmao

thank you

[acoustic oasis]

I imagine you didn't have the f's in there last time xD

but glad to be of help 🙂

[pulsar heart]

i did not lol

[acoustic oasis]

I can't seem to remove the padding around the smaller icon with the LayoutElement. I imagine it has something to do with the Cell Size I define in the Grid layout (60x60), and that this is not flexible.

[cosmic herald]

Hello i am inheriting from the layoutgroup but was wondering if i can somehow hide the Child Alignment option?
I can't seem to override it/find it

[fresh coral]

Does any1 know how to chance textmeshprougui text color via code

ive watched some videos however im still unsure

public class CardDisplay : MonoBehaviour
{

    public Card card;

    public TextMeshProUGUI nameText;
    public TextMeshProUGUI descriptionText;
    public TextMeshProUGUI tier;

    public Image artworkImage;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        nameText.text = card.name;
        descriptionText.text = card.description;
        tier.text = card.tier;

        artworkImage.sprite = card.artwork;
        
        if(tier.name == "Rare"){
            tier.color = Color.cyan;
        }
    }

}

this is the code im using

runs with no errors but doesnt change color

nvm i fixed it its late and my brain lagged from code lol

[restive patrol]

Hi? When I scroll and disable UI element which was clicked at start of scrolling then scroll rect jumps up. How can I fix that?

[cyan sentinel]

Can you show a video cause that is not clear at all

[wispy anchor]

Hi
How is the intended hierarchy that needs to be setup if I want to create a bottom bar in UI that is always anchored to the left, the right and the bottom of the screen and it has a fixed height starting from the safe area (and not from the bottom of the screen)?
Do I need to script something custom to do this easy setup?

[mortal robin]

That's just one of the standard anchor presets

[wispy anchor]

Could you expand the topic? anchors, as far as I know, are always referring to the parent of the transform.
But here I need to have left, right and bottom anchored to the something that have screen dimensions and the top anchored to something that has safe are diemensions

[lavish sluice]

I am debating whether I should split up my UI into separate canvases or let it remain as is. I read that when a change is made on a UI element, everything on the canvas it is patented to will do some sort of refresh so splitting it up helps to make it more performant. However, i also read that when UI elements share a lot of things, they are batched to also help with performance. Most of my UI elements share the same background images and other stuff. Should I still go with the separating into canvases? Currently, there are no issues with my UI by the way.

[celest lodge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1083793275066007652/2023-03-10_16-46-58.mp4
why isnt the button clicking?

is it because i put a button on the scroll rect or something

the event system isnt picking up any clicks

[low pike]

no

First thing to do, change the colours for the button states... so it is obvious when things are working

[celest lodge]

okay, i did that and nothing changed

[low pike]

I wouldn't expect it to change, but when it is working you'll instantly see

Why would changing the colour fix it? 🤣

[celest lodge]

idk maybe i didnt see it change 😭

the map canvas is the top most one, idk why it isnt clicking

[low pike]

what's 'MapOverlay' ?

[celest lodge]

ohhhh that could be it, its the beige stuff around the edges

its an image

[low pike]

remove raycast image

[celest lodge]

thats done it, thanks!

[errant egret]

If I want to call a Cmd from a button click, it seems I can't set it as the On click event

        public void PassPriority() {
            CmdPassPriority();
        }

        [Command(requiresAuthority = false)]
        private void CmdPassPriority(NetworkConnectionToClient sender = null) {
            ...
        }

Is that really the way it goes? Using this dumb PassPriority function

[obsidian geode]

how do i make sure an image stretches to fit any resolution?

it doesn't cover everything especially in free aspect

[errant brook]

I'm trying to create a level selection screen, and I want the buttons to have a shadow. This shadow shows up perfectly fine in scene view, but doesn't at all in game view. Does anyone know why?

[remote nexus]

hey so i was making a quit scene in unity where when pressed a button ingame itll redirect to the main scene im using scene manager, ive put all scenes on build and the code is correct

my scene still doesnt seem to load even after ive pressed the button tho, ive even made proper buttons with it.. if anybody knows the reason why this might be happening pls do help me out..
thanks!!

[main gale]

make sure u have the correct scene index or name in the SceneManager.LoadScene() method

[remote nexus]

yeah

i do

[main gale]

can u show the build settings

[remote nexus]

i confirmed it from #archived-code-general

[main gale]

does it have the correct function on the onClick event?

[remote nexus]

yup

[main gale]

can u show the code of it

[remote nexus]

sure

[main gale]

just copy paste if its not too long

under 60 lines just copy paste

[remote nexus]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class QuitScene : MonoBehaviour
{ 

    public void changeScene()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(0);
    }
}

i also tried with this

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class QuitScene : MonoBehaviour
{ 

    public void changeScene()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 0);
    }
}

[mortal robin]

is your button actually responding to your click (animating, changing colors?)
Is the code running (verify with Debug.Log)?

[remote nexus]

i did a debug log but it did not respond

but in the event system it did

[mortal robin]

DO you have an event system in your scene?

[remote nexus]

but like only the eligibleToClick changed nothing showed beside the Selected option

[remote nexus]

yep

[mortal robin]

and a graphic raycaster on your canvas?

[remote nexus]

its enabled

i tried disbaling too

didnt work both ways

[mortal robin]

what's enabled?

[remote nexus]

the raycast target

[mortal robin]

I'm asking if you have a Graphic Raycaster component on your canvas

[remote nexus]

in the button

[mortal robin]

raycast target is important too, yes, but this is separate

[remote nexus]

oh yeah

i do

[mortal robin]

Can you show screenshots of your hierarchy and the event system inspector etc

[mortal robin]

and also what happens when you mouse over your button while the game is running and the event system is selected? Does it show your button as the mouse over target?

[remote nexus]

no the only change in event system is that eligibleToClick become true

the selected is blank

[remote nexus]

but this happens even when i click on the game screen so yeah

oh yeah and my script is attached with the menu group

so uh these are the linked things

do you think something is wrong with where ive put the script or smthin?

[mortal robin]

No much more likely something is wrong in the scene setup

perhaps another object blocking the button for example

any errors in console?

[remote nexus]

no

[mortal robin]

stupid question but you are running the game right?

[remote nexus]

i mean visually there is no such object

[remote nexus]

yeah ofc 💀

[mortal robin]

could be invisible

show your whole hierarchy

[remote nexus]

the game looks like tis

[remote nexus]

ok

here

dont tell me this is supposed to be at top 💀

it still doesnt work so

only this become true if anything is clicked

rest is well no change

[mortal robin]

something is wrong then, it should show your button under pointerEnter

like this

[remote nexus]

lemme see

nothing is shown in pointer enter

yeah something is wrong

are you familiar with the solution?

[errant totem]

bru why does it dissapear

bru it was too close to the camera in the z axis

Unity be like: "Yeah the elements are too close to the camera. 🤓 Don't ask why. 🤓 You have to adjust the z-axis of this 2d ui element. 🤓"

[remote nexus]

@mortal robin srry for the ping but do u think something could be up with this??

[mortal robin]

Unity is a 3D engine, always. Don't let the 2D camera mode fool you

[errant totem]

yes but the way it works with 2d elements is still weird. Like the affect above where the ui would appear with a smaller window but not with a larger one.

[desert jackal]

I made a popup, but I'm still able to interact with other UI elements using the arrow keys. Is there a way to fix this?

[grand moth]

hey guys! does anyone know why the 'T' letter is showing up on my text even after i press play?

[desert jackal]

I think it’s a gizmo

[grand moth]

yes youre right!! it worked! what exactly is gizmos?

[desert jackal]

When they’re enabled, symbols show up over things like sounds and text

[grand moth]

ah that makes sense

[grand moth]

hey does anybody know how to get the pause screen as a seperate screen rather than as an overlay / panel? thank you

[honest remnant]

Hey, I'm SUPER new to Unity so be gentle . I want to render an animated character sprite in a Canvas. However, when I try adding a game object with a sprite renderer, animator, etc. OR an Image with the same things, nothing shows up. Is there something that I could be overlooking?

[errant brook]

I'm trying to create a level selection screen, and I want the buttons to have a shadow. This shadow shows up perfectly fine in scene view, but doesn't at all in game view. Does anyone know why?

[mortal robin]

You're using a SpriteRenderer which is not a UI element

[mortal robin]

Yes you must use UI elements in UI. SpriteRenderer is not UI. The Image component will work.

[sacred idol]

Hey guys how do i remove this big icon of the text?

[low pike]

click that to mess with gizmos

FYI - this channel isn't about editor UI

[sacred idol]

thanks, sorry about that

[rocky holly]

All of these clicks return the same position. I am trying to make my level editor inside of a scrollview, and I need to get the mouse position according to the view of the scrollview.

How can I do that properly?

[remote nexus]

is there any way i can move this canvas??

its locked for some reason

[mild kernel]

If it's a screen space canvas, then no. Change it to world space.

[mortal robin]

canvases always use the size and shape of the game resolution (game view in the editor) (potentially scaled by the canvas scaler)

[remote nexus]

But if world space it won't show up in the screen

[remote nexus]

The canvas is actually colliding with my map,is that something to concern about?

[mortal robin]

no

[remote nexus]

Ok then thanks

[tranquil moss]

Can someone help me? I added post processing to my game, but it doesn't work on my UI.

[dense crystal]

when building games for phones, how do you guys deal with the top bar area of the iphone 12 etc? like, the safe area literally changes

eg

[mortal robin]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-safeArea.html

This might be a helpful asset too:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/safe-area-helper-130488

[dense crystal]

It seems only these later models of iphones/pixel devices with the smaller vertical safe area. The device simulator seems to display it properly, but do most people make their game dynamically recognize a notched safe area, or do you just build with the notch in mind for all devices?

[meager quartz]

How do i get the popups to always display over the text in this ui?
I gave them a higher layer but theyre still appearing under it

the names like lake of abandon, deep wilderness etc (that you mouse over) have the text layer, 3
and the popups have layer 6

but it seems to just use the hierarchy on the left which i cant really modify. is there any other way to fix this

[mortal robin]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[meager quartz]

I guess second canvas can work if i unparent the objects but it will make the scene harder to organise

Weird that just the ui layer stuff just straight up doesnt work

[mortal robin]

What UI layer stuff

[meager quartz]

In the second image

I put the text in a lower layer than the popups but it had no effect

[mortal robin]

these are not UI layers

these are just layers

and their order doesn't mean anything for rendering

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/use-layers.html

The main uses of layers, as described in this link^
physics interactions and culling masks for rendering.

[meager quartz]

Oh

[soft sail]

Between the documentations, videos, and the forums, I'm getting some mixed messages. Next time I work my mobile game I'll have to experiment with this a bit since as I could use some optimizations for the menus.

Ideally, I would like to make the majority of my in game inventory slots their own canvas, as at the moment I actually have to use a script to change the hierarchy on stuff I drag because of the layering issues.

[cyan sentinel]

What is the problem of changing the hierarchy of it or just add a canvasgroup to overwrite sorting?

[soft sail]

There's nothing necessarily wrong using a script to move ui elements throughout the hierarchy, I just remember scratching my head all day for the solution, thinking I was missing on some functionality of the canvas.

[cyan sentinel]

Nah, its just rendering my hierarchy on default. i use that all the time for example for UI that is anchored to a 3D world object but still scales and moves within 2d canvas, so it has the "effect" of being correctly depth calculated. Old project but been using those approaches a lot of times when multiple canvases were not an option

[low pike]

There's also the first point on this official Unity page to back up using multiple canvases

https://create.unity.com/Unity-UI-optimization-tips

[honest belfry]

I have 2 images which share the same canvas (screen space camera), but each have different parents and one is tied to a layout group, yet i need to be able to overlap them visually on the screen but i am struggling to find the correct way to do so.. I am trying to use RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle but im not sure if im using it incorrectly or if its the wrong functionality for this purpose entirely

[rigid parcel]

Hello
I do button for pause game
When I click it the timescale = 0 and menu show
But if I click the button behind the menu I can do that
How can I solve this?

[outer oriole]

hey,
i cant get the blue dots to show up on canvas
I tried this method and it didnt work
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37245641/scaling-issue-in-unity

[cosmic herald]

Hello, i want to change some elements when a button is currently selected like when you navigate the one that is currently highlighted.
I want to make some elements change color and become visible based on the active button. I don't think the button itself has a method for this to check if it's currently the selected one, where can i possibly find this?