📲┃ui-ux

[orchid vale]

and would this make it also possible for me to make everything reposition/resize itself based on the size/scale of the screen?

[tawdry ferry]

Yes, it would

[south magnet]

//Detect if a click occurs
public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
{
    //Use this to tell when the user right-clicks on the Button
    if (pointerEventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Right)
    {
        //Output to console the clicked GameObject's name and the following message. You can replace this with your own actions for when clicking the GameObject.
        Debug.Log(name + " Game Object Right Clicked!");
    }

    //Use this to tell when the user left-clicks on the Button
    if (pointerEventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Left)
    {
        Debug.Log(name + " Game Object Left Clicked!");
    }
}

Im using the documentation example for OnPointerClick as I couldnt get my inventory system itself to drop an item on right click, but even thats not working. I have the event system gameobject in my scene, and I dont think thats an issue as the functions OnBeginDrag, OnDrag, and OnEndDrag work as intended

[nimble orbit]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1208271478685179934/1231046326754742343/image.png?ex=6635883c&is=6623133c&hm=a547664986b0b28641811387a244701f44b2ab251f8d2682e992587638e2ef66&

How would you guys fix a UX issue like this?

Players shouldn't be able to break those tabs such that they're multi-line like that, but I also don't wanna just remove the newlines because the tabs would be EXTRE<ELY wide

[tawdry ferry]

So you don't want your messages to be multiline, but also don't want them to be too long? Well, you may

• Limit the amount of characters a player can insert
• Add a horizontal scrollbar to scroll to the end of the question
• Prevent users from inserting a new line, which should be inserted just when the message is too long

[tawdry ferry]

The code is fine. You said you have an Event System, which is great. You should also make sure the GameObject, which the script is assigned to, has the raycastTarget enabled

[celest garden]

well, error really happens only when changing values trough editor

but still

how do i fix this thing? Its not even affected by animation or smth

And error comes out of nowhere

[tawdry ferry]

I have previously asked you whether the error is coming from your script

[celest garden]

TMP thing

[tawdry ferry]

Well, the TMP's caret is indeed laggy, as I have already experienced working with it

[celest garden]

TMP_SelectionCaret

[tawdry ferry]

Got it

[tawdry ferry]

Could you show how those InputFields are set up?

[celest garden]

lemme open project

This?

i set viewport to object not text, is it ok?

[sullen scaffold]

ive got a ui image in screenspace that is blocking ray casts to a button in world space Ui ive tried everything and nothing works

[worn kelp]

have you changed the image layer so the ray doesn't see it?

or deactivate raycast target?

[sullen scaffold]

ive done that

[sullen scaffold]

wdym by that sorry

like changing z axis

[worn kelp]

you can change the layer

try making it ignore raycast

[sullen scaffold]

no that didnt work

[worn kelp]

wt

can you show the script related to the raycast

[sullen scaffold]

what script im just using yk the graphic raycaster on the canvas

[worn kelp]

oh

[worn kelp]

then also uncheck the IgnoreRaycast

in blocking mask

and set the image layer to ignore raycast too

[sullen scaffold]

this is the canvas the world space button is on

thats the screen space canvas

[worn kelp]

there is blocking mask

[sullen scaffold]

yeah thats the canvas i need it to block right for the button

[worn kelp]

can you show your images inspector that blocking the button

[worn kelp]

are you sure this is the image that is blocking that?

[sullen scaffold]

yep definitly

[worn kelp]

the image canvas doesn't even have reycaster

and the image is not raycast target

looks like impossible x impossible

[sullen scaffold]

yeah cause otherwise it would block the raycasts?

[sullen scaffold]

why do both canvas's need to have one surely only the interactable one i need one for

all i know is if that image is disabled the button works

[worn kelp]

that's what I mean

I mean looks like you've done everyting correct

[sullen scaffold]

oh right

[worn kelp]

so when you you disable the image, the button works?

[sullen scaffold]

yep

[worn kelp]

okay let me get this right last time

you have 1 screen space and 1 word space canvas

the screen space has a image and no raycaster

and the word space has button and raycaster

but the image is blocking the button

[sullen scaffold]

wait now my button isnt working with the image disabled

thats weird

it was when i logged off last night

[worn kelp]

so it's not about the image

[sullen scaffold]

it was but now its being weird

[worn kelp]

is your raycaster like this?

[sullen scaffold]

yeah

[worn kelp]

and your button is set to interactable?

[sullen scaffold]

yep

[worn kelp]

and what do you use the canvas group for

[sullen scaffold]

cause it said on a unity forum that that would fix it

[worn kelp]

and you sure you set the right camera as event camera?

no secondary camera

[sullen scaffold]

yeah when i go to where the UI it disables the main camera and activates the 2nd one which is used as the event camera

[tawdry ferry]

The text's size should probably be set to 0 by default. Instead consider moving its viewport

[worn kelp]

can you try disable your buttons for now and just add a new one ?

to find out where is the problem

[tawdry ferry]

This is redundant. The Raycast doesn't see an Image which has Raycast target disabled

[sullen scaffold]

i disabled it and added a new one to the same canvas

it doesnt get pressed

just like the other

[worn kelp]

its personal now

[worn kelp]

try removing the event camera from canvas?

and disable canvas group

and do you lock the cursor?

[sullen scaffold]

ok i added a new canvas with a new button and that works

[worn kelp]

thats weird

[sullen scaffold]

when i activate the screenspace image it doesnt work again

so now its definitly the image

[sullen scaffold]

ok i figured it out

its not the image

its because the camera is using a target texture

and that somehow is blocking the raycast

so i need to figure out why thats blocking the raycast

[tepid cosmos]

How is it possible to achieve this if I have text mesh pro with center alignment? That formatting, how it is done?

[nimble orbit]

These aren't messages

These are tabs

[tawdry ferry]

Alright

[mortal robin]

multiple text elements laid out appropriately

[tepid cosmos]

What?

So that is not just one text mesh pro

[mortal robin]

Definitely not

I mean in this case you're not looking at Unity anyway

so there aren't any TextMeshPros at all

[stark swallow]

hello i just started doing a game and i downloaded an asset but it isnt loading, like its pink, any solution? i literally just started

[mortal robin]

isn't this a website or something?

[mortal robin]

This is not a UI question

[stark swallow]

this is the only active channel :c

sorry for bothering

[mortal robin]

Definitely not, but regardless, ask in the correct channel

[stark swallow]

so which is?

[mortal robin]

#💻┃unity-talk

[tepid cosmos]

Yes

But how to mimic it?

[mortal robin]

#📲┃ui-ux message

[turbid ferry]

i have a canvas set up as the main menu and another as the player profile page, but for some reason its unenabling the main menu canvas but not enabling the profile canvas and i have no idea why.

[mortal robin]

What is "it"?

[worn kelp]

can you show the script

[turbid ferry]

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

public class Profile : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject canvasToHide;
public GameObject canvasToShow;

public void SwitchCanvas()
{
    canvasToHide.SetActive(false);
    canvasToShow.SetActive(true);
}

}

[worn kelp]

And no error on the console?

is there any other script effecting that canvas maybe?

[turbid ferry]

no errors, and thats the only script i have attached to that button but there are other buttons on the main menu.

[turbid ferry]

i have one that starts the game by moving you to a different scene which works fine, another one just like this that is supposed to move to the settings though i havent set the canvas for that one up yet, and one that exits the game.

[worn kelp]

when you are on the play mode, can you disable and enable the canvases manualy?

[turbid ferry]

thats weird. some of them yes, but the main menu specifically isnt going away.

[worn kelp]

then there is something else that keeping that

[turbid ferry]

well fuck. i have no idea what that could be.

[solemn pivot]

What are possible reasons why these bars are not spaced out equidistantly? How can I make them spaced out equidistantly?

adjusting it manually I guess what it needs is 5 bars, the top and bottom ones being invis maybe 🤔

Hrm or not, that didnt work either. It wouldn't space them directly at the top or bottom

upper center with the 4th one invisible seemed to do it

counterintuitive but works

[tawdry ferry]

What do you mean they aren't spaced equidistantly?

Are you talking about the horizontal distance?

[solemn pivot]

Yes

[tawdry ferry]

Well, you're using the Vertical Layout Group.

[solemn pivot]

four with one invisible got the spacing I wanted

[tawdry ferry]

Oh, so those green lines are the items?

[solemn pivot]

Not sure what you mean by this

Oh, yes

not the tanks themselves

[tawdry ferry]

I thought you were referring to those capsules not being placed correctly horizontaly

[tawdry ferry]

Well, the green lines are spaced correctly

It just appears that you either have an offset at the top or the items centered

[solemn pivot]

these are the parameters in that image

no offset specified

the images themselves are dead centered

[tawdry ferry]

Yes, that's why the top and bottom distances aren't the same as the distance between the images

Do you expect it all to be the same?

In this case you'll have to adjust the capsule's size manually

Oh, no, I haven't mentioned the spacing not specified

Then I don't think it's possible without the spaces being calculated manually

[white solar]

Anyone know how to make a rendertexture have a alpha background? I'm using it for character selection and it has a black background

[full wigeon]

Hello guys, im currently working on a game, but im pretty ass at designing good UI, does anyone have a website for UI design ideas or some blogs or yt videos on how to make UI really appealing for the user?
I mean i found some, but they werent good imo

[dire drift]

I have an orthographic camera that looks at my minimap, a world space canvas group. And the camera feeds its frames to a render texture which is then fed into a raw image in my screen space canvas group. And just 5 seconds ago, it was working. But as you can see, it just stopped updating the texture. What could be the reason for this? Because in my code, nowhere does it make the camera stop feeding its frames. I don't even know if that's possible****

[south magnet]

ty, my dumbass forgot to add the pointerclick beside the monobehavior for the class lol

[tender marsh]

In my 2D game, I have a UI Panel that I set to completely white (#FFFFFF), it actually shows up slightly gray. Any idea why this is? The gray in the images is the panel, compared to white

(also please ping me or reply to the message when you respond, so I see your message)

[mild kernel]

The sprite you're using is grey, then. The colour property of an image is multiplied against the base colour that is the sprite itself.

[tender marsh]

I see

It's the default one, is there any way I can edit it?

[mild kernel]

The default is grey, yeah. And no you can't edit it.

You can also just remove the sprite from the source image and it'll give you a white box

[tender marsh]

Yea I know, I like the rounded corners though haha

the files aren't on my computer somewhere so I can make a copy?

[mild kernel]

Right, then you'll have to make one/find one online

[tender marsh]

tragic

Thanks for the help!

[mortal wharf]

I have a canvas set to "Constant Physical Size", yet everything under it is changing sizes with resolution, not staying a constant physical size..!?

First image is at 16:9 aspect, second is 4K UHD

I'm talking about the cursor. It's a UI element because I'm making an animated cursor

[light jolt]

I am experiencing a very strange bug on some android devices that is happening randomly.

I have some imported text converted then in TextMeshPro. I am using it in a scene where I have an Overlay camera like shown in the first Image. In the editor the text is always present and with behaving as expected. Same for most of the android devices I have tested on.

We can use as example the text on the dialog on the right.

In some android devices (some times) the text is not shown or more weird there is some strange behaviour in the rendering order like in the last image.

Do anyone have any idea what it could be and how to address the problem?

[jagged monolith]

Are you using the same font asset in world space text and in overlay UI? Because if you do it can mess up the rendering order like what you're seeing

[light jolt]

Not in this specific scene. But in other scenes I have canvas with the worlds pace configuration. Could it be it ?

[jagged monolith]

Yes it could be, since it has to do with how the shader is built. I would try and see if a new font asset solves the problem

[light jolt]

Thanks!

[oblique sonnet]

How do I resolve this blockiness on my text using TMPro?

[low pike]

This is either:

• the scale is less than 1,1,1
• the font size is less than 1
• the margin/ buffer (i forget the exact term used) in the SDF isn't large enough, remake it. This is probably the problem

[lofty skiff]

why does the text on my button look like this whenever i apply a font?

[mortal robin]

How did you "apply a font"?

[lofty skiff]

nevermind its all good, must've just been a glitch because when i test played the font began to work as normal again

[honest hollow]

In our game, our artist has placed a 2D circle on the ground in a prefab, and when we press play in the editor, it disappears. I bet we're doing something wrong

Here's the properties for the CanvasWorld

[worn kelp]

are you using canvas for that circle?

[honest hollow]

Thanks for replying. All I know is he's using CanvasWorld

[worn kelp]

is there any reason you're using canvas instead of decal projector?

[honest hollow]

that node I screenshotted th edetails

[mortal robin]

Yeah why's he using UI

[honest hollow]

Lack of knowledge on his part XD

[worn kelp]

then you better search and look for decal in urp

you can cast any texture like a projector in any surface

[woven rose]

It's probably under something else or is meant to be controlled through code in which case I'd look for any scripts attached to that object

[honest hollow]

Regarding URP, when choosing a starting template we figured "3D Mobile" was the best choice since we're making a mobile game, is this URP?

[honest hollow]

I'm the coder from the beginning of the project and I can tell you I'm not doing anything with that circle

[woven rose]

In that case I'd have to assume the circle is hidden behind something , another layer like the floor may be above it or below it hierarchy wise

[worn kelp]

no, it's built-in renderer

[honest hollow]

It's not, it just disappears when we press play, it's still there, and it's still at the right height

[woven rose]

UI elements use their position in the hierarchy for sorting aswell as one of the transform positions

[honest hollow]

Everyone always talks about URP, but then there's a template called "3D Mobile", it suggests we should choose that one if we're making mobile, is the general consensus not to ?

[woven rose]

URP just stands for universal render pipeline which most if not all unity templates include

You are already using urp most likely

[worn kelp]

the mobile 3d is built in renderer

[woven rose]

Which is URP correct or am I wrong?

[honest hollow]

I know Built in is not URP

[woven rose]

Ah I didn't know it was different

[worn kelp]

no, built-in is different

[honest hollow]

Had a bad feeling about it

[worn kelp]

built-in, urp, hdrp

[woven rose]

Can't you just switch to URP ?

[honest hollow]

So what's the recommendation

[worn kelp]

you can switch to urp

[honest hollow]

Is the general consensus to just use URP for mobile?

[worn kelp]

it's mostly like use urp for everything

unless you make high end

[woven rose]

That is what I'd have done just to get lighting working

[worn kelp]

there is a bit work but not much swithing to urp

you can back up you project and try swithing

[honest hollow]

I reckon we could just open a new project with URP template and drag in all our assets

[woven rose]

I think you have to switch each material aswell

[worn kelp]

you better watch a short tutorial on upgrading to urp

[honest hollow]

We started some weeks ago and had our chance to start URP from the beginning, it annoys me that we still got it wrong (had the same issue last project)

[worn kelp]

you just import the universal renderer package and upgrage your materials

[woven rose]

Not so much upgrade the materials but they will need the shader switched to the correct pipeline I believe

[honest hollow]

Oh good, we don't have too many materials

We'll get that sorted and then look into Decals

[woven rose]

Yeah its not like you gotta redraw them or anything

[worn kelp]

it's just a few clicks. select all materials and convert

[honest hollow]

Thanks guys
I read somewhere it was "a lot of work", maybe they were just talking about materials

It uses like one "toon shader" material for every object

(we have flat colours mapped to single pixels, I think it's one texture for the whole game)

[worn kelp]

you have any custom shaders?

[honest hollow]

I have a feeling he got this Toon shader from an asset pack, but I assume a URP version exists or we will just find something else

I didn';t write any if that's what you mean

[worn kelp]

yes I've seen that for urp in asset store

[honest hollow]

Thanks so much guys

[worn kelp]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/urp-simple-toon-shader-243515

[honest hollow]

Thank you for that suggestion, I'll send it to him

[celest zodiac]

what's the best setting to import a font with?

as in closest to the original font

the one I am using is very pixel based, but it gets blurry really eaily

[high tartan]

how do I make this bar look correct when resizing, I created a border but the centerpiece is still stretching

[proud sandal]

Pixel fonts need to be imported and rendered at their 1:1 pixel resolution. There is no fractional scaling of them that looks good. For best results the glyphs need to be mapped manually. To get started, during import select ‚Raster Hinted‘ and the exact pixel size of the font. Then when rendering use a fixed pixel size canvas and use multiples of that font size in all text.

[oblique sonnet]

9-splice the Image by clicking on the Image then Sprite Editor

[misty lagoon]

There is this approach to autosizing speech bubbles/text fields using the Content Size Fitter and a Layout Group. My text inside the bubble should also be scaled in regards to the bubbles scale. Short text -> big typo, long text -> smaller typo. Is there a way to tell Unity to consider both constraints (autosizing of TMP and the Content Size Fitter)?

[high tartan]

i did, thats what I mean when I say I created a border

[mortal robin]

Looks like it's in the right position to me?

What's wrong with it

[sullen scaffold]

im using a shader with URP with screen space camera canvas and sometimes when i move my ui image positions they just randomly dissapear and i dont know why

[magic walrus]

im using onpointerenter to set the gameobject to the last position in the heirarchy so it renders on top. if i move the mouse from right to left there's no problems with overlapping, but if you see on the bottom row if i mouse left to right, the one in focus is covering some of the gameobjects, so id have to mouse off and mouse on to the one i want to see. id like to modify this so it feels better to scroll through them, any suggestions?

[soft sail]

Been doing some card stuff myself, but if you wanna take some inspiration from previous games like Slay the Spire, the most selected card will push cards nearby to give a better focus on the selected card, and enough room to select the neighboring cards

Something like that (mouse capturing a little off here)
https://imgur.com/9V6P0TP

[knotty shore]

Hi, I'm doing a degree in Games Design and one of the current modules is UI/UX. I have made a prototype in figma to show what it will look like in unity. Could a few of you give it a look over and fill in a very short q&a? I'm sure you have a lot more experience than me and any pointers would be gratefully accepted.https://www.figma.com/proto/uFfioZfolN1BhKzQS4Lvbj/Card-Game-Diagram?node-id=21-13&starting-point-node-id=20%3A5&mode=design&t=GaIlMk0e2dEFX7v9-1

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCTqO3ZxC5Gdm8_9puP_9ojz9fDxtfRs3wXZ6NQsiPPLmArA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thanks in advance 🙂

[idle sigil]

when I set the resolution to 4k, the ui all shrinks waaay too much
is there a way to keep this from happening? @mortal robin

[mortal robin]

Yes of course

just basic UI anchoring/scaling

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

Read this

especially the section on anchors/pivots

And the canvas scaler https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/manual/script-CanvasScaler.html

[idle sigil]

ohhh I know what the problem is
why what I usually do wasn't working
its because all the inventory elements are a child of the main, background element, and are hence anchored based off it

wait nope nvm that wasn't it
huh
well ill readthedocs

its weird constant pixel size doesnt seem very... constant

oh I figured out part of the problem 💀
the scale wasn't set to 1x

or maybe it isn't supposed to be??
agh

[golden epoch]

I'm trying to make an old looking computer terminal. Think War Games. It seems like one way to effectively make something look like old/retro tech is to add these horizontal lines between pixels like in this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfaqL1oQlck. But theres also this sort of bloom effect that seems to bleed into the horizontal lines. How would you go about accomplishing this look? Or what other tips would you have for simulating a retro looking terminal?

[idle sigil]

ah crt
classic
uh
idk
but its such an often used effect im sure theres tons of tutorials
i'd recco some kind of shader

okay got it working I htink

[tawdry ferry]

I have never seen someone spamming like this in a single message

[idle sigil]

well it looks better than

"ah crt classic uh idk but its such an often used effect im sure theres tons of tutorials id recco some kind of shader"

[tawdry ferry]

It looks much better like this though:

"Uh, but it's such an often used effect, I'm sure there're tons of tutorials... I'd recommend some kind of shader. Okay, got it working, I think."

[idle sigil]

well thats a different sentence
also, the Okay got it working message was unrelated

[still geyser]

Hi, I have multiple UI canvas images rotating and scaling constantly. I am having Z-fighting issues. There isn't a sorting layer option I can find and googling for 5 minutes hasn't gotten me anything. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks

Nevermind, it is the border of the images I somehow missed when I gave the images a transparent background.

[low pike]

Just FYI - you don't get Z fighting with UI. UI is drawn in hierarchy order, from top (first) to bottom (last), which is why you can't find a sorting layer

[burnt mica]

How can I increase the margins of my text so that it fills the box?

[low pike]

drag the recttransform bigger
anchor it so it stretches to the corners of the box

[burnt mica]

At some point in my 2D game, I want the character to be able to choose a weapon. I've got a drawing I've made where they can choose the weapon from. How can I go from the game to a menu?

Should I move the camera?

The weapon menu is all UI. It's sprites. Should it be in world space or screen space?

[mortal robin]

Just show some UI stuff

[mortal robin]

That's up to you. Typically UI is in screen space, although all UI in VR is generally world space

[burnt mica]

My game is the red arrow. The menu I want to be able to go to is the blue arrow. The black arrow is my canvas for the menu

[burnt mica]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm could I keep it in screen space and keep it above everything and when the player activates the menu, I make it appear?

[mortal robin]

You're making the mistake of looking at your UI in scene view

Look at it in game view (side by side with scene view) to see how it will appear in game

[burnt mica]

But my camera is focused on my player using Cinemachine. Would it be a good idea to detach it from the player and move it to the menu??

when it's activated

[mortal robin]

This is irrelevant to UI

If UI is in screen space it doesn't matter where your game or player or camera is

That only would matter for a world space UI

[burnt mica]

Should I use screen space overlay or camera?

[mortal robin]

Overlay is the simplest but I can't answer for certain without understanding your requirements

Basic UI is typically overlay

[burnt mica]

I don't want the menu to be visible while the player is playing the game. Only when they activate the menu, I want it to take over the entire screen

[mortal robin]

This part has nothing to do with anything else. Just activate and deactivate it at the appropriate times

[burnt mica]

Okay, I think I get ya. Thank you!

[burnt mica]

Does anyone know what this error means? If I double click it, it takes me to the window on the right. Not sure what it is

[mortal robin]

it's an internal Unity editor GUI bug

[teal bronze]

guys im still facing the same issue

i cant drag my textmeshpro UI into a referece

[mortal robin]

Your reference is probably the wrong type

It should be TMP_Text

[teal bronze]

I tried it and it didnt work (im new to unity so sorry about this)

[mortal robin]

you have to show what you're trying to do

and what's going wrong

otherwise we can't help

[mortal robin]

this is too vague.
Show the code. Show what you're trying to drag from where and where you're trying to drag it.

[teal bronze]

okay sorry

[mortal robin]

Ok so it's exactly what I said

you're using the wrong variable type for your variable

and the code you showed is not related at all

Score.cs is the script

The answer is here: #📲┃ui-ux message

Also notice you have errors in your console. These are likely compile errors which you will need to fix before doing anything else.

Do not ignore errors in the console.

[teal bronze]

its saying the TMP_Text is unnecessary should i leave it or no ?

[mortal robin]

what do you mean by that

What's saying that?

[teal bronze]

unity itself, when the code gets underline red and the pop up tells me what’s wrong

[mortal robin]

You would have to show the exact message and the actual code

[mortal robin]

Vague descriptions are not enough

[mortal robin]

this doesn't make any sense

why did you do this

I said to change the type of your variable

your variable declarations are on lines 7 and 8

the change would be there (not sure which one because your error message is blocking it)

Also that's not Unity that's Visual Studio

[teal bronze]

OHHHHH i get it now

okay thank you it’s working now

and sorry about all the dumb questions and mistakes

🙏

[solemn pivot]

Do you see any obvious reason why the top method returns zero raycast hits on anything in the UI, whereas the GraphicRaycaster version does work?

I've been debugging this for a while and everything I can look at is perfectly correct, except for no hits.
Cursor position is right, UI element is checked ON as a raycast target, element is on the UI layer

hm net is saying I should use graphics raycaster

but I am concerned that will not solve my actual problem, which has to do with mutiple cursors and device IDs 'n such

Ill continue forward with graphics I guess

[mortal robin]

because Physics raycasting is for physics objects (specifically for Colliders)

they don't interact with UI elements at all

only Colliders

[solemn pivot]

That makes sense

I think the part that confused me is the checkbox for raycast target on the ui Image

I was like 'its a target, checks out'

but wrong kind of target

[mortal robin]

yes that's for graphics raycasting

[dense rampart]

how do i make a ui component snap to a corner of a canvas?

[sage torrent]

You can make its local position be relative to the corner by setting the anchor

if you are using anchors, you then want to modify anchoredPosition of rectTransform in code

[dense rampart]

ok perfect ty

[dense rampart]

and that will adapt to any aspect ratio?

[brave iris]

Hi there! i'm having an issue with a worldspace canvas. It visibly is behind my other UI (that are in screen space camera mode, projecting onto another camera especially for the UI; this camera being in orthographic mode.), the order in layer is inferior to but the raycasts are blocked by the worldspace UI anyway, which is weird. Then, i thought that if the plan distance was too far away, maybe it was messing with some things too bc the worldspace UI was technically in front of it in terms of coordinates, so i changed that in play mode but still nothing. any ideas?

[mortal robin]

Do you need the world space canvas to detect events at all?

[brave iris]

Yup. :)

for now i kept toggling the raycast blocking when needed, but it's really getting out of hand.

[mortal robin]

projecting onto another camera especially for the UI;
What do you mean by this exactly?

[brave iris]

This is what i mean ! Simple, really

[mortal robin]

Yeah but you have this render camera - and you said that was rendering for the UI - is this lbeing used with a RenderTexture or something?

[brave iris]

sorry, i was missing this too, in my camera script. So we have a main camera "stacking" the UI camera. And this is for our overlay UI. But our Worldspace canvas is rendered on the main camera.

[mortal robin]

Can you show the inspectors for the two canvases?

[brave iris]

Here! respectively one of the UI canvas we have and the world one

[brave iris]

I would add that it is not anything else blocking the raycast from the click. We easily saw this by looking at the preview of the event system in playmode (and also, of course, observing our scroll view in the world canvas (that was behind) was still working.)

I would add that i am also perplexed that no one is talking about this, which makes me think it's an error on our end still.

[mortal robin]

Yeah I've not really seen an issue with this so I do think it's something with your setup but I'm not really seeing anything obvious unless the world space canvas is simply closer to the camera

Is order in layer reversed though?

[brave iris]

As i stated in my first message, that was one of my guesses too and i tried to change the order in terms of coordinates, yet still nothing.

[brave iris]

I don't think so?
The greater the order in layer, the later it is going to be drawn, right?

So greater order in layer means it gets drawn on top

[mortal robin]

I don't remember lol

That sounds plausible yes

[brave iris]

Oh Lord.
It's the priority variable on the camera.
After further testing and creating a new blank project on the same version, we managed to see that:

When your camera is on base mode (as opposed to "Overlay mode", used in our UI cameras here), we can set the "priority" variable. But not on Overlay Mode. See screenshot.

Surely, it is because it is not used in Overlay Mode, then... Right?
No.
If the priority on the overlay camera is lower than the one on the UI camera, or well, was lower when it was on base mode, it stays that way and it does matter when trying to interact with the canvas, independently of the sorting layer or the plane distance or basically anything. It has the, well, priority on everything else. But, when the priority is the same, it acts normally, sorting layer working again and all.

So long story short, if an archeolog or something has this problem in 5 years, just check your priority variable in your cameras. I do not think toolkit is safe from this issue.

Also, i have a blank project, i could make a unitypackage to show the issue if anyone is interested.

[sage torrent]

You might have to do some extra stuff to get it exactly right for any resolution, like add a canvas scaler and maybe fiddle with some numbers in code based on reference/target resolution. But just using anchors should get you most of the way there

[bold glen]

is there a way to set a max height/width for a layout element?

[maiden tinsel]

how do i set up the image so it fills from the center to the both sides?

[cinder sentinel]

does Cell Size propery in Grid Layout Group dependent on the screen size, eg mobile devices? in other word it is not fixed value of pixel but depend on the max length and width of screen?

[mortal robin]

The unit it uses depends on your canvas and canvas scaler settings.

It's basically in "canvas space"

[tiny condor]

Having some difficulty setting up a scroll list. I have this prefab which is just a slot in the list, with a container which I wanted to use to control the horizontal layout of the stuff inside, then it's just the text and number as two different parts.

I've got a scroll view set up just through what unity provides in the create new menu, It's hard to see but the text just sticks to the left wall. I'm really not sure how I can make it so that the slot stretches to fill the container and have the stuff in it change too

[mortal robin]

wouldn't you want a vertical layout group?

[tiny condor]

The horizontal group is just used for the text in the actual slot itself, the content object has a vertical one

with some finangling it's now doing the opposite ...

Well I think I may have managed to amend that much, but now any time I instantiate an element at runtime it doesn't conform to how the prefab should look at all

[mortal robin]

How are you doing the instantiation? The best way is to use the Instantiate(prefab, parent) form

[tiny condor]

in this case that's a script attached to the prefab, but I didn't think that made a difference

[mortal robin]

you should just do this Instantiate(itemPrefab, contentPanel);

get rid of the second line

[tiny condor]

oh my, well that seems to have done the trick. Will test out different screen sizes, but I guess that makes sense

hard to see here too, but which group option would be best if I wanted both of these texts to appear, resize dynamically but also give enough space for the number on the right to have room?

[mortal robin]

Horizontal layout group but you need to use layout elements and such on the children

[tiny condor]

ah, haven't used a layout element before

[tiny condor]

right, think I have it working now

thanks for the help again

[paper sphinx]

can someone help me implement a score system with some costum numbers? (I put them in a sprite atlas)

[cinder sentinel]

thanks, ill look at the canvas settings

[crimson owl]

Is it true that using Animator/Animation for your UI animations is more costly than using Code to animate your UI?

I've heard that claim but I've never been pointed to any proof.

[soft sail]

unless you're doing some skinmesh animating I doubt there's much of a difference

[tulip niche]

i have this bit of code:

[CustomEditor(typeof(GraphManager))]
public class GraphManagerEditor : Editor
{
    [SerializeField]
    VisualTreeAsset _graphManagerUI;

    [SerializeField]
    int _test;
}

why does the VisualTreeAsset show in the inspector for this script but test does not? do editor inspectors only support showing the visual asset tree?

i was certain it used to let me show other types in the inspector before 🤔

[dreamy river]

whats the best method to open a panel with an animation, using animator, using default lerp function or using tools like leantween or dotween

[sick blaze]

How can I bind a panel to an object? Like, I want to have my panel only be over a specific gameobject, and not follow the camera around

[low pike]

Depends on skillset.

I use DOTween, because it's easiest for me. An artist would probably be better using an animator

[honest saffron]

i've heard using an animator is worse for performance than doing it through code

and yeah dotween is really good

[nimble orbit]

is it at all possible to have a clickable button inside a TextMeshPro input field's child hierarchy?

Because I have one in it, and it isn't responding to click events

Basically I'm creating a completion list for a text field. Like you'd see in your web browser's address bar. It looks like this.

When you focus the text field, that red panel comes up with a list of selectable options. You can either click them or you can type to narrow down the items available

When you deselect the input field, the menu disappears

Problem is none of the buttons are clickable when the menu is a child of the input field.

but.....if the menu isn't a child of the input field, then the buttons do become clickable....but they steal focus from the input field causing the menu to get disabled before the button has a chance to fire its click event

[silver glacier]

Trying to get this project to Work but the controls don’t work at all, and has no textures, maybe something to do with the compiler error on the bottom?

It says that a GUI layer in camera is gone.

[brazen cradle]

hey, i wanted to know, is it possible to set the alpha of an UI image to a gradient? i.e. left side should be solid color, fading out towards the right to absolute transparency

[low pike]

Not built in, no.

[dreamy river]

why is everything streched in my world space canvas?

nvm my parent object was streched

[cinder sentinel]

hello , when i add my sprite insite TMP text, it is not aligned with the rest of the text. How to I adjust it, and if possible without reimporting again (such as reslicing sprite map)? in other word is there quick fix?

Here the gem is lower than text; it is same height so i need to raise the gem up a bit?

[tawdry ferry]

This is a sprite, not a character or emoji, so you won't be able to paste it inside of the TMP_Text. If you want to align it, you'll have to have this TMP_Text and an Image of this sprite as the children of the same parent. This parent should also, not necessarily, have some kind of a Layout Group, a Horizontal Layout Group in your case, which makes both the text and the image easily alignable within the same parent.

[cinder sentinel]

thank, i guess. i look into that

[pearl briar]

what's the consensus on ui toolkit -- better/worse/different than ugui? or is it really more just if you're familiar with webdev, it's easier?

[tiny spade]

when i instantiate a prefab with a ui object on it, and i set the anchor preset of the parent to stretch, it fixed the issue of the size not changing with screen size AFTER instantiating, but it still has a completely different size depending on the screen size at the moment of instantiating it, anyone know how to fix?

[pearl briar]

i think youre gonna need to share code/inspector. i'm not that great w ugui but there are a lot of parameters you can put on these objects. for example, you can put stretch anchors but it'll also have these other values such as size/scale/whatever that it will apply in addition to your anchors. worse, unity modifies these parameters based on your anchor selection so that the object appears to have the same/position size in your editor. thus you have to basically zero these values out to start from scratch.

[paper sphinx]

what would be the easiest way to add a startup screen for my flappy bird game where there s just the background, ground and bird moving and this sprite? Like adding a new scene or make everything on the same scene with a simple canvas?

[mortal robin]

make a new scene

Use prefabs if you have duplicate items between scenes

[paper sphinx]

I see

[dim moss]

Btw i have a UI image for a bar, it act weird, i set native size, then the box does not match with my sprite like this:
Whats wrong?

[paper sphinx]

Why is my inputfield not working on mobile?

[analog urchin]

Hi guys, got trouble here with Unity's scrollview-
I've got this inventory system where the slots are all spawned into a scrollview, but well, problem is that they block the scrollview making them unable to be scrolled.
Basically can say that the issue is that I want the scrollview to react to scrolling while you can still drag&drop items...

[analog urchin]

Whelp, I solved it, for those who wanna know how I solved it though-

I basically made a new script that registers if mouse is over that element, and sets the scrollview's velocity manually via that script

Since hover event does cascade to parent gameobjects it's no problem

Also, set the scrollview itself's sensitivity to 0

To avoid duplicate scrolling in case the user does scroll via a gap/border between the covering uis

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class ScrollViewFixer : MonoBehaviour, IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler
{
    public ScrollRect scrollView; 
    public float scrollSensitivity;

    private bool mouseOver;

    void Awake()
    {
        scrollView.scrollSensitivity = 0;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (mouseOver)
        {
            scrollView.velocity -= Input.mouseScrollDelta * scrollSensitivity;
        }
    }

    public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
    {
        mouseOver = true;
    }

    public void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
    {
        mouseOver = false;
    }
}

Also a benefit of controlling via a separate script- Much easier to implement customizeable scroll sensitivity

[analog urchin]

Thoughts?

[analog urchin]

Scrap that way of using scrollView velocity of above, it doesn't work properly. Didn't expect that their velocity'd work so weirdly.

[severe sandal]

Is anyone here familiar with UI and scaling in Unity?
-I had to change aspect ratio reference in the Unity canvas scaler to make the UI look good,
The problem is that aspect ratio reference is some "random" number like 1230 x 2010 or something.
How do aspect ratio references affect individual UI elements?
Is there something to be concerned about when using non real references.

-The scale factor, this is the math for expand screen match mode, I am trying to find docs. on how is this used for individual elements:
scaleFactor = Mathf.Min(screenSize.x / m_ReferenceResolution.x, screenSize.y / m_ReferenceResolution.y);
Image
The question is essentially, is there anything I should be concerned about when adjusting resolution,
performance and visual quality wise?

[mortal robin]

The reference resolution determines what the numbers in your RectTransforms mean

if your reference resolution is 1280 then a UI element of width 1280 will cover the whole canvas

To really work on UI in the editor you need to make sure your game view window is set to a realistic resolution and not set to Free Aspect

You can then change the game window resolution as desired to see what it will look like at different resolutions/aspect ratios

[severe sandal]

I am using the simulator to check how this looks like.

[mortal robin]

It's faster to just use the game window

you don't need to make a build etc

[severe sandal]

Sure, It looks good, now: should I be concerned about fictional references?
How is the scale factor used to calculate rect transform, do you have an example ?

[little hazel]

Hm, I'm having an issue where I'm not getting IPointer* events on a particular TextMeshPro_UGUI component. It has raycast target checked, and there is a graphic raycaster on the canvas (a sibling button works fine). Is there anything else to check?

Ahhhh, its height is 0 hahahah

[analog urchin]

Any thoughts on the ui? And the inventory icon?

[autumn rapids]

The contrast of the dark part is too low. Maybe add a bit more contrast (lighter text) so it's more visible.

You gotta think about the colorblind players

[analog urchin]

Not quite sure what that means?

I mean, I know what contrast means, but what is the dark part about?

[autumn rapids]

The text is prob not so visible for colorblind people.

[analog urchin]

Oh...

Basically just more contrast for things that you're supposed to view/read?

Okay

Is the inventory icon okay tho?

Personally I'm not really content buuut idk what to add to it '^^

[autumn rapids]

yeah

[analog urchin]

Also I just drawed a spell icon

[autumn rapids]

maybe the same as the backpack text. If you make it a little lighter in color, then it's perfect

[analog urchin]

But the brightness of the spells really overpower that of the backpack xD

[autumn rapids]

true. You could also just like draw everything in a certain high contrast color

like lightblue or smt. gives of a neon vibe

[analog urchin]

I don't think that neon vibe would be an ideal look for this but I believe that icons better stand out a bit

But the tabs not currently selected will become darker

To stand out less

Though that of the spells might really be overkill brightness

[autumn rapids]

hmm, it's your choice. if it doesn't fit, then it doesn't fit with the game.
You could also make the currently selected inventory lighter than the rest of the icons

[autumn rapids]

ah it's a dark game

then neon isn't the best option indeed

[analog urchin]

No it's both day and night

That one is dawn actually

[autumn rapids]

oh

[autumn rapids]

well, then like I said above. Make the icon which is currently selected, colorfull/more contrast than the other ones.

Like for me, it looks like spell inventory is selected.

[analog urchin]

Same

Okay, ig that it's no critics on the spriting but just the contrast...

I'll work on adjusting that then, cya Jinzo, thank you ^^

[autumn rapids]

np

[fringe roost]

Unity 2022.3.25f1 here...
I have this canvas which is parented to a gameObject, but the canvas is in front of the camera, and indeed all the controls are working, the problem is that the input field won't work at all 😦
Also I'm using a VirtualCamera from cinemachine, but as I said all the button and the slider are working as expected.
I've also placed a Legacy InputField but still won't work.

Ok it's because of this

Ahh.. I've disabled Block Raycast 😅

[teal bronze]

um anyone know why i cant drag my credit and menu scenes into my build settings?

[mortal robin]

what happens when you try?

[teal bronze]

it just doesn't drop into at all

[mortal robin]

uthat doesn't look like a scene file

[mortal robin]

This is the icon that scenes have

you seem to be trying to drag a prefab in.

[teal bronze]

how do i make them into icons so it can work ?

[mortal robin]

What? What do you mean "make them into icons"?

It's not about the icons. You're just not dragging the right kind of thing at all

You need to drag a scene

[teal bronze]

ohhh so i need to make them into scenes and then drag it

is there some way i can do it or will i have to make remake it?

[mortal robin]

I... honestly don't know how to answer your question.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CreatingScenes.html

[teal bronze]

hm its okay thank you

so i messed up

i needed to save everything else as scene aka as my level one

and needed to make the menu and credits as a new scene

but now i think i just deleted all that progress and might have to restart

[mortal robin]

Well at least now you understand what scenes are I guess?

[rustic moat]

I'm just asking how to achieve this kind of feature where dragging the magnifying glass will show a larger picture of objects? I'm thinking about masking, but I can't figure out how to implement it. This is using the UI "Image" component, not a spriteRenderer

[mortal robin]

A render texture shown at 2x scale?

[narrow seal]

Sorry to pester with a trivial question, but I'm trying to drag and drop a png into a project and I can drop it on one project but not another these are the versions. I've closed the projects and reopened them. I'm just not sure why its working on one project but not the other.

[mortal robin]

What happens when you try?

[narrow seal]

It dosen't do anything actually. I was able to get the image in using Assests>Import New Asset though. 🤷‍♂️

[mortal robin]

Maybe you have auto import assets disabled

[narrow seal]

I see parallel import options.. not seeing auto import yet

[keen bison]

I'm using both UI Elements and Canvas. How to detect if mouse is over UI element?

EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject() always returns true if UI Document is enabled

For canvas it works as expected

Ok, figured it out. For the root visual element, the picking mode attribute value should be "Ignored".

[lucid onyx]

On a high level, is there any scenario where for a mid-scope PC indie game that I should design the UI to support anything but 16:9?

[storm cypress]

Something probably in my scene is not working properly. The first image is how it's showing in scene view, and the second one is from the game view. I have a Mask component added to the panel, which gives it those rounded edges. But somehow in the game view, the masking is not working. Adding the same panel to another scene and it works without any issues. Anyone have any idea what might cause this behaviour?

[idle terrace]

is there a way to make a text box automatically be as big/small as possible? Like I guess instead of overflowing it just makes the box wider?

[storm cypress]

Content size fitter might be the one you're looking for

[idle terrace]

oo noice

[elder raptor]

Which style for my level creator's header/actions bar looks better?

Here are the same setups at the minimum scale

[patent oracle]

Hello everyone,

I am having trouble with my Scroll Level View. This view is used to display all the levels that are saved in the game. I am unable to successfully move to the next page with an animation that goes to the correct position. However, I have been able to move to the correct position without the animation and I have also been able to do the opposite. Does anyone know how to fix my issue?

Thank you in advance for your help.

// The position is good !!!

    // void MovePage()
    // {
    //     Vector2 newPosition = new Vector2(targetPosition.x, levelPagesRect.anchoredPosition.y);
    //     levelPagesRect.anchoredPosition = newPosition;
    //     UpdateBar();
    //     UpdateArrowButton();
        
    // }

// The animation is good !!

    // void MovePage()
    // {
    //     Debug.Log("ici"+targetPosition);
    //     levelPagesRect.LeanMoveLocal(targetPosition, tweenTime).setEase(tweenType);
    //     UpdateBar();
    //     UpdateArrowButton();
    // }

[keen bison]

I like both. Maybe the second.

That looks interesting

What is this game/app about?

[minor juniper]

hello. I have a button that seems to not work - no debug, no test presses, nothing. I spent the last few hours going through what people reccomended to check on the inter webs and can't figure it out. I have an event system. It is last in the canvas heirarchy. My text has raycast target off. I alos tried moving the RestartBttn() onto another object in its own script, but nothing. Also tried disabling every item in the screen but nada. Any ideas?

[mortal robin]

Does your canvas have a graphic raycaster?

[minor juniper]

Yes, here is the canvas:

[dense crystal]

Is there a round carousel component? I have to think not after going over some of the available options

Or a "3d" carousel? A selection menu where the selected item is in the foreground and circles around clockwise?

Ah here, something like this https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/3d-carousel-picker-49822

[paper hill]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make ui in unity look more modern and better?

i feel like whenever i make games I end up just kinda doing the same thing everytime and I want to figure out how to modernize it

[proud sandal]

Learn about graphic and interface design. Unity isn’t limiting you there.

[thorny cipher]

Hello, I am having an issue with using gradients with the Vector Graphics package.

SVGs without gradients work as expected, however, for any SVGs with gradients the gradient appears incorrectly or not at all.

In the first image, from left to right:

• I have dragged out the SVGImage into the scene (in ui) - Shows as black with gradient offset to the wrong location.
• Set the SVG Image directly (like I have for the other "non gradient" svgs. - Displays black / not correctly.
• Use a TexturedSprite (Rasterizes the image) - This works, but then I have to predefine a resolution and doesn't support "infinite scaling".

I have also noticed, that when the SVG has a gradient, an "atlas" is created along with the sprite/svg.

I am using the latest version of Vector Graphs (2.0.0-preview.24). This was tested in Unity 2021.3 and Unity 6 Preview.

[thorny cipher]

I hate that almost every time I ask for help, I figure it out.

If ANYONE gets stuck in the same boat as me:
I am using UI SVGImage, then drag the whole package to your hierarchy (image 1 above)

The Trick: On the canvas, under Additional Shader Channels** be sure TexCoord2` is selected.

answer found here

[hushed fossil]

Anyone know why my UI is not showing up?

    public void ShowText()
    {
      interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = true;
      Debug.Log("Test2");
    }
    public void HideText()
    {
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = false;
    }

    public void Interact(Transform interactorTransform)
    {
        ToggleContainerUI();

        if (playerInteractUI != null)
        {
            playerInteractUI.HideText();
        }
    }

    void ToggleContainerUI()
    {
        isActive = !isActive;

        if (isActive)
        {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
            containerUI.SetActive(true);
            if (thirdPersonController != null)
            {
                thirdPersonController.enabled = false;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            containerUI.SetActive(false);
            if (thirdPersonController != null)
            {
                thirdPersonController.enabled = true;
            }

            if (playerInteractUI != null)
            {
                playerInteractUI.ShowText();
                Debug.Log("Test");
            }
        }
    }

In my Console both debug logs show. But the text is not Enabling again

[mortal robin]

You'd have to share more detials like which objects are which in the hierarchy and what you're trying to enable etc.

containerUI.SetActive(false); I see this, perhaps this contains the UI you are trying to show but you're deactivating it?

you would also want to add more logs

for example around where HideText is called

[hushed fossil]

    {
        ToggleContainerUI();

        if (playerInteractUI != null)
        {
            playerInteractUI.HideText();
        }

HideText is called here

[mortal robin]

I see that

I'm saying add logs to it so we know if it's running

[hushed fossil]

I have a TMP text that is enable at start. But im trying to disable it when i open a object and then reenable it when closing the object. It disables when i open the object but just doesnt reenable

https://gyazo.com/021786467f9903b76b3e4c7b569f87d5
So it just doesnt reenable this part, It disables it fine but for some reason wont reenable

https://gyazo.com/810d5e5b44d89d58740baf231c87a505

[mortal robin]

you'd have to show your code

[hushed fossil]

https://pastebin.com/iLNFZCWQ

[mortal robin]

Where's the code that shows the text?
Wheere's the code that calls GetInteractText()?

Presumably you have a script on the player that interacts with the IInteract scripts via raycast or something

That's the code we need to look at.

[hushed fossil]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using JetBrains.Annotations;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerInteract : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Update()
    {
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)){
        IInteract interactable = GetInteractableObject();
        if (interactable != null) {
            interactable.Interact(transform);
        }
    }
    }

    public IInteract GetInteractableObject()
    {
        List<IInteract> interactableList = new List<IInteract>();
        float interactRange = 2f;
        Collider[] colliderArray = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, interactRange);
        foreach (Collider collider in colliderArray){
           if (collider.TryGetComponent(out IInteract interactable)) {
                    interactableList.Add(interactable);
                }
            }
            IInteract closestInteractable = null;
            foreach (IInteract interactable in interactableList)
            {
                if(closestInteractable == null)
                {
                    closestInteractable = interactable;
                }
                else
                {
                    if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, interactable.GetTransform().position) < 
                    Vector3.Distance(transform.position, closestInteractable.GetTransform().position))
                    {
                        closestInteractable = interactable;
                    }
                }
            }


            return closestInteractable;
    }

}

[mortal robin]

SOmething is missing here

where are you doing like textElement.text = interactable.GetInteractText();?

That's obviously happening somewhere but it's not in any of the code you shared

Is it in the PlayerInteractUI script? Can you show that?

[hushed fossil]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public class PlayerInteractUI : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private GameObject containerGameObject;
    [SerializeField] private PlayerInteract playerInteract;
    [SerializeField] private TextMeshProUGUI interactTextMeshProUGUI;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (playerInteract.GetInteractableObject() != null)
        {
            Show(playerInteract.GetInteractableObject());
        }
        else
        {
            Hide();
        }
    }

    private void Show(IInteract interactable)
    {
        containerGameObject.SetActive(true);
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.text = interactable.GetInteractText();
    }

    private void Hide()
    {
        containerGameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    public void ShowText()
    {
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = true;
        Debug.Log("Test2");
    }
    public void HideText()
    {
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = false;
    }

}

[mortal robin]

I would expect that when you do closestInteractable = interactable; here you would show and update the text at that point

[mortal robin]

    private void Show(IInteract interactable)
    {
        containerGameObject.SetActive(true);
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.text = interactable.GetInteractText();
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = true;
    }``` do this no?

I guess I don't understand why Show and Hide and ShowText and HideText are different

shouldn't all that happen at once?

[hushed fossil]

No doing that just keeps the text enable at all times, In the game the text is only enabled when im near a object with a Interactable Script

[mortal robin]

that doesn't make sense

this Show function literally takes an interactable as a parameter

clearly there's an interactable there

it's kind of insane that the thing you're interacting with is the thing controlling that the text is shown

[hushed fossil]

thats why i added the ShowText and HideText cause i only need it to disable when i open the clipboard script \

[mortal robin]

That's not true though

don't you want to show the "Open Door" text?

when looking at the door?

And whatever else when you look at whatever else?

[hushed fossil]

its not a raycast, It shows the text when im near it.

[mortal robin]

the raycast isn't the important bit

[hushed fossil]

Collider[] colliderArray = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, interactRange);
        foreach (Collider collider in colliderArray){
           if (collider.TryGetComponent(out IInteract interactable)) {
                    interactableList.Add(interactable);

[mortal robin]

yes

so like

whenever you're near an interactable

you should be showing the text

I don't understand why theh clipboard would be responsible for showing UI

Raycast, OverlapSphere, whatever

the point is when this thing detects interactable thigns, it should show the text

and when the interactable thing is no longer detected, it should hide the text

this script is responsible for that

the interactable thing should only be telling us the string to display, which you have through the interface

[hushed fossil]

Yes and it work. When im near the Clipboard and i click E it opens a Clipboard UI to do stuff with etc. but it still showed the "Intertact With Clipboard" text so im trying to disable it when im in the GUI

[mortal robin]

you will need to have the PlayerInteractUI have something like ```cs
bool suppressText;

public void SuppressText(bool suppress) {
suppressText = suppress;
if (suppressText) {
// disable the text
}
else if (playerInteract.GetInteractableObject() != null) {
// show the text
}
}```
And always check this bool as well when otherwise showing to make sure it's not being suppressed right now

this is like, a layer on top of the normal logic

[hushed fossil]

Got it,

    public void ShowText(IInteract interactable)
    {
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = true;
    }
    public void HideText(IInteract interactable)
    {
        interactTextMeshProUGUI.enabled = false;
    }

    public void Interact(Transform interactorTransform)
    {
    ToggleContainerUI();

    if (isActive && playerInteractUI != null)
    {
        playerInteractUI.HideText(this);
    }
    else if (!isActive && playerInteractUI != null)
    {
        playerInteractUI.ShowText(this);
    }
    }

[hollow ruin]

Does anyone know a quick fix to have Canvas Group transparent as a whole unit, not each element, like one image?

When I change canvas group's Alpha, my progress bar segments that are behind progress bar borders start to appear "above" the border, and it look kinda ugly

[rapid ferry]

anyone have a clue as to why the "Highlighted" and "Pressed" colors don't work?

I believe I have them set up correctly but it still doesnt do anything on hover or click

nevermind, mouse look script was interfering with it :D

[mortal robin]

No good quick fix really. The two options are basically:

• render that subsection of the UI in a render texture
• custom shader

[hollow ruin]

Ah, got it. Sadly that no quick fix, I thought there's a simple solution in the editor that I just didn't know about yet
Huge thanks for these tips, gonna try to implement them
Seems like the render texture approach is the easiest for me

[torn marlin]

I'm planning to use an Animator component (and Animancer) to animate my UI, but I've read that Animators are poor for performance on UI in older versions. Should I be worried about that, and take steps to mitigate it? (I'm developing the game to run on PC)

[mortal robin]

Don't prematurely optimize

[torn marlin]

Can do. I only asked because it seemed like one of those situations where you could rapidly rack up performance costs (assuming you have a lot of animated UI elements)

[iron mason]

Cant figure out why some parts of the image is bleeding through the mask, there are no extra white pixels in the mask that would cause it and i have looked at several tutorials and dont seem to be doing anything i can tell wrong

[mortal robin]

Look at it head on, e.g. 2D mode?

[celest lodge]

probably a broad question but how can i make transitions between UI panels? right now i just have it as panel1.setactive(false) panel2.setactive(true) lmao

[meager stream]

hi have a problem with my button he just dont want work... please help me my jam finish in 3h and this is the last thing i need to patch

[iron mason]

still has the issue in 2d, but even if it didnt, the bleed through shows up in game which i cant have happen. it is a 3d location based game, not 2d

[meager stream]

please i really need help

[hushed fossil]

Did you add a on click event?

[hushed fossil]

Any idea on why my text is not in the right spot? i change the position in the prefab, the animation was made under the actual money but its still not in right spot

[mortal robin]

What would "the right spot" be?

And which property are you animating?

[hushed fossil]

i got it sorta

Still kinda not in right spot but its good enough rn

figured out how to do it now

[meager stream]

I patch it before but ty i dont add the event ui thing (never needed that before i think its only for 2d)

[rapid ferry]

how does it look?

[low pike]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[autumn rapids]

Kinda too glowy. I once worked a lot with that effect. It gave me the feeling that there was water in my eyes or smt

[rapid ferry]

its not as bad in game

[autumn rapids]

If you're happy with it, then sure why not.

[sour finch]

boo

lol

[arctic swan]

haha no worries.

[sour finch]

yeah iwas about to say something

[arctic swan]

But yeah, the anchors all look right as it wouldn't show up at the right location in editor if it wasn't

[sour finch]

al good though mistakes happen

[arctic swan]

In the interest of figuring it out though, here are the values.

[sour finch]

yeah anchoring is important I can show exmaple of what I been doing

[arctic swan]

Of course. This is why I am stumped.

[sour finch]

I still don't see a problem though looks fine to me nothing seems wrong even

[arctic swan]

I know right? xD

I'm wondering if it's the version of Unity that I am using that is the culpit at this time.

When I attempt to change the resolution of the build, it won't update unless I do a build in full screen first.

[sour finch]

it's fine job done move on lol good enough it can;'t be perfect even if you code it yourself the algorithm does what it does.

[arctic swan]

Well, I can't really move on at this point if all my UI elements appear at their wrong location.

[sour finch]

ok show right one then wrong one screen

with inspector data

[arctic swan]

In editor

In build

It all looks normal to me. xD

[sour finch]

because it is like its what I am trying to tell you its fine it's working good enough move on. I't can't be perfect no matter what if it looks close enough at 800x600 and at 1600x1200 its fine man it will never be in the exact same spot on every resolution.

[arctic swan]

lol. This isn't fine.

[sour finch]

at what resolution does that happen

[arctic swan]

Any. Even in full screen

[mortal robin]

your thing is anchored to the center of the screen

you should anchor it to the top left

[sour finch]

oh just drag the position Y down

[arctic swan]

Already is top left

[mortal robin]

Is your script ever touching the position?

[arctic swan]

This is why i'm stumped, I've been using unity for 7 years. Have made plenty of UI. I've never encountered an issue like this.

No

[sour finch]

eah more you paying to much atetntio to the canvas don't even look at it. adjust in game preview mode

[mortal robin]

What resolution is the build running in?

[arctic swan]

Nothing is modifying the UI through script

[mortal robin]

Maybe it's zoomed or something

[arctic swan]

That's what it looks like to me as well.

[sour finch]

thats true too lol I have done that

[arctic swan]

I've tried full screen, windowed 720p and windowed 1080p

All came out looking the same.

[sour finch]

UI stuff is hard to do over discord really tough so many things could be wrong

[mortal robin]

which object in the heirarchy is selected here btw?

[sour finch]

Canvas I think right

[arctic swan]

The panel childed to the Canvas object

[mortal robin]

which is called?

[mortal robin]

And UIManager is the Canvas?

[sour finch]

wait have you got a canvas inside a canvas

[arctic swan]

UIManager is the canvas yes

No canvas in a canvas. It's a panel

[sour finch]

ok that is right then

[mortal robin]

because in this image it looks like ConnectionPanel is anchored to the center. So you changed it between those screenshots?

[arctic swan]

That was the game view

[mortal robin]

or wait I guess I'm looking at the Pivot, the anchors are collapsed

[arctic swan]

I really appreciate you guys taking the time btw.

❤️

[sour finch]

yea no problem i am waiting for help on my own problem lol

[arctic swan]

xD

[sour finch]

and eating lunch

[arctic swan]

If it's coding related, I may be able to help xD

In any case, I'm at the point of just changing editor versions. Seeing some kind of bug with the build settings (resolution changes not being applied when changing them in windowed mode for one.) I'm assuming something is off here. You've both confirmed that everything looks right.

[sour finch]

Might be a bug I hope I don't have it when I build lol using unity 5 or 6

[arctic swan]

This is Unity 2022.3.3f1

[sour finch]

Yeah my problem is code for sure lol but we solve this I want a break from my problem lol

yeah we on same version ****

[arctic swan]

xD

[mortal robin]

one last thing to try - play with the canvas scaler's "width or height" matching slider?

but i'm pretty sure height should be fine here

[arctic swan]

I've set it to height. I'll try width. Worth a shot

[mortal robin]

but yes otherwise it all looks fine to me so I'm not sure

[arctic swan]

Rip

[sour finch]

yeah it is what I said earlier maybe try 0.25 go with width more maybe might solve it

[arctic swan]

Sadly, to no avail.

I'll try to open a new project with the same version. See if I have the same issue.

[sour finch]

Yeah I wish i could play around physically with it would be easier

code maybe is the issue

[arctic swan]

It's a doozy.

No code changes these values though. :\

[sour finch]

never seen this before even it' always works fine

[arctic swan]

I even put an object in 3d world at the top of the screen to see if maybe it was zoomed in or something like that and the 3d world looks fine.

Loading up a fresh project to test.

[sour finch]

Did you try changing the the Y position down more and see if it moves

[mortal robin]

Also have you tried Fullscreen mode?

[sour finch]

maybe something in the code is interfering with the setting in the inspector

[mortal robin]

I wonder if it has something to do with windowed mode

[sour finch]

yeah he did try that

[mortal robin]

ah ok

[arctic swan]

Oh this is very interesting

Fresh project with this editor and I'm getting this

It's completely borked

[sour finch]

we solved you problem then maybe I never thought of that

lol brb

[arctic swan]

Looks like the editor is the culpit.

[sour finch]

Check these settings I circled

on your canvas

[arctic swan]

Looking

[sour finch]

raw edit mode on

[arctic swan]

Same result

:\

[sour finch]

damn

[arctic swan]

Oh sorry xD

[sour finch]

dm it

[arctic swan]

Haha

I'll try another editor version

With a blank project.

[sour finch]

I don't know actually does not make sense

because I ma on the same version works fine for me have not tried build yet I have to solve my issue first before build. Pointless to build if it blows up

[arctic swan]

For sure. Hopefully you don't have the same issue.

[sour finch]

I have builds go bad who now why project get wierd corruption I have literally just dragged and dropped everything into a fresh project everything works fine it's the version is kind of buggy

[arctic swan]

Very possible. I'm installing 2022.3.28f1 atm

If a fresh project doesn't have this issue, I'll just migrate over.

[sour finch]

yeah hopefully that works

[arctic swan]

Indeed.

Very happy all I've been working on have been systems.

[arctic swan]

Unity 2022.3.3f1 was indeed the issue. Used latest LTS and it builds at the proper location. Success!

[mortal robin]

Twas maybe this or similar https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/windows-canvas-layout-displaced-when-resizing-players-window

[arctic swan]

Nice. In any case, I'm happy it's back in working order. I wasn't able to focus on anything else while this was a problem. We back babay!

[unborn kettle]

hey guys, anyone haev a good comprehensive guide to layout with UGUI? I mean things like Layout Group, Layout Element, Content Size Fitter, etc. ... I feel like I've already spent so much time and still can't figure out how to do most simple things that fit content and auto-resize

[mortal robin]

Have you checked the unity UGUI manual?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

[crimson raptor]

heyho guys, I wanna ask is it possible to add ui components for each element of a json array?
and how?

[crimson raptor]

Why this happened

nvm

[pure moss]

Hello friends, I have one parent scroll view inside that I have multiple scroll views as a child. The issue is that I can not scroll the parent scroll view if I am dragging horizontally on one of the child scroll views (see video).

[unborn kettle]

yeah, tho tbh I’d really like a video for this that would demo all the important layout problems and solutions and how to approach things

[mortal robin]

The article I linked does that

[unborn kettle]

feels for layout especially it’s quite useful to see it happen, since ugui isnt declarative and often checking a box and unchecking does different things

oh

wait but its images, not video ive seen this part of the docs

like, part of my issue with ugui is that unlike CSS i cant just refresh the page and get it to do what is defined

things can adjust properties in a persistent way and the order of doing things matters

[mortal robin]

There's animations

[mortal robin]

If you want something like CSS use UI Toolkit

[unborn kettle]

UI Toolkit doesnt do world space unfortunately

I would use it otherwise

but the world space workarounds for it aren’t enough for my use case

i dont even need complex things, 99% of my issues are around making nested layouts resize to text content

e.g. text inside horizontal inside vertical

i’ll re-read the docs I guess

I dont really have any issues with it other than making things responsive to text, the rest is easy

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/HOWTO-UIFitContentSize.html this is the only page on how that works

[crimson raptor]

Yo does any1 know why this happened?
v

[mortal robin]

what's it supposed to look like?

What objects are in the group?

[crimson raptor]

like this,

[mortal robin]

Looks like a different thing entirely no?

[crimson raptor]

yeah

[mortal robin]

Are we talking about the "MULA" thing or the white things behind it

[crimson raptor]

I want to add a single button at the end tho

[mortal robin]

i can't tell what you're asking about

[crimson raptor]

wait

[mortal robin]

put it in the layout group

[crimson raptor]

so I want to add a single button at the end of the scroll tab

[crimson raptor]

Grid layout?

[mortal robin]

Maybe show a picture of what you're trying to accomplish

[crimson raptor]

wait

hmm looks like grid layout is causing some issue here

after a bit of re-checking

sorry for bothering you

[unkempt pasture]

Hello 😁
I have a question.
How can I make a UI disappear and reappear ?

[mortal robin]

either deactivate the GameObjects or use a Canvas Group and set the alpha to 0

[tribal turtle]

Is there a way to scale a UI element's size to the window with scale instead of directly changing it's width and height? Because when scaling it to the window normally all of the text and stuff gets really messed up.

[mortal robin]

You should be using the RectTransform settings rather than scale generally

What do you mean by "it gets messed up"

[tribal turtle]

This is what happens when I use the rect transform

[mortal robin]

You need to use LayoutElement within your layout groups

And set appropriate minimum sizes etc

[tribal turtle]

Like add the layout component to each of the bits of text?

Or ar you saying all of the text needs to be in like a grid layout group?

[woven rose]

Anyone here used to using TMP dropdowns?

Im struggling with understanding how dropdowns function.

Im almost there however the items in the drop down only show the color they represent for a brief moment and im not sure what is causing this

[kindred stag]

Anybody know why rotating a Canvas object 180 on the Y axis causes its children to lose their ability to snap to the parent's edges?

[cunning storm]

Any idea why there may be lines on my raw images? they are transparent background .png files from photoshop.

[mortal robin]

what is it supposed to look like?

(not sure which lines you're referring to)

[cunning storm]

On the edge of the raw image there is a line visible. There is a horizontal line above the red bar where the raw image ends. It does not exist anywhere else idk why it appears.

[mortal robin]

the yellow liine?

[cunning storm]

Is it yellow? Idk the only horizontal line on there. Its on the 2nd 3rd and 4th buttons.

[cunning storm]

that line doesn't exist in my image

[mortal robin]

Oh I was thinking the yellow one at the top

[cunning storm]

ahhh lol

nope I mean the lines that are at the top of the raw images

[cunning storm]

lmk if you have any idea. I think maybe it has to do with me reducing the scale on the raw image?

[mortal robin]

maybe show the setup you have? What Texture is it rendering?

[cunning storm]

Its a raw image ui object. The image is a transparent image I photoshopped. Its a .png

[cunning storm]

Its a transparent.png file photoshopped by me. That line doesnt exist in the image. Its thrown on a ui raw image object and scaled down.

[mortal robin]

Why RawImage and not regular Image, out of curiosity?

but if it's transparent, couldn't the line be behind it?

[cunning storm]

No clue. Image doesnt let me put a .png of it. Rawimage does. The line isnt there until I put the raw image there.

[low pike]

This sounds like you haven't set the import settings for the png correctly

[mortal robin]

Yeah you forgot to switch the image type to Sprite

[cunning storm]

Ill look into that, thank you 🙂

[safe glade]

Hi im fairly new to using unity and UI is not my forte anyway im trying to set up a group of buttons on a panel in a 2d project. the only issue is when i maximize the window these buttons scale incorrectly. ive solved this issue before by playing with the preset anchor points but none of those seem to work here. I also briefly played with a content size filter and a layout group but both of those seemed to break my buttons. any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[low pike]

What's selected here?

Is the 'Troop Types' part of this RectTransform?

[safe glade]

i have a troop types panel, as a parent and then a text mesh pro and 8 buttons as children of that panel, in the picture i think i happened to have the panel selected

[low pike]

and no vertical layout group ?

[safe glade]

no i tried adding one later to sort this out but iirc it just squished all my buttons

[low pike]

You need to use a vertical layout group, and then make some changes so it doesn't squish them

[safe glade]

👍

ill play around with it some more then

are layout groups just in general best practive for stuff like this? i have a similar setup running horizontal at the bottom but it is not having this issue even without a layout group

[low pike]

Yes, this is best done with layoutgroups

except for the grid layout, that thing is useless

[safe glade]

ty ty

[tribal turtle]

Hey does anyone know why a TMPro input field would be visible in the preview build but not an actual build?

Oh nvm I didn't anchor it correctly I can be dumb sometimes

[thick mulch]

Does anyone know how to make ui element hitboxes match the size of the object and not care about the shape of the image? Like here, I have to specifically mouse over the text to select the button, how could I make it to where I could mouse over any part of the box surrounding each element?

[low pike]

Graphics raycast will only hit the graphics, so for text that's the words.
Add an image as a child, stretch the anchors out to each corner, and change the alpha of the image to 0

[thick mulch]

I've tried this and I still get the same behavior. Just tried again, not working but this is how I have it set up in case you can spot anything I'm doing wrong.

[low pike]

on the TMP component, expand the Extra Settings (IIRC) and disable raycast target

also, there's no need to have a sprite assigned to that image

[thick mulch]

I'm assuming you mean the image component on the parent. Did, same behavior as before. I removed the sprite from the child.

[low pike]

No, I did not mean the image component on the parent

Actually, sorry.. yes it would be that

[rough halo]

Someone knows why if i move my anchors to fit every game object everything works correctly when i change screen size except for 1 game object?

[low pike]

I thought you were using TextMeshPro.. not images for the text

[thick mulch]

Yeah...

[low pike]

ok, so in that case.. I suppose you can just use the raycast padding

[thick mulch]

Yep, that's working. Thank you for the help. ❤️

[cunning storm]

This fixed it instantly! Thank you very very much 🙂

[livid furnace]

I'm a little befuddled on this one as I've only dabbled in Unity 2D UI so never truly done 3D mixed work.

I have added a TML button to my scene in hopes to display and hide a Information box. However the button refuses to be interacted with.

[low pike]

What the hell's a TML button?
There is no 3D UI..

You don't have an 'Event System' in the scene

It's also extremely odd to have the scroll view as a child of a button .. that's probably not going to play well

[livid furnace]

TMP, typo. Obv no 3D UI... I meant I only have made 2D games in the past and not 3D. Wasn't sure it was setup different.

[livid furnace]

Wasn't intended to be. The object keeps moving back under it after I resolve it

[low pike]

UI is UI, there's no difference between a 2D or 3D game

[livid furnace]

good to know

[low pike]

This will only happen automatically if you remove it from there at runtime.. changes arent saved

Make sure you're not in playmode when you sort that out

and add an event system, then the button should work

[livid furnace]

Roger

[low pike]

also, always keep the scale of UI elements to 1,1,1 - change the size with width/ height

you'll get wierd behaviour when things need to change scale if it's not at 1,1,1

[livid furnace]

Also is a transform somehow different than a rect tranform? I have code that is meant to move my MoreInfoUI to a Vector3 position but in runtime its going way out to -2279.32x and -1644y.

public class UIController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private GameObject MoreInfoUI;

    Vector2 hiddenPosition = new Vector3(129f, -360f);
    Vector2 displayedPosition = new Vector3(-198f, -360f);
    bool isMoreInfoVisible = false;

    public void ShowOrHideMoreInfo()
    {
        Debug.Log("ChangingMoreInfoPosition");
        if (isMoreInfoVisible)
        {
            isMoreInfoVisible = false;
            MoreInfoUI.transform.position = hiddenPosition;
        }
        else
        {
            isMoreInfoVisible = true;
            MoreInfoUI.transform.position = displayedPosition;
        }
    }
}

[low pike]

RectTransform inherits Transform. You do not want to use transform.position to move UI around

get a reference to the RectTransform and use .anchoredPosition to set the pos

transform.position is using world space, and .anchoredPosition is using screen space (the same values that you enter in the inspector fields) - which is why you currently have to use MASSIVE values, which won't be correct with a resolution change

[livid furnace]

ah thank you

Perfect!

[low pike]

another general UI hint - don't have your game view in 'Free Aspect' while you're working with UI .. it's a lot less likely to look right on an actual resolution/ aspect ratio

[quasi basin]

Hello everyone. Does anyone know what can be a reason for such thing: when I enter Playmode the panel with material on it dissapears in the game window...

It appears for half a second if I move it further from canvas (decreasing z coordinate fast enough)

And changing Canvas to ScreenSpace-Camera it appears as well. But I really want to stay with ScreenSpace-Overlay...

[mortal robin]

• why are you changing the z position of a UI element?
• What shader are you using? Is it a UI shader?

[livid furnace]

Always forget, what is the use of the text box provided for my Onclick events. My onclick event in question has an argument slot, but the value I put in the text box is never being registered

[mortal robin]

It's the parameter that will be passed into the listener

[livid furnace]

So there isn't a way to provide it an argument to my cam variable I take it?

[mortal robin]

That's exactly what it does

[livid furnace]

You are right! thx

[hasty dirge]

Those buttons are in a Horizontal Layout Group. How can I stretch them, that both have a half and fill there half. The normal Stretching with anchor doesn't work, it looks just weird.

[mortal robin]

checkboxes on the layout group

expand children or whatever

[hasty dirge]

Oh yes control child size

thx

Why does a element, that is in the hierarchy above overlaps with the UI. How can I set the UI to be rendered after the object

[mortal robin]

depends on your canvas settings

If it's a screen space - overlay canvas it will be drawn on top of everything

if it's screen space - camera or world space, it just depends on the actual position of the canvas

[mortal robin]

just make sure the plane distance is closer than the game world object

[hasty dirge]

Oh ok

[mortal robin]

or switch to Overlay

if you always want it on top

[hasty dirge]

But why is the overlay so big. How can I overlap it with the camera view to see at which position of the screen a elemt is placed

[rapid ferry]

2024 and still no solution... https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1boe1bf/overlapping_transparency/

[mortal robin]

It's not big

it's the size of your game window

open the scene view and game view side by side

double click the canvas object or press F on it

to see the full extent of it in the scene

[hasty dirge]

But there is no way to adjust the size to the camera view to see changes directly in the scene?

[mortal robin]

yes do as I mentioned

[mortal robin]

this

[verbal field]

For some reason when I use a specific font it doesnt show on the screen. Or some sprites are in front of my UI, how can I fix?

[low pike]

What render mode is your canvas in ?

[verbal field]

for this specific one its screen space camera

although I have tried a diferent one with screen space overlay and still same issue

[low pike]

Double check it's not behind the game

[verbal field]

It was in fact too far down...

Problem fixed 👍

[slate anvil]

Someone can help me? Since last week I'm trying to make a scrollable screen for a mobile app, but I can't find a tutorial in my language, and I don't understand his. I need to make a screen, that I can scroll in vertical to see more. Can someone explain this to me?

I'm a layman in this subject, but I need to make this

[low pike]

create a scroll view..
change the settings to only scroll vertical
use a vertical layout group to order the items in the scroll view

[slate anvil]

I make this, but I have a problem. In the movement type, if is unrestricted, I can scroll infinitlely, and if is clamped, I can't scroll. Have a way to make this scroll view be limited?

[celest lodge]

Does anyone know why the options button stays highlighted after it returns to the original panel

[mortal robin]

depends on how you configured it and how that transition works

[celest lodge]

im using this library i found for UI transitions

second half

[mortal robin]

oh dear

maybe it's a bug with this library then? Presumably the button is not being deselected or something along those lines

which leaves it in its selected state

But hard to say really without getting my hands dirty in your project.

[celest lodge]

it was working fine with the library before i decided to use transitions

and wouldnt deselecting it just be switching the current selected gameobject to null?

also is there no way to reset a button to its original state

[low pike]

The gameobject named ‘Content’ needs to be big enough to fit the children in

[pure moss]

I have a scroll view inside a scroll view one horizontal(parent) and one verticle(child), can not scroll horizontally when I drag inside the child scroll view.(see video)

[exotic nebula]

Greetings! Has anyone faced a problem when canvas has gaps with the screen at certain resolutions, is there any way to fix it?

[low pike]

This isn't possible with the built in UI. You'll have to either code yourself a way to do it or purchase an asset

[low pike]

show some examples of the issue(s) you're seeing

[pure moss]

I have found a solution for this! https://gist.github.com/Josef212/8d296acdd4f457e39e0c13fbc9ec007e#file-nestescrollrect-cs

[exotic nebula]

Sorry for late response, it look likes following, and I guess it due how canvas scaler manages size of canvas, it isn't stretched to full at all screen sizes

[gleaming tapir]

does anyone know why the video is not showing here? The audio is working but the video is not showing, here's what the console said:
Unexpected timestamp values detected. This can occur in H.264 videos not encoded with the baseline profile. Timestamps will be skewed to correct the playback for C:/Users/Jason De Lara/DOS2/Assets/intro.mp4

[low pike]

Can you show the entire Unity window - still showing the issue

[exotic nebula]

Do you see gap between the end of canvas and end of viewport, this is what I mention above

[low pike]

Yes, of course I did..

[junior pollen]

how do you make like a nice sprite to put in an inventroy system of your 3d objects you made in blender?

[eternal ibex]

Hi, I need some help with scaling on different mobile resolution

I've fully developed in 1080x1920, with the following configurations in the picture provided, but I'm having issues with different resolutions. Does anyone have any suggestions or links I could reference to achieve the expected results? Thank you!

This game does not require the camera to follow the character, and all gameobjects are guaranteed to be inside the camera screen size

more details:

canvas ui: contains buttons, and stuff shown to the user
world space gameobjects: contains moving enemies, background, player

[glacial canopy]

Do you guys think this UI is too crammed?

I drew a mockup of what I wanted, though the actual thing will be a lot less cramped

Though, it still takes up a considerable amount of screen space

I'm wondering if, for something like a birds eye view, it's too big

[wicked mural]

Is there a way to reverse the order of lines via inspector?

[mortal robin]

Why is it backwards in the first place?

[wicked mural]

It's not.

I mean, I have the alignment options set to bottom right, but I was talking about having the text:
line 1
line 2
line 3

and be displayed as
line 3
line 2
line 1

[mortal robin]

No there's no way to do that

You could use multiple text objects instead and have a vertical layout group with reverse order

[wicked mural]

Yep. Thought there was an easier way.

[deft crypt]

I just noticed if I set my Windows 11 window scaling to 125%, Unity Editor forces a 1.3x scale on the game window, that you can't lower back to 1x. Does this imply that Unity scales the UI in builds if Window scaling is > 100%?

[low pike]

can you untick this?

or tick it if it's not

[deft crypt]

unticking Low Res Aspect Ratios lets me drop the scale back to 1x.

Hopefully that isn't a setting that gets into builds.

[low pike]

no, this scale is exclusively for the game view

[deft crypt]

Sweet.

Thanks for the help!

[old roost]

I have a Dilemma, I cannot figure out a way to make this one background, at the moment im using 4 cameras, 1 per car to get the view of each car the same and then im using videoplayers on each to get that background on each of them as well as the main camera that is used for the rest of the menus. if its possible to not be using the 4 cameras or something id be thrilled (imagine what im trying to do is like mario kart)

if you have a good idea or know the right way to make this kind of lobby ui, any help would be greatly appreciated

[torpid garden]

Hello so i am attaching ui to objects in my scene, the objects can be rotated but i don't want the ui to rotate when the parent is being rotated how do i do this?

[low pike]

don't rotate the parent, only rotate the object that needs it

• Parent
  -- object (rotate this)
  -- UI

[earnest plover]

@chrome kettle what do i call it then TMP doesn't work

[chrome kettle]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/access-textmeshpro-text-through-script.527992/

[earnest plover]

thank you

[exotic nebula]

If anyone interested how to solve this issue, you can follow this instructions, so what I did is two cameras, one of which renders UI with "Screen Space - Camera" option.

Don't know if it's optimal solution, but at least it doesn't have gaps

[heavy cosmos]

After 2 days trying to make InputFields work on mobile, I've started to wonder, how do you guys implement input fields?

It's so bad I cannot believe mobile devs use this.

Any advice would be awesome: asset store/github links etc.

If everything is perfect for you, would love to know what Unity version, TMP version, Input System version you use.

[mortal robin]

They should pretty much just work out of the box

[heavy cosmos]

I agree, they should 😄
On my device though, I have many issues like

1. OnSubmit/OnEditEnd not being triggered when clicking "Done" on soft keyboard.
2. OnSelected not being triggered, when I leave keyboard after clicking "Done" and then click on the input field again (so it's selected as it was under the hood, but without keyboard).
3. Inability to erase selection with backspace on soft keyboard. Only by typing something else.

That's what I remember off the top of my head, had too many problems honestly.

[heavy cosmos]

Okay, most of the bugs are fixed on LTS 2022 (I use 2023.2.20f).

I did stupid sh*t when I decided to work with a version that is not LTS.. I guess now I need to think how to downgrade.

[mortal robin]

See if Unity 6 works too

That's basically 2023LTS

[heavy cosmos]

yeah, thanks for the advice.
Checked, unfortunately this hasn't been fixed there yet 😦

[daring sonnet]

@mild kernel my resolution scale is like this but now can i make for the other people's phones can get the right resolution