📲┃ui-ux

[azure flame]

Don't think TMP even has a setting for that, to have it you have to use tags to enable https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/manual/RichTextMonospace.html

Default font should not be monospaced either

[red onyx]

When I get home I could probably show the settings both in the panel with the text and the empty gameobject that contains the panel with both having vertical layout groups and the panel having a content size fitter

[azure flame]

Try testing on a clean scene with default font for starters.

Default asset/text does not have monospace offsets

Then compare and figure out what's different in your setup.

[sharp belfry]

Scene view:

Game view:

wtf

The text has the same settings as other text on the same canvas that looks fine

I copy pasted the other text to the location of this text and it looks like this as well. Same canvas though, and it and all parents have scale of 1. And all fonts look blocky like this

OMG nevermind, a parent had a z scale of 0

which apparently does that

[pliant ether]

You should make the fill a child of the border, or vice verse if you prefer. Then, set the child to scale with it.

[fleet wadi]

Woudl this channel be an appropriate palce for font related questions?

[mortal robin]

Yea

As long as it's Unity related

[teal wedge]

I want to use the auto size feature with tmp, but it resizes the panel parent. Is there a way to make it not do that? I used Unity 6 preview

[compact fox]

Hello, I need to have heart bar, and if my players takes damage, hearts change into empty one, but mine doesnt work at all.

Maybe somebody could help me out?

[mortal robin]

If you show your code and explain your object hierarchy/setup and explain what's going wrong, someone might be able to help you.

[compact fox]

i will wait.

what is the best way to share it?

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

public class Health : MonoBehaviour
{
  public int lives = 3; // Pradinis gyvybių skaičius
  public Image[] hearts;
  public Sprite heartFull;
  public Sprite heartEmpty;

    void Start()
    {
        UpdateHearts();
    }

    public void LoseLife(int damage)
    {
        lives -= damage;
        Debug.Log("Gyvybės liko: " + lives);
        

        if (lives <= 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("Žaidėjas mirė!");
          
            gameObject.SetActive(false); // Pasleps žaideja kai mirs
        }
    }

    void UpdateHearts()
    {
         for (int i = 0; i < hearts.Length; i++)
        {
            if (i < lives)
            {
                hearts[i].sprite = heartFull; // Nustato pilną širdelę
            }
            else
            {
                hearts[i].sprite = heartEmpty; // Nustato tuščią širdelę
            }
        }
    }

}

[mortal robin]

you're only ever running UpdateHearts in Start

you need to run it every time LoseLife runs

e.g.

    public void LoseLife(int damage)
    {
        lives -= damage;
        UpdateHearts();```

[compact fox]

Thank youuu. It solved the problem.

Didn't see that at alll.

[obtuse linden]

Why cant I see my Particals in my Game?

[mortal robin]

Maybe they're behind the camera

[pliant ether]

Particles do not render on the canvas iirc

[safe briar]

hello i have a problem, when i move the achievement and go full screen the achievement just go higher than i put ithttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497872424281440267/1301207932121382985/20241030-1533-52.0992303.mp4?ex=6723a3d2&is=67225252&hm=753ba05cd146cf7913d7b8b9df6f189abe1f5fc50b4fa0b52f50bca1fb6a5783&

[low pike]

heh, I told you the problem ;p

[safe briar]

yea but still, i dont know what to do

[low pike]

anchor it to the bottom right

also, when you're editing UI.. press T and use the UI tools

[jade oriole]

hey yall, how would I go about attaching a minimap to the player wrist in VR ? Ive been watching the below tutorial and all they did was drag it under the left controller (parent it?) and he was able to fiddle with it in the editor. When I did it tho, it doesnt show up once the game runs.

oh yeah tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YISa0PvQTGk

[mortal robin]

Drag "it"? You'd have to explain what they used

And what you tried

[covert tiger]

anyone knows why the UI profiler doesnt show preview for batches?

made a dummy canvas with default images , here Batch 0 , still no preview

oooh, could it be that URP isn't supported ?

there's an issue tracker at https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/ugui-profiler-no-preview-is-displayed-for-ui-profiler-objects but it says its been solved, yet its still hapening..

also at https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/profiler-srp-ui-objects-are-not-displayed-and-a-wrong-background-is-displayed-in-the-ui-preview-window-when-srp-is-used too

[fervent leaf]

I have an issue that ONLY happens on Mac. We have defined a default cursor, and it falls back to the system cursor randomly after a few seconds. If I alt-tab out and back in the game, or move the mouse to another screen and back to the game screen, the cursor comes back. Happens on single screen as wel (so unrelated to the multi screen setup).

[covert tiger]

Can't you set the cursor every frame?

It's not that slow performance-wise

[fervent leaf]

that really feels like an overkill solution. I guess if it's negligible I could do it, but it feels to me like treating a symptom rather than its cause.

[covert tiger]

if the OnFocus event works, you can use that, but I doubt it works

Besides, the cursor setter probably does checks internally to avoid setting the same icon over and over anyway

[low pike]

What version of Unity are you using?

There's this bug, that's been fixed, that is sort of similar so your issue could be connected to it and solved by the bug fix...

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/cursor-does-not-switch-back-to-the-custom-cursor-when-the-mouse-is-moved-back-into-the-player-window-on-macos

[celest lodge]

anyone jknow why all my text just broke

[low pike]

lol, fs

[celest lodge]

what

[celest lodge]

oh, i mean like im not sure what i'm meant to debug here. no errors are popping up, and it wasnt an issue before

just happened out of nowhere

[low pike]

there's no debugging, it's not code related

You need to trouble shoot it.. and we cannot help with that if you don't show anything

[celest lodge]

every time I undo, this error shows up, could be something to do with it

[low pike]

unrelated

[celest lodge]

i mean it could be if it has to do with the renderer?

[low pike]

Doubt it's the cause of this issue, but go fix that first I guess

the volume profile is for post processing

[low pike]

global settings does quite a few things

[celest lodge]

the atlas looks broken

[low pike]

ok

[celest lodge]

thats probably it

[low pike]

a likely possibility - yep

quick test would be to change the font

[celest lodge]

every font but liberationsans seems to work

sorry i mean

the other way around

the only working fonts are liberation sans

okay, i imported TMPro essentials and its fixed

[low pike]

When I've not had the essentials imported the text just hasn't shown at all for me

[celest lodge]

anyone know how i could make a selector like this?

that hovers over a grid object

[low pike]

It's just another gameobject that you set the position of.. by either changing the .anchoredPosition or set it as a child and zero out the .anchoredPosition

[stone pollen]

How can I fix this?
I mean, I'm a bit confused, what checkbox is for what name exactly, because "StandingPlace_LargeHitbox" and "StandingPlace_SmallHitbox" are both highlighted:

How can I adjust the position of the Text and the highlight in there, so they are directly on top of every checkbox and not shifted so strangely?

[low pike]

go through the layer names and make sure none of them have any carraige returns or blank space

to work out which row is which text... count

[stone pollen]

Do you mean empty text boxes or spacebar between words?

[low pike]

I mean no space after each word.

Player
not
Player

[stone pollen]

Nope, not a single spacebar in there.

Its really weird, it behaves different in Unity 6000.0.24 than in Unity 2022.3.22.

[low pike]

It's not weird, it's obviously a bug 😂

[stone pollen]

Left Image Is Unity 6000.0.24
Right Image is Unity 2022.3.22

You don't see it if there are 0nly 5 layers in the beginning, but the more you add, the more they shift.

[stone pollen]

Is it fixed in 6000.0.25 with this realese note?
Or does it mean something else?

Physics

    6000.0.25f1
    Fixed a race condition inside Physics Debugger's contacts tab. Where the underlying contacts array would be incorrectly passed onto new jobs while still in use inside the previous set of contacts display jobs. ```

[low pike]

This is obviously not the physics debugger.

nor an array

[stone pollen]

So, not worth testing Version 25 just for this only fix in category "Physics" ?
https://alpha.release-notes.ds.unity3d.com/search?fromVersion=6000.0.25f1&toVersion=6000.0.25f1

[low pike]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

you've already spent waaaaaay more time on this than I ever would have

[stone pollen]

If you only knew...

[low pike]

update/ don't update.. whatever.. report the bug and move on

you're wasting your time on something you can't fix , instead of doing actual development

[stone pollen]

Already doing.

[celest lodge]

but how do I like get the objects to scan? like if I move left how do I know what to move to? or up and down

[low pike]

if there it's mouse, then IPointerEnter / Exit
if it's a controller - then use the navigation thing. You know what is selected because you're selecting the character to choose to play as

[celest lodge]

do I make each little card a Selectable thing? idk how else to make an object selectable. what if there are multiple cursors for a local match, for example? I'm pretty sure you can only have one event system

[low pike]

you're gonna have to google this

[tardy canyon]

Is there a way to get the nearest selectable relative to another in screen space?

for example, i have a selectable button that refreshes a list of servers. is there a method i can call in order to dynamically switch between said button, and the newly populated UI elements below it, without depending on hierarchal structure?

i understand selectables have a Selectable.FindSelectableOn(up,down,left,right), But i cant seem to get it to play correctly

[low pike]

the list of servers are a child of something? could probably just use transform.GetChild(0);

[rugged wadi]

somewhat related to UI, but I'm having an issue where this particular asset keeps changing

[low pike]

not related to Unity UI at all.. this is for game UI, not editor (or git client) UI

just discard it all the time

[rugged wadi]

it's a textmeshpro asset

[rugged wadi]

it would be helpful to know what's causing it

[low pike]

look at the diff and see what's changing

[rugged wadi]

no idea what's changing and what is causing it, it's seems like a bunch of binary and other data

1000+ lines of this essentially

[low pike]

did you google?

[rugged wadi]

of course..

[low pike]

99% of people come here and don't..

[rugged wadi]

I found a veeery long answer here but it doesn't seem to answer the question
https://discussions.unity.com/t/textmeshpro-font-asset-keeps-changing-in-source-control-despite-not-editing-it/754628/6

[low pike]

He's the dev of TMP.. reply to that post

[tardy canyon]

yeah actually youre cooking with that

was curious if there was a screenspace optin

[crimson valve]

How to calculate the minimum, and preferred height and width of a specific ui game object?

[karmic galleon]

#💻┃code-beginner message

Regarding my message earlier, wouldn't there be a simpler way to do this using masking? I'm trying to do a workaround with a second camera, but my cameras seem to just be fighting for rendering dominance right now

[nova silo]

Mornin' all, having a weird issue that I can't figure out.

Can anyone see from the current setup as to why my buttons aren't receiving mouse button clicks in game please? Little bit confused. 😕

[ionic beacon]

That's a non-standard hierarchy but I don't see the event system there

[copper cedar]

what does mean width & height of TMP object?

[nova silo]

The event system is in there (it's up top somewhere. Using Hierarchy Designer)

Oh balls. I just figured it out, my bad. I'm using a 'mouse controller' that's all raycast driven and that was interfering.

[turbid plume]

so I have two canvases. On each I have a button which goes above another button on the other canvas
but I can't click on the button on top even if the other canvas is disabled
how come

[vestal yoke]

guys I need some advice while creating a game UI anyone plzzzzzzzzzz

[heavy sentinel]

Check if GraphicRaycaster is attached to the Canvas.

[turbid plume]

already sovled nvm

[wild pebble]

That's not a question

[graceful rapids]

for example, I have a picture that fills the entire screen, and there are buttons under it on a layer below, and how can I make these buttons clickable???

[radiant sorrel]

there is supposed to be text at the top of my dialogue stating the name of the NPC ypu're talking to but it's empty? it was working a second ago but it's not now. The text object is active and there is text inside of it as well. what's wrong?

[mortal robin]

Use UI buttons.

Not sure I understand the question fully.

[mortal robin]

maybe it's behind something
maybe it's not in the right position

[graceful rapids]

Alright! Let's break this down as simply as possible:

Imagine you have a big picture on your screen. This picture is covering everything, including some buttons that are hiding underneath it.

If you want to be able to touch those hidden buttons, you need to either:

1. Make a hole in the picture where each button is, so you can reach the buttons through those holes.

OR

2. Tell the picture to ignore touches, so when you press on it, it doesn't stop you from pressing what's behind it.

In Unity, for example, you can do this by changing the settings on the picture so it doesn’t block the buttons underneath it from being pressed!

(chat gpt used)

[mortal robin]

So are you telling me something or asking me something

[graceful rapids]

asking

[mortal robin]

what are you asking

you just want the image to not block the clicks?

disable Raycast Target on it.

[graceful rapids]

yes

[graceful rapids]

thank

[radiant sorrel]

im pretty sure its in the right position as in the editor it is where i want it to be and im pretty sure it isn't behind anything as it is on top of everything i want it to be in the hierachy and changing the poz z didn't solve it either

[radiant sorrel]

nvm this has been solved

[honest saffron]

i can give some advice. use textmeshpro

[loud egret]

soo, does this line over here is just line render that track pos index 0 from the source and index 1 to targeted object(since it follow the y pos of the HP bar)? or is there any UI feature that does this and i missed it

https://youtu.be/EXiJrZYTsIk?t=71

[covert tiger]

Could be, could also be just a normal and rotated image

Is this game made with Unity? The visuals are impressive

[loud egret]

yup, it made by unity china version tho, so it's heavily modified version by Mihoyo

[loud egret]

thanks, going to try the line render first and see the result

[quartz ether]

@ancient vapor Full context: I'm debating whether it's worth developing an AI asset that prototypes and iterates on Unity UI based on user input

that led to wanting to check out the current state of the art -- what's been achieved so far. And I didn't find any assets in the asset store that do that

thus I asked about what others have seen or heard of 😛

But right now it sounds like too much work to develop something that would do simple stuff.

[ancient vapor]

you are correct it would be to much work for such a simple problem, I would not call it AI rather UI generation as it requires user input to work and will not do it itself, you could make a script that randomly generates UI based off of percentage or chance but I do not know how good that would look

since it would be randomized 🤷‍♂️

[quartz ether]

hmm.. have you ever asked ChatGPT for example to generate code for a website or something? It's pretty good at designing UI stuff.

[ancient vapor]

I'm guessing people have never created such things because it is not really necessary for UI

[ancient vapor]

well it depends on the sources it has gotten really

[quartz ether]

but it's only good at html/css etc haha, Unity is much more complex for it to work with, since it normally involves right click --> create GameObject --> set it up from the inspector

[quartz ether]

yeah I think that's the case

[ancient vapor]

it gives some absolute horrifying code most of the time 🤮

[quartz ether]

true it's terrible at C#, much more in Unity 😆

[ancient vapor]

that's probably because people on the internet have zilch of what they are doing 😁

[quaint elk]

I need some help with one part of my UI refusing to resize to fit all the children. My current hierachy of gameobjects are:
- Audio Clips (Scroll Rect, content=Content, vertical)
- - Content (Scroll Rect, content=Tracks, horizontal), (Content Size Fitter, both preferred size)
- - - Tracks (Content Size Fitter, both preferred size), (Vertical Layout Group)
- - - - Clip Bar (Layout Element, min width = 1320, preferred height = 200)
- - - Panels (unrelated, but needs to scroll vertically along with Tracks)

At runtime there can be 0 to infinite clip bars on scene at once. The Tracks object is scaling correctly to fit all the clip bars, but Content refuses to change its size from (0, 0). How do I get Content to rescale to fit all of Tracks?

[worldly gyro]

Hello!

I am trying to make this for an UI

here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAR1qYU6zU

[worldly gyro]

In here, when the player hovers on the weapon, it shows a video of what the weapon does

I am trying to achieve this and I do not know the best way to do it

in my game I want this to show pieces, around 30 or 40

should I just record it one by one in a GIF or is it better to use Render textures?

thank you in advance!

[rapid ferry]

Is it possible to exclude some UI Elements from Post Processing? The Canva is in camera space

[mortal robin]

Render it on a different camera

Or use an overlay canvas

[rapid ferry]

I've tried rendering it on a different camera, but it's not working.

I seperated the UI elements into another layer, but the post still affected the whole scene.

Maybe it doesn't work because of camera is in the canvas camera space section?

I do set it in camera space for the 3D look, overlay would remove this effect.

[low pike]

You'll have to also put the UI on a different layer, and exclude that layer from PP/ the non-UI camera

[tidal apex]

quick question is there a way in unity to make some kind of posititioning so i can put it right on middle?

[lilac relic]

anybody know how to replicate the background effect from deltarune during the opening character creation? Video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R278lYnkfko

[high basin]

What is the best canvas width and height for Unity? (This is for a WebGL game on Itch.io.) What should I set my Itch.io viewport to as well?

(Someone suggested that the canvas width should be 1080p, but it looks a bit too big on the Itch site)

[sinful pilot]

are there any downsides/upsides to text mesh pro? or should i just use normal text components

[mortal robin]

TextMeshPro is the normal/default text component

Text is legacy

[sinful pilot]

ahh

ok thanks

[golden stump]

Not being able to use SVGs for UI icons is a pain for scalable UI. There was an asset in development but looked a bit clunky.

[merry rampart]

Hey, I wanted to add an outline to the current text. However, it looks really weird on a light background. In addition to the outline of the letters, their square surface is also colored. Does anyone know how to remove this? Do I need to change something in the font itself?

[honest saffron]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/text-mesh-pro-box-around-text-unwanted-effect-bug/740454

[merry rampart]

Yes, increasing the padding helped. Thanks ^^

[static fog]

Can anyone help me make sense of this bug where one button's events are affecting another button?

[low pike]

Most likely cause is that the rect for the button getting the events is big enough to cover the other one.

If you want further help.. actually provide information about the setup, so that we don't have to guess 🙂

[static fog]

I figured it out~~ and basically confirmed it to be a Unity bug.~~

If I re-add the button component, then the color API calls work as expected. As soon as I copy the component values from the trash button, it then starts applying all of the check-button's color API calls to the trash button.

[low pike]

copying values from one button to another will assign the image to change the colour of ... doesn't sound like a bug

[celest garden]

I tried using TMPro with pixel font, but when i use outline effect its almost imposible to see, any way to fix it?

"Jump" uses clasic Text component and outline

[low pike]

Which outline effect are you trying to use on the TMP?

[low pike]

target graphic

[static fog]

You are right. Thanks.

[west wind]

Hey everyone! 👋
I'm building a WebXR portfolio to showcase my Unity and XR skills, and I’m currently experimenting with the menu design (screenshot attached).

Any feedback or tips on how to improve it? Also, if you know good places for design inspiration, I'd love some recommendations! Thanks! 😊

[teal wedge]

maybe make the information bigger when selected just like how it is with the buttons on the top. or make the grey hover background fade. or make the icons animated when hovered, like the sheets of paper going more on top of each other

I want a back button on my UI for my mobile game, but I don't know where I should put it, does anybody have a suggestion?

the text is Dutch

[untold plover]

Is there a way I could force an aspect ratio? My game is designed for 16:9, but when I am testing things out on a steamdeck, it's becoming 16:10, and my UI is being placed in strange ways.

Just curious to know if I can do something -- I checked this option but the issue still persists:

[mortal robin]

The best option is to make your UI work at different aspect ratios.

Second best option is letterboxing

[west wind]

okay I think that should be enough for a start 😄

what do you think 😄

[teal wedge]

wow! amazing!

[west wind]

I made this UnityGifImageAnimator for it also and thought it might come in handy for others too! Maybe it’ll help! 😄

📷 GitHub: https://github.com/freddynewton/UnityGifImageAnimator

[radiant sorrel]

how can i fix richtext tags jitter when i display my dialogue?
https://gyazo.com/f18d3f57eb8adef700199358fe1b337a

[ionic beacon]

Use maxVisibleCharacters for the effect instead

[untold plover]

Ah yes makes sense!! I went ahead and just changed them to work both on 16:9 and 16:10 — wasn’t too much work thankfully

Appreciate the heads up!! 😃😃

[copper cedar]

i have a 2d ui with img & text on the same place

i don't see the text

how 2 make it visible? when i drag it from image i see it

[mortal robin]

Hard to answer without seeing what's going on. Presumably you just haven't positioned things properly

Or you're using the wrong components

[mortal robin]

What components are you using?
What's the hierarchy order?

UI elements are ordered by hierarchy order

Lower in the hierarchy gets drawn on top

But you have to make sure they're actually both UI elements and on the same canvas for that to work

[mortal robin]

The image is below in the hierarchy

As I mentioned, things below are drawn on top

[copper cedar]

thx

[proven sage]

Hi guys, i have a probleme with the UI in the scene its like its flipped but in game its ok but i have a line in the middle

[mortal robin]

Wdym by flipped

[proven sage]

You don't see the line in the middle

its mean its the back of the panel

but i look on the front

But my canvas is not flipped and same for the panel and the text

[copper cedar]

i have an image, how 2 use it in 2d ui?

[mortal robin]

Import it as a sprite and use it with the Image component

[copper cedar]

how 2 import as asset?

[mortal robin]

You mean as sprite? Just change it to sprite in the import settings

[celest lodge]

downgraded to 2022 and my text is gone

[earnest spoke]

Any good asset store packages or tutorials etc that teaches industry ways to handle mobile reward flyouts/flyoffs? Is it called something different? Not finding much out there.

[celest lodge]

fixed it

[celest lodge]

okay the text is back but

every time i click

this error pops up

[eternal fox]

Not saying a complete tutorial, just like a way I can make something close to how the buttons look

Cause I don't know if its actually a 3d object with a button component, or if it's a ui mask or something

[copper cedar]

i don't see import settings?

[mortal robin]

Just click on the asset

Look at the inspector

[celest lodge]

does anyone know what this selection system is called?

[copper cedar]

i made it by saving current selected, unselecting it & select clicked in script. if unity has built-in system for this idk

[celest lodge]

this would be for multiple controllers though

[pliant ether]

Character selection screen

[civic carbon]

Hi yall! I just joing this server to just ask this question but I need help with importing packages from github to unity.

anyone able to help?

[ionic beacon]

Just ask the question and if someone knows they'll answer. But this is the wrong channel, use #💻┃unity-talk

[civic carbon]

Thanks!

[celest lodge]

https://imgur.com/uevg64U

Figured it out

[nova flower]

hey, I'm trying to make an overlay that obstructs ui to prevent it from being clicked
i created a rawimage (also tested with image) that goes on top of ui with the raycast target box checked
the color is set to black slightly transparent
the issue is that I can still click a UnityEngine.UI.Button that's behind, is that an expected result?

The UI Button I'm trying to block is inside Menu Canvas

(I've tried putting it both under and above in the hierarchy)

[low pike]

UI is drawn in hierarchy order - from top (first) to bottom (last) .. your blocker isn't on top of anything

[nova flower]

so if they are on the same level in hierarchy, they can 't be above or below one another?

[low pike]

it isn't possible to have anything on the same level in the heirarchy

[nova flower]

So my global canvas should be on top of my main menu canvas then?

[low pike]

If you want the 'Raycast Blocker' to block things on the 'Menu Canvas' then yes.

[nova flower]

That's what I thought too.. yet it's not working somehow

[low pike]

'somehow' == because you've not got ti setup right 😄

Does global canvas have a graphics raycaster on it.

if it has a canvas group on it, are the tick boxes endabled?

are both canvases on the order 0? (on canvas component)

[nova flower]

ah forgot about that, tyvm!

sort order i set to 999 just to be safe

[low pike]

I don't think this matters then .. use the sort order to say which canvas is in front of the other. The hierarchy ordering is for the children of that canvas

[celest lodge]

is there a way to fake perspective in UI?

the first one is with screenspace camera, and the second is without.

[mortal robin]

Postprocessing is one way

[celest lodge]

screen space camera looks good but if im too close to a wall, it gets obscured by the wall

so i want to use overlay, but then the effect is lost.

[mortal robin]

You could draw the UI on a secondary overlay camera

[celest lodge]

oo interesting, how would i get that overlaid on the main camera?

or like

drawn to the screen

[mortal robin]

Just set up an overlay camera

And use the culling masks on the cameras to determine what each one sees

[celest lodge]

Okay i've created an overlay camera that can only see the UI layer, and the main camera can see everything, but i can't see the UI. the hovering is still audible, so its there, but i can't see it. what have i done wrong?

wait i fixed it

i added it to the camera stack

[celest lodge]

i'm trying to make a scrolling marquee text. I have this thing that works in a overlay space, but in a world space, it doesnt seem to show any text.

[low pike]

look on the other side

[celest lodge]

nothing lol

i think i fixed it

[low pike]

it's the right way

[celest lodge]

nvm i fixed my problem

[low pike]

In future things to check (and share... so that we don't have to go through each thing..)

• it's facing the right way
• colour, make sure alpha isn't 0
• no canvas groups are set to alpha 0
• alignment
• everything is enabled

[celest lodge]

okay, thanks!

[meager apex]

hi im trying to link my button to a method in my script but for some reason its not detecting the method

its already linked to the object

!code

[onyx flower]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[meager apex]

https://paste.ofcode.org/Mfe5bxFmZBHFMqNiJXPdHT

this is the code for the method

oh nvm i figured it out

hi i managed to link the button but for some reason i cannot click on it or use the textinputfield

[low pike]

things to check

• is anything blocking them
• have you got an active event system in the scene
• is there a canvas group present (on itself or any of the parent objects) and are the two interactable box ticked
• is there a graphics caster on the canvas game object
• are you using the new input sytem? -> If so I believe the setup is different for interacting with UI..

[meager apex]

oh yea it was the event system thank you for the help

i accidentally deleted it from the hierarchy

[nova flower]

i have an issue with my canvas drawing behind the game geometry (clipping)
here's my global canvas, the camera is set to the same one that draws the geometry like this

yet, it's draw under the geometry, thoughts?

wish i could just use an overlay canvas but it breaks the ui sprites in my canvas (invisible in play mode)

[low pike]

you've two choices.

• lower the plane distance on the screen space - camera canvas
• use Overlay and fix the issue

[rapid ferry]

hii, I was trying to make a text in Unity with this kind of stylization by using TextMesh Pro but found out it being a bit hard than it should be since the outline was getting inside the text and I couldn't move the offset of the outline... what's the best recommendation to recreate something like this?

[nova flower]

yeah, i guess there's no reason not to have a super low plane distance?

[low pike]

Unsure of the answer to that, I've never used screenspace camera

[low pike]

I do not believe there's a built in way to do this. The solution is either to write your own shader or buy one

OR do it a hacky way and have an additional TMP underneath, slightly offset to create the shadow

[rapid ferry]

yheea I was planning on trying to do my own shader or script to be able to do it

[foggy harness]

InventoryBars holds a couple InventoryBar gameobjects in a vertical layout

[low pike]

what's in an inventory bar?

[low pike]

1 column of grey and 1 column of white?

but the grey overlaps the previous white?

[foggy harness]

inventory bar contains a couple inventoryslot prefabs

which looks like this

the white square is an image, I just put it like that because I was debugging

[low pike]

so the 100 width isn't too short?

me tea is ready .. gotta go

[foggy harness]

yeah, the buttons just spill out

ok, thanks for trying to help, I think I may know where to look

[foggy harness]

I got it. for the horizontal layout group, Control Child Size defaults to true in-game, and defaults to false in editor

I just have to explicitly set it in code for it to work as expected

wow 💀 what a stupid thing to lose a lot of time over

[north void]

to make sure it fits most screens, should i be setting it to the scaling id expect people to use or the reference resolution to the smallest one possible?

because my screen is 1920 x 1080

ive never really understood how im supposed to do this part

[north void]

i dont understand...

okay i should be testing out the UI on the Full HD option, right?

because thats what my reference resolution is set to?

[north void]

im just going to do that from now on

[celest lodge]

im trying to mess with text stuff, but i keep getting these errors. how do i fix this?

[tardy canyon]

Anyone know the proper way to activate and deactivate an input field for controller support?

I really hate pressing submit twice to deselect it

I want to be able to call DeactivateInputField() and go back to the selected, but none interacting state

If that makes sense

Seems simple but can't for the life of me figure out what I need to call

[low pike]

Yes, never setup UI while the game view is in 'free aspect'

[tardy canyon]

Im going to guess that Unity hasnt fixed this yet, last post i read is from 9 years ago

9 years and we still presumably need to use a wrapper for inputfields is crazy

[torn marlin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1182065885834379274/1307086781740486728/image.png?ex=673906ed&is=6737b56d&hm=949fde4bb2335921f0393e6c57f3dbc4c2e8c9c518b3e007ac97aca0abccbc10&

Thoughts on this as a Turn Order Tracker for a turn based game?

[heavy sentinel]

Not sure what kind of game it is. If it's a game where players have multiple units, it might make it easier for players to track their order if you add some visual representation of the unit's ownership (e.g. a strip in its team's color).

[wispy bay]

For TMP text assets is there any way to make the "Italic style" less than 15? Or am I gonna have to use something else to make it that

[low pike]

does it not depend on the font ?

[sinful pilot]

i've been trying for like 3 hours to make my ui elements layer over tilemaps and so far i have not been sucessful

how would i achieve this?

also how do you order ui elements in layers

[celest lodge]

My pause menu buttons are not pressing. I've disabled every other graphics raycaster and every other canvas, but highlighting is still not working 😭 in a scene by itself, the buttons do work, so im not certain whats happening here

what else would block scanning like that?

[mortal robin]

I don't see an event system?

[mortal robin]

Use an overlay canvas, or a screen space camera canvas with a plane distance smaller than the distance from your camera to the tilemap

or - draw that UI on a stacked camera

[sinful pilot]

fixed both of my issues, TY!!!!

[round dome]

I design ui

[celest lodge]

there is not one, i didnt realise. thank you!

[sullen vine]

anyone know how to fix this issue where when i try set the render mode of the canvas to the screen space camera, it comes up as black. i'm trying to get it so the UI also renders in a lower pixel size(?)
the game objects renders in a lower texture but not the ui

[azure flame]

Camera space is a world space fixed to a camera. Your camera parented to a character and default plane distance is 100, placing UI far behind the character. Make sure it's between the character and the camera or render it with different camera.

[sullen vine]

Tysm I’ll give it a try once I’m back

[vernal granite]

Hi there (moved message)
just wanted to ask, how do y'all ensure UI navigation when switching between Mouse & Controller inputs?

[golden stump]

I can not seem to combine a panel with horizontal layout, with a shadow, properly. Because the panel auto lays out depending on when I hide or show children but then the shadow does not always scale to fit. Probably because I can not see how to do it without 2 content size fitters - 1 to control panel and one to size shadow (which is the parent)

ah seems you set first layout group to control child size and remove child content size fitter. It is not easy to understand!

[sturdy crown]

can any one explain why tmpro text is doing this on run time but not in the editor

driving me crazy

[heavy sentinel]

Some text in the background seems to work. Does it have a different font or material?

[sturdy crown]

text mesh in the background, and different font as i read something about the materials conflicting

[sturdy crown]

if i forget screen space, theres no issue either

Never mind, i have found the issue. UI element scale is setting to 0 on the Z axis at run time, seems to be the issue, but not sure why lol

[sharp kite]

How can I make sure that the "Pixels Per Unit Multiplier" scales to the current resolution? The edges get rounder and rounder the lower the resolution

Also, the items in the Vertical layout group don't scale. I want them to be perfectly square every time with the same spacing. Just the scale should change

[mortal robin]

If 9 slicing isn't working properly it's usually because you've scaled some object in the hiearchy instead of resizing it.

you should basically never touch the scale on UGUI RectTransforms unless you're doing something out of the ordinary

[rapid ferry]

why doesnt this work for me? I am trying both mask and rect mask 2d

[celest lodge]

how can I get a callback for pressing enter inside an input field? end edit will call for when you click off. I just want it so enter does something

[low pike]

submitevent , maybe

[sharp kite]

Thank you for the response. I haven't scaled any of the RectTransforms. I think it's because it used pixels to determine the 9-slicing. The elements stretch to fit the resolution based on percentages of the screen they should take up, but the 9-slicing works in pixels. I just don't know how to fix it

[fervent fox]

Reference image.

[fervent fox]

Edit: Fixed

[mint dust]

I have this image (discord logo), and i want to have it into my button, but when i drap and drop it in "Source Image" in the Image component it doesnt work
If someone can tell me what i did wrong

[mint dust]

i still need help 😦

[low pike]

You have the 'Sprite Mode' set as 'Multiple', change it to 'Single'

[spare rapids]

hey I am having a problem with a scroll view where the content appears correct in the editor, but when I play the game it is always shifted left. Any UI experts that may know what my issue is? I can screenshare.

[low pike]

from the information provided, cant know for sure

[spare rapids]

I am not really sure what information I can provide thus I'd like to be able to screenshare with anyone that may have a few minutes.

[low pike]

no one is gonna screenshare

for a start.. show screenshots of the gameobjects that can affect the layout - the one you've chosen has no components on it

Desc is the first one

[spare rapids]

I have screenshared previously. And I have helped someone else with screenshare. it is very useful.

[low pike]

right, I see the issue now.. struggling with the size of the text on your images on my screen

Content is moving.. you've got it anchored weird

[spare rapids]

Yes, something is definitely off... I thought it might be the anchoring, but im just not getting it...

[low pike]

Anchor it to the top middle, put a vertical layout group on it and tell it to stretch to the size of the children

and then let's see what's on Viewport

[spare rapids]

k. is this the change you were looking for with the desc?

[spare rapids]

Here is the viewport

[low pike]

ok , nothing to change there

[spare rapids]

k. After testing with the vertical layout group on the desc gameobject it is still shifted left. Hmmm...

[low pike]

Check ALL the game objects up to diaglogue one and see if they move

[spare rapids]

I'm sorry. I am not understanding that direction. "Check"?

[low pike]

look at

see what happens to them in play mode

[spare rapids]

k. when I look in the hierarchy the first one to be placed incorrectly is the content.

It is shifted left and outside of the viewport

[low pike]

pls don't cut off info

you've still got that object pivot at the bottom, it should be at the top and anchored to 0,0

if you toggle the viewport off/on does the layout change

[spare rapids]

I think i have the content as you suggested now.

[spare rapids]

toggling the viewport off does not change the layout

[low pike]

I can't remember if anything references Content - look on scroll view and dialoguepanel for a link to content

[low pike]

I doubt it makes a difference in this case, but "never" change the scale of UI elements. Always resize with width/ height..

you've got the scale uniform, so it's probably ok.. but change it back to 1,1,1 and get the size correct with width/ height

[spare rapids]

hmmm... so yeah... if I want to hide the ui element then setting scale to 0 is not the way to go? I should use width/height?

[low pike]

for animating on/ off you can change the scale - lerp/ tweening between 0->1 .. that's fine

[spare rapids]

well, after wrestling with it for a while and implementing your suggestions I am able to get it to look correct in the editor and when playing in the editor. However, when I build to my android device the text is not correct.

[low pike]

this now becomes even more frustrating, because you cant see the inspector

[spare rapids]

Ok. Getting closer. I placed a vertical layout group component on the viewport and that seemed to get everything positioned correctly. Maybe you told me to do this? I had the vertical layout group on the Desc gameobject previously.

So this works much better for the horizontal positioning, but now the scroll bar starts at the bottom so you have to scroll up to see the content. need it to start at the top. Hmmm...

[low pike]

I said to put it on Content

Your pivots and anchors are (or were) all aligned at the bottom

[spare rapids]

Got it! Had to set the Y pivot on Content to 1. Seems to be working well now. Thank you for your time!

[void quail]

can you set a simple string by using the TextMeshProUGUI.text property? I keep trying and I'm getting nullRef exceptions

[mortal robin]

That's what it's for

If you're getting an NRE that would be for the typical reasons

You're trying to access a null reference

Whatever variable you're calling .text on is null

[void quail]

ok thanks. I wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy or missing something obscure with how TMP works. I'll do another audit and see why it's nulling out

[torn marlin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/746044157197549588/1309818605374017596/image.png?ex=6742f722&is=6741a5a2&hm=5cdbde1e3d25d40158b63abe36dee2a5102e5b71536a956c92dee2ac0924d08b&

I did some research into other games I like for inspiration, and have been working on a mockup for my game's battle UI.

Thoughts on this setup? Too noisy? Anything seem out of place?

This is basically what you would see once your turn begins, before you open any menus or use any actions.

[midnight gate]

Specific Post-Processing + UI Issue regarding Chromatic Aberration

[radiant turtle]

Why wont my textmeshpro text let me turn on outline or anything else? Its all grayed out

[low pike]

why would you share a screenshot of it without Outline expanded?

[low pike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/d134ut/i_cannot_edit_the_text_mesh_pro_outline_how_can_i/

[royal sky]

If I put an input field down but can't edit it in play mode, is there some setting or configuration I should be checking?

[honest saffron]

is it detecting your click?

[royal sky]

It doesn't seem to be. The edit cursor doesn't appear.

[honest saffron]

check if you have an eventsystem in your scene (if you have anything else in your scene that is clickable and that works then this part is fine), the second cause might be that something else is covering it up. if you click on it without being in play mode, does it select it immediately or does it select something else? could be some text which has bounds that are too big and covering it up for example

[royal sky]

No event system

[honest saffron]

you can create that easily with Create > Event System or something like that. in your hierarchy

[royal sky]

ok cool

[royal sky]

That did the trick. Thank you!

[spice horizon]

hiya

i've got a very specific problem

i'm using Lerps and Coroutines to transition menus in/out

and it all works great except for Color Alphas

basically i used to do this via Animator, i'm now doing it via code now

and it seems that in Image components, the Color component doesnt Lerp the Alpha value in the same way in Animator vs acessing its fields via code

basically i'm trying to lerp betwen 0/255 Alpha and 5/255 Alpha on a Color and in code it goes via steps (0, then 1, then 2, etc)

via Animator it smoothly interploates it from 0 to 5 and looks much better

is there a way to fix this? i cant just "scale the colors up" unfortunately

[ionic beacon]

Show the code

[spice horizon]

i'm just using Color.Lerp

lerping on Time.unscaledDeltaTime and it works great for everything else than Color.Lerp

so i'm thinking it must be casting the Alpha to an int

[ionic beacon]

Could be, but can't tell without seeing the code ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mortal robin]

Not e that Color uses a float between 0 and 1, not 0 and 255

[wheat venture]

sup gang

I have this button, which for some reason I can't raycast it

everything else works except for 2 of my buttons

I tried removing and readding the button component, changing the objects parent but still nothing work

they don't even get highlighted

the pink button btw, I tried moving it around the screen and still

[mortal robin]

Does your scene have an event system?

[wheat venture]

yeah, it's probably because of my mask I think

[wheat venture]

cause I made the buttons a separate object from my scroll list and such~ and now they work 🤔 ... it's messy... I'm just happy it works XD

but I appreciate you coming to help ❤️ It works nicely

[craggy stag]

UI toolkit will replace UGUI?

[wild pebble]

Yes

[violet sandal]

i have a massive performance problem with a ui screen in my game.
It takes about 4 seconds and 277 drawcalls to open it, and i have no real clue how to fix that.
It seems that every single element is loaded piece by piece.
I created a video of the frame debugger while loading the ui.

[mortal robin]

This might help
https://unity.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips

[violet sandal]

ill have a look 🙂

[violet sandal]

Sadly nothing happened.
It seems that the initialisation of the UI is the problem.
It needs 4000ms to open the screen. When its opened, it runs at 10000fps ^^

[honest saffron]

could it be coming from your code? or is it just from the ui being enabled?

did you try using the profiler?

[violet sandal]

yeah, sure. The profiler says that:

we have a bunch of tooltips in this screen which are loaded

feels like initiating the TMP loads forever

[honest saffron]

well if you google this then you see a message from the creator of textmeshpro that says text autosize destroys your performance if you're using it on those objects, are you?

https://discussions.unity.com/t/tmp-textmeshpro-massive-cpu-time-for-tmp-generatetext-on-android/859192

[celest lodge]

why does the text on the bottom right have a weird square around it?

[honest saffron]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/text-mesh-pro-box-around-text-unwanted-effect-bug/740454

[plain thicket]

using textmesh pro:
i have a text box for users to input messages, and recently after updating to unity 6 i notice this box at the end of the text. how can i disable it?

[azure flame]

Do you have that if you create default new input field?

[plain thicket]

seemingly not, just tried

i should mention its only with text input fields and not normal text

[azure flame]

then examine it and compare what creates that

[honest saffron]

have you looked at all the settings the textmeshpro input field has? through the inspector

[plain thicket]

i had looked through them but didnt notice anything out of the ordinary. i have to compare the fresh one to the old one. thanks both

[teal gust]

How do you have those colors associated with the different tree branches in the scene view? :o

[low pike]

asset from the asset store

[teal gust]

Yeah but like. What's the asset?

Im dyslexic and have an awful time telling scopes apart in the scene tree

[low pike]

search in the store 'hierarchy'

[wheat venture]

what?

ohhh

the hierarchy

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/rainbow-hierarchy-2-106670

it's $15

and this one is free

https://blog.febucci.com/2020/10/custom-hierarchy-for-unity/

[teal gust]

Hell yeah!

[errant saddle]

I have a GUIWindow that has a custom style, when not selecting the window, it draws the style properly (1st image), when selecting the window, it draws incorrectly (2nd image). How do i make it draw the exact same way both when selected and unselected?

[torn marlin]

Attention Width is the resource/meter which determines how many things you can focus on at once, so, for example, Summoning a minion will occupy some of your Attention Width, since you have to focus on commanding them, and maintaining a psychic grip on an enemy also takes up some of your Attention Width, since you have to focus on them the entire time you're doing it.

Attention Width is not permanently lost when doing this, but rather, limits how many "effects" you can have out at once.

Considering that, which conveys better, in your opinion:

Your Attention Width (Basically Focus Points) Fill up as you divide your focus among multiple things (The meter starts empty, and fills up as you summon more things)

Your Attention Width depletes as you divide your focus among multiple things. (So the meter starts full, and empties like any other resource)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867487923893043230/1311196604417445928/image.png?ex=6747fa7f&is=6746a8ff&hm=12e09792c8564a7e09f0ec2610affe6359e90c06ff2c2fc0ea33257cd26322d9&

[night river]

Is there something you have to set to be able to add children to "content" of a scroll view

Set content to have Vertical Layout Group. And then added the two children maually as a test

and nada they aren't showing

[scarlet jetty]

How should I handle the situation where a user has the in-game menu open to adjust settings and they get disconnected from the host and kicked back out to the main menu? Should I leave the settings UI up until they close it? My concern is that if they are in the middle of changing something, it could be misleading whether or not their changes to effect

[brave tide]

I please would like to ask for help regarding Fonts.

I need to use fonts that support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean, and I have tracked down a couple of fonts to use, however because my App uses TMP, I need to convert a lot of those font files to SDF files, which causes a lot of the font data to get lost.

This results in a lot of Characters going missing.

So far, google has not been of much help.

Does anyone please know how I can convert normal font files to SDF files without Characters being lost, or perhaps know another way that I can properly use these fonts?

The nuclear option is that I completely remove TMP from the project and use the base UI elements that work with the original fonts, but that would most likely cause more problems than it would solve.

[cyan pumice]

does anyone know why my prefab within a within prefab isnt displaying proply?

[low pike]

all Z pos should be 0 - it doesn't affect the draw order of UI, draw order goes off order in hierarchy from top (first) to bottom (last)

The Canvas component also has a 'draw order' field on it

[vapid edge]

I think you should make it somehow visible in the background that they were dropped, but keep the settings menu open until they close it

[quartz whale]

Any idea why the keyboard changes size when built?

nvm I figured it out, had canvas scaler set to 1

[rapid ferry]

does anyone know how to put post processing on some items in a canvas?

im very new to ui in general but i want my post processing volume to affect these things but not the monitor which is supposed overlay ontop of it

[long timber]

anyone here got any ideas / tips how i can improve my UI? the combo thing is only on screen for 1 second after you kill an enemy

[mild kernel]

Don't use default font? Don't use solid bars that look placeholder?

You can use https://www.gameuidatabase.com/ for inspiration.

[long timber]

its not default font

ive tried to make it look clean and not super over the top

like the aethetic of the maps

i meant moreso layout

i just dont want it to be cluttered

[quartz whale]

any idea how I could improve this keyboard? it feels really clunky on mobile and I'm not sure why

[celest lodge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SxB5xrLGhQ

anyone know how I could recreate the loading effect at the very start? where it like scratches through some iamge and then loads?

[low pike]

@honest herald let's move here, to the correct channel

If you add an image to the canvas is that visible?

[honest herald]

let me try

if I do this I don't see anything in the headset, and in the scene I just see a blue circle instead of the image

[low pike]

the blue circle is the pivot

I wonder if either of the warnings you have on your canvas are the reason

fix them I guess

[honest herald]

so I tried to fix it, this is weird, the warning goes away only if I put "nothing" on the additional shader channels. However, when I build the project, it automatically goes back to select a list of things:

and it still won't appear

(on the headset or in the scene)

[low pike]

select everything

[honest herald]

I tried and built, it stayed at "everything" setting however still nothing on the headset, and the scene still has the blue circle

[low pike]

stop building, just get it working in editor first - building wont make a difference

"the blue circle" is the pivot.. the gizmo, it is supposed to be there and is only in the scene view

also, this is a screen space overlay canvas.. you will NEVER see anything in the headset. This type of canvas can't be used in VR... but you should still be seeing it in the scene view

[honest herald]

I see, ok. So in order to see something in VR I should use something else than that screen space overlay canvas?

[low pike]

obvs

screen space camera, or world space

[honest herald]

ok, now that I put it in screen space camera I can see that stuff in front of my nose, however I lost the rest (passthrough, transparent cube, etc). I think I must be close

[pliant ether]

Adobe Ae

[celest lodge]

what

i mean like in engine

[pliant ether]

I would use Ae and export it.

There is likely a better way but that how I do mine.

[celest lodge]

but export it how, i dont understand. waht are you exporting?

[pliant ether]

The after effects file

[celest lodge]

what is the after effects file for. what is the actual effect youre making in after effects

[honest herald]

must be some kind of layer order thing. When I have the camera and canvas, I just don't see through with the passthrough anymore. I just get the background of unity (blue sky and brown earth)

or i am not sure what it can be

[pliant ether]

Yes. I make them in affect effects and export them to Unity

[celest lodge]

i dont think you understand my question

[low pike]

I don’t think you understand the answer

The fancy background stuff can be made in AE , exported into a format for Unity. Then you use it in Unity with the models and post processing.

[celest lodge]

what do you actually export, im confused. i assumed the screen fracture was like a shader or something

[summer swan]

Hey there, I'm making a PSX style game, and I would like the canvas to match the low-resolution aesthetic of the rest of the game, however I'm not sure how to get the UI to kinda 'Scale down' if that makes sense.

For example, here's a picture of my scene: How would I get the text/ui to a lower resolution similar to the rest of the scene

[lilac egret]

How can i make the Image component shift the tiled sprite, like, animated?

[lilac egret]

Nvm i noiced if i change the size of the image the sprite shifts relative to the camera becouse it's computing the sprite from the corners so im just changing the size using:
Background.sizeDelta = new Vector2(3000, 2000 - (spriteSize * 2) + ((Time.time * 80) % (spriteSize * 2)));
which is enough for a shifting look

[celest lodge]

how can i make a scroll rect start at the bottom instead of the top?

[lilac egret]

You mean the scrollbar? Idk what a scroll rect is but i've worked with UI enough in the past months that i think i can help.

[celest lodge]

the scroll rect is like the area where the messages are kept

it starts at the top, but i want it to start at the bottom

[celest lodge]

ive fixed it

[serene tusk]

try setting the Canvas Render Mode to world space or screen space - camera

[summer swan]

Thanks

[celest lodge]

is there a way to make the text go along the slant?

i tried doing it manually but

it doesnt looks very good

[low pike]

colliders and raycasting isn't required for world space ui

what is the map? UI?

oh, sorry.. the 3d environment

how come the inventory is using world space UI?

Select the canvas -> change the layer to UI -> say yes to change child layers too

This won't fix the issue on its own, but should be something you do anyway

can or cant?

🙂

The inventory looks like it could be screenspace, and keep the dialogue/ popup UI as worldspace

.. assuming there's no interaction on them

screen space camera or overlay

that doesn't make sense to my question 🤔

screen space overlay can't be blocked by the world

so on the screenspace camera setting - what plane distance do you have set?

[vivid path]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone knows how to make an element in a scroll rect become a header. I'm trying to achieve something like this: https://youtu.be/jXCrM1rzLZY?si=nnvxm5tIKOG-3_xF&t=71

Thanks in advance.

[neon birch]

how can i make the map less seeying trhew set a alr at 255

[low pike]

I can't understand this.. too many typos and poorly written question

and what is the map there? the scroll that is selected?

[neon birch]

this is just the start menu

you can see the mountain in the start menu want it to be less transparent

[low pike]

I cannot see the mountain through the scroll. Only where nothing is covering it

[neon birch]

oh guess im triping then

[low pike]

your scroll has some pattern on it - disable the mountains gameobject and it'll still be there

or just move the scroll around, the pattern wont change

[neon birch]

yeah i see my bad

[gloomy raven]

Hey All, Can anybody tell me how can i create this game?

[mortal robin]

"how do i make this entire game" is way too broad a question. Also what does it have to do with UI?

[nocturne valley]

why does my canvas, that is an overlay canvas with just a constant pixel size canvas scaler, with 0 scene changes between 2 projects, display buttons in completely different spots between the 2 projects?

it's the same resolution, same screen, same anchoring, same everything. But in one project, buttons render properly in a corner, the other it's at the bottom of the screen

[mortal robin]

it's the same resolution, same screen, same anchoring, same everything.
I would venture that you are mistaken about something here.

possibly different canvas scaler settings for example

[nocturne valley]

maybe--I even created a new scene, dropped in the prefab instance, changed NOTHING, and it still is different

[mortal robin]

what's in the prefab?

[nocturne valley]

I'm losing my mind. I'm going to make a text asset in the scene to display all of the info on the parent transform

[mortal robin]

why not just look at the inspector(s)?

[nocturne valley]

it only displays this behavior on a build

in the editor it behaves correctly

inside the prefab lives a canvas (overlay), a root rect transform under that has a button under the rect transform. the rect transform has a horizontal layout group object that has the same settings between each project

[mortal robin]

For what platform? Could you recreate it by setting the resolution in game view?

[nocturne valley]

windows--I set the game view resolution to be the same as the target build resolution

I've played around with nuking the horizontal layout group and it just never works right

I've tried setting the anchored position of the rect transform at runtime too and in the problem scene it seems to think the highest y value is 400 (which is like a 3rd of the screen size vertical)

[mortal robin]

Are the two projects on the same Unity version?

[nocturne valley]

Yes

[nocturne valley]

Hm I'm going to try recreating it from scratch--there may be a prefab specific change that is messing up the anchoring

[nocturne valley]

Yeah no, recreating it to be exactly the same--in one project the button appears in the top left, the other project it appears in the bottom left corner. Both are anchored to the bottom left corner

[mortal robin]

Any difference on the anchor settings of the parent?

IIRC the direction of the group layout depends on where the parent is anchored... or something

I always have to re-figure this stuff out

[nocturne valley]

no differences bettween the projects

[mortal robin]

I mean, presumably something is different. It's not like Unity is doing a hash on the project name or something... right?

[nocturne valley]

well yes the projects are different. I could create 2 additional projects and drop this in. There's no scripts making any changes to these ui items either

In this case, I need to anchor to the bottom left corner and move the layout group containing the button up to kinda be in the upper left corner--the anchoring on the bottom left is important so it always has the same height

I think in this specific case it's a Unity bug

[quartz whale]

does the shadow component just not work with textmeshprougui?

[shell trout]

Hello everyone, beginner here wondering if you can help me, my issue is simple. Color of font is different from the one I chose. Already tried to change the materials, but all the others look even worse (blurry, change colors, etc.)

[sharp kite]

Hi! I am wondering if there is a way to remove the extra spacing on the bottom of the "Dropdown List" that is created. Thanks in advance

[nocturne valley]

it's changing the Y value in one project from being set at 1100 to 0. When I set the position using
GetComponent<RectTransform>().position = new Vector3(xPos, yPos, 0);

(also tried using anchoredPosition w/ vec2)
it sets the yPosition value like 4x the value put in.

aha, I see why. I was setting the position via registry key and it was reading default hexadecimal. Using decimal and setting position works normally. Now to figure out WHY unity is resetting the y position at all

[supple basalt]

Make sure that Lighting isn't just taking up a lot of space. Select its object and see if its rectangle reaches all the way to the bottom of the dropdown

(you'll need to unfold Content)

[sharp kite]

Thank you. Now I've checked that it doesn't

How do I proceed from here?

[supple basalt]

Looks like I have something similar going on in my game. I have a little gap at the bottom of a dropdown

[sharp kite]

Interesting. I don't suppose that there is an easy fix?

[supple basalt]

had to snoop around in the code, but it looks like it measures the difference in height in that template between the "Content" and "Item" objects

If you reduce the height of the "Content" object to 20 (which is what I have for Item's height), the margin goes away

(i increased the height of Item to 28 here, but, same outcome)

There are no layout groups on these objects, so I knew it had to be somewhere in the dropdown code

All of Unity UI is implemented in a package, so you can actually look at how it works!

(not that it's easy to grok...)

[sharp kite]

You're an angel 🙏 Thank you very much

[supple basalt]

no prob! now I know how that works, too :p

[rich crescent]

Hello, I'm trying to make a slider ring with smoothed edges like in this video

https://youtu.be/72woYOPOfEY?si=tHZWFqK7IcBQOXJG&t=14

Someone else recommended me to use 2 circles on each sliders end, is there any way i could achieve this or is this the way. if so how?

That's what i currently have

[low pike]

There isn't a built in way, there are assets on the store that do procedural UI like this - check them to see if they do what you require

[rich crescent]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/procedural-health-and-progress-bars-237711 I only found this one which is out of budget for me

[low pike]

then I guess you'll have to do it the way you've already been suggested

[dark lance]

Hey, guys. I have some buttons on my canvas and a RawImage above it all that just darkens the screen in transitions. Is there a way to make this RawImage untouchable? If it's above the buttons it won't let me press on them, and if it's under them it looks bad.

[dark lance]

Problem solved, I found the Raycast Target variable

[serene tusk]

what's these gray squares around the TextMeshPro Text

it appears when playing too

[pliant ether]

Filtering probably

[serene tusk]

Any way to fix it?

[celest lodge]

why doesnt the caret show up in my text input?

[serene tusk]

maybe your font doesn't support it

@celest lodge

[celest lodge]

im not sure if fonts determine caret

i could be wrong

[low pike]

It’s usually because there isn’t enough padding in the font asset. Remake the .sdf with a larger padding.

Weird things can also happen if you use a font size of < 1

[modest flame]

why is my 2d game looking all weird like this, is my text too small in text mesh pro?

[golden stump]

Hi when importing images to Sprites they always get a 2 pixel border added and a new Image is sliced not simple. I don't need any 9 slicing for most sprites and it goes bad with atlasing anyway so can I change these defaults?

[low pike]

Show the issue.
Show the import settings.

[low pike]

Show the inspector for the text.

[golden stump]

I have Import settings I can apply optionally but they can not sepcify border on import

[azure flame]

You can set default presets in Presets manager as well https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Presets.html

[golden stump]

Ah yes I think it does take the border settings from an existing asset - it is just that those settings are invisible as you can not manually edit them in the preset inspector!

OK sorted thanks - their UI is missing all the details saved

editing via notepad I cansee the sprite border is saved

[low pike]

you've left off loads of the inspector.

[devout hearth]

Hey guys, i have a window with image, horizonalLayout and contentSizeFitter components, with a child text mesh pro that has a contentSizeFitter too. The problem is that when i set contentSizeFitter on parent to preferred, it uses the size of the image component from the same object. How do i make content size fitter ignore the image component?

[supple basalt]

If the parent's horizontal layout group is already controlling the size of its children, then you must remove the content size fitter from the child object

Show your whole hierarchy

As for ignoring the image, I believe you'd just need to add a LayoutElement to the offending object (and then set the minimum and preferred sizes to whatever you want)

[devout hearth]

yes, i found out that if you put the type of the image to sliced it ignores it

[supple basalt]

That's because that changes how the Image component computes its minimum and preferred sizes

[devout hearth]

but you say it's not necessary?

(the content size fitter on tmp)

because if i remove the content size fitter on TMP it stops working

[supple basalt]

You can view the layout properties of an object in the inspector (you might have to expand the window; it can be collapsed down)

[supple basalt]

Do you see a warning on the ContentSizeFitter you've attached to the text object?

[devout hearth]

yes, i do wanna avoid this, but i'm not sure if i can without coding my own layout system

i want to make it so when text dynamically becomes bigger, the parent becomes bigger too

this is the parent's configuration

[supple basalt]

Turn off "Child Force Expand". Turn on "Control Child Size"

The default layout settings suck. I don't know why they're set up like that.

I guess they "just work" in very basic situations

[devout hearth]

ohhhh oh my god, thanks

[supple basalt]

This may cause your UI to implode down to 0 width / 0 height

In that case, that means your child objects aren't asking for any space. They either need layout groups (so they can ask for space for their OWN children) or LayoutElements (to ask for space on their own)

I really need to write a tutorial on this. I've explained it to quite a few people, haha

It's not very obvious from reading the documentation

[devout hearth]

this would be pretty cool

[supple basalt]

basically, you use a ContentSizeFitter only when your size shouldn't be controlled by your parent

a fitter lets you control your own size

[devout hearth]

layout system is really confusing, especially when you need multiple dynamic elements nested in another layout element

[supple basalt]

You use them in scroll views, for example, to make the Content object as large as it needs to be

[devout hearth]

What if, for example, you have a scroll rect and you have the content child that has content size fitter and layout element. After that you need to have a button as a child that also needs to change its content based on its children, what do you do?

in previous project i just put content size fitters on all children and manually updated the UI within code, which is a horrible way

[supple basalt]

Where is this button attached? I don't understand the layout you're describing.

here's an example of a scroll view from my game

[devout hearth]

sorry, let me make it real quick for an example

[supple basalt]

Content has a ContentSizeFitter and a VerticalLayoutGroup

all of the children are single text elements (with a non-auto-layout-controlled child)

[devout hearth]

@supple basalt nevermind, turns out turning on "control child size" works for nested layout groups too! In the past i did it in a very silly way, putting content size fitter on every element instead

[supple basalt]

Oh yeah -- you'll want that all the way down

You may also want "use scale" -- if it's on, scaling up a child will make it use more space

if it's off, it'll take up the same amount of space at all times

Both can be useful -- you might want to make part of the UI shrink away without giving up it space

but you also might want to adjust the size of buttons in a list by just scaling them up and down directly

[devout hearth]

oooo i didn't know that, thank you so much! Ugh, if i had known this sooner i would've saved myself so much trouble in previous projects

this advice is absolutely lifesaving

[supple basalt]

hah, you're welcome (:

[modest flame]

can you elaborate, what did I leave off?

[low pike]

Obviously the stuff above? You’re scrolled down..

[modest flame]

sorry about that

[low pike]

You're using the 3d version of TMP (mesh renderer), not the UI TMP... is this intentional?

[modest flame]

If i use UI TMP the text doesnt display:

[low pike]

well, because you've done something wrong

I do wonder why you keep cropping stuff out instead of sending the whole screen, and being scrolled up in the inspector

[mortal robin]

is it on a canvas?

[modest flame]

my apologies it was not, thank you so much

[tropic sapphire]

everything is supposed to instantiate at the top but for some reason its at the bottom only the first at the top

fixed it a bit but i now can scroll beneath the buttons

[ancient saffron]

Hey guys, I have a bit of an issue and I was wondering if anyone could help. Keep in mind UI is not my strongest suit haha
So I'm developping a mobile game and I'm trying to fit UI to different resolutions.
Because I want the buttons in my game to keep their Aspect Ratio, I get an issue when trying to line-up certain text on the button/image (not centered). Visual representation in the image.
Anyone know how I can keep the text relative not to the Rect, but to the Sprite/Texture inside the Image component, taking into consideration any uniform scalings that might've happened to it?
The simulator on the right is the good scenario

Edit: Should also mention that I'm using a tool called BetterUI to anchor elements in accordance to "Perfect Scenario"

[low pike]

The background should be the parent.
The stars/ middle text/ alpha'd box children of the parent, and anchored appropriately.
The text in the alpha box, should be a child of that box and anchored to the center of it.

Atm, looks like the text is anchored to the side of the screen and not the button

[ancient saffron]

Yes, I should definetly separate them like that, but does that change the fact that the anchor "cares" about the Rect and not the "View" size of the button, and will try to place it percentually in the correct spot?
Like for example, let's say the text and alpha'd box should always be 25% to the left of the end of the button (visible button I mean), but in different resest the button's Rect is for example:

and due to that difference of the Rect, 25% to the left of the end is still outside the visual

[low pike]

Press T and use the UI gizmo tools

That looks like you've edited the margins of the TMP element and the rect transform for the text is the size of the button ... this is wrong

[rich crescent]

I have this circular progress bars filled with circles, Each circle has a mask

Which works if i only have the first circle enabled but after adding next ones, circles also show up on the second bars mask

how can i make the mask only affect the childs of that object and don't interact with other sprites

these shouldn't be shown on my 2.nd circles mask area

[golden stump]

There seems to be a bug with TMP_InputField not disabling the caret as a raycast target when you make it non-Interactable. So it still blocks raycasts

[vernal granite]

Hi there
does anyone have any experience with using <sprite> tags within Text Mesh Pro?
Could use some help in the setup...

[balmy yoke]

Got another question, how can I bring the Health TMP Text to the front? In the Circle there was a layer int I could change but I dont see anything for the Text.. Also I thought the hierarchy changed the order but it's not changing anything?

[low pike]

UI is drawn in hierarchy order, from top (first) to bottom (last).. so if that Health object has text entered.. it should be on top. Assuming the font isn't too large and being hidden/ truncated

You should have just shared a screenshot of the entire screen, instead of cropping off the inspector - it could include details that would show the reason.. now gotta wait for ages ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[serene tusk]

probably because of your anchor points being improperly set up

[tropic sapphire]

well how should they be set up

and which anchor points

[serene tusk]

well do you want them to be offset from the top, the middle, or the bottom

[serene tusk]

what objects are misbehaving?

[tropic sapphire]

i want it to look like this with the ability to scroll down

[tropic sapphire]

i am able to scroll past even when there is two buttons like in the pictures

[serene tusk]

you click on this. And then when its parent is resized the distance from the anchor point is kept the same

[serene tusk]

are you using a scroll preset?

I think it's called a scrollview maybe

[tropic sapphire]

no

[low pike]

the content rect just needs to resize to it's child.

That's it. If you have the rect larger, the children will spread out

[tropic sapphire]

my settings

[serene tusk]

How are you scrolling then?

[tropic sapphire]

how do i do that

[tropic sapphire]

oh i thought u meant i got a scroll view by right clicking and creating

[serene tusk]

that is what I meant

[low pike]

If you have a vertical layoutgroup... then it's one of the tick boxes, you'll have to faff I can't remember which is which

resize to child size or something

[tropic sapphire]

use child scale?

[low pike]

try it and see..

[tropic sapphire]

oh yes

its that

thanks

[serene tusk]

oh also that just makes this happen

[low pike]

What just makes that happen?

[serene tusk]

changing the padding

the rightmost one is padding 100 and the left is padding 10

my sampling point size is 100

currently the font size is 4.75

[low pike]

what scale is the rect transform?

[serene tusk]

2 I'm pretty sure

and the scale factor is 3.5

[low pike]

UI scale should always be at 1,1,1

(unless animating in/out)

[serene tusk]

Huh, I didn't know that

[low pike]

use the height/ width to change the size of things

I don't think going larger here is the issue (going smaller than 1 can cause TMP issues, not seen issues going larger)

[serene tusk]

what about with 9sliced things?

[low pike]

what about them?

[serene tusk]

How do I scale them up?

without using scale

[low pike]

with height/ width .. why would that change anything?

[serene tusk]

height/width just tiles it

does a different thing

scale makes the source image bigger

[low pike]

... no it doesn't

[serene tusk]

that's scale

[low pike]

Changing the scale of a rect (especially when done in a non-uniform way) leads to very strange and unwanted scaling of children

[serene tusk]

Well either way setting it to 1 did not fix the issue

[low pike]

I didn't say it would, in fact I even said it's not the issue

[serene tusk]

yeah

so what do I try next?

[low pike]

share a video (of the entire editor, don't clip anything out) and show the inspector for the canvas and every game object that leads directly down to the text

[serene tusk]

I maxed out the file size

44.4 mb

I'll make a drive link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2P9W2Dk2khmlir54hKmWoLC8q-ovHhx/view?usp=sharing

@low pike

[low pike]

When you created the sdf, did you change anything from the default settings? (expect the padding)

Mine looks like this, and as far as I remember, always does

yours is like this

No idea if that makes a difference, but it doesn't look right atm and is worth investigating

I just use default settings like this

[serene tusk]

I changed the sampling point

how I created it was by right clicking on a normal font file to make a tmp font file

I set the sampling point size to 100

[pine lark]

my textmeshpro install appears to be broken - whenever i try to open the font asset creator, my entire unity editor crashes. anyone got any ideas? should i reinstall? might i have to make a new project?

[mortal robin]

Ideas:

• Reading the editor logs for a clue as to the crash
• reinstalling TMP
• Updating unity editor and all packages to the latest versions

[pine lark]

okay, i'm on u6 23f1, i'm going to update to 30f1. i'll take a look at the logs too

[serene tusk]

Ok it's definitely the padding after some testing

I'm not allowed to set it to 0

But this is a pixelart game

how do I get the text to have sharp edges

[pine lark]

dude im dealing with the exact same problem

trying to make a pixel perfect font

[serene tusk]

yeah for some reason unity just doesn't have a lot of support for pixelart

[pine lark]

it started out that the editor just wouldn't let me generate a font atlas thing using hinted raster

and now the font asset creator is bricked entirely

[serene tusk]

I guess I'll need to not use a preset font and watch a 15 minute tutorial

I do not like tutorials they take forever

[pine lark]

cant tell if maybe i should ditch TMP and use the default unity text

or what

i still cant rly tell if tmp is like

the intended text tool for unity

or if its deprecated or being replaced or whatever

[serene tusk]

I'm pretty sure TMP came after the original text tool for unity, but it's an addon. It might be mostly designed for Vector-based text though

I'm going to try using the default text

[pine lark]

please do let me know if you manage to get that working more smoothly

im at a loose end with this LMAO

[serene tusk]

how do I change these parameters

ok this is worse

[pine lark]

jesus fucking christ 😭

what ver are you on?

[serene tusk]

well the top layer is the default text, the bottom one is the tmp

the tmp has been massively misbehaving but the default one is just gross

tmp was on 3.0.6 for some reason

after upgrading this looks a bit better with padding 9

This is pretty good

Any way to make the text make the object bigger when the text gets too long?

[azure flame]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-ContentSizeFitter.html

[low pike]

enable pixel perfect on the canvas?

(never used it, may not be relevant)

[serene tusk]

hmm it only seems to scale from the middle, but if It scales too big I think it will go out of bounds

I want it to extend downwards only

[serene tusk]

Doesn't really fix it it just makes the pixels snap better

oh pivot change works

for the extension

[supple basalt]

You need to adjust the anchors on the RectTransform, then

specifically, you want to put the anchors at the top-center

Changing the height of the RectTransform will now cause it to grow downwards

[serene tusk]

It was actually the pivot

[supple basalt]

oh, right, wrong word :p

it's easy to mix the two up

the anchors control how the RectTransform grows and positions itself relative to its parent

[serene tusk]

yeah

[balmy yoke]

My bad, heres the inspector included

[low pike]

What's going on there then? 🤔

Scale should all be 1,1,1 .. but your width/ height values being set at 1 is tiny

[balmy yoke]

I dont know if I'm doing the whole UI thing correctly 😂
I was told to set the canvas to World Space and resize it to the card which seems fine but everytime I create a new element, its absolutely massive

[ionic beacon]

Have you looked at it in the game view? Based on the grid the entire card is 2 pixels wide

The size in the scene view doesn't mean anything

[balmy yoke]

yea it seems to be the same size in both

[serene tusk]

why did you set it to world space?

[balmy yoke]

If I take it off world space then the size is super big and cant be adjusted to fit the card

Im probably doing it wrong, im open to any tips or videos yall know of

[serene tusk]

card?

Are you trying to fit a gameobject?

I'd recommend building the entire card in ui

Then you can nest everything in one object

Much simpler to manage

I don't suppose there's any way to automatically organize objects like the Containers in godot?

[mortal robin]

Can you explain what these Godot containers do?

Then maybe we could answer

Based on what I see here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/gui_containers.html

Yes UGUI has similar features

See https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html
and
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/manual/UIAutoLayout.html

Seems like Container in Godot more or less == RectTransform in Unity.

[serene tusk]

What exactly I'm trying to do is take a bunch of rect transforms, and arrange them vertically so that they don't overlap with one another, but I don't want to nest them all.

I could do this through script but I'm wondering if there's a better way

[low pike]

Don't want to nest them

You wouldn't nest them to each other. You would have a parent and they'd be children of that parent (making them siblings) and the parent would have a vertical layout group on it

[mortal robin]

VerticalLayoutGroup

Mentioned in the links i shared (AutoLayout)

[serene tusk]

Alright Thanks it tiles things properly after a bit of property management

Also, where in the docs do I see where a component is located in the Add Component Menu, if possible?

[mortal robin]

I don't think that's listed anywheere in the docs. YOu can always use the search bar at the top of the add component menu to quickly find things

UI stuff is typically under UI

[serene tusk]

strangely it isn't there

[mortal robin]

what are you looking for

The layout stuff is under Layout

[serene tusk]

the vertical layout component, and its related components

Oooh I didn't see that category

[mortal robin]

honestly I never use those categories - I just start typing the name

[low pike]

just type 'vertical'

[serene tusk]

I just wanted to see its related components

[serene tusk]

Ok now my content size fitter from before isn't working

Why is ui so weird

[mortal robin]

By the way there is also a newer UI system in Unity called UI Toolkit.

If you want to add to your confusion you can check that out too

[serene tusk]

lol

[supple basalt]

I thought about putting all of my components into categories

then I realized I literally never used them, ever

(that DOES get rid of the (Script) after your component's name, though)

[serene tusk]

This is inside a vertical layout group. Is this fine to ignore?

it also happens to be a vertical layout group of its own

[mortal robin]

yes ignore it

[summer swan]

Hi there! I'm trying to make a ui element in my scene follow the position of the mouse, though it's currently not going anywhere near it, and when I move the mouse, the image moves at a faster rate creating a kind of disconnect between the two. I know I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure of a better way to do this. Here's an example of the issue and the code:

[supple basalt]

This means that your auto layout isn't set up correctly.

You should not have a content size fitter here. The parent's layout group should be controlling the size of this object's RectTransform.

[summer swan]

A couple other things: 1. know the moving pos is not the set to the new position, that's intentional for now

[supple basalt]

#📲┃ui-ux message

Have a look at this conversation.

[summer swan]

and 2. It has to be with localpos as I am using a world space canvas due to the way my camera and UI works

[serene tusk]

I don't think that vertical layout has any sort of support for making the object bigger when the text is bigger

[supple basalt]

Content Size Fitter is doing the exact same thing that the vertical layout groups are doing

...it's just that the default settings for a layout group don't make it control the child size

Get rid of the fitter, then configure your vertical layout groups so that they control child size in both directions. Turn off "Child Force Expand" too

This may cause your UI to collapse into a weird 0 pixel wide mess. That means that some of your objects aren't asking for any space

They either need a layout group (to make space for all of their children) or a layout element (to directly specify a size)

[pine lark]

does anyone know how to reinstall textmeshpro? i don't seem to be able to even find it as a package

it seems to me it's been folded into the UI package, but that seems like it would be a nightmare to reinstall bc of so many dependencies

[maiden pasture]

Ideally you use one 🥲 but you can totally get away with more

[maiden pasture]

This is so annoying haha

[supple basalt]

it's simple enough once you understand how auto layout works

The problem is that none of the UI elements you can add through the GameObject menu are set up for auto layout

a Button will only ask for enough space to show the edges of its sliced texture (so, something like 10 pixels)

the text content gets obliterated

a Slider will just

disintegrate

[thin canyon]

So, regarding strings in Unity, the TMP seems to cut off the spaces at the end of strings.
if I write: ///  , the two spaces at the end disappear.
I tried using normal spaces as well as the No-Break Space (U+00A0) character.
They're both snipped off.
Anyone know how to create empty space with TMP?

[supple basalt]

Does this happen even when you directly set the .text property on the component?

[summer swan]

Hi there I'm still having this issue, if anyone can help please do, thanks!

[mortal robin]

you're mixing up world space positions and screen space positions.

mouse position comes in as the pixel location on the screen, not an in-game world position

[summer swan]

I am aware of that, my bad for not mentioning, how can I kinda translate it so that it's screen space?

[sudden veldt]

Hi guys, I have created my own customized dropdown button. What I want is, when I press the first dropdown button, it should not overlap with the next one. There should be an animation for the upcoming dropdown, making it move down smoothly. i have added this buttons in Scroll view

how cam i achive it

[mortal robin]

out of curiosity, what was wrong with the built in DropDown?

[serene tusk]

my slider is getting vertically squished by my verticallayout

[mortal robin]

Which slider? What's it supposed to look like?

[serene tusk]

the horizontal one

notice Height = 0

[mortal robin]

you'd have to share more details

but it looks ok in the first screenshot

[supple basalt]

This means that your slider is not asking for any space.

[serene tusk]

Yeah because I'm counteracting it by going outside the bounds

[mortal robin]

The settings on the layout group will matter, and if you want special stuff you should be using LayoutElements

[supple basalt]

so its parent says "ok, you get 0"

[serene tusk]

How do I make it ask for space?

[mortal robin]

LayoutElement

[supple basalt]

Yeah -- that lets you manually specify the min/preferred/flex width and height

Look at the bottom of the inspector. You should see a Layout Properties window (it might be collapsed). It shows you the values for the selected game object.

[serene tusk]

Oooh finally a way to do that

I was getting annoyed by vertical layout for so long without that

[supple basalt]

What object do you have selected here, exactly?

[serene tusk]

oops I clipped out the heirarchy