📲┃ui-ux

[daring dragon]

first selected:

yea thats right

[mortal robin]

yeah yeah

[daring dragon]

allright set it ot my text i want selected then set it up for the other text as well ill do that real quick

using event trigger, the select method runs when it is first selected, correct?

[mortal robin]

yeah

I believe so

[daring dragon]

seems like that worked so yay

just all the guides i was trying to read didnt explain how any of it worked and the unity page didnt do it well either

[mortal robin]

yeah i never found a guide that explained it well

[daring dragon]

I like doing that type of thing once im good at something, so once i get really familiar over time with this stuff ill do that

wow the navigation tab on selectable is infuriatingly bad to use.

[mortal robin]

yep

[dull bobcat]

How can I make a UI like this? @ me thank you!

[autumn iris]

Sorry for the stream of noob questions

But, I am on 2020.2 and I have URP 10.2.2 and latest Core RP

But my cameras have no Render Type option. Trying to setup camera stacking

[jagged monolith]

If you search for 'radial menu' you can find tutorials on this @dull bobcat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uofEt2NhpgY

[rapid ferry]

Guys is this quest font is ok ?

[tender drum]

Why updating TextMeshPro messed my whole UI ? 😢

everything changed font sizes, positions.... such a mess

[low marlin]

Is there any easy way to do the following with inbuilt unity ui components? I want to create a tooltip that can have multiple sections, each section has dynamic content and should be the minimal scale possible, then scale up to the max, before overflowing on to a new line. I've got this in and working, but I'd also like to have all the sections scale to the largest section horizontally.

So in the first image, have it expand to the size like in the second

At the moment without writing a new component to handle it, I can only get it to either be individual subsection sizes or the max possible size regardless of subsection content size

[torpid sapphire]

how can i make 2d particles as part of UI particles?

[oblique stratus]

why would my instantiated button not be showing on the screen

[oblique stratus]

shows in the inspector not in game mode

[rapid ferry]

hey guys, so i have a circle in scene that is perfect

like it looks like a normal circle

but when i playtest

at uniitiy remote

it looks like that

i alreaedy gave it a aspeect ratio fitter but that didnt changee anything

[near trench]

I have already make a game menu in on of my old project, and i was wandering if there is a simple way to copy it to a new project?

[worthy jacinth]

how do i fix this

how do i fix this

[tacit marsh]

Hey, could somebody help me with this issue? I'm kinda stuck on this 😦

Nvm, just figured it out

[lament venture]

anyone used Doozy UI at all? any better or worse than just managing UI yourself with a tweening library?

[rapid ferry]

Anyone know if its possible to render static imgui code in a graphview?
I want to make it so like 1/4 of my windows regular imgui code the rest is a graph view but can't figure out how

[dry goblet]

I have created cavnas, with the quad for the material with notepad for mission, how i can add task frrom misison to the ui ? i tried toggle in ui but this is bad any more options ?

[rapid ferry]

how do I scale text
when ever I scale the text it doesn't get bigger then about 30 I think
I don't know why I have checked through all the options like min and max
can anyone help me I am so confused

Wait so it doesn't get bigger then 29 and on 30 it disappears

I had over flow on
I thought that meant I don't have to change the size of the box
I now know why

I will just leave it there incase any noobies like me don't know what is happening

[bright dagger]

if I use the built in On End Edit function of an InputField to call a function on a different script as shown here, is there any way I can use the content of the InputField's own Text component as the argument for running said function?

[jagged monolith]

@bright dagger if you have a public function set up that takes a single string as a parameter, and choose that from the list under dynamic string, not static parameters, it will pass the value directly

[bright dagger]

Omg thanks I'll try that out

[jagged monolith]

It's one of those things I've never learned from a tutorial, but just made sense of based on code in other assets etc haha. It was a mystery for a long time

[crisp kestrel]

Anyone have any thoughts on how to get a buttons normalized position in a content scrollrect collection? It's quite a ways down in the hierarchy

[verbal mauve]

hey yall

my anchor positions are greyed out

they're being driven by the vertical layout group

i don't know why this is being done

i want access to the width properties

the X anchors

i see no reason for the vertical layout group to occupy the object widths :l

i'd like to be able to use the X anchors normally

is there a way to do tthis

[hexed pumice]

Didn't think I was going to struggle with this thing but how can I get custom crosshair in the source image thing bc it won't show the png file I imported into the assets folder?

[mortal robin]

Go click on your png file and make sure you have imported it as a Sprite (UI and 2D)

By default it is not a Sprite

(import settings on the asset)

[glossy void]

I'm having weird issues with ui. My app has two areas - panel with button at the bottom, and content ares, filling all other space. Panel is set to snap to the bottom with width = with of screen and height = 320, and the content is set to fill all space, with indent from bottom = 320. It's impossible to break this thing with different resolution - even in free aspect mode it works well, and content part snaps perfectly to panel. But on some iPhone and Samsung phones it messes up, and leaves gap between content and pane. They are both under a single canvas. Here are the screenshots of components at the inspector.

[remote prairie]

Hellp! Quick question... Why do my images even though they are set to be in the UI layer and set up as texture type as Sprite (2D and UI) they still being blocked by anything in front of them?

i am using the Build in render pipeline

like i would like to show the icon images infront of everything rather than being blocked by objects in the world

[remote prairie]

i got my answer thanks anyways

[grave junco]

Can you explain what was the problem?

I'm interested

[tawdry glen]

Im having a bit of difficulty with a UI I'm working on

I have a scroll bar with buttons on it, and that did work

I added another button to hide/show the scroll bar (inventory) and now the scroll bar/buttons can't be touched anymore

https://gyazo.com/526f3f0e8e25510094e3e583cc45b22a

Does anyone know why those buttons on the right won't respond to touch anymore? The log shows me that it recognises my cursor location when I touch the button spot on my phone, but the button/scrollbar won't respond to it at all

[tawdry glen]

Update: something on the canvas was breaking it and I couldn't work out what it was. Deleted the entire canvas and rebuilt, now its fine

[tired briar]

What are those red lines and how do I get rid of them?
https://i.imgur.com/mAkO1OJ.png

[mortal robin]

Usually they are RectTransforms with invalid settings

like negative size/scale

They look strange because they're overlapping - but what you're seeing is 3 red "X"s of different heights

So looks like 3 RectTransforms with messed up settings

[tired briar]

thanks, watching UI tutorials since I am doing something wrong then. Tbh the old UI system is confusing and feels outdated.
Is it worth learning the old system for a very simple and minimalistic UI or should I dive right into the new UI system?

[mortal robin]

Uh what are you referring to as old and new systems here?

There are 3 UI systems in Unity (unfortunately)

[tired briar]

I though this XML based system was the new UI system? Like what Windows had too after win forms

3 UI systems? Oh dear god

[mortal robin]

Yeah there's the oldest system

IMGUI

which you do from code in OnGUI()

[tired briar]

so IMGUI is what I am using, rect transorms, Canvas etc?

[mortal robin]

no

you're using the second one

UGUI

that's kinda the "standard" one

UIElements in the newest one

that uses xml etc

I've never used UIElements

[tired briar]

oh ok, Ive used OnGUI() for debug text, where you define the _style etc right?

[mortal robin]

The documentation for UIELements is awful

[mortal robin]

yep exactly

SO yeah UIElements is the newest one but I've never tried it so I don't know much about it

[tired briar]

gotcha, so I guess for my first game AND using a very simple UI I better stich to UGUI then?

[mortal robin]

UGUI is what you're using, with RectTransforms

In my opinion it's the most "complete" and well documented, well-tutorialed system

so I would recommend it

It can still be confusing

[tired briar]

thanks! Will watch video tuts then 👍

[mortal robin]

😄

[tired briar]

the grid layout is very confusing from what I've gathered

[mortal robin]

Working with any of the layout groups - GridLayoutGroup, HorizontalLayoutGroup, VerticalLayoutGroup can be confusing

in my opinion the settings on those groups are poorly named and poorly documented

things like "force child scale" and "use child size" or whatever they're called

sometimes they seem to mean the opposite of what their name implies, at least to me

[tired briar]

yea, thanks god people have made good tuts about them

[rain stone]

any ideas what could be casing the ui to randomly change size when i load up a project?

like i save the project turn off the comp, go to bed, come back load up in the morning and its like the camera shrunk and other things just randomly slid in different directions.

[mortal robin]

Pixel perfect

And/or canvas scaler

But usually only by a little nit

Bit*

[rain stone]

Ah thanks! I've been wrassling all morning with all my prefabs changing sizes and everything

[floral crow]

how do I access the method that text mesh pro uses to apply the gradient to text?

The one built in to it doesn't fit my needs and I want to recalculate it

Where should I look? In the tmpro c# files or in the shader?

[wet patrol]

Having an issue with pivots, if any is able to help it would be greatly appreciated:
The child's anchors do not want to move to the parents corners (what I want).
This is in a layout group

2nd image is the child to the 1st image

[fathom pecan]

Q: Does the hierarchy, a canvas has too many children with Canvas component, cause the issue of blurred UI?
Behavior: UI, especially TMP, blurred after enabling a parallel nested canvas.
Hierarchy: All panels, such as inventory panel, equipped item UIs, item info prompt panel, record scrollview, alert prompt, hint prompt, have their own canvas component, enabling by scripts, nesting within a main overlay canvas always enabled.
Setup: UGUI with TMP in 2020.2.

[rapid ferry]

Why doesn't my drop down menu have the names I set them?

[fathom pecan]

Seems you added layout group, if you share more info about the component, I might be able to help you.

[wet patrol]

I somewhat fixed it by manually setting pivots far off, then moving them closer inside to where the parents position 'should be'.
It was a pain, and probably not the proper way to do it.
Not sure why the problem existed.

But anyways:
Everything is under a horizontal layout group.
Each child in this horizontal layout group is a vertical layout group.
(Creating grid-like elements).
From the vertical layout groups, there are children. Inside those children is where I'm having the issue.

-It's my first time with layout groups-

[fathom pecan]

If I recall correctly, layout element should be the component of child, while Its parent have (girl/vertical/horizon) layout group component. I always set child as prefab, generating on demand.

[wet patrol]

So the object with a horizontal layout should also have vertical? Rather than its child.

I was thinking it made sense having the child with vertical layout group, since they are related vertically (and unrelated to the other vertical layout groups, the objects are just packed near eachother)

[fathom pecan]

Group is like a kindergarten, elements are its kids.

[wet patrol]

bleh. Is there a way to make the grid sort objects vertically first, rather than horizontally?

[I assume if I change it, I'll have to re-organize everything]

[fathom pecan]

https://youtu.be/HwdweCX5aMI?t=403 This video may help you.

If you wanna vertical layout only, just add vertical layout group in your char1 skills. If you also want vertical first then horizon, then use gird.

If you want to override the size of a duplicate child, layout element component need to be added to the child. [Just learnt that haha]

[obtuse oyster]

Hey guys

was wondering if the community could give me their thoughts on which controls screen they think is a more clear

It's a mobile game I've been working on and I know my current controls implementation left a lot to be desired so I was leaning in either of these two directions

Any thoughts in general would be helpful btw! Thanks in advance!

[mortal robin]

second one is much more clear

I can't actually tell waht the top one is trying to say

it looks like you're labelling some dots

are you supposed to tap those dots? Or slide them along the line maybe?

And in the second one, I imagine I tap the large squares to turn right and left, but I 'm unclear on how I shuld booost

[obtuse oyster]

thanks so much for the feedback!

The boost is the hardest bit to convey

Would you say this one is any more clear on the controls @mortal robin ?

[jagged monolith]

Nice, well part of the issue with the boost for me is that it doesn't read as a 'zone' like the other ones do. I would consider using circles for left and right and then a capsule for boost? Just an idea

[obtuse oyster]

Ooo nice idea

I also tried this and i'm thinking it's a little more effective at conveying the meaning

A bit more visual precedence but maybe i'm wrong lol

[obtuse oyster]

Also can you elaborate on the capsule idea 🙂

[jagged monolith]

Like this

[tired briar]

Need help with this weird offset issue, it drives me nuts https://i.imgur.com/9UPxrJZ.png
setting "pixel perfect" only made it worse https://i.imgur.com/HIiA9JT.png

[obtuse oyster]

I think i'm going to end up rolling with this one guys. Thanks for the feedback!

I think it still has a lot left to be desired but, trying to focus on improvement over perfection 🙂

[oblique sparrow]

Anyone have any tips for developing a complex menu system?

[remote dove]

if I want to make a script to provide a function to each of these buttons

how would I go about doing that?

would I have to add a script to each button?

[oblique sparrow]

I think it kinda depends on what the buttons do and if the functionality is similar or not.

[remote dove]

I just want to turn off an GameObject.active for each one

but the objects load at runtime

[oblique sparrow]

Hmmmm

You can add a script to the button which invokes the GameObject.SetActive function when it's pressed

You can even add the script to whatever prefab you are instantiating at runtime for the buttons.

[remote dove]

public class InitialiseDisplayedRing : MonoBehaviour
{
    static private int ringCount = 11;
    public GameObject[] selectedRing = new GameObject[ringCount];
    void Start()
    {
        Instantiate(selectedRing[1], new Vector3(0, 0, 20), Quaternion.identity);
        selectedRing[1].SetActive(false);
        /*for (int i = 0; i < ringCount; i++)
        {
            
            selectedRing[i].SetActive(false);
        }
        selectedRing[1].SetActive(true);*/
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        selectedRing[1].SetActive(true);
    }
}

so this is my script at the moment for loading in the objects, but how do I get a different script get the right id?

[oblique sparrow]

So inside the script you can create a field that stores the id. Then after you create your game object via Instantiate, you can get that script from the game object you just created by using GetComponent.

Then you can do objectThatYouCreated.GetComponent<YourType>().field = "your id"

[remote dove]

should I create a struct?

[oblique sparrow]

You shouldnt need to do that

[remote dove]

oh right, sorry i'm having a hard time trying to wrap my head around this

but If I have 11 GameObjects, won't I need 11 fields aswell?

waiit a second

objectThatYouCreated.GetComponent<YourType>().field = "your id"

where should this go?

[oblique sparrow]

In can go inside your button script.

Here imma add you on discord and try to write something up for ya and explain

[wicked cosmos]

Hi, I'm going crazy. I'm trying to make a custom mask in my canvas UI suing an image.
-> Mask (With image and mask compontents)
--> Image to mask

But it's not working. Mask is doing anything. If I replace Mask and image with a "Rect Mask 2d" component, it's working fine.

what am I doing wrong?

[native echo]

Hey guys. I am struggling to add in a GUI background sprite with faded edges. I created a black.gif with fade to transparancy around the edges. Looks grea tin my GFX app but when I create the sprite it creates hard edges on the black and transparancy after the hard edge. I Assume it s a setting I am missing?

image:

Unity:

[rare coral]

What are the import settings set as?

[native echo]

That would help wouldnt it 🙂

[native echo]

Sorry misunderstood Aluminum. When I went to export settings I used PNG instead of gif and messed with transparancy. All better now. Thanks

[untold basin]

How can I automatically adjust the panel to fit the text without the extra space?

ignore descbox

[oblique sparrow]

I think you can grab the width and height of the text and then resize the panel according to those dimensions

[untold basin]

via script or is there a easier way?

[mortal robin]

There's a content size fitter component

Give that a try?

[untold basin]

I already tried doing so, but the outcome was weird, or I may just not understand what it does exactly

or how I'd set it up

it's even documented on Unity but my results were weird lol

[oblique sparrow]

Yeah via script.

[floral crow]

is a "unit" different in the ui canvas?

because when I set 32 pixels per unit, my pixel art gets scaled exetremely huge

my canvas scalar is set to scale with screen size and a 640 by 320 reference resolution

[mortal robin]

one unit is 1 pixel in your reference resolution I believe

[floral crow]

alright that's a very confusing convention but it works

[rain tinsel]

Hello, I’m looking into a framework/asset/library that allows me to draw the typical shapes you see in any presentation app like:

• rounded angle rectangles
• oval and circle shapes
• borders (with adjustable thickness or border types)

Is there something like this?

[jagged monolith]

@rain tinsel https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/shapes-173167

[rain tinsel]

That is perfect

And a bit expensive 😂

Anyone uses it for UI? Any feedback? (Don’t know if this is the right place)

Hmm it seems UI is supported as a workaround

[jagged monolith]

Yeah it's awesome. I haven't used it properly in a project yet, but my testing so far has been with world space UI for which it works very well

I can't speak for how it works with UI but there might be some questions about it on the forum page

[rain tinsel]

Thanks I asked a question there

[fathom pecan]

import Textmesh pro extra & examples. the 18th scene with scroll rect is a good start point. I am novice but that sample scene helped me a lot.
I am not sure about the UI Toolkit. demo video also looks great, but it doesn't support some features.

Btw, does anyone know how to make the a horizontal scroll rect, like a song name with unknown length, auto scrolling if text length is longer than the rect mask 2d.
The element/text should fill middle center first, but anchor to the left after text length fill the mask.
Do I have to add custom script?

[untold basin]

I'll make sure to take a look at it, thanks!

[mild pilot]

Hi im having a weird bug
InputField.text, if i put a bunch of text with newline, the text in the text object only shows the last line
I tried all the horizontal/vertical overflow settings

Is this... normal?

[storm veldt]

Looking for resources on controlling a scroll menu with up/down arrows instead of click-dragging? I'm building a VR game and realized it'd be much easier for the user to click buttons rather than try to drag the scroll view. I'm a novice coder btw...

[mortal robin]

Which input system are you using?

the normal one, or Input System (the shiny new fancy one)

Actually - it doesn't matter

just make code for the button

that sets the normalizedPosition of the ScrollRect

[storm veldt]

okay, thanks. I'll look into it

[untold junco]

okay so ive been working on some concept menus for my FPS game that i am making (the background isnt my game, it is MW) , I made these concepts in Adobe illustrator and want some feedback on them.

[sonic hollow]

Im looking to made a node-graph style UI for level ups and abilities
Any hot tips on where to find resource on how to go about such a thing?
Mostly just the UI part, I have scriptable objects and whatnot ready to go

(think final fantasy 10 or path of exiles)

[fathom pecan]

I am learning multi atlas for Dynamic TMP assets. But what is strange is that TMP asset only show one atlas even though I overflow the atlas with too many characters. The characters are correctly rendered though. Am I wrong or just a bug for TMP 3.0.3 in Editor 2020.2.3?

I was following this video. https://youtu.be/NY1xKqCIj3c?t=900

NVM, it looks like Unity put the material + atlas in Hierarchy window instead of Project window.
The project window does update multi atlas later. I assume this is a little bug

[cyan sluice]

Hey, is there a way to prevent scrollBar.value from dynamically changing? Id like it to have constant value all the time

[earnest prism]

What do you mean

[fathom pecan]

I am trying to detect if textmesh get masked by rect mask 2d. Is it feasible by doing so?

TextMeshProUGUI tmp; RectMask2D mask;
if (tmp not get masked)
{
  return;
}

[hot schooner]

any know what this error is

[azure flame]

the error point to the line in the script, search for unassigned reference on that line

[hot schooner]

Ah ok

[rapid ferry]

Can someone share a sample UI Toolkit project?
I've been having a really hard time finding any resources for anything above basic Editor UI ☹☹

[nimble chasm]

Does anyone know how to make buttons not Selectable? I want to have some buttons that the user toggles "on"/Selected, but other buttons that don't change the Selected state

I've tried setting the Navigation to None on the Button component, but it still deselects other buttons

[sonic hollow]

^

I need the same for making a node based UI where to select the next node you have to have the previous node

[eager moth]

I have a question that's tangentially UI-related, so I figured I could ask it here. I have an Azure database which contains a variety of questions and answers, as well as a table of users. I would like to create a UI that is able to interact with this database in order to allow someone to take a quiz (questions will be taken from the database, and displayed to the user, then the user's answers will be stored in the database for a specific user account). My problem is that I haven't been able to establish a connection between the project and the Azure database. Is anyone able to provide me with some insight?

[obtuse oyster]

I think i'm going to end up settling on this for the controls

I'm curious what you guys think 🙂

It would just loop so long as the player is on the screen

[broken flame]

what do you think of my hp bar (both the bar and hp text are gradients but i dont know how to make a gif)

[earnest topaz]

how do I make animations that constantly moves on the background of my menu screen?

[tired briar]

When I run the game the material of the TMP gets automatically changed to the default, even-though I have assigned my own copy of the material. What is going on? https://i.imgur.com/xCzCMb7.png

my custom material is "My LiberationSans SDF - Simple", it gets replaced with the default TMP one

without assigning my materials all my text has the same property (underline etc)

[rain tinsel]

Hello, I'm looking into doing a color palette that I can pick colors to add to various UI objects and then if I change one of the colors in the palette I want to apply it to all objects

How do I approach this problem? Any tips?

[lusty oxide]

This video series might help you out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUSmI7F304

[rain tinsel]

🙏

[hollow timber]

Hey ya

how would you guys layout this in unity?

I currently have this hierarchy

should I have an Horizontal Layout Group component on the Name Panel object?

[mortal robin]

Not necessarily

only if you want the label and the input field to dynamically reposition themselves based on line a percentage of the parent's size

[hollow timber]

that would be the best solution right?

[mortal robin]

If you just anchor them both to the left side of the parent, you should get a nice result where they stick a particular number of pixels away from the left side

that's simpler

[hollow timber]

tbh I just want this to be responsive to any screen size, that's it really

[mortal robin]

just use anchors

horizontal layout would be weird

I would want this stuff to just stick to the left side of the screen (with fixed offsets)

it would be weird if the space between the label and the field was dynamic

[hollow timber]

I need to have a look into the anchors cause I don't understand them very well

[mortal robin]

let me clarify - I owuld want the label and the input field to stick to be anchored to the left side of the Name Panel

The name panel's position inside whatever contains it is obviously a different story

yeah you should learn about anchors

and pivots etc..

otherwise laying out UI is going to be a nightmare for you

[hollow timber]

alright, I'll watch some video about it, and then try your solution

thank you for the help!

[long charm]

hi guys, does anyone have some tips to make the HUD a bit more visible? I've tried outlining. I notice games have super obvious interfaces

[ebon mesa]

@long charm give the text a shadow?

[long charm]

I’ll give that a go, thank you

[rapid ferry]

Word of warning for debug UI. Do not be me, have descriptive error messages if something goes VERY wrong.

[timber minnow]

hey question for y'all. do folks here have a go-to pattern for building UI that depends on data (e.g. showing a card for each weapon in the game)? do instantiate prefabs at runtime, or create it ahead of time in the editor?

[mortal robin]

If there's a dynamic number of cards i Instantiate prefab

If there's a set number, i create them in the editor (but still use a prefab )

[timber minnow]

for the latter, do you create them manually? or use a script to create them?

[mortal robin]

Manually, but I'm imagining like a small number less than 10

If it's More than that I would Instantiate them at runtime no matter what

[timber minnow]

interesting

my use case is basically hats

i have dozens of hats in the game. i know what they are at editor time, but i often add new hats to the game.

i could lay them out dynamically at runtime, but that seems.. slightly wasteful of resources?

it also means I can't preview what it looks like in the editor scene view until i run

[mortal robin]

Deffo do it at runtime

Wasteful of resources how?

You can preview by just hitting ctrl D a bunch of times in the editor if you want

Or just hit play

Anyway you will want your UI to adjust dynamically since you will be adding hats

[timber minnow]

@mortal robin yes definitely want the UI to adjust dynamically

i guess maybe my concern is unfounded. there's probably no big deal with instantiating 100 UI prefabs

[mortal robin]

Instantiating them is no different from creating them in the editor

As far as game resources go

[timber minnow]

hmm i guess that's true, the scene itself gets instantiated anyway

[mortal robin]

In fact it's cheaper because it uses less disk space

[timber minnow]

heh fair enough

do you use actual prefabs for this? or have a "template" object that's embedded in the scene?

i find it sort of annoying that i can't tell which prefab will be used for the UI just by looking at the hierarchy/scene view

(let alone what it'll look like until I run it)

[mortal robin]

I usually use a template object when I first create it, and then turn the template into a prefab and delete it from the scene entirety once it's working right

[timber minnow]

gotcha, okay yeah that's usually what i end up doing

it always felt a bit weird to me but i guess that's just how it goes

[mortal robin]

Some people leave the template in the scene and delete it

In Awake

I guess you could Instantiate from a template object in - scene but that gets dodgy if the list can be empty

[timber minnow]

yeah i've tried variations of that and i end up needing to use DestroyImmediate which i have shot myself in the foot with as is to be expected

i think i'll just accept the fact that i won't really be able to preview what my UI looks like fully until i run the game

in principle, the UI layout shouldn't change nearly as much as the data it's representing, so that feels like the right direction to optimize for

[quartz drift]

Anyone else run into an issue where anchors aren't showing in the Scene in editor?

Red box is a child of white box, but no anchors are visible in the scene.

[azure flame]

Make sure gizmos are not deactivated and select rectangular transform tool top left

[quartz drift]

Ah, there we go. Thanks!

[thick fossil]

I have been putting together UI mockups for Battle Arts. It's not polished, and I'm not too concerned with the details yet, but I would love to get your feedback based on the following things:

• placement, scale, and shape of the different elements
• the information being conveyed
  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/760759277492895765/807907362282536990/PolygonPros_BattleArts_UI_Mockup_020721_01a.jpg

For context, this is a turn-based fighting game, where players choose cards representing fighting moves, which then execute on a timeline based on their startup and recovery frames.

[spare charm]

aaaa

[rain tinsel]

is UI Toolkit production ready?

My use case is a 100% UI Game

[rain tinsel]

I would add a preview of what is going to happen in terms of values for health (light highlighting how much damage you are making and how much health the opponent would have left)
The rock paper scissors thing is out of place (you should however highlight the selected card for easier readibility).
On the right not sure what the numbers represent

but, I must say I love this game concept 👌

[pine kraken]

Hi !

Hey guys i was following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvJzVIpqNrc&ab_channel=CocoCode and somehow i didnt followed it well, there is this script that "resizes" the game, and i dont know why i hit the play button and it didnt worked, the thing is, i tried to fix it by creating a new canvas and associate everything to it and use the script and i kinda ruined everything

It looks like that

now

im driving mad :')

All i want is help to resize everything to any screen size, or at least the usual screen sizes

Im using the device simulator

If you need more context just ask about it and ill answer, i dont know what kind of context i can give so just say what you need to help me

[torpid sapphire]

i didnt see that tutorial but maybe if <ou want thhe ui to scale with screen size then just go on the canvas and on the component canvas scaler and the set it from constant pixel size to scalw oth screen size and the just adjust it

[pine kraken]

Thanks

[untold basin]

Mask isn't working, it's placed on the panel, the ItemEntryClones are all my item game objects that are being created dynamically. Please help, thanks

[thick fossil]

Thank you for your feedback!
In the right bottom corner is the Timeline, with the numbers and symbols keeping track of the order in which different actions/events will occur.
In this screen mockup, it is currently the player on the left's turn. The card (battle art) that the player is considering for selection has a startup time of 8, so that attack would execute 8 frames from now, as indicated by the number 8 above the card's symbol and the 8 white frames before it on the Timeline. The card has a recovery time of 7, so 7 frames after it executes (15 frames from now) it would be the player's turn again to select a new card.
Meanwhile, on the bottom row of the Timeline is the opponent, who is currently stunned (the 4 red frames) and in recovery (the blue frames), and will get to have their turn 11 frames from now.

[coral cape]

I don't understand why content size fitter would make all of the content below reduce to 0? The content below have horizontal layout group and vertical layout group, which have objects in it to keep it spaceous. But using content size fitter squash all to 0 width and height???

[sonic hollow]

Can anyone point me to a good place to learn User Interface Coding patterns

I have a complex node/path user interface, and id to approach it modularly, scalably, and easy to understand

So some good code pattern learning would be great

[obtuse oyster]

Finally integrated my controls UI

thanks for all the help guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBr8L1r91hw&feature=youtu.be

[drowsy pebble]

Hey folks, I'm having some issues with the UI toolkit at runtime. Every time I update a text label in the UI, the hover state on any button that the mouse is over will flicker off. I've got an fps counter in the corner that's basically killing all animation/hover states whenever it's updated. What am I missing?

[muted kiln]

is there a way to push a hole inside a ui panel or put the camera content inside a ui element ?

im trying to put my character inside a UI element like this

[floral crow]

mask

[tawny pike]

how do you particals on a ui?

[floral crow]

I don't think you do

just gott put a particle system on the ui's position

[tawny pike]

yeah but the UI overlaps the particals

[floral crow]

not if you set the canvas to render over the camera

[tawny pike]

oh yeah

[floral crow]

canvas - render mode: camera

instead of overlap

[tawny pike]

iv set it to world space

yeah world place is the only thing that works

[jagged monolith]

You can do this bu it's a bit of work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5WVxdhEiIg

[tawny pike]

iv already been though that its really out dated

@jagged monolith

the camera setting ant the same anymore

@jagged monolith @floral crow iv been though formulas of people just arguing over this stuff and videos that are like 4 to 5 years out dated on this topic

[jagged monolith]

I used it last in Unity 2018

Might be different on the new render pipelines

[tawny pike]

yeah

i think it is

[jagged monolith]

you on URP?

[tawny pike]

id have to check

pretty sure im on the 2d render pipline

@jagged monolith

[jagged monolith]

Search for tutorials specifically for URP

[tawny pike]

yeah im still getting the same results

[sonic hollow]

Is there a 3D canvas (ie with a Depth level)?

[jagged monolith]

Yes, both camera space and world space canvases have depth

[oblique stratus]

how do i make these cords be seperate 2 lines instead of following one after the other?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/786724054241116172/808775723233706014/Snipalyboopaly.PNG

[sonic hollow]

I suppose I could make world space UIs, and on a button select "walk" to the next depth

Thanks for the idea

[sharp sapphire]

hello, first time doing UI in unity, making a 2d game, is there a way to resize the ui canvas element?

[mortal robin]

The canvas is always the size of the screen or whatever target camera viewport it's using

[sharp sapphire]

thanks mate 🙂

[verbal mauve]

hey everyone

so usually if you have a UI object inside another UI object

the one that's inside is given the higher stacking context

is there a way to override that so that the object's parent appears on top of it ?

[earnest prism]

Yes

If you click on the canvas there’s is something for that

Don’t remember what it was called

It’s like layers

[cloud lintel]

In URP 8.2.0, my text mesh pro UI's on a world space camera are visible through objects in game view, but not in scene view. Is there a way to fix this so they aren't seen through objects in game view?

[sly latch]

Friends in UI, I have a question which I can't seem to find anything but the most overcomplicated answers for.

Is it possible to reduce the UI Buttons interaction size?

I've changed the default image to one of my own.

these for example (will probably come out very small here

And I was wondering if there was a way to make the interaction zone conform to the shape of these buttons

[severe moss]

Im doing an option menu with a scrolling interface but as you can see i cant go down and the scale is restricted so i cant see what are the other options

[sonic hollow]

Make the "Content" object in the hierarchy taller

[severe moss]

wtf thank you, i thought i had already did this
can i make this automatic ?

[slate heart]

Does anyone know how I can make a light2D light interact with and effect a UI element? I'm guessing it needs to not be on screen space overlay? I want to have a UI element with a child light2D object to simulate a computer screen. Any ideas how to accomplish this?

[sonic hollow]

I dont beleive UI elements are exposed to physics or world lighting 🤔

Well, "Screen Space Overlay" does not support world lighting

I think "Screen Space Camera" does

Or a "World Space"

Its been a while since I tooled with lighting a UI

[rapid ferry]

Is it possible to make custom behavior for InputField via inherited class?

Using KeyPressed() method

[sonic hollow]

Im not sure I understand the question

But you can use the keyword "override" in the child class to overwrite a method of the parent class

[tired briar]

Is it worth learning UI elements and making UI with it or should I stick with IMGUI?

[sonic hollow]

What is IMGUI?

TexhMeshPro and Unity UI gets the job done, thats for sure

[tired briar]

IMGUI is the GUI system for Unity, the one before this new XML based. Obviously it does the job done, the question is if the new UI system is worth it, otherwise they would not make it 🙂

[sonic hollow]

I dont know the old one and the current one suits me well :)

[tired briar]

the current one?

The current one is the new one

XML based UIElements

[sonic hollow]

I have no idea :) Im using whatever is in 2019.r4

And it works great

[tired briar]

I'd like to hear from people who used UIElements and whether the switch is worth it

[tired briar]

I guess UEElements are still unusable ? Nothing works on Unity 2020.2

https://i.imgur.com/i2kEAEK.png

I have literally empty layout https://i.imgur.com/aDl322s.png

[willow copper]

I have an image I'm dynamically adjusting width for, I have it anchor'd to the left, but when I change the width, it's shrinking both sides and not sticking to the left. Is there any way around having to adjust the position to get this to stay aligned?

[soft crow]

Hi! i have a really weird problem with Unity's UI, i talked with some people and no one knows what the problem is.

here's a link for the fourm post:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/the-ui-sticks-from-the-sides.1056686/

[tired briar]

anyone has UIElemts working on 2020.2.3?

[willow copper]

It works for me but it's extremely buggy

[little ocean]

Hey there 🙂 I'd like to have have a rectangular shape in a 2D game which I rescale during the game. It shall show a symbol on it, though, which should remain it's original size and shape.
Is there a better way than my workaround to have an empty game object which inherits the rectangle and the symbol object?
Is there a more elegant way? Can I achieve this without the emtpy parent? 🙂

[severe frost]

Hi everyone, I'm working on some buttons that I will make available for free, do you have any ideas of what I could add? Here is the Play button

[tired briar]

I'd say the text should be editable by the user in Unity

[mortal robin]

Agreed - would be good to share just the button sprite with no text

[somber rock]

Heya, has anyone used a horizontal layout group for objects as opposed to images? I want to animate the health hearts rather than just a static image.

Do I need to update the HLG's images to equal the sprte renderer's image?

[mortal robin]

not sure I understand the question. You would have a HLG containing objects that have sprite renderers. What do you mean by "the HLG's images"?

(btw are you talking about world-space sprites, or UI elements?)

[soft crow]

It's looking kinda bland

maybe add some more detail or change the shape a bit

Anyways i have a really weird bug with unity; for some reason after i play an animation for a UI object it sticks out of the sides doesn't matter if i disable it or destroy it. Im using unity 2020.1.2f1, and here's the full post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/the-ui-sticks-from-the-sides.1056686/

[tender horizon]

is there a way i can make a image button?

[vague thicket]

Hi folks! I am trying to resolve an issue with my Scroll View setup not working correctly - I believe I followed the usual setup from the docs correctly, but somewhere something is affecting it which means the scrollable area is always the size of the Content object's height, rather than constrained to the size of this Fitter object (the blue transform helpers), and then expanding to the max size of the Content object, if needed?

[mortal robin]

The default button object already is an image

just replace the default image with your own

[hexed spear]

does anyone know how to peice together a good looking ui, what are the elements and how can you execute them

[rapid ferry]

is there any good UI template designs available anywhere? i need one for a quest window 🤔

@ me pls if u reply ❤️

[frosty pewter]

https://gameuidatabase.com/

Not templates to be used, but examples you can draw inspiration from

[rapid ferry]

i found one, i downloaded it to assets folder, do u know why i cant insert it into "source image" under the panel inspector?

[frosty pewter]

because you haven't marked it as a sprite

[rapid ferry]

how do i do that?

[frosty pewter]

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

[rapid ferry]

https://i.imgur.com/siSk3h0.png is that ok

[frosty pewter]

give it a shot

[rapid ferry]

it's way too see through, how do i change that?

[frosty pewter]

change the alpha of the color on the image component

[rapid ferry]

https://i.imgur.com/39MdVyf.png

is this where u mean

[frosty pewter]

That is not the image component, no

components are on gameobjects

[rapid ferry]

https://i.imgur.com/AiwM9CU.png
sorry never done this sort of thing before

idk where else i'd look

[rapid ferry]

it works =]

[tender horizon]

o

[sage prairie]

So I have a problem for a shooter that I am doing
basically I have a raw image and I have a custom gun model but for some reason whenever I play the game, the gun model doesnt show up on the raw image

[weary crow]

Is there a section to post that I'm looking for artists?
Or is this mainly for advice?

[jagged monolith]

team building is done on the forum @weary crow. There's a new section for it

[weary crow]

oh nice! thank you

[vague thicket]

A wee repost after a couple of days, hoping someone might know how to help with this 🙂 #📲┃ui-ux message

[tender horizon]

(first time) is this alright??

[vague thicket]

Many thanks to @restive haven, he helped me sort the above issue!

[thick fossil]

Another iteration of the UI for my game, changed some things up.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/760759277492895765/809187889207443456/PolygonPros_BattleArts_UI_Mockup_020721_01b.jpg

[wanton pike]

Hi, right now in my game the enemies really far away, are annoying, because they are so far and small on screen
there are orange triangles above them to indicate them, but is there anything else i could do with the UI to help?

[wanton pike]

nice!!

[tired briar]

The "PauseMenu" GameObject (GO) has a Vertical Layout and an Image component, it holds the buttons as childs. But the buttons control their own height with a layout element. So now the background of the PauseMenu GO does not auto scale with the size of all the buttons. How can I achieve this? I want the grey background image to scale with the size of the underlying buttons

https://i.imgur.com/pz2jN6L.png

Of course one could do it programmatically with code, but there should be an easier, more elegant way

[tender horizon]

when i press exit

everything works

just the ui doesnt appear

[jagged monolith]

did you try content size fitter @tired briar?

[tired briar]

didnt even know it existed, let me try

[tired briar]

this is magic, thank you very much! 👍

the solution for anyone else having this problem -> https://i.imgur.com/vqEL2nd.png

[jagged monolith]

Grrrreat

[tired briar]

Another one, this panel for some reason paints the white image background OVER its children: https://i.imgur.com/YiP2LaO.png

but on another menu with the same hierarchy it paints the blue background UNDER its children https://i.imgur.com/vA2OJKJ.png

something is wrong, no matter the position, the image is painted above - https://streamable.com/hpfdho

[jagged monolith]

Haha

You sure this isn't because your text and colour are both white @tired briar?

[tired briar]

ok thats a facepalm on my part 🙂 I thought the image is painted above

Thanks again 👍 This UI thing is making me stupid

if I want to change the text color of the button on mouse over, do I have to use animations for that?

[jagged monolith]

😄

No you can use an event trigger component

[tired briar]

hmm, cant find the Vertex Color on the TMP

I can change the material, but the Vertex Color should be accessible too

its exposed in the inspector, at the bottom https://i.imgur.com/bAqwLx3.png

[jagged monolith]

Huh you might need a tiny script for it then

[tired briar]

thanks, it works!

Solution: https://i.imgur.com/dM5Hl6m.png
https://i.imgur.com/AANLqN1.png

[jagged monolith]

Awesome

[tired briar]

Weird, the OnClick() event triggers twice, in the console I see 2x the debug log message from the GameManager

https://i.imgur.com/OkaE5Rf.png

is it supposed to trigger the OnClick() event twice on the button?

[jagged monolith]

No

[tired briar]

anyway I can debug to find the problem? It prints twice to the console for some reason

[jagged monolith]

Try disabling the text under it and see if it still happens

[red quail]

Hello guys,
I working on a pico- Quest project where we have 3d scene which contains a very large transparent/opacity layered UI
The UI is "draw call-ivore" with 100-120 batch/ draw call :/ (and around 13 fps just for this).
There are a lot of layered tiles with atlased pictures, live refresh content... I'm looking for a way to reduce the numbers of draw calls. I'm thinking to play/tweak the UI default material ?? Is there a way to do this ? Or to play with the render queue of the UI.
What do you think about ?

[old cape]

Frame debugger might tell why the batches are broken. Combining materials, reducing use of built in effects, reducing masking etc. are some of the common optimizations

[red quail]

Ok. We are already working on (frame debugging) I ve seen this :
"An advance technique you can try is to draw part of your UI in opaque mode, just before the geometry render queue. If you write to the z-buffer, then all pixels behind it won’t be rendered. Of course, that won’t look good for all types of UI controls.

[old cape]

@regal relic We don't have collab/job posting on this server.

[frosty pewter]

@regal relic There are pins in #💻┃unity-talk that link to the unity forums job section

[regal relic]

@old cape Sorry, wasn't aware of that!

[umbral orchid]

how can i move the slider with the mouse?

[rapid ferry]

I have given the highlighted and pressed different alpha values but it doesn't work :c any clue how to fix?

[cloud lintel]

What's the best way to check if a button was NOT pressed when the mouse is clicked?

[mortal robin]

bool mouseWasPressedAndButtonNotPressed = !Input.GetButton(...) && Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)

[cloud lintel]

Sorry I meant UI button

[mortal robin]

uhhh

I'm confused then

You want to know.. if the player clicked anywhere except on your button?

[cloud lintel]

yes exactly

I have a button that turns on a dropdown

[mortal robin]

make a button behind your button that fills the entire screen?

[cloud lintel]

I guess that could work lol

[mortal robin]

what's the point of this exactly?

[cloud lintel]

I need the dropdown to go away when the user clicks anywhere other than dropdown

[mortal robin]

Then use an event trigger on the dropdown

and do something on the OnDeselected event

[cloud lintel]

It's not unity's dropdown, it's a custom one I made

I turn it on via canvas group when a separate button is pressed

[mortal robin]

is it Selectable?

Give it a Selectable component, select it when it gets shown with EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(theDropDown), and give it an Event Trigger component and add an OnDeselected listener

[cloud lintel]

No I don't believe so

I have buttons in the dropdown that are selectable

[mortal robin]

hmmm

[cloud lintel]

with a scroll view

[mortal robin]

You could always just give it an Update method that checks if the mouse clicks outside its rect

[cloud lintel]

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too, thanks for the ideas

[cursive vessel]

hi everyone i have a quesion the UNITY UI NAVIGATION for controller and keyboard navigation is there a way to navigate continuously like turbo or as acoding reference (getkey) instead of the default navigation (getkeyDown) but without code only in parameter ??

[rapid ferry]

i want to switch scenes after a video finishes playing. how do i do that?

[jagged monolith]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Video.VideoPlayer-loopPointReached.html

[rapid ferry]

ty <3

[rapid ferry]

i've been trying but i can't seem to use it. can you help me please

[jagged monolith]

What's your code?

You can it in the top example here https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Video.VideoPlayer.html

[rapid ferry]

i don't know C# too well, and i deleted the code, all i want to do is know if the video is ended. if yes, use scene manager to switch scenes

[jagged monolith]

// assigned in inspector
public VideoPlayer videoPlayer;
void Start()
    {
        // Each time we reach the end, we slow down the playback by a factor of 10.
        videoPlayer.loopPointReached += EndReached;
    }

    void EndReached(VideoPlayer vp)
    {
        // Load scene
    }

[rapid ferry]

got it

thanks a ton :D

what does the error mean?

[jagged monolith]

using UnityEngine.Video

[rapid ferry]

oh ok

it works!

finally

thanks again

[white furnace]

Hello everybody 👋
Did anyone know this errors? I get it when i use the UI-Builder (at selecting the elemnts). The Inspector-Section is empty.
Thanks!

[white furnace]

After delete the ui builder in the packagecache it works... Thanks for the help 😄

[wanton pike]

hi any feedback

shop screen

[mortal robin]

numbers in the top right are kinda cut off

And why are there multiple things at the top that say SHOP

am I in the SHOP, or can I press that button (is that a button) to enter the SHOP?

The text in the box on the lower left is poorly centered, and the various elements at the bottom of the screen seem disparate. Some of them look like textures and some look like game screenshots. Are they all the same type of thing? @wanton pike

[rapid ferry]

for whatever reason i can't find the OnClick() for any of my buttons :c It was there yesterday

[mortal robin]

Click the little sideways triangle on the Button component to unfold it

[rapid ferry]

wow i'm dumb

thank you <3

[spark yoke]

iam having some trouble making an event button work on top of ui canvas panel

Anyone can help?

[uneven canyon]

hi guys i am new to the group,I need help when i am dragging my bird back it respawns immediately to its starting position can you guys help me fix this problem?

[spark yoke]

ur bird is the player?

And is it animated?

[uneven canyon]

can i message you in pm

?

[spark yoke]

uh yeah go ahead

[copper shore]

i have a canvas prefab that contains a pausemenu with some sliders

the sliders work in one scene, but in another they dont move, any idea why?

[azure flame]

It needs active EventSystem.

[copper shore]

i forgot about that, thanks 😄

[ebon matrix]

where do you guys source icons from? My scriptableobjects are clearly programmer art 😦

just some open source repo taking valuable space on github, budget of 0

I feel like I'm using windows 95 over here

[pseudo apex]

Now and then Humble bundle has some game dev art bundles that are extremely valuable. It's like 15 bucks for over 5gb of just random "cheap" to use art.

[real ice]

is there a way to stop a dropdown from hiding when an option is selected?

I want to change its options when one of them is clicked (for a sub-list)

dropdown.Show() does not override the hiding and temporarily changing the fade speed causes a flicker

oh, this seems to work:

[mental wind]

Hello everyone! What is difference Slider with Scrollbar?

[ebon matrix]

Would I be able to release those icons for free in my repo though?

[pseudo apex]

You can release a free/paid game with them, yes, but you can't release it for free for other to download and use for their own projects.

[ebon matrix]

ah yeah, I'm not releasing a game, it's a tool for unity development on github so I'm not sure I'll be able to put paid assets in

[jade cliff]

I'm making a game that is meant to look like a snes game (resolution and all) and the ui doesn't scale according with the games window size. I'm using the pixel perfect camera and both it and the canvas use the same reference resolution

is there a setting that I'm missing?

[pseudo apex]

You could always use googles free icons for example.
There are plenty free icon packs out there

[mortal robin]

Render a camera to a RenderTexture

put a RawImage component in your UI and use the RenderTexture as the texture for the RawImage

[thorn star]

ty

[tranquil pasture]

Heyo, trying to make ui/etc with my project but stuff in the editor isn't showing up, however it is when i run it in gameview?

left being the editor, right being my game

[topaz coral]

I've got a rather interesting problem. My buttons start to click infinitely whenever I click on them. Even the ones put into the scene by default. Any idea why this is happening?

[real ice]

any way to make content size fitter not flicker when its contents are changed?

there is one frame where the size is wrong

even if the contents are deleted and spawned back in on the same frame

[mortal robin]

@real ice possibly by calling https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Canvas.ForceUpdateCanvases.html after making the changes?

[real ice]

unfortunately that doesn't solve it.. :/

its a weird interaction between content size fitter and vertical layout group

I need the content of a scrollview to automatically fit to the size of its children, which are themselves driven by content size fitters

I have:
Scrollview
-Viewport
--Content
---SomeCategory (multiple)
----SomeButton (multiple)

[orchid sage]

hi

i want to change canvas reference scale resoulution but without affecting the elements size

how i can do that ?

this is the canvas

i want to change it from 1920 * 1080 to 720 *1280

when i tried to make another canvas and drop all elements in new canvas the scale of elelmtns changing

liek this

[mighty oar]

I'm struggling a little bit here with layering because of the canvas I'm using as I don't completely understand it

this is what's currently happening with that text box I've sorta made up!

whereas it's typically like this

[thorn star]

I'm instantiating a toggle prefab, how can I script to set what is executed onValueChange? without manually doing in the editor

[mortal robin]

You can add a listener to this: https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Toggle-onValueChanged.html

There's an example in that link

[thorn star]

prefect thank you

[marble hollow]

I could just be a little dumb, is there a way to have a horizontal canvas UI for mobile devices that looks entirely different from the vertical phone UI. I have tried a few different suggestions like using canvas scaler, but I can't seem to get around the objects in the canvas resizing when changing orientation (Ex. built UI in Vertical mode, buttons stretch out in horizontal mode. Want to build in Vertical mode and have a completely different looking horizontal UI.)

Additionally, does anyone know of a good sample scene I could look at to try to get a better understanding of different looking rotatable UI for mobile.

[bronze marlin]

I'm making a custom graphic class that generates a line mesh for ugui. I'm trying to pack some extra info into every channel of the UVs so I can access distance, normalized distance, width etc in a shader. However it looks like channels after u and v and always 0 even though I'm setting them to non zero values.

Is there something I need to do differently? The VertexHelp.AddVert function takes a Vector4 for the uv so I'm confused why it would only use a Vector2

Here's how I'm adding the vert. I have verified that the w and t channels are being set correctly

vh.AddVert
(
  position: worldVert.ToLocal(this),
  color: color,
  uv0: new Vector4(1f, normalizedDistance, halfWidth, currentDistance)
);

[bronze marlin]

I tried storing the additional info in uv1

uv1: new Vector4(width, currentDistance, 0f, 0f),

width is constant but when I visualize it with a shader it's different for each vertex?! Unity seems to be overriding or transforming the uv

[icy hazel]

@orchid sage u can use 3d text bettet

[hoary flume]

is there a way of using a psb file with layers as a UI image?

[mortal robin]

Export it as a PNG

[willow copper]

I'm having a strange scaling issue with my UI. This is what it looks like. The game server row in the hierarchy isn't in the scene, I'm instantiating it and have a vertical layout group and scroll area to let it flow vertically.

The issue is, when I instantiate the game server row, it looks like this... What might I have set wrong?

I'm instantiating it and setting it's parent like this

                var gameServerRow = Instantiate(gameServerRowPrefab);

                gameServerRow.transform.parent = gameServerRowContainer.transform;

[mortal robin]

Code looks fine - it's a problem with your UI setup

copy the row into the rowcontainer a bunch of times in the editor and see what it looks like

[willow copper]

Seems fine in the editor

[mortal robin]

could just be a screen resolution thing?

Looks like the elemnts are getting cut off on the left and right?

because you can kinda see part of the player count

may need to adjust your anchors

[willow copper]

Looks like it was due to the way I was setting the parent.

I changed this:

gameServerRow.transform.parent = gameServerRowContainer.transform;

To:

var gameServerRow = Instantiate(gameServerRowPrefab, gameServerRowContainer.transform, false);

The last argument is what fixed it (worldPositionStays)

[steep dragon]

I'm having a problem where if my player or scene view looks a certain direction the sprites and text disapear

The text at the top was doing the same thing I don't understand what's going on

the only notable thing is that it's a world canvas with pixel size 512x512 at a scale of 0.001.

Does anyone know what's going on with the ui canvas?

It appears it doesn't disapear but appear behind the shader graph shader object

is there something I can use to make my shader never draw over the ui canvas?

it appears transparent objects behind ui world canvases draw over ui by blocking it (invisibly)

AHAHAHAH

this render queue feature, ui must render at 3000, which is why the two overlap
setting renderqueue on the transparent object to slightly less than 3000 makes it not disapear!!!

[frosty pewter]

transparent objects in the same queue are sorted via their centers

so the canvas will sort in that manner wither others in the same queue (/ layer)

The best fix if you can do it (Canvas must be transparent) is to use opaque or cutout materials - as they don't have transparency and therefore sort correctly

[steep dragon]

yeah pr you could set the 3000 value to 2999 to create Transparent-1

[frosty pewter]

yeah, manually sorting like that also works 😄

[steep dragon]

[arctic anchor]

does anyone know how to add lights to ui objects?

[steep dragon]

ui objects are 2d sprites, if you put them in world space, you can move them to be same scale with a 3d object and act like that 3d object is lit
otherwise you can use an aditional camera, set to only see certain objects, pointed at that object, with a render texture applied to a raw image on the canvas. otherwise, i'm unsure you can add lights to ui, you could always fake it with quads, slim cubes or something else if you're trying to get shadows to fall

[long charm]

any ideas why I can't see this stuff in the scene view? Visibility is on and object is enabled

can see it in play though

all layers are visible too, it was okay yesterday

sorry if this isn't the right place, wasn't too sure where to put it

[silk horizon]

I think its because your MainMenu canvas/panel is higher up in the hierachy, so your SettingsMenu overrides it in the scene view, if you swapped them around it would be opposite

[long charm]

unfortunately not 😦 thanks for answering though

can't even see them if the rest are disabled, but game mode is fine, genuinely baffled

[silk horizon]

You're not disabling it in a script or anything?

[long charm]

nah, my method for hiding/showing menu screens is through scaling to 1 or 0, and that's all done at run time

[silk horizon]

What happens when you disable the background? Do they appear then

[long charm]

nein

this is a screenshot from yesterday, low res cos it's from a twitch vod i'm using as a dev log

but that's what I'm expecting to see, I just disable visibility to work on different menu objects

[runic igloo]

Is it outside of your camera's clipping range? I don't know if that matters for canvas and UI elements like it does for regular stuff but you might try pulling your camera back on the z-axis to see if it helps.

[long charm]

would that matter in scene view? it's totally fine when I play, I just can't edit anything

thanks for the help btw guys

[runic igloo]

Oh, I see. You can't see it in scene view. Never heard of that. Keep in mind that the UI is typically gigantic compared to game objects. Because of this it can seem like it isn't visible. What happens if you double-click on one of the UI items in the hierarchy?

[long charm]

super zoomed in

[rapid ferry]

ok so how do i make a ui were like i die and then it pops up "Press anything to restart"

[long charm]

that's a pretty broad question

[rapid ferry]

well beginner here

[long charm]

what steps have you gone through already?

[rapid ferry]

scripting and making 2d games but with UI's i'm new

[long charm]

emit an event when you die and use that to display the UI I guess

[rapid ferry]

oh ok

[long charm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Events.UnityEvent.html

[wicked condor]

Please if someone knows how to make a parent UI element fit it's text mesh pro child i'd be great help: https://forum.unity.com/threads/expand-textmeshpro-container-automatically.1064093/

[shrewd socket]

Hey, does anyone know why a UI element with an EventTrigger script on it isn't triggering OnPointerEnter event in one place but is in another?

It seems to work if I remove a graphics-raycast (remove, not disable) component on the UI element, then also remove the canvas element from the same element (again remove, not disable, dissable doesn't fix it) then the onPointerEnter starts working.

Is it some weird issue with parenting and canvases? Or the event system?

[long charm]

Any idea why this shows up when I create a new text object?

can't move it, can't resize it

[stiff reef]

@long charm thats a Rect Anchor

[long charm]

yep you're right

not sure what it means though, and why my damn ui isn't appearing in scene view

[stiff reef]

anchors can do that

that particular arrangement of anchors tells me your Left Right Top Bottom stuff is set to "Center"

[long charm]

so the only stuff that's working as expected is if I make things a child of the canvas

[stiff reef]

UI stuff can only draw under teh canvas

Canvas is the Renderer part of the UI 😛

[long charm]

yeah yeah, but I mean like

a direct child

[stiff reef]

ah

[long charm]

if it's a child of the children of canvas, they don't show

that test text also has anchors set to center

[stiff reef]

screenshare?

its probably a stupid thing; just hard to diagnose from afar

[long charm]

if you'd be willing, I don't want to take up too much of your time

[stiff reef]

all good i have ~5min

[long charm]

sure, I'll add you andd give you a call

[hoary flume]

i need it as a psb lol

[iron escarp]

It seems my HorizontalLayoutGroup forces my Anchor Presets to be aligned top left

Is it possible to change it?

(once I enter play mode it will be changed back)

[iron escarp]

seems not possible

[earnest topaz]

I need help on this

the play button is behind a UI object

and I don't know how to bring it to the front

[naive mural]

try using an image component instead of a sprite renderer for the chunk lower right?

ui in the same canvas is sorted based on their order in the hierarchy, and having a sprite renderer there might make it behave strangely

[earnest topaz]

Thank you very much

it worked

[naive mural]

ay nice!

[mortal robin]

Yes, in the horizontal layout group

[iron escarp]

thx

[slate heart]

Hey guys, I have a small problem with my UI. I am instantiating a bunch of buttons at runtime, and they are parented to a content object for a scroll rect. Mostly everything works fine, except that they initially load in above the area of the scroll rect and then lerp into proper position.

Any idea what this is about?

[viral pasture]

Hmm, what kind of anchoring are you using?

Is there a way to pin ui elements to other ones? I've got a series of player icons representing the members of a player's party, and when you mouse over one of them it expands to the right to reveal that player's username. What would be the best way to move every icon to the right of the expanded one then move them back once it contracts back? Currently going at it via code, but I feel like there's gotta be a better way to go about this.

[slate heart]

Ahh... I need to check, sorry.

What kind should I use?

Center alignment?

[viral pasture]

It depends on the situation. Center alignment works, but it won't scale to screen size. Not sure if it's even what's causing the issue. A video and the code you're using to instantiate would help.

[slate heart]

I'll see what I can do but I will have to post it later tonight

[viral pasture]

All good

[muted kiln]

is there a way to make grid layout children respect their content size ? seems to work for vertical and horizontal layout but not for grid

[acoustic bison]

hey, i started using the ui builder today and I have a frustrating problem. the UI I built in the editor does not match the one in the game when I start it. I have enabled the "match game view" function on the uxml though

can someone help maybe ?

[jade fern]

I have an "action point" System that looks like this in my game

What's a good way to handle removing/adding to this action point bar?

Like right now I just have to where, if you lose a notch in it, it makes the spot gray, so it updates with a visual script like that, but each of these individuals sprite I'm just referencing in my visual script.

[mortal robin]

Use an array and for loops.. You loop over all the sprites and if currentActionPoints > indexOfThisSprite then you make it white, otherwise you make it grey

[civic notch]

I dont understand the scrollview

if i set elastic it wont allow me to scroll without it snapping back

and if i take unrestricted i get infinate scroll

how can i allow it to scroll content and stop and top/bottom

[dense dune]

ehi all! Where do you place the 'keyboard control' panel, that shows the keyboard commands? Inside the Settings? After a button in the main menu?

[jade fern]

Cool thank you!

[slow adder]

Having a issue this this UI
This is a scroll inventory and it is working just fine, but for some reason i can not prevent it from overlapping the bottom of the inv

[summer oasis]

Hey Guys 😄 I am prototyping a game with Laser and Mirrors and I am seeking information on how to achieve a UI that would show the selected mirror on which we click. Once selection we will be able to Move and Rotate the mirror. How can I make this UI appear around my object? I am working in 2D. I am assuming I need to work in WorldSpace for this.

Here is how it looks. the blue thing is obviously the mirror

[cursive vessel]

hey guys i was watching a tutorial lately about how to create a dynamic radical menu selection till i discovered in the end that it only support mouse position, is there any way to implement joystick/keyboard support? here is the tutorial btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzQdc2rAdZc

[dark cipher]

Hello.

I have a backdrop here, and I have a canvas with override camera over 3d object's camera. As you see "Platform" prefab is rendered by 3D camera

I want to fix my camera position for every resulation of devices.

How can I do that?

[frigid vapor]

I'm trying to create a scroll view that has two VerticalLayoutGroups inside that expand to fit their contents.

I'm having some trouble getting the layout system to handle this though

It seems it doesn't register and update everything properly if those contents change (atm, dragging/dropping items into those two lists handled by the vertical layout group components)

Anyone have experience with this?

[median iris]

I did some UI stuff with nested LayoutGroups inside of ScrollViews etc and I experienced the same problem, they wouldn't expand/update properly..
Idk if I just structured my UI in the wrong way..
at the end I made it work by manually rebuilding the Canvas/Layouts after an element got added/removed, probably not the best solution xD

@frigid vapor

[viral pasture]

Seems a lot of us are struggling with layout groups, lol. I've got a horizontal layout group that works for what I need, except now I'm trying to set it up to be able to scale with different screen sizes and resolutions. From what I can tell, I should have the HLG control child size height possibly with a Content Size Fitter?

I've been trying every which combination of settings, and whenever I click control child height or control child width it shrinks the size of the children to a seemingly random value. In 4k, the parent has a height of 100, the children have a height and width of 100, but when I control child size height it forces all the children to have a height of 16. When I turn on width, the width also goes from 100 to 16. Both on makes them all 16 by 16. I don't understand where it's getting the 16 value or why. Preferred size on the content size fitter results in the same, and minimum size puts it at a height or width of 0. Can anyone shed some light on this?

[frigid vapor]

@median iris I actually discovered the layout groups "Controls child size" option needs to be used, and then you need to utilize Layout Elements on everything to control the size of the individual items. Then it updates perfectly.

This includes me drag/dropping items in.

And after starting to use that it handled it flawlessly.

So I use the controls child size for vertical on any vertical layout groups in the scroll view and it worked.

[median iris]

Nice!

[azure horizon]

Hi, I can't make the scroll work

I have the scroll Rect and the content with the items

I made sure the content is larger than the scroll

I watched 5 tutorials that showed me the same thing

Nothing makes it work

[median iris]

Can u show the structure of your ScrollView GameObject?

If you create new ScrollView, there's a Content child to it, you'd give that Content child a Content Size Fitter as well as a LayoutGroup, it should work

[azure horizon]

I did not use a ScrollView

[median iris]

Mhmm

I'd give you the advice to check out the default ScrollView, understand how and why it works, and then apply the concepts to your custom scroll thingy 😀
Won't be able to tell you why it doesn't work if you don't show us the complete setup 🙂

[azure horizon]

I just did in the picture, that's all I have

that's what's on the "content"

[median iris]

I am not sure, but do you maybe need a scrollbar to make the ScrollRect work? I always used the default ScrollView and adjusted it to my needs

[azure horizon]

I'm not sure either, I followed 5 tutorials that showed me the same thing and they all worked

except for mine

[median iris]

Is there a specific reason why the default ScrollView is not a valid option for your situation? You could adjust all the textures etc to your liking

[azure horizon]

not really, I just don't want to have to adjust because of my limitation every time something doesn't work instead of understanding why it doesn't work

ok, I just did that and added all of the items to the content game object and it still doesn't scroll

[median iris]

Try adding a Scrollbar as child of the scroll Rect

[azure horizon]

it does that by default

when you use the UI >> Scroll View

[median iris]

But there's no Scrollbar assigned in your ScrollRect

[azure horizon]

like you told me to do

yes. there is

[median iris]

Ah, I looked at previous image and there wasn't any 🙂

And it still won't work?

Even when dragging the scrollbar?

[azure horizon]

because I made that one from the tutorials, this one is the one that unity gives you by default if you select UI >> Scroll View

it doesn't wrok

work*

I click the scrollbar, I use my mouse

nothing

[median iris]

Sorry, I have no clues anymore

[azure horizon]

great, thanks

[median iris]

I'd suggest you just give the default ScrollView a try, sorry

Maybe someone else will take a look into this channel and is able to help u better

[azure horizon]

bro, I don't think you understand me very well and I don't know how to explain it to you so you can get it better. I just used the default scrollview like you told me that has a scroll bar by defaut, that I did not change at all, everything is still default, and it doesn't work

[median iris]

Mhmm ok

That's weird

[untold scarab]

Is there any way to remove this annoying twitching whenever I instantiate a prefab inside a Scroll View?

[junior zodiac]

For designing icons, I'm trying to decide the right pixel width/height for icons on a standard 1080p desktop screen. Any advice?

This will be for things like slotted weapons, inventory items, etc.

[cinder silo]

Simple issue. The background is one sprite, with some transparency. Why does the transparent coloring over the texts above it?

[viral pasture]

How are they situated in the hierarchy? The background needs to be higher in the hierarchy than everything else.

[cinder silo]

I ended up finding out about render queues and just altered that value 'till it worked

Then applied the same material to other sprites in the scene so they render beneath the pause background

ezpz

[viral pasture]

It's good to know about render queues, but understanding that the render order is also dictated by the order in the hierarchy might have fixed your problem with the drag of the mouse.

[cinder silo]

I have the pause element parented the way I need it to be in the canvas, and in the hierarchy as a whole

probably wouldnt have been so simple

[viral pasture]

Are the buttons not parented to the pause menu?

[viral pasture]

Don't worry about pixel size and make them look right on your UI, then anchor them in place. That way they'll scale with resolution. Then make the art with whatever aspect ratio the elements have.

[cinder silo]

They are, as is the PAUSED text

the pause menu is an EGO, with all the elements parented into separate children

Im having another issue though. The pause menu overlays ontop of everything correctly except this water texture here. I changed its render queue to be lower than the pause menu material, but when I did that this undesirable pattern appeared

[viral pasture]

Are you using a world space canvas? A screen or camera space canvas should overlay your UI over everything else.

[cinder silo]

screenspace

[viral pasture]

Weird

[cinder silo]

Pretty sure I just fucked the renderqueues of all my materials a bit too much. I just ended up doing tedious repetitive renderqueue changes on most materials until i got satisfying results

I'll just have to stay on top of that stuff when i make more sprites and textures

[viral pasture]

I don't suppose you could tell me the exact settings you have enabled for each of the components? I am floundering over here, lol. I just want the elements to match the height of their parent for a horizontal group, but it keeps shrinking their height to something smaller than the parent.

[frigid vapor]

Content size fitter on the game object with vertical layout group

Sec

It's recompiling, going to double check

Preferred size for the vertical fit on those

I had child force expand on height

Control child size true on height

(for vertical layout group containers inside the scroll list)

In my case the items that go into those have LayoutElement components

Min height set for that

(to whatever is needed)

Content game object which is the main container for these nested vertical layout group also has a vertical layout group on it, and a content size fitter with the same settings as mentioned above.

I'll check that I don't have any old canvas recalc code in there

Nope should be good.

I commented out all my LayoutRebuilder calls when I figured this out.

@viral pasture

[remote garnet]

hey there, can anyone help me, i'm stuck

we're using the unity automatic UI navigation for all menus because we populate the menus by code. i can't manually link stuff because it's not even there yet in editor mode.

usually this has worked so far, but when i manuall deactivate gameobjects containing selectables (hierarchies of them) to switch menu branches on/off, the system sometimes gets bugged

for example one and only one button becomes unselectable for no apparent reason

this seems to be a unity bug but i can't find anything by googling the issue apart from one 5 year old thread with 0 replies https://forum.unity.com/threads/forcing-refresh-of-auto-navigation.325093/

I need a way to force a complete UI and/or navigation refresh

[iron escarp]

does someone know the difference between dynamic and static populating for TMP?

When to use dynamic over static? what are the advantages?

[remote garnet]

so, this has to be a unity bug, right?

this is what happens to my automatic navigation flow after i toggle the root gameobject holding those buttons off and on again.

before it looks like this:

the system for some reason thinks there is "something" between the credits and exit game button after the toggle.

it wants to flow/navigate there and i cant get rid of this "ghost" object. but i also can't navigate there at all, it just doesn't do anything when i try to navigate to it.

[vast fern]

Guys i bought a ui from unity store but idk how to get the psd can someone get it for me if i give u the file. PLS DM ME. I don't have unity nor do ik how to use it but i need the ui PSD file

--- i will pay if u need^

[bronze marlin]

is there a zoom-like layout group component floating around anywhere on the internet? I don't think the builtin Grid Layout has the functionality to do this and I would love to not have to write it myself haha

[tender musk]

kinda problem here. My button on another canvas is misplaced and can't seem to find a way to fix this. Anyone experienced it?

[meager pilot]

How do I make my panel's animation be relative to it's starting position?

I tried parenting it but it did not work.

[acoustic olive]

I run into an issue periodically when a particular UI element such as a button or a Slide becomes unresponsive, i.e it does not register a click or any other interaction
This especially when copying and pasting UI elements into a scene. And the EventSystem gameobject is present. Has anybody else here run into similar issues? Thank you

[jade fern]

I have my UI on a Canvas my question is; is Screen Space Overlay or Camera preferable? If I have it on camera, it works better initially because that's how I originally structured it, but things such as 3D objects begin to render over my UI.

If I have Screen Space set to Overlay though, then my UI messes up slightly on some scaling, (I have a sprite that fits into a rectangle using a Mask). Also it becomes harder to work on because of how the scaling looks visually in the Scene editor.

[jade fern]

Nevermind, figured out Sorting group actually effects the renderer sortinglayer it seems.

[wise mountain]

sorry for a complete beginner question but im really interested in designing interactive menu screens that can be navigated online. would unity be a good match for creating these. the closest i could find is a start screen main menu tutorial but lots of the features are the same. id be looking to have designers make visuals in photoshop etc and then use unity to make it interactive and publish it online for people to explore. any help would be massively appreciated. thank you!

and if any of you can point me towards any professionals who specialise in this field that would be very appreciated also!

[mortal robin]

I have a canvas that is not reacting to mouse events at all. No Highlighting, no selection, no onClick, etc... is happening to any UI element on the canvas. A different canvas in the same scene works fine. Both canvases are Screen Space Camera - but are attached to different cameras. Things I have checked already:

• I have an EventSystem in the scene, which is activated and enabled.
• I have a Graphic Raycaster on the Canvas (each canvas has its own raycaster)
• I am using an Input System UI Input Module (new input system)
• Everything works fine on a different canvas which renders to a different camera.
• The event system preview window seems pretty useless right now for some reason. It's not showing me what I'm hovering over or anything, just the currently selected GameObject

What other debugging steps should I take?

[mortal robin]

I hacked this together: cs var es = EventSystem.current; List<RaycastResult> results = new List<RaycastResult>(); PointerEventData ed = new PointerEventData(es); ed.position = Mouse.current.position.ReadValue(); es.RaycastAll(ed, results); Debug.Log($"raycast results are {string.Join(", ", results.Select(r => r.gameObject.name))}"); and it seems like the EventSystem can see my objects just fine.. so why isn't it sending events to them?

[azure flame]

The event system preview window seems pretty useless right now for some reason
It shouldn't be. Compare what it displays when you are over working canvas and disabled one. Blocking object would be the problem.

[mortal robin]

Well that's just the thing - it only seems to be showing the currently selected object and nothing else. Even when interacting with the working canvas. In the past it used to show hovered objects etc...

It shows this for the working canvas

When mousing over the non-working canvas, nothing there ever changes. Even if nothing is selected when starting to mouse over it

it stays empty

Is this just because of the INputSystem UI Input Module?

I'm going to try switching to the old input module for a minute...

[azure flame]

there's mode that supports both

[mortal robin]

Ok yeah when I switch to the Standalone Input Module it works

I can interact with stuff

_>

so this is maybe a new Input System issue?

(also the event system preview window shows useful info again)

[mortal robin]

Ok well.. I found my problem.

Turns out PEBKAC

I have code that was disabling the InputActions asset that is driving my input module 🤦‍♂️ false alarm

[open oak]

hi

I'm having a problem with UI Canvas

it seems simple, but can anyone help me?

[open oak]

nvm, got help on #💻┃unity-talk

[vast fern]

**Guys i bought a ui from unity store but can't find the .psd file. If u can find it and gimme it i'd be willing to pay and ofc i'll send u the file. **

[wooden trellis]

What?

[jagged monolith]

Don't think I've ever got a psd file from an asset store asset

[silk ibex]

all of my text is going blurry. how can i fix this

that is supposed to say test but its to blurry to even read

[azure flame]

Use TextMeshPro text instead.

Also you shouldn't be scaling UI elements. Set size instead.

[silk ibex]

i hadnt scaled it

[azure flame]

Parent object then

[rapid ferry]

hello everyone, how can i lock game screen when my ui buttons show up?

[rapid ferry]

i need help

anyone online

[torpid sapphire]

with time.timescale = 0 it freezes and time.timesale = 1 it should resume i think

[torpid sapphire]

yeah helo?

[rapid ferry]

so i used a rect mask 2d on my button and only the text is getting masked

[torpid sapphire]

ok so you put it on your button oject is it parented to the text?

[rapid ferry]

yes

[torpid sapphire]

which version are you using?

[rapid ferry]

its parented to the entire button

so the entire button should get masked

[rapid ferry]

2019.21f1

[torpid sapphire]

ok ill try it my own

[rapid ferry]

here a screenshot

[torpid sapphire]

thats looking weird

[rapid ferry]

yea

[torpid sapphire]

can you show me the inspector of the button?

[rapid ferry]

aight

here

[torpid sapphire]

ok and where did you put the sprite mask onto?

[torpid sapphire]

?

[rapid ferry]

i put the sprite mask onto a game object called the ScrollRect and i made a game object inside the scroll rect called Levels and inside the levels game object is all the buttons

[torpid sapphire]

so but this is still a UI object where you have it onto like a ui image with image disabled?

just for the problem you want to do something like visible inside or outside mask?

[torpid sapphire]

ohhh this doesnt even work

[rapid ferry]

the button is completely visible with the text 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

[torpid sapphire]

with an ui

[rapid ferry]

?

[torpid sapphire]

ok sorry idk iam not good at these things i just tried to help u sorry

[rapid ferry]

no its ok

have any idea on how i can fix this?

[torpid sapphire]

no sorry google it or watch the tutorial of blackthornprod to masks?

[rapid ferry]

i followed a brackeys tutorial 100% exact and still no luck

[torpid sapphire]

try other tutorial or search on google for these issues

i think you have to make something special because its UI

[rapid ferry]

ok i just removed the scroll feature entirely and just made the buttons small i never needed the scroll feature just thought it would add some effect to it

[rapid ferry]

thank you so much

[quiet monolith]

im having an issue where my buttons are unable to detect mouse enter and on click events, i also notice that when clicking on the button in scene window, the outline isnt highlighted as it usually does. how can i fix this?

heres the inspector info

[azure flame]

You need graphic raycaster on the canvas/subcanvas and an active EventSystem on the scene. Use event system to see what objects blocks UI raycast.

[quiet monolith]

i think i see how to solve it, thank you

[quiet monolith]

nvm ive encountered another issue

it seems the canvas ui elements are not blocking raycasts at all

even system info when hovering mouse in canvas

inspector info of canvas in question

the canvas does have a graphic raycaster, and there is an active event system in the scene

[azure flame]

canvas doesn't block anything by itself, it needs parented UI element

[quiet monolith]

yes, i do i have ui elements

sorry for the misconception

[azure flame]

are you testing with default UI elements?