📲┃ui-ux

[ashen basin]

i want the text to be orange, not the entire button

like this

[chrome kettle]

@ashen basin Text object is a child of the button object

[ashen basin]

yes

are you saying that its not possible..?

im kind of new so sorry if i seem dumb

[chrome kettle]

You can change the color of the text in the inspector if you select it in the hierarchy

[ashen basin]

yes but i want it to change in game

when its selected

otherwise its going to be white

this is what the button looks like originally

[ashen basin]

and this when its selected

instead of the entire button, i want the text to be highlighted when its selected

[ashen basin]

like this

[chrome kettle]

Ah, when it's selected

The text is a separate object and can't react to the button by itself
It would need a script to detect when the button object is highlighted and then change its color accordingly

[low pike]

nah.. just drag the TMP game object into here

[chrome kettle]

Oh good thing you caught that!

[low pike]

Didn't catch it.. I knew it 😉

[chrome kettle]

Caught my mistake, I mean

[low pike]

ah, I see!

I don't do it that way, but for a beginner it's fine

[chrome kettle]

Always good to know what the default functionality is capable of
Even if most of it gets replaced for the sake of control and polish, everything that can be customized to preference without replacing is saved time and effort

[ashen basin]

oh nice

thanks

[brave iris]

Hi! Has anyone done some Text Mesh pro custom char validation? :)
https://pastebin.com/8v2hiTca
I've got a script here, almost perfect, but i have a little problem with the underscore part.
See, when i type 3 letters, it inputs automatically an underscore (see L22's comment), then when i type 3 more letters, it does it again. And it works perfectly!
But, if i backspace my way and erase the underscore manually (which is the only way to do it), and i try to input a character, it will input it, without inputting any underscore. And until there, it's normal, but i just don't know how i can modify that

[azure flame]

if this event doesn't get called after re edit, might have to detect what runs instead. Or call it manually after re edit

[pastel halo]

hey guys, i have a very simple ui system where you press esc to open a pause menu (if my bool called gameispaused is = to true, resume) and one button is an options button which loads another ui for settings. how do i make it so when esc is pressed with the options ui active, it doesn't close all the uis (because it calls the resume function) but it closes only that options ui and still left with the pause menu? i have been fiddling around with the code trying to get it to work with lots of if statements using "activeSelf" but cant find a way. here is my code for it:
https://sourceb.in/APkJQKS5Au

[storm kettle]

how do i fix the outline ?

[chrome kettle]

It looks like you used a square sprite that has a grey outline, and stretched that

In that case use a sprite that doesn't have a grey outline

[lapis swallow]

So I have my UI on screen space - overlay, and my camera has a pixel perfect camera with crop X,Y and strech fill. Whenever I resize my game view to a point that black bars appear, the UI animation leaves this kind of trail behind until I resize the window again. Any ideas how I could fix it?

[bright pond]

Hello! I just tested my first little game on a Mac but the text wasn't appearing in my first level. I only have two available scenes at the moment, a Main Menu and Level 1. The text appeared in the Main Menu but not on the Level. When exiting the level, the Main Menu still showed the text. I don't know if it will appear in Unity because I am building it on Windows and cannot test it in Unity on my Mac. I found this link but I don't really understand what they are talking about, if someone could elaborate on what they are saying that would be greatly appreciated. 😃 https://forum.unity.com/threads/text-does-not-show-in-build-with-macos-metal.571345/

[rapid ferry]

can i get a little design opinion

i've got 4 weapons and the ui is color coded to the 1 of 4 worlds you find that object in, the worlds have a color theme to them

that's fine

but the inventory system has 16 other things for the other button

should i be consistent with the theme and color the ui to the world they're found in

or make all the items used for the other button a single themed color, since they're all like items

[tough nimbus]

So, I'm creating the UI for my inventory and I'm trying to lay out the inventory slots with headers like in this mockup image. The problem is, none of the existing layout components seem to work for what I'm trying to do, that is, have a grid with variable column sizes (1 column for header rows, 3 for inventory slot rows). I've tried looking at flexible grid layout scripts other people have made but I haven't found one that works like this. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

[sturdy shuttle]

@tough nimbus it looks like instead of doing a grid you'll want to do a bunch of horizontal layout groups, and then use a vertical layout group on all of those

or you can still use grids for the item slots, and leave the text as regular text and use vertical layout groups on those.

the content gameobject should have this

and each "grid slots" group should have this

[tough nimbus]

Thanks, I'll try that

[surreal oxide]

I want to move the position of a piece of UI based on whether it is above or below the middle of the screen

            {
                transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0f, 30f, 0f);
            }
            else
            {
                transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0f, -30f, 0f);
            }```

sorry for the formatting

the code works okay but in the middle of the screen it ping pongs between the 2 positions

what's the best workaround for that?

[dire vale]

Hi, I don't know if these questions I have belongs to this channel, but are related with UI Builder

I'm using Unity 2021.1.5f to make an app that needs a lot of UI

I downloaded the UI Builder and UI toolkit

and I'm having all these errors

and some more... Anyone knows how could I fix it?

and another more question is... the minimum of a canvas size is 100x100??!! What Do I have to do if I want to create a line with a player name and a couple of buttons?!

paint power

thanks a lot!

[forest linden]

I see my button in screenspace but whenever i switch to world space it goes away.

[low pike]

because you have to resize and reposition it

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/creating-a-worldspace-ui

[forest linden]

oh ok

[rapid ferry]

how do i go about fading an image from transparent to opaque over time?

[agile nest]

ui / ux is deisng or graphic design?

[echo jolt]

Anyone know how to make an images alpha 0 but only where an other image overlaps it? I remember doing this a long time ago but cant remember how, i think there was a shader i applied to the image or something

[mortal robin]

there's something called a mask

there's a sprite mask and a UI mask

look into those

[rapid ferry]

how do i go about fading an image from transparent to opaque over time?

[mortal robin]

interpolate the alpha

[pine estuary]

Hello
Can anyone tell me/ give a source as to how I can make my Icons and text UI look less blurry? I'm in the process of making a mobile game

[raven stag]

in the inspector for the image set the compression to none and filter to point (no filter)

[pine estuary]

I did

Could it be the canvas scaler?

thats the issue

[raven stag]

could be

what do you have the settings as

[raven stag]

is your image texture type set to Sprite (2D an UI)

[pine estuary]

yes

[raven stag]

can you send a pic of your image settings

like from the inspector

[pine estuary]

one sec

[raven stag]

alright

[raven stag]

hmm

[raven stag]

can you send a pic of how the image is supposed to look

[pine estuary]

Its something simple

but in unity it just looks off

like not sharp

[raven stag]

what is the image format?

png?

[pine estuary]

yea

[raven stag]

hmmm

[pine estuary]

For this game I prefer for the image to be small

Its probably the way how I exported

[raven stag]

maybe try setting the canvas reference resolution to 800x600

[pine estuary]

ok ima see

[raven stag]

how to did you export it

[pine estuary]

quick png

[raven stag]

whats quick png?

just export it as a png quickly?

[pine estuary]

yea

[raven stag]

thats prob why

just export it at normal speed

like just a regular png

[pine estuary]

ok

nah still the same. So strange. I don't want to have to buy icons from the store

but I might have to

[raven stag]

what program are you using to make the art?

[pine estuary]

photoshop

[raven stag]

maybe try scaling the canvas size in photoshop

so its the same size as the heart

[pine estuary]

ok ima do that real quick

[raven stag]

ok

[pine estuary]

still looks the same sadly

[raven stag]

try building the game then

it might just be an editor glitch

[pine estuary]

Which is odd because I've made pixel art in the past that looks. but maybe I've forgot something

ok

it looks slightly better in game

thank you @raven stag Ima remake the art and see if I can change a few more things to see if it makes the difference

[raven stag]

alright glad its working better

[rapid ferry]

guys my button doesnt work, any reasons why?

hello?

[pine estuary]

I believe I found the issue. Looks waayy better now. I just set the scale for both the image and text to 1 on the x,y, and z

@raven stag

[raven stag]

glad you got it working!

[raven stag]

how is it not working?

[rapid ferry]

its just a simple tester because i deleted my whole shop after it didnt work

heres the hierarchy

the image has a button component, and yes ive tried the normal button

and yes nothing is blocking it

i was told to go to this channel not begginer code because nobody could help me there

can you help me @raven stag please?

i do have working buttons but i couldnt even c opy and paste them over

nm im dum

i figured ity out

[tough nimbus]

Using Unity 2020.3.12f1, is there a way to force layout groups to update? Mine keep getting messed up when adding new elements but if I interact with them at all they go to where they are supposed to be.

[mortal robin]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Canvas.ForceUpdateCanvases.html

[tough nimbus]

Okay, it seems that didn't fix my problem. The problem seems to be arising from having grid layout groups with content size fitters nested inside a vertical layout group. The elements of the vertical layout group squish halfway inside of eachother on start and fix themselves if I change any values in the editor. Anybody know how to fix this?

[viral olive]

Please help half of my UI elements are invis

anyone

please

is here anyone?

@rapid ferry

[low pike]

this doesn't look like the heart image component has "preserve aspect ratio" ticked

[low pike]

show the inspector and hierarchy for those items not showing

[mortal robin]

you you using Screen Space - Camera?

[exotic depot]

I want my game to render the scene in a 4:3 viewport so that I can put my ui in the borders. It would kind of look like what the mini snes does to fill the screen while emulating games, except the border is part of the game and it will have information. How would I set cameras up to do this? I use the frustum of the camera to tell enemies if they are allowed to shoot, so I don't want to have to cover up the sides of the scene view if possible.

I see there is a way to change the aspect in code and I was hoping for a built in way to do it in the inspector. I guess if I write a monobehavior that always executes I can just manage the aspect ratio like that. This doesn't seem like the cool guy way to make it work though.

[earnest ruin]

@exotic depot render to texture?

You should be able to render whatever camera you want onto a canvas image then you'll have the space you need on the sides without clipping the camera frustrum

[exotic depot]

Cool

I will look at that.

Thanks

[rapid ferry]

is tranform's scale set to 0 i had the same issue

[bright dagger]

hey quick question regarding TMPs;
I got two copies of the same prefab in my scene with the some TMP_Text component but one shows up all blurry after setting its content via code during runtime, like this - anyone knows what the issue is here? It fixes itself if I manually modify values like color in the inspector while the program is running

[river dew]

hey can someone suggest me some tutorial or any source related to making responsive UI......bcoz i have tried some google search nd you tube video regarding the same but problem isn't resolved

[north magnet]

what is MeshRenderer

[low pike]

This isn't a UI question 🤣
Typing that exact question in google will give you the information you desire
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+MeshRenderer&oq=what+is+MeshRenderer&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[north magnet]

oh ok

[north magnet]

how do I get the textmeshpro text component in code? is it <TextMeshPro Text> or <TextMeshProText> or something?

[low pike]

I use TextMeshProUGUI ... but I think TMP_Text is ok too

[north magnet]

UGUI requires a canvas, but I chose MeshRenderer

[merry wing]

UIToolkit: I've got a scrollview with it's flex-shrink set to 0 but it won't shrink down any smaller than the items in it (making it completely useless). It doesn't feel like this should be hard. Anyone got any pointers?

dixed it. If I set a height for the scrollview, even though that doesn't affect anything, that solves it.

[bitter juniper]

In this example the user is in "scanning" mode and when that mode is selected, certain items in the environment are highlighted to indicate those are objects you can "scan." What would be the proper term to refer to those items/objects? Active items? Active objects? Active components? Interactive item?

[native siren]

I am using UGUI for this menu. The parent is a vertical layout group. Each row needs to have the red box be an exact width, and the blue box needs to grow in the remaining space. Is there a layout group that does this out of the box or do I have to write one?

Edit: in case anyone was wondering, i figured it out. i added 'layout element' to the blue box and set the horizontal layout group component on the parent to 'control child size = true'

[mental forge]

hey all, im trying to get a scroll view working - with some text mesh text inside but its not really behaving itself and letting me scroll to the end (it always snaps back)

[chrome kettle]

TMP in the package manager has some examples you can import which I think include scroll view implementations too

[timid rock]

Why is my canvas a square even though I chose 1920x1080?

[thin canyon]

read this and see if ya find anything:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/canvasscaler-aspect-ratio-issue.476971/

[timid rock]

thx

[timid rock]

it doesnt help 😦

i found my problem

but i dont know how to fix it

why cant i change the Height?

[jade cliff]

what is the best way for me to make a font from a sprite sheet? All tutorials that I have found are based on single colored sprites, but my sprite sheet uses multiple colors.

[upbeat locust]

@timid rock can i see the hierarchy the canvas component is attached to

oh and also show me your game view tab, you might have set your resolution to a fixed size like 4:3

[upbeat locust]

okay and now the game tab

[upbeat locust]

i think the canvas is trying to fit into your screen space

so its ignoring the resolution youre setting

[timid rock]

it works now

idk what i changed

[upbeat locust]

oh alright then awesome

[timid rock]

i didnt noticed

and thank you for helping

[timid rock]

it looked like this before

[ripe hornet]

Anyone know how I can fix this?

[chrome kettle]

This is called z-fighting
It happens when a surface is within another surface, or when a surface is so far away that the the camera runs out of depth accuracy and doesn't know which surface is in front

Your UI is too far away if it's world space, or your camera's near and far clipping planes are too far away from each other

Either or both

[lavish stump]

What would cause a button to scale down (at runtime), if I took it from one gameobject and placed it on another gameobject via transform.SetParent?

[chrome kettle]

I believe anchors are inherited with hierarchy
Anchors define how an UI element and its children scale with screen size

[lavish stump]

hmm, i'll look into it.

Its actually the canvas, scaled to 3+ making the button (1) seem even smaller.

[timid rock]

I have the same problem as yesterday

why are the values different

[vivid viper]

i need help on handling aspect ratios. it can be in code, it can be in unity itself, i just want a game that will look good on any device

by good i mean it doesnt goes off the screen or collide

anyone?

[mortal wharf]

well you're not really asking for help with a specific problem so it'd be hard for people to help you

[vivid viper]

hm

this explains it?

score is only "e"

because it gets off screen

right side gets off screen too

[timid rock]

change your canvas size

[vivid viper]

then its small for other phones

oh wait

hm?

i dont get it

still help

[mild kernel]

You need to properly anchor your UI elements. If they're all anchored to the center of the canvas, they won't scale or move when the resolution changes.

If this is new to you, then find some tutorials on how UI works.

[ripe hornet]

The canvas is in "Screen Space" and no matter what I set the clipping planes too, it didn't fix it. It's only happening in the editor, any other ideas?

[frank jewel]

Maybe activate/deactivate the objects to narrow down to what is causing the problem

[vernal girder]

trying to get the unity ui Builder working

44 warnings and 42 errors

any idea why?

[vernal girder]

so i open up the UXML file and this is what comes up

[native siren]

Does anyone know how to fix this issue? The green box has a HorizontalLayoutGroup component. I want to have 2 text items in there. The second one needs to grow the remainder of space, if any.

The issue is that even if I disable line wrapping and set to 'ellipsis' on the first text item, it will still continue to add to the width which causes the second item to clip through the parent bounds. If I set the second text item to right align, then it will not get pushed off but the first item will continue to grow through/behind it.

It seems like the issue comes down to having control child size set to true... I'm guessing this may not be possible and I may just have to make it a single text field and modify the contents :\

[rain axle]

Anybody know what's the correct way to pre-focus a button in an UIDocument (using the new prerelease UI Toolkit)? I believe this used to be handled by the First Selected option on the Event System component, but there's only one GameObject for the entire UIDocument. Seems like a basic thing to be adding code to a script to do. As far as I can tell, no gamepad or keyboard input events are processed until one of the buttons in an UIDocument are focused; only mouse input works without doing a someButton.focus(); in a script.

[sturdy narwhal]

Hi!
Would appreciate if you guys could help me and my small team deciding on how to deal with vision cones in our game! UX is damn hard
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/p4wh8y/should_vision_cones_have_the_same_color_across/

[pseudo apex]

Vision cones are usually a tool for the player to let them know where not to go. So to put it in a blunt manner, as long as the area is in a colour that easily is understood as bad, it doesn't matter if they overlap tbh. As a player, you will naturally see how the "nasty zones" move and understand how to avoid them. The player itself doesn't need a cone, but might need an indicator of what object is in the way of shooting for example.

Friendly targets only need indicators if they directly affect gameplay. For example if you are trying to lure a friendly target to a spot, like a cat or something. But I would recommend using a different mechanic than a cone for that since it's nice to users, especially colour blind people, if the symbols (a cone for example) specifically indicated one thing... In your case, cones might indicate danger while other circles around characters might indicate hearing and so on.

[autumn kernel]

I don't know what happened, but the environment completely blackened me, materials set to white, changing the material (color) also doesn't help.

[ripe hornet]

It happens even if theres just 1 text box on an empty scene

[worthy karma]

how can I put this black image backwards the yellow image?

hierarchy?

or mask

[tired timber]

I added a Scroll View but for some reason when I change the size on the Scrollbar Vertical and save it, it goes back to 1.

[glacial aspen]

Can anyone recommend any software to make a UI with?

Just not something paid like Photoshop

[gentle palm]

my button in UI is not working unless i click multiple times. Whats the problem here?

[rapid ferry]

Hmmmm what does the button do?

Is it an issue with what the button does or its registering

[gentle palm]

@rapid ferry it goes back to menu screen

there is a fade transition between the scene transitions

[rapid ferry]

Ok so it should have displays right? Like darkening and changing color?

Does it change color and darken properly or is it not doing what you want it too do first click

[gentle palm]

it changes the alpha 0 to 1 (transparency)

i am using time scale to go back to menu screen

[gentle palm]

i got it thanks @rapid ferry

[rapid ferry]

Ok!

[limpid shale]

how do I get a text mesh pro input field to update?

I've made a button that toggles the visibility of a password input field and it is working in the code, but the input field is not updating

is there an additional step after changing the content type of the tmp input field?

its changing content types in the inspector, unless if there is another way to do it

[mortal robin]

wdym by "updating" exactly?

[limpid shale]

well, like do I need to call something to update an input field

cause im assigning a new content type

but nothing is happening when it is called from code

[mortal robin]

you're trying to change the content type of the input field at runtime?

What's the use case for that? Why not just use two separate input fields?

[limpid shale]

but when I manually change the content type in the inspector it works as it get validated again

its for a show password function

[mortal robin]

Uh you sure you have to chang ethe content type for it to show/hide?

[limpid shale]

Well, I wasnt sure if I had too, it doesnt seem right, but that is what ive seen so far when looking up how to do this

like, having a bool in the password content type of the input field to show or hide the password makes more sense

as there are cases where a user may need to see a password

[mortal robin]

maybe just use two different Text components and switch between them in code; https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.3/api/TMPro.TMP_InputField.html#TMPro_TMP_InputField_textComponent

Or wait

[mortal robin]

Does this do it? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.3/api/TMPro.TMP_InputField.html#TMPro_TMP_InputField_ForceLabelUpdate

[limpid shale]

that would work

oooh! ill have a look at the update

Thank you for the help!

yep that did it

Thank you!

[crisp radish]

does anyone know how to make a vertical layout group scale based on the size of its elements

so it grows or shrinks based on the amount of elements it has per say

[small ether]

Anyone know why my healthbar is not parenting exactly on top of the enemy gameObject?

when I move the camera it appear really far away from the object

[azure flame]

@small ether Make sure your bar resets local coordinates after instantiation. You also want to billboard it to always face the player.

[small ether]

yeh I have a billboard script I just disabled it

but it's happening to all my UI

at least all that uses world space it isn't sitting ontop of the parent properly

[old cape]

Post the code related to positioning it

[small ether]

there is none

i didnt think i needed to use code to position it to the parent

so i need to add some form of positioning code?

[azure flame]

It depends on your setup. You can make UI part of the mob even.

[small ether]

so im just testing it out

Ive got a simple rock

added UI > canvas > panel and reset all the transforms

but when i run it the UI is still offset from the object

[azure flame]

Make sure whatever you are parenting it to has correct position. Use scene view to inspect things, debug coordinates.

[small ether]

okay I'm trying all sorts of fixes but nothing is really working

all I want is for the canvas to be parented exactly to the object, but i dont think i need code to do that

as the canvas is a child with no local offset

im using a cinemachine main camera and then the UI is rendered through a child secondary camera

but again I dont know why that would cause problems

AH GOT IT

woo

my secondary camera FOV setting were different to my main camera so it was causing a parallax effect

thanks for your help

[chrome rampart]

So for some reason when I build my menu stuff stretches weirdly. Help! Image of stretching attached

[azure flame]

Don't rescale components, only set image size.

[chrome rampart]

wdym

[azure flame]

@chrome rampart Your slider is distorted. Reset scale and set width and height instead

Only Canvas scaler has to do scaling to the mode selected.

[chrome rampart]

the scale is 1,1,1

[azure flame]

Look through hierarchy. It's oval.

[chrome rampart]

what?

@azure flame

[azure flame]

Means your parent or child has distorted scale

[chrome rampart]

nothing has distorted scale

[chrome kettle]

99% sure it inherits distorted scale from a parent object, their anchor points or a canvas scaler

[mortal robin]

I believe there's a "preserve aspect" checkbox on the Image component you could use.

[torpid dagger]

me

wow

[empty quail]

why

[torpid dagger]

guys he needs help

[verbal rune]

what the hell

[rancid bough]

[tepid oar]

[torpid dagger]

guys help him

[midnight adder]

admin pls?

[torpid dagger]

oh no

[lament spear]

<@&502880774467354641>

[late stirrup]

bro kill your disc lol

[tepid oar]

<@&502880774467354641>

[verbal rune]

<@&502884371011731486>

[shadow loom]

why

[torpid dagger]

he cant do it

[harsh cradle]

Oh hello

[deft surge]

Lol

[torpid dagger]

he needs help guys

[lament spear]

<@&502884371011731486>

[tepid oar]

[near hemlock]

wow look at me I'm a tough guy that raids the unity server. my meat is huge and my intellect unparalleled

[lament spear]

Thank you!

[bleak badger]

this is madness

[verbal rune]

<@&502884371011731486> please help

[torpid dagger]

and there he goes

[muted anchor]

wtf lmao

[torpid dagger]

rest in peace, man

[lilac vine]

hahahah

[uneven rain]

lmao

[torpid dagger]

he just needed some help

[frosty pewter]

One ping is enough, christ

[midnight adder]

cool ❤️

[tepid oar]

He's an advanced developer, he doesnt have time for rules and such things

[placid escarp]

Lmao

[deft surge]

You're a unity server member? Name every member!

[muted anchor]

well never mind i just got one ping

[frail wedge]

wut?

[lilac vine]

well this was unexpected

[shadow loom]

thank you

[winter crag]

mass ping?

[normal path]

Block him and ignore. Mods were pinged. Night yall

[worn knot]

well thats one thing that brought unity to this place

[late stirrup]

lol. have a good night folks

[torpid dagger]

why am i blue

[near hemlock]

why the ui-ux room specifically anyway?

[iron briar]

the
ping

[tepid oar]

goodbye again until the next time this happens

[placid escarp]

Why in this specific channel anyway

[lilac vine]

Goodnight people, have a wonderful day/night !

[near hemlock]

To be fair it's been a while

[warm ore]

Goodnight everyone

[novel hemlock]

pong where

[tepid oar]

same time next month?

[worn knot]

anyone wanna be my friend and make a unity game together

[near hemlock]

Anyway let's stay on topic

[alpine ingot]

why was I just pinged

[frosty pewter]

Move along people.

[jade crater]

what?

[warm ore]

Sounds good to me

[jade crater]

lol

[shadow loom]

theres a random stupid people pinging everyone

[vernal ridge]

I'm trying to read Ready Player 2, cursed ping.

[old cape]

Rules are still in place. Someone mass spammed pings. Keep it #📲┃ui-ux related.

[placid escarp]

Thanks mods, night guys

[frosty pewter]

They have been banned Move along.

[hoary basin]

can someone help me with this? idk why the left eye can be seen but the right eye cant

im new to this unity thing. I just started yesterday ;-;

[frosty pewter]

The left eye is in front in the Z axis

Either you use the Z axis to sort between these things, or you give them different orders in the layer, or different sorting layers

[hoary basin]

so i have to create sorting layers?

oh wait it worked!

i just put a 0 in the Position

[raw ravine]

usually you can just drag it to the right position in the hieararchy

cant remember if the bottom stuff is first or the top stuff is first

[rapid ferry]

Has the sprite editor asset been deleted or changed?? I can't find it... I want to make my own sprites for buttons and other UI elements in my 3D project... any lead on what to do?

[frank jewel]

you have to click on the sprite in the project window, and then there is a sprite editor button in the inspector

[rapid ferry]

I didn't find it

oh wait it shows an error to get 2d sprite

thanks

[neat jolt]

Hey, I'm having trouble with the my camera. I would like it to scale vertically rather than horizontally when I change the aspect ratio in the game view, so that the camera gets taller or shorter rather than getting wider or narrower. How would I go about doing this?

[final quest]

yeah its there when the script itsnt on

[mild kernel]

Like, immediately if you disable it at runtime, it appears? 🤔

[final quest]

oh no while playing it doesnt

if it starts off off its there

[mild kernel]

Sorry, can you confirm then. What's the z value of your UI when it's not running, and what is it at when you are (when it breaks).

[final quest]

when not playing Canvas is at 90, most things are 0 but i just realised that the empty game object and the text inside have different z axies 🤔

ill reset them all to 0

ok now the canvas is at 90 but everything inside is 0

when it breaks its at -935.3073 (same as before)

[mild kernel]

And this is after setting the z-value on your script (and thus the position of the object) to 90 in your code?

Just to force it to match?

[final quest]

yessir

[mild kernel]

The whole screen to viewport conversion is confusing me, since your canvas is dealing in world space. But at the very least, your object's z shouldn't be -900. Something else must be applying positioning to it as well that isn't this script.

Comment out line 52 and run it? (As in, apply not transformation via this script)

[final quest]

its a blank game object with only the script on it Q_Q

and I created it so there shouldnt be anything else referencing it, im running that test out

it works when its commented out

O_O

[mild kernel]

Can you show your latest code again?

[final quest]

with it commented out?

its the exact same as above just commented out

this might not be helpful, but I swapped to a different variant of the code and the same thing is happening

[mild kernel]

Well, then I'm stumped as to why this object is jumping to z:-900 ...

It's probably something simple, it always is.

[final quest]

😢 XD

yeah i dont know

its always exaclt -935.3075 too

[mild kernel]

This is a world space canvas, right?

[final quest]

it wasnt before but i changed it to world space and same thing

it was screen space camera before

i dunno if thats a head slap moment

[mild kernel]

If it's a world object, it needs to be world space. If it's in screen space, you need to move the rectTransforms instead. At least in this case (which is in 2D space).

Did you get this parallax code somewhere? Does it show how they implemented it?

[final quest]

yeah 2 videos and a sight

I beilieve i implemented them exactly like they did

i may be wrong tho

oh wait they were using screen space overlay

[mild kernel]

Yeah, maybe go through it again just to be sure you have a match.

[final quest]

ayy its working sighty better

but now it goes to the center of the screen lool

but now its actually on the screen!

damn it would be amazing tho if it worked with camera >_>

[eager flower]

who me ping?

[final quest]

wait i can get it to appear on the screen but changing the canvases y positon 🤔

on screen space camera

[mild kernel]

So maybe it was fine all along, and it's just the parallax code that's making it fall off the view.

[final quest]

what de fuck

[mild kernel]

Sweet success

[final quest]

that was from forcing it in the editor

i dont know how to change that actually lool

[mild kernel]

Well, the code must change the rectTransform (notice the transform type in your inspector), not the transform.position.

[final quest]

is it a straight change

so just turning all the transform.positon to rectransformation

[mild kernel]

Kind of. You would start by setting the rectTransform.anchoredPosition. This is a Vector2 since you're in screen space.

But the tutorial should either be using that, or if it's using world coordinates, then be using a world canvas. That's what I'm confused about (assuming you got all this from a tutorial).

[final quest]

my programmer came to save me Q_Q hes gonna take a look at it and if it doesnt work ill redo the code with the rec transform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sl3tLBmBU8&t=753s

also heres the tutorial i was using

it was using overlay

[mild kernel]

Ah, this is a child object of the canvas. Okay I understand the code now.

[final quest]

yeah same with mine

[quasi gust]

hey friends I have two buttons that are using pointerevents to scale up when hovered over

as far as I can tell the two prefabs doing this are exactly the same, but one of them isn't aligned correctly with it's hover zone, if that makes sense

hovering over button A works great, hovering over button B is offset by about 50% of the sprite, so that you need to put your mouse about a sprite length away from it to get the hover

I've been looking at these prefabs for an hour and they're identical, any advice would be appreciated

just confirmed that the pivot values are indeed .5 .5 for each

[low pike]

post screenshots of the prefab rectransforms.. their parents.. show a video

[quasi gust]

can do thanks one sec

here is an overview of the hierarchy and inspectors

here is a video of the two buttons, A being top left and functioning properly

thanks so much for any guidance

[low pike]

this is too small.. can't see anything

[quasi gust]

doh

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502171135350407168/877884371091210250/button_inspectors.jpg

[low pike]

From the video, it looks like only the outer arrows cause the hover event?

[quasi gust]

the item that causes the hover event is the background image

if you click 'open original' on that image you'll get full res

[low pike]

All UI scale should be 1,1,1 by default btw... only change this on the animation. Use the height/width fields to size things to what you want

[quasi gust]

the reason I'm changing scale instead of height/width is that the height/width of the transform are used to take a pixel coord from the texture, to function as a color picker

that aspect of the buttons works and has been working, it's a recent development that the secondary button is problematic

[low pike]

keep the values uniform then

x,y,z should all be the same values

Does everything have 'Raycast Target' ticked?

[quasi gust]

indeed

you can see the full inspectors in that image

[low pike]

oh of course

If you disable prefab A, does B still not work?

[quasi gust]

ooh good call let me check

mm, same performance for B either way

[low pike]

nothing else that could be blocking it?

[quasi gust]

there was something else blocking it

just dialed into that, good shout. sorry for spinning your wheels, had an invisible UI element in a different hierarchy just chilling there

my bad, thanks for the help troubleshooting @low pike , appreciated

[low pike]

np - we've all been there

[modest spindle]

Why it wont allow me to generate

[heady phoenix]

Is there any way to remove this undesired "see-through" effect that happens when adding a canvas group component with lowered down alpha?

(MOCKUP) This is the desired result that I want

[woeful sandal]

any designers willing to take a look at my ui colour palette and help me improve it?

[brittle mason]

is there a way to force resolution to stay at 1920x1080

[vapid delta]

Guessing someone here is good with UI design? I need to finish my game's Results screen for the multiplayer modes and I am having trouble with it not looking like shit lmao

The layout is not great for this

[magic walrus]

i was wondering if anyone has any feedback for this Teamfight Tactics style shop. the first 3 units are placeholder but the last 2 are what i was going for, an image of the unit, it's name and synergies. the background color's are the unit's rarity

im thinking maybe the font isnt the most easily readable, but when in full screen i think its pretty easy to read

[vapid delta]

this is acceptable

[native siren]

I didn't realize having rotated text was such a tricky thing to do... I couldn't accomplish it with USS in UIToolkit so I changed to UGUI and... still doesn't work right
I want my text to fill this black vertical bar, but have the text rotated 90 degrees CCW so that the width of the text is like the height of the black bar..
But rotating it in the transform makes it go all whacko mode. Attempting to use the 'stretch' no longer works and the anchors aren't where they're supposed to be.

[cyan sentinel]

Isnt it just anchoring to the left, then set the width to the height of your screen and rotate it codewise?

[native cairn]

Can someone help me please?

[cyan sentinel]

you gettin some errors there

that might break your whole game from working and running scripts

[native cairn]

Not related to the UI though

[cyan sentinel]

well, just ignore it then, if you want 😄 it still breaks a lot of scripts, if you dont fix them... I would never debug with errors coming in, first get them out or disable the scripts causing them, then try again to handle the UI

[native cairn]

I did

[cyan sentinel]

Phew, you want help or do I? 😄 So, what does the component look like when running the game in game view? can you drag the scrollbar or use mousewheel to scroll?

[native cairn]

The canvas is in world space because this is for VR

I want to be able to scroll by changing the scroll value

[native siren]

Yeah that may work. I don't know why it's not doable through the WYSIWYG editor though.. it's a pretty basic feature.

[cyan sentinel]

well the "old" UI might not be updated that much with features tho, but yeah, there are a lot of querks in the UI system, that I would love to see changed

[cyan sentinel]

So the rest of the UI is working, only the scrolling isnt?

[native cairn]

Yes

Should I downgrade the UI or check if I'm using the correct version?

Gonna head out to the gym first

Thanks for the help bro

[native siren]

I've used Unity for ~6 years and its UI frameworks are definitely the worst thing about it in my experience.

UIToolkit would be incredible if we could have CSS3 rules, but I don't see that ever happening.

[cyan sentinel]

Is the content being masked correctly? There seem to be some querks with scrolling and UI in VR, maybe better for #🥽┃virtual-reality to ask 🙂

[flat gate]

Guys, why when I change the color of the button, it becomes transparent?

Before

after

[low pike]

you've set the alpha to 0 in that second screenshot

[flat gate]

Where is it

[low pike]

..in the colour picker

[flat gate]

ok, thanks 😅

[tepid dirge]

Hi @low pike
Here is the ss of the canvas

[low pike]

I need to see the canvas component that isn't showing completely

[tepid dirge]

Do u need to see the value of each? Or components can be minimized.

[low pike]

hide this (click where the two horizontal lines are) and scroll up so the Canvas component is visible

actually

you've got the camera culling mask set to UI.. so that means the Layer must be set to UI for any game objects you want this camera to see

[tepid dirge]

Ya I already set😂

Here is the complete components

[tepid dirge]

There are some bugs in my project, so sorry for wasting your time.

I am using Vuforia AR and it now allow two Camera inside

[velvet dome]

I need to know how to setup this textcontroller but i dont know how and i cannot find any tutorials on the internet about this. Does anyone know how to do this?

[low pike]

np - glad you sorted it while I was afk

[tepid dirge]

Thanks :）

[native cairn]

I believe so

Not related to VR I think, but thanks anyway

[velvet dome]

I got it

[carmine cliff]

guys, how usable is the new ui toolkit/runtime when it comes to scrollviews, alignment and responsive design? the ui of the game i'm working on is getting quite extensive/nested and ugui is impressively non performant when it comes to deep hierarchys and position recalcuations etc.. and was wondering whether the new ui system is worth switching to

[mild pilot]

Hi, is it possible to keep an inputField's focus while u drag some other Slider of a scrollbar?
Clicking the scrollbar loses the inputField's focus

[magic walrus]

how would i go about making it where the blue box is pushed to the left of the red box, but then if the inventory slots (red box) are turned off/empty, the blue box would go to the edge of the screen as it does now

[mortal robin]

Horizontal Layout Group

[magic walrus]

so would that be a gameobject with the horizontal layout group, and then these two ui have to be childed to that? im really bad with UI stuff, sorry if thats a noob question

[mortal robin]

yes

and you'd have to configure everything correctly

like the pivots and the settings on the horizontal layout group etc..

just play around with it in the editor until it behaves properly when you disable/enable the red box stuff

[magic walrus]

sounds good, thanks for the tips!

[magic walrus]

how do you go about makign a tooltip only take up as much space as it needs? like the top one id like to be smaller vertically, 2nd one is alright. is that a content size fitter or something else?

[azure flame]

Yes, fitter used to resize to the children.
With UI components it can be tricky nesting several layout components and fitters, so may need to use additional containers to separate them further in hierarchy.

[void surge]

I have a canvas that has an image and a sprite on it. For some
reason I am unable to change one image to be in front of the other.
My game is 2D.
What I've tried:
-Moving one above the other in the hierarchy.
-Screen - Space Overlay and Camera for the canvas settings.
-Moving the Sprite off the canvas and changing the sorting orders of both.
-Creating sorting layers to assign them to.
-Creating 2 layers and assigning them appropriately.
-Messing with the Z axis(doubtfully).
-Ensuring that the layers are all set to visible.
-Using an image instead of a sprite and adding a canvas to both images and
using the override sorting option.
-Creating an empty game object on the canvas and putting the image as a
child of said object.
-Adding a canvas component to said parent game object and using override
sorting.
-Doing a back flip and landing it.
-Going for a walk to see if I can think of the reason why this isn't
working properly.
-Restarting Unity.
-Restarting my computer.

Any help is appreciated <3.

Also the sprite's transform is being set the the mouse position every frame

[azure flame]

Make sure you are using Image component with canvas.

[void surge]

as well as moving them around in the hierarchy

with the option off obviously

[azure flame]

Canvas does not have a lot of sorting options. Create a clean new canvas and move around a couple of images in hierarchy to see how it works.

[loud dawn]

How can I make it, that the canvas is for all resolutions on the same place?

[azure flame]

Canvas has a canvas scaler component. You can set it up to be consistent with the screen.

[loud dawn]

Thanks

[native cairn]

I have been having issues witht the ScrollBar on my game. It works on Editor however it doesn't work on Play mode. I made a video showing my setup and the issue

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

(I already debugged without the errors and the issue still happens)

Anyone has any idea of why that happens?

[worthy karma]

Can I put a layout group on top of layout element from previous layout group?

It seems like unity cannot attach a new layout group to an element of a previous layout group. So unity takes the main LOG in hierarchy and puts all the LOE in there. So... Why?

[waxen estuary]

Hello, I am currently porting my UI to UI toolkit, however now I need to attach my UI element to an actual object in world. Is there a way to do so with UI Toolkit or do I have to resort to the standard UI system here ?

[full sleet]

does anybody know how to fix UI buttons not working. they are interactable and yes i have an event system. idk whats wrong here. PLS HELP

[magic walrus]

is there an easy way to keep these two TMP objects lined up by the "/" ? it ends up in different places atm because of current and max value of the health and mana.

i was thinkign i could just type a / manually, and have 4 TMPs, one for current hp, current mana, and max hp/mana. but just wondering if theres an easier way to do it with the 2 objects?

[neon crest]

I would think the four fields IS the easy way. Otherwise you're going to have to maintain som really gross font measuring code

[magic walrus]

how do you go about adding an offset for a tooltip? im doing something like this in update

        Vector2 position = Input.mousePosition;
        Vector2 offset = new Vector2(OffsetX, OffsetY);

        float pivotX = position.x / Screen.width;
        float pivotY = position.y / Screen.height;

        rectTransform.pivot = new Vector2(pivotX, pivotY);
        transform.position = position + offset;

and this works fine, but the issue is when i switch around different resolutions, an offset value that looks right for one resolution might be too much or too little for another

[zealous ether]

What is the hotkey or command for swapping positions on these without having to re-do the whole button setup?

[frosty pewter]

hotkey can only be activated by crying

(because it does not exist)

Newer versions of Unity have made them reorderable

You can go into debug mode of the inspector and manually reorder the array

[glacial sandal]

How do I change scenes using drop-down

[wheat blade]

I'm trying to generate HSV sliders at runtime but having issues creating the background sprite for the saturation slider - it has a bit of white right at the end of the slider while the hue/vibrance sliders do not -

     private Texture2D SaturationStrip (int density, float hue1)
     {
         var satTex = new Texture2D (density, 1);
         var colors = new Color[density];
         for (int k = 0; k < density; k++)
         {
             colors[k] = Color.HSVToRGB (hue1, (1.0f * k) / density, 1);
         }
         satTex.SetPixels (colors);
         satTex.Apply ();
         return satTex;
     }

Kinda harder to see in the screenshot but its definitely there - i use essentially the same code for generating the hue/vibrance backgrounds

[woeful citrus]

my UI completely breaks every single time I trigger a recompile during play mode by editing a script. Meaning I can't unpause the game (since I usually pause to make changes). It's making rapid prototyping with play mode impossible, which is sad because it used to work. is this workflow just broken now?

[native cairn]

I have been having issues witht the ScrollBar on my game. It works on Editor however it doesn't work on Play mode. I made a video showing my setup and the issue

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

(I already debugged without the errors and the issue still happens)
Anyone has any idea of why that happens?

[daring raven]

Is there a trick to make unity UI vertical navigation not stupid? (here pressing down on the back button goes to the 4th list item when obvious I want it to go to the first one). I think if I make the back button much wider it works. It's something to do with the angle of the centre of the button to the centre of the higher list items being too 'steep'? Why not just go down unity ?!?!

-_-; (I have navigation: "Vertical" set FWIW)

[stone relic]

when i use custom font in my text it becomes this

help?

anyone pleassse

maaan

[carmine cliff]

How about you chill and ask politely instead? Dunno...just a suggestion 🙂

[stone relic]

sorry
but i don't have alot of time

the arial font is working
the custom font was working but it's broke for no reason

[carmine cliff]

restart unity, check font size, change font, check the transform scaling, retry rebuilding the font asset file

those are the first things i would try

[stone relic]

all the custom fonts have the same problem
any font i import to the project
becomes to this

[carmine cliff]

have you restarted unity? I had that happen to me once and the only thing that worked was restarting unity for some reason

[stone relic]

nope didn't work

[carmine cliff]

recheck the material/shader of the text (I'm assuming this is TMpro)

[stone relic]

wait it worked

i reimported the font

thank you for giving your time to help me

[carmine cliff]

no problem

[stone relic]

idk why this didn't work when i didn't restart unity

[carmine cliff]

yeah it happened to me once too... i can't explain it...maybe it regenerates the font or reimports something...dunno... glad it worked

[low pike]

I've never used the navigation, always set it to "none"

• Does moving the pivot have the same effect as resizing?
• If all else fails, you can set the navigation explicitly

[weak knoll]

hey im trying to get the anchored position but i just cant get it print (0.0, 0.0)
what im doing wrong?

[native cairn]

I have been having issues witht the ScrollBar on my game. It works on Editor however it doesn't work on Play mode. I made a video showing my setup and the issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJHffnMoDrg

(I already debugged without the errors and the issue still happens)
Anyone has any idea of why that happens?

[daring raven]

Moving the pivot was a good idea! But sadly didn't work. Thanks though. I generate the list items at runtime so setting the navigation manually is a pain but seems to be the way to go. Not the end of the world. Thanks for responding.

[low pike]

show us the insepctor for textBackground and the sceneview with that rect transform selected, with the UI tools enabled

[low pike]

you didn't do the secont bit

UI tools selected shows this in the scene view, not the axis

[weak knoll]

got it

i want to position the hand at the min.x anchor or somthing like that

[low pike]

that's at pos 0,0

with that selected, in the scene view, just move it anywhere - dont' change anything else

then check your output

[weak knoll]

ok yeah so this isnt my problem i guess...my need is to place the hand on the start of the text, how can i do it?

when i start the game this is the hand position

i tried to make it work for like 2 days and i just cant figure it out 😮‍💨

[low pike]

I would get the left hand side of the RecTransform and off set the hand from left

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30782829/how-to-access-recttransforms-left-right-top-bottom-positions-via-code

[weak knoll]

ok so i tried this:

gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().position = new Vector3(textBackground.offsetMin.x, textBackground.offsetMin.y);

but it aint working

[low pike]

"aint working" is not a very good description of what the problem is

[weak knoll]

sorry,
this is the result

changed to anchoredPosition
gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = new Vector3(textBackground.offsetMin.x, textBackground.offsetMin.y);

and this is the result

[daring dragon]

why is unity orangd

[weak knoll]

oh lol this is colored when im in play mode

[mortal robin]

it's just a setting in preferences

[low pike]

@weak knoll for UI (that is overlay/ screenspace) always have the scale set to 1,1,1 (only change when animating). To resize things use width/ height

[mild pilot]

Can anyone explain why i have this random gap on the bottom?
I'm trying to make a bar graph with image as the border. The image is the yellow line.
In certain resolution the line sits at the bottom just fine, but as i rescale in height, the layouting seems to "snap" to certain pixels? And so in this pic the layout didn't snap close enough and then there's this little gap..

[stone relic]

pls help me

[steel tapir]

is there an implementation for text animation that allows for colors/jitters to be applied to individual characters/words? i've done some (light) research, but i haven't found anything helpful besides making a new text element for every desired animation.
is there a better way to do this or do i just have to deal with it?

[bleak flower]

i have a button that is working in the editor but not in the final build

[night herald]

Any thoughts on how I can fix these issues? In the red the lines on the houses aren't very prominent until quite close. In the green the lampposts are not visible at all in the distance. And in the blue the lines in the road sort of flicker at that distance. I am using TAA and removed mipmaps on the texture of the road so far.

A video to help visualise it a bit.

[lavish stump]

Hope I'm in the right channel. How does one alphabetize entries in a scrollview? Like, by button names. Thanks in advance.

[knotty turret]

Antialiasing will actually cause meshes to vanish at a distance. The short answer is there are a few options. You can use a shader with heavier lines, increase the mesh sizes so they are bigger than 1 pixel in the distance. But antialiasing is going to make that worse. You also want to increase the clipping distance of the camera just in case - but to me it appears the mesh is <1px wide at that distance and aliasing is scrubbing it

[knotty turret]

You would need to do that via script I believe

[lavish stump]

Yeah, I would have to learn Linq. I was wondering if there was another way.

[knotty turret]

I believe the answer is no, it doesn’t support any sorting or filtering I know of. LinQ isn’t bad at all though, and handy to know

I’d write a script but code is my friend

[lavish stump]

Ok, thanks for the help. Going to learn Linq.

[gentle palm]

My buttons are not working suddenly, what is the problem??

[frosty pewter]

did you delete an Event System from the scene

[night herald]

Will the clipping distance work if it's one mesh? As far as I understood it was separate meshes that are fixed with the clipping distance?

[knotty turret]

Yes it will

[night herald]

Thanks for the help.

[knotty turret]

You are thinking occlusion culling I think

[terse echo]

Who pinged me

[fast pulsar]

Hello, is there anyway to make it so that when my Text TMP gets bigger the background image also resizes?

[low pike]

Which is the parent? the TMP or the image?

[fast pulsar]

either one will do ig

but the image

[fast pulsar]

ok but for some reason I cant find the contact size filter anywhere

wait

[fast pulsar]

it suddenly appeared

nevermind thanks

[fast pulsar]

How do I make the textbox expand and not overflow instead?

nvm

[main haven]

my scoring system doesn't work and it spams the following error

ArgumentException: Input Button Submit is not setup.
To change the input settings use: Edit -> Settings -> Input

Please help.

[verbal sand]

did you do the steps it suggests?

[mortal robin]

did you try going to edit -> settings -> Input

[main haven]

yes

I went there

but what do I do there

[mortal robin]

and did you verify there is an axis there called "Submit"?

It's there by default btw

[main haven]

It's not there

[mortal robin]

you must have removed it then

[main haven]

very likely

[mortal robin]

I believe theere's a thing there to reset the input manager to defaults

or you can manually add your own Submit axis

[main haven]

I'll do the latter because if I reset it it will also remove the inputs I added for other things

Ok I resetted it. that fixed the error but now I have another one..

[sage lava]

how do i make children of a ui invisible if out of the parent's bounds?

[low pike]

Use a mask

[worthy karma]

How can I switch to fullscreen in this tab?

[mild kernel]

Click the Maximize On Play at the top right.

[worthy karma]

no

like real fullsize

whole monitor

desktop

1920x1080 moment

[azure flame]

@worthy karma Don't post off-topic media

[mild kernel]

But also, you can't do true full screen within the editor, you'll have to make a build to get that experience.

[worthy karma]

Fogsight, I couldn't find more appropriate channel to send this message than ui-ux

[mild kernel]

Gifs. You're not allowed post off topic reaction gifs/memes. (It was deleted).

[worthy karma]

Ah yeah clear

[rose bobcat]

There is this asset which a colleague used when doing UI work

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/fullscreen-editor-69534

I think there are a couple like it, but all about the same price

[rapid ferry]

Am I able to ask for support in this channel

[mild kernel]

Not official Unity support, no. You can ask for questions related to any of the topics in the discord.

[rapid ferry]

Well then, I have this problem viewing a prefab in my 2d ui. I do not see it in my game view

[mortal robin]

I wouldn't put a particlesystem on a canvas like that

certainly not with a CanvasRenderer

[rapid ferry]

Im new to unity so I am unsure how it works

[mild kernel]

Particles exist in world space, not screen space. You either need use a render texture, or use something like the UIExtensions that has UIParticles:
https://bitbucket.org/UnityUIExtensions/unity-ui-extensions/wiki/Home

(Or find another asset that does it).

[mortal robin]

or just position the particle system in the right place according to some UI anchor - but translating canvas space to world space is not always straightforward.

screen space -camera with a plane distance of 100 is a good starting point though. You will be able to see 3D objects in front of that UI as long as they're within 100 units of the camera

[frosty pewter]

https://github.com/mob-sakai/ParticleEffectForUGUI is the one I have used

[earnest ruin]

Its kind of hard to see in the pic, but the gray edge is slightly translucent for the last few pixels. The sprite is a 9sliced png that doesn't have any translucent pixels in the corners like that.

[sweet pond]

how is your sprite texture being compressed / filtered?

check the image in the inspector

[worn pagoda]

Raycast target is ticked but you can still click objects in the background

[timber elbow]

Can you record a video of that?

[worn pagoda]

Of what specifically?

[low pike]

The problem you're having, Let's see it in action and how it clicks things in the background

[worn pagoda]

You shouldnt be able to press the red button

On the screen canvas

[timber elbow]

didn't watch it through 😄

[worn pagoda]

Lol

[timber elbow]

What're the values of the raycast padding?

[worn pagoda]

0 all

[low pike]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1410936/how-to-prevent-a-ui-element-from-clicking-the-game.html

[timber elbow]

That should be irrelevant if he's using OnMouseOver though.🤔

[low pike]

I think the second answer on there is the better solution

[timber elbow]

@worn pagoda share the code for clicking the button?

[worn pagoda]

Yep one sec

https://hastebin.com/jozihopifu.csharp

[fathom plume]

How to fix a position of the top and scale only bottom

[timber elbow]

Could you check what your event system shows when you hover over the button, when menu is open? Take a screenshot.

[worn pagoda]

Use your anchor widget

Sorry im new to most of this, what do you mean by event system

[fathom plume]

Doesnt work

[worn pagoda]

Are you holding alt while clicking the anchor point?

[timber elbow]

select the event system in the hierarchy. There should be info on the bottom of the inspector. Take a screenshot of it when you hover over the button.

[low pike]

When you create UI for the first time in a scene, an EventSystem game object is also created. This is required for interacting with UI

[fathom plume]

doesnt work with this too

[worn pagoda]

Sorry not sure then

[timber elbow]

Is that when you hover over the button?

[worn pagoda]

Yes

[timber elbow]

hmmm

Maybe OnMouseOver is not controlled by the event system..?🤔

[low pike]

Don't think I've ever used it

[timber elbow]

Do you have several event systems in your scene perhaps?

[worn pagoda]

Nope

[timber elbow]

try typing that in your hierarchy search bar: t: EventSystem

[worn pagoda]

I get nothing

[timber elbow]

type the whole thing

it should find at least one

[worn pagoda]

Ah yeah just one

[timber elbow]

Hmmm... Well, guess the solution that Carwash gave should work.

[worn pagoda]

But wouldnt that mean putting it on every game object you can click apart from the canvas

[timber elbow]

Yeah. Alternative is not to use OnMouseOver.

[worn pagoda]

Yeah dont really want to do that, ill keep trying things

[timber elbow]

or make some base class for all your objects that use OnMouseOver and add that condition there.

[worn pagoda]

You mean make a class that uses the on mouse over with the condition and then use that instead?

[timber elbow]

use it as a base class for all your other classes that need OnMouseOver.

I'd just change OnMouseOver to IPointerEnterHandler or whatever you call that interface.

I bet that event is blocked by ui properly

[worn pagoda]

Yeah maybe

I might try that

[low pike]

no.. just the things that you interact with

[worn pagoda]

Thats still quite a few objects

And then it would also stop me from clicking them when the menu isnt open as well

[worn pagoda]

I dont think i understood you correctly what exactly do you mean?

[timber elbow]

Nevermind. I didn't think it through. It's still possible, but a bit complicated with my solution. It would be better to use IPointerEnterHandler events instead.

[worn pagoda]

I dont know IPointerEnterHandler events either

Oh nvm i found the docs

So its like onCollisionEnter

[timber elbow]

ummm... Depends on how you look at it.

[frank jewel]

how do I set a game object to send a signal that can be used to change my UI text?

[fathom plume]

Hey guys, i am instantiating an object with vertical layout group and i need to get height of it, but on first frames its 0 how can get this?

[mortal robin]

Look into events in C#

[timber elbow]

It should take a frame or so to recalculate the height based on the contents.

[mortal robin]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Canvas.ForceUpdateCanvases.html

[earnest ruin]

... The default is set to point and for no reason this one imported as bilinear.

[sweet pond]

and compression?

[fathom plume]

Guys, how to add this elements to the end, so parent will move down and fix the position of first element?

[mortal robin]

A combination of settings on the layout group and the pivot/anchor preset of the layout group's Recttransform

Experiment with it.

[rigid sage]

i have a inventory panel thing thats partly transparent that id rather be opaque but i cant figure out how to fix it (the png isnt transparent)

[trail spruce]

Don't know if anyone will find it super useful, but I got tired of opening Photoshop and making placeholder icons for a ton of RPG items. So I made a program that generates them instead.

It merges words from wordlist.txt with template.png

Outputs the icons into ./generated

Source for the rightfully-paranoid

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;

namespace PlaceholderIconGenerator
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("PlaceholderIconGenerator, CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA, Grady Lorenzo, github.com/gradylorenzo");
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key..");
            Console.ReadKey();

            GenerateIcons();
        }

        private static void GenerateIcons()
        {
            foreach(string w in GetWordList())
            {
                Bitmap newIcon = LoadTemplate();

                PointF location = new PointF(newIcon.Width / 2, newIcon.Height / 2);
                Font arialFont = new Font("Arial", 22);
                StringFormat format = new StringFormat
                {
                    Alignment = StringAlignment.Center,
                    LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center
                };

                using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(newIcon))
                {
                    graphics.DrawString(w, arialFont, Brushes.White, location, format);
                }

                if (!Directory.Exists("./generated"))
                {
                    Directory.CreateDirectory("./generated");
                }
                newIcon.Save("./generated/" + w + ".png");
            }
        }

        private static Bitmap LoadTemplate()
        {
            return (Bitmap)Image.FromFile("./template.png");
        }

        private static string[] GetWordList()
        {
            List<string> words = new List<string>();
            StreamReader file = new StreamReader("./wordlist.txt");

            string line;
            while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                words.Add(line);
                Console.WriteLine(line);
            }

            return words.ToArray();
        }
    }
}```

[fathom plume]

Hey guys, how to change height and width based on text

[magic cliff]

Button does not work at all

[low pike]

if it's just the height/width of the game object with the text on.. then give it a content size fitter and change to prefered size for both

[low pike]

by "post more details/ screenshots" I meant stuff that would be useful

[magic cliff]

idk what else i could explain

[low pike]

the setup?
show the hierarchy?
the inspector(s) for the button/ canvas/ other things involved?

you've replied to a msg that wasn't for you 🤔

[magic cliff]

ahh that was embarrasing

what happened to my chat

lol

The "ToMenu" is the "Menu" on the scene, and when it is clicked it loads Menu scene

The inspector of "ToMenu"

[low pike]

background... what's on that ?

[magic cliff]

panel

[low pike]

with an image and raycast target?

because that is on top of everything else

[magic cliff]

im not sure, i exited unity

[low pike]

and will block the button

[magic cliff]

so what should i do

[low pike]

In the hierarchy, move "background" up, so that it is directly below "PauseMenu"

UI is rendered in order from top to bottom

[magic cliff]

ohh

so it works like that

ok I'll try tomorrow i really need sleep

[pulsar hatch]

hello guys, i have multiples scene in my project but have a situation :

i have two camera

one is overlay, but on another scene

so the main cam dont find my overlay cam

have you an idea to help me ?

[granite oar]

Anybody any clue why my sprite is ignoring the Color from Image. Material is the UI/Default shader.
And it works fine with the knob sprite included in standard unity for example

[pulsar hatch]

@granite oar try to remove the material

LineMaterial

[granite oar]

Still doesn't work

Is it because the sprite contains alpha pixels?

[fathom plume]

How to fold all sizes and resize the "Message"?

And size of "Message" will be like this

[thick portal]

So I have this background that I want to put in menu, it's 80 by 128 pixels. it looks like this

But when I add that texture to UI panel
it's streched like this

[frank osprey]

Tiling the texture should do the trick, no? You might need to remove the leftmost or rightmost column so it tiles correctly

[cold thistle]

Hey everyone, i have a shop as you can see

[thick portal]

uhm how do I do that?

[cold thistle]

But when i change the aspect ratio

Everything except these shop packs resize

i want my shop packs to resize too

[frail jewel]

UI anchors

[cold thistle]

Wait

a bit buggy

[frank osprey]

In the sprite import settings, set the sprite as "Sprite - 2D and UI".
Then set the sprite mode to "Tiled". I don't remember if it's in the import settings, or in the Image component of your object, but it's definitely an option. Then as you increase the size of the object your image will repeat itself and stay uniform.

[pearl inlet]

lol

[cold thistle]

ok got it working

[thick portal]

I can't find that option "tiled"

I found sprite mode

but it has single, multiple and polygon

[frank osprey]

Okay, so the option is on the Image component of your object, as I said earlier

[verbal sand]

i think its called wrap mode -> repeat in the import settings

[frail jewel]

UI scaling is a complex topic, you should watch a tutorial on it, Or if its wrong. you'll have to do it all again anyway.

[olive arch]

Does anyone knows how Doozy UI handles components sizes for different screen sizes?

[carmine cliff]

what is the correct way in unity UI Toolkit to display crisp text? I am using a font asset and can change the font fine but the text is just not crisp. I'm not even sure what's going on.

should i just be using TTF directly ? (coz whenever i do so, the text disappears completely)

[rapid ferry]

What's the best way to handle large, multiple UI windows?

So for me, I have a management menu

There may be windows for say, employee management, products, etc

[carmine cliff]

UGUI sucks with handling large multiple ui windows

i had to switch to the vastly undocumented and incomplete UI Toolkit in the hopes a final release happens before my launch

ugui is not made for a large amount of nested, responsive/auto-resizing elements. you can still do it with anchors and content size fitters and vertical/horizontal layouts and splitting the ui in separate canvases etc but at the end of the day, you'll just be digging in water

[pseudo apex]

As long as you have nested canvases, it's usually okay though

[carmine cliff]

wasn't our experience... when you have a ui that resembles more a dynamic website with dynamic scrollviews everywhere, it starts showing it's shortcomings

[pseudo apex]

True, but if you reach that point, might be worth considering rethinking the UI making it more efficient.
That sounds like some WPF console app to me, which are not necessarily known to be the most pleasing to work with.

[carmine cliff]

depends on the project you're working on i guess

tbh ui toolkit has been a breath of fresh air... no content size fitters and vertical layout hacks and resizing of children to make it fit etc...

[pseudo apex]

Yeah, it's more like css+JS in a sense.

[carmine cliff]

i'm still trying to understand how fonts work though... i got this error everywhere : UnassignedReferenceException: The variable m_Material of FontAsset has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the m_Material variable of the FontAsset script in the inspector.

and it's assigned... if it means in the text settings file

if anyone can offer any insight i'd be greatly appreciative hehe

[pseudo apex]

Using TMP?

[carmine cliff]

nope... ui toolkit uses Text core or whatever they're calling it... it's like a clone of tmpro

[pseudo apex]

oh right

[carmine cliff]

infact that is the same exact error that tmpro shows

UnassignedReferenceException: The variable m_Material of FontAsset has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the m_Material variable of the FontAsset script in the inspector.
UnityEngine.TextCore.Text.TextGenerator.GenerateTextMesh (UnityEngine.TextCore.Text.TextGenerationSettings generationSettings, UnityEngine.TextCore.Text.TextInfo textInfo) (at /Users/bokken/buildslave/unity/build/Modules/TextCoreTextEngine/Managed/TextGenerator.cs:933)
UnityEngine.TextCore.Text.TextGenerator.GenerateText (UnityEngine.TextCore.Text.TextGenerationSettings settings, UnityEngine.TextCore.Text.TextInfo textInfo) (at /Users/bokken/buildslave/unity/build/Modules/TextCoreTextEngine/Managed/TextGenerator.cs:315)
UnityEngine.UIElements.TextCoreHandle.Update (UnityEngine.UIElements.MeshGenerationContextUtils+TextParams parms, System.Single pixelsPerPoint) (at /Users/bokken/buildslave/unity/build/ModuleOverrides/com.unity.ui/Core/Text/TextHandle.cs:173)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.Implementation.UIRStylePainter.DrawTextCore (UnityEngine.UIElements.MeshGenerationContextUtils+TextParams textParams, UnityEngine.UIElements.ITextHandle handle, System.Single pixelsPerPoint) (at /Users/bokken/buildslave/unity/build/ModuleOverrides/com.unity.ui/Core/Renderer/UIRStylePainter.cs:414)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.Implementation.UIRStylePainter.DrawText (UnityEngine.UIElements.MeshGenerationContextUtils+TextParams textParams, UnityEngine.UIElements.ITextHandle handle, System.Single pixelsPerPoint) (at /Users/bokken/buildslave/unity/build/ModuleOverrides/com.unity.ui/Core/Renderer/UIRStylePainter.cs:381)
UnityEngine.UIElement

so weird

[pseudo apex]

I'm seeing some people having this happen because they accidentally had two components of the same type to an object...
Might be something similar happening but in the UI

[carmine cliff]

dunno, been battling this for a few days tbh

even recreating a fresh project

it starts working fine, then you add a button somewhere and these errors start popping up randomly

[pseudo apex]

Might be worth having a look around the editor and on your game objects to make sure all things are assigned.
I know Unity sometimes clear up those things which is a pain.
Might be worth submitting a ticket to the unity team in that case with as much help you can give them.
If you have walked through your game objects and made sure nothing is unassigned ofc.

[carmine cliff]

have you worked with ui toolkit yet ?

curious to know what the proper workflow is for fonts

[pseudo apex]

You mean how to properly add your own fonts and work with them?

[carmine cliff]

well yeah basically haha

the only thing i found is that you have to create a text core asset (which i did), create a text settings file (which i did), assign it to the panel settings file (which i did)... and then apparently that should be the default font... but it's not... setting the font asset from within the USS files, changes the font but they're blurry

[pseudo apex]

I believe that if you are using unity 2021.1 you have access to font assets in the style properties.. should just be set straight up in the editor from what I have experienced.

[carmine cliff]

yes that's the only way it works actually but the fonts are very blurry

[pseudo apex]

is it only in runtime?

[carmine cliff]

nope even in editor

well in game view

coz the ui doesn't show in scene view yet

[pseudo apex]

seems like there are a lot of tickets regarding this in the unity issue tracker...

[carmine cliff]

are there

can you link?

[pseudo apex]

https://unity3d.com/search?refinement=issues&gq=blurry text ui toolkit

[carmine cliff]

at least i know i'm not crazy and that it's a real issue lol

[pseudo apex]

might be related and might not, have seen some other people claiming it's related to HDRP and so on...

[carmine cliff]

yeah that's not it coz i'm on urp... mehhh thank so much for your help. hopefully they fix their stuff soon coz most mmo's didn't take this long to finish lofl

[pseudo apex]

I'm not really sure, have not experienced a lot of font changing myself, is there a pixel/unit or anything of the likes in on the fonts much like other assets?

[carmine cliff]

there is, sample point size... the second you touch that field, font asset file becomes corrupted and ruins the whole ui

[pseudo apex]

eeeeh

[carmine cliff]

and you have to go manually change the references in each uss class

yeh it's very annoying

[pseudo apex]

Yeah, that doesn't seem very stable yet.

[carmine cliff]

there is already a ticket for the same error i'm facing

seems like i'm not alone on this...at least

[pseudo apex]

yeah, that for sure sounds like a problem if changing one of the size values just busts the entire toolkit

[carmine cliff]

that's what you get with betas i guess

but when you have no alternative, you gotta wait or work with what you have

[native cairn]

I have been having issues witht the ScrollBar on my game. It works on Editor however it doesn't work on Play mode. I made a video showing my setup and the issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJHffnMoDrg

(I already debugged without the errors and the issue still happens)
Anyone has any idea of why that happens?

[thick portal]

How can I fit this field

so it takes full screen

ratio is the same, field is 80x128 pixels

and this aspect ratio is 800x1280 as you can see

[fading seal]

Is there a way to tell a Unity UI (panel/window etc) a virtual position of a mouse and have it detect if it is hovering over a UI element? basically a virtual mouse all through code?

[verbal sand]

no idea whats causing it but the value jumping to -8 on start would be where i start the debugging process, figure out what causes that and go from there

[native cairn]

Yeah, the strange thing is that there is no script messing with the scrollbar

[verbal sand]

i'd assume its some interaction with the scroll view, you could try disabling scripts till it doesnt happen anymore

[earnest ruin]

How tf do RectTransform anchors work? Because if I change the anchor point from top-left to bottom-right the position values don't change.

[mortal robin]

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

it explains everything

[earnest ruin]

Idk, it still doesn't make a ton of sense. How can the position of an recttransform be the same if the anchor is in the topleft or the bottom-right?

[verbal sand]

When all the anchor handles are together the fields displayed are Pos X, Pos Y, Width and Height. The Pos X and Pos Y values indicate the position of the pivot relative to the anchors.

its not an absolute position

[wary plover]

Alright guys got a good one for ye

I have a renderTexture I'd like to use as my primary "View" of the scene

it currently is visible as expected in the game preview window, but when I click run, it disappears and I just see the output from the default camera instead

[limpid shale]

dang I was just about to ask more about rect transforms

thought ive done something like that before

ill see if I can find it

I will ask, how can I get a popup to appear below a input field?
I already have the popup in a seperate canvas and the input field is making it appear correctly, its just the positioning that is a nightmare

how have you got the camera set up? is it more than one?

please help

[native cairn]

I also did that, there are no scripts messings with the scrollbar at all, that is why I'm so weirded out by this haha

[green arch]

how can i change the ui so it matches all resolutions? right now if i create a canvas and build it on 1080 x 1920 and playtest on a lower resolution, everything breaks and gets in or out the game view.

[mortal robin]

look into the different canvas scaler options and also familiarize yourself with https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

also make use of the resolution picker dropdown in game view to test various game resolutions in the editor.

[green arch]

did that, and it works! i changed to scale with screen size. thank you!!!

[coral moss]

I have a problem because I do not know how to extend Siede_panel (see photo 1) so that when playing in full screen, its height is adjusted, but I do not mean changing it manually by the scale

and screeen in game

ok i am rapair this

[thick portal]

is there any way to put prefab game object on top of the canvas image?

https://gyazo.com/060aca11c8fa634fd967ea473980dad4

[mortal robin]

You have to use a Screen Space - Camera or World Space canvas

prefab or not is irrelevant

[thick portal]

where is that world space canvas?

[mortal robin]

it's a setting on the canvas

[thick portal]

should I add event camera ?

[verbal sand]

so if you disable literally everything besides the scroll view components the same still happens?

[mortal robin]

If you are using the event system

[mortal robin]

yep - that warning is pretty straightforward

[thick portal]

oh lol

thanks

@mortal robin Now the canvas is not showing properly

[mortal robin]

if it's a world space canvas you need to position it properly in front of the screen

[mortal robin]

I wouldn't take switching to a world space canvas from a screen space canvas lightly

[thick portal]

oh okay

[mortal robin]

switching to Screen Space - Camera is probably more straightforward

[thick portal]

alright I did

ty