📲┃ui-ux

[pastel root]

Add open scene on the bottom right corner or dragging the scene in there from the project folder

[warped moss]

bottom right?

It doesn't do anything

Yes but that's not M y scene

This is mine

[pastel root]

but you have to be in the other scene

[warped moss]

OHH

Ok

Wait

still not working

I am in

Games Scene

But still get the same

Bet.Unitypackage

or whatever

itscalled

[pastel root]

yea but you want to add the menu right?

[warped moss]

I want to add the Game scene

The one scene

when you press "play"

button

The first index has to be 0 which it is

and the second index 1

[pastel root]

then go into the game scene, add the game scene to that place

[warped moss]

I press the button in the game scene

Want to come into a screenshare?

And look

?

Would be much easier

[pastel root]

or this

I can sure

[warped moss]

I dont have the same ones

I only have 1 game scene

ok

[pastel root]

yea and 1 menu scene right?

[warped moss]

Come in a call

[elder hawk]

Why is my canvas so big?

my ENTIRE game is in the bottom left

can you see it?

[mortal robin]

that's how it works

Unity displays the canvas in the scene view as 1 pixel == 1 unit

at least, for Screen-Space Overlay canvases

it will look different for the other canvas modes

[elder hawk]

so... is there a way to make it smaller?

the size of the camera - preferably

[mortal robin]

If you use Screen Space Overlay, this is just how it is

why do you want to make it smaller?

If you use Screen Space Camera it will be a bit different, maybe more of what you expect

but then you're switching to screen space camera, which has a bunch of other differences you may or may not want

[uneven delta]

Hi, why i cant change image when i add it to the ui? I have this but i cant upload Source Image. In Raw Image everythng works fine but my photo is so blurry

[elder hawk]

oh, srry, i have it figured out, thx!

[rugged rover]

How can I put a Text (TMPro) over my UI Image? Says I can't have both

But I need it for my game

Each mahjong tile will have a symbol on it, and it can't be baked into the image itself

[sterile wedge]

What do you mean over? Just make the text a child object?

[rugged rover]

Brain's fried, thanks

[sterile wedge]

probably a good sign to take a break 😆

[rugged rover]

How come my game is always in the corner here? No matter what I change on the board transform it always sticks in the bottom left there...

Having it at 0, 0, 0 produces the same results

I can only manually drag it over during runtime 😐

[gilded citrus]

is there any way to add blur on a ui element?

so stuff underneath gets blurred

[steady yarrow]

hey guys can someone help me with some simple ui problems

basically the click of my button is not registering

ive checked for eventsystem raycastble objects blocking it and whatnot but came to no fix 😦 Any help would be appreciated 🙂

[digital kayak]

is there a button component on it

[steady yarrow]

yes ther is a button component

[digital kayak]

try moving the button around to different areas of the screen and see if it clicks there

[steady yarrow]

sure

[digital kayak]

outside of any parents

[steady yarrow]

yep

nah

completely unclickable

ahh

ill just make a new one

doesn't matter thanks for the help man 🙂

[steady yarrow]

Nah still a problem 😦

exactly replicated

[stiff barn]

this is visible in half screen mode

but not in full screen

why?

anyone?

[steady yarrow]

I’m just gonna check again. Does anyone have a fix for the buttons not being able to be clicked. Literally tried everything. 😅

[frosty pewter]

https://help.vertx.xyz/?page=ui/input-issues

[steady yarrow]

Thanks vertx but all of this has been done tbh

I even tracked the event system and the pointer and what it was facing towards but it wasn’t working

[frosty pewter]

Well, let me know what the issue is when you do solve it

[steady yarrow]

Wait a sec

What does the 4th one mean

[frosty pewter]

Any objects that are over it that receive mouse events will block the button

EventTriggers absorb all events

[steady yarrow]

Oh that is fine I tracked that with the event system standard input module

It was always registering that button I wanted to be click

Just it would never click

[frosty pewter]

I'm not sure what you checked exactly. I'm not sure where exactly it is but the event system should be debuggable, looking for where it fires the events and throwing a breakpoint to see what's intercepting them would be what I'd do

[steady yarrow]

Oh basically test it out but if you have a default event system check out the inspector when you click on it. During play there is a bunch of values down the bottom which highlight what the event system is highlighting and whatnot what it’s ray set is detecting . Constantly it would be detecting the button but would never click

[frosty pewter]

Surely you can't see that for the one frame the button is being clicked for

[steady yarrow]

Idk I have an on click event

It is not called

Also if you hold down the button it constitutes as pressed

Or is being pressed

Idk

I’ll find a way and post the solution

Thanks for the help

[frosty pewter]

I'm on my phone but I'm pretty sure if you slap a breakpoint down here https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/uGUI/blob/5ab4c0fee7cd5b3267672d877ec4051da525913c/UnityEngine.UI/EventSystem/ExecuteEvents.cs#L36 you can see what is being clicked on. It might be failing earlier than that though

[steady yarrow]

Ok thanks 🙏

[steady yarrow]

Hey vertx

it seems to be registering the breakpoint

like on that line

it says that i clicked that button

[frosty pewter]

Well then, you can step over the code from there and see where it's going wrong

[steady yarrow]

yeah

i will do so

[elder hawk]

why is my 2d canvas not in front. When I switch to 3D view, it is way back, behind my game on the Z axis

how can I fix this?

[uneven delta]

How can i make Canvas not visible from game?

[sterile wedge]

disable the Canvas component?

[uneven delta]

meh

i mean this

I want healthbar to be visible in ui, but not as image in game

you understnad/

[sterile wedge]

what's the difference? what do you mean in game?

[stiff barn]

the problem is already solved! still thanks for replying

[pastel root]

ah aight! No worries!

[pastel root]

is your UI visible in world space?

[stiff barn]

@pastel root bro btw any idea how to add borders to buttons in unity?

[pastel root]

uh, you can make a sliceable texture that is just borders

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/9SliceSprites.html

and use that as your button sprite

[stiff barn]

Alright

[hollow ruin]

Ugh im still struggeling with the UI. Im trying to make a screen space overlay, but the canves is showing everything "in the world" and not on the screen al the time like this

I cant find right answers to this problem, can someone help me out!

[uneven delta]

yes

[pastel root]

Can you click on the canvas for me and show me what the Inspector looks like?

[pastel root]

what components are in the image on the canvas? (aka show me the inspector of that please)

[hollow ruin]

Those are the components!
Blue components is SVG files that I just opened and did them to children to the canvas, background are 2d sprite and Amount.. and KR are UI--> text

[pastel root]

no like...

the the inspector of the image you see

[hollow ruin]

oh right, lol no you wrote that, just forgot which was which for a sec..

Like so?

[pastel root]

yes but now of the image itself haha

[hollow ruin]

O god sorry I dont get you...

[pastel root]

I want to see this

[hollow ruin]

Heh okey gotcha

[pastel root]

Okay, so the problem is that you are using a sprite component instead of an image component

which I think is your problem too @uneven delta ^

Image Components are the once you use for UI images

[hollow ruin]

Ah okey, right. Every component do i need to add from UI

[pastel root]

yes

[hollow ruin]

Okey, ill try! thanks

[pastel root]

npnp

[scarlet perch]

hi guys, can someone explain to me how to solve this overlapping issue with my inventory ui

the scroll rect seems to send items inside it above the panel

when i scroll down

[hollow ruin]

So I made a material of a png applied it on an image! but how do i make it "native size"? i watched a tutorial and then instead of applying a material he applied a sprite and then he god the button "set native size". Do you know how i can do it

[pastel root]

a material of a PNG?

yea you do not need a material...

[hollow ruin]

Yep, that was what i found was easiest

aha... lol okey

[scarlet perch]

i've tried to use a mask for the issue but it seems to just remove the visibility of everything inside the inventory

[pastel root]

you keep the sprite but you use an image instead of a sprite renderer

[scarlet perch]

im not really familiar with how masks work though

[hollow ruin]

Hmm because i cant get it how I add the png to the image. Should i add like a sprite renderer to the image and then add it there

[pastel root]

no

the image has a slot for your sprite

[scarlet perch]

ok actually, i got it working i think

[pastel root]

source image = sprite

[hollow ruin]

The problem is, when i add the sprite, it is not visible

I dont really understand why

[pastel root]

you clicked on set native size right?

[hollow ruin]

Okey tbh I didnt, but now i tried and it is still the same problem. I think the size is right, its just that tha green is invisible

[pastel root]

the green is invisible?

[hollow ruin]

I mean it should be a green outline like this

But instead, the only thing that shows up is this

[pastel root]

to me that looks like it is just not rendering

[hollow ruin]

Aha

yeh maybe its rendering issues

[pastel root]

just to be sure, you do not have a mask or anything like that right?

[hollow ruin]

Im sorry that i cant help so much with you helping me, i dont know.
But i havent added any masks on this. Ive only created an image from UI, searched in the sprite bar in the image and applied the png

[pastel root]

it is fine no worries, I am just like to make sure there is not something I am missing

[hollow ruin]

Another weird thing is that i couldnt drag and ad the my image, I could only go in to the sprite bar and choose there, if that can be to any help

[pastel root]

Can you select the thing you couldn't drag and send me the inspector of that?

that is probably related

[hollow ruin]

So in this way, i couldnt add the sprite

[pastel root]

yea because you are trying to drag a prefab into a sprite slot

[hollow ruin]

But when i pressed there in the corner, i could choose that one

[pastel root]

the one all the way on the right is the sprite

[hollow ruin]

But i couldnt add that ether

[pastel root]

yea but I want you to click on it lol

I need to see something in there

[hollow ruin]

That one?

Oh do i need to press apply?

[pastel root]

change texture type to "Sprite (2D and UI)"

all the way at the top

[hollow ruin]

Okey, and only that, or should I press anything else before apply?

[pastel root]

that is all you need

then apply

now it is a sprite instead of a material

and now you can drag it in

[hollow ruin]

Hm okey i guess it worked but this warning came upp when i applied it

Can i just ignore that?

[pastel root]

Yea, it is has to do with texture formats which is something you normally want to keep an eye on but it will not break anything. It is why textures and sprite sheets are normally like 128x128 to 2048x2048 style. You can divide those by 4

[hollow ruin]

I guess it has something to do with the settings when i save the works from Illustrator?

Or how do i change it so it gets right

[pastel root]

I wouldn't be able to tell you, I do not use Illustrator ever

but it is not important for now, 1 problem at a time

so can you see your image now once you dragged the sprite in?

[hollow ruin]

Yes i see it😍
So that problem is not going to mess up in the future? Or just for now

[pastel root]

It is something you do to optimize a game, it is something you just kinda do but it will not break anything. For Sprites it shouldn't be a problem ever though

[hollow ruin]

Aha okey, nice to hear. Thank you so much for the help. Have stuggled with this for so many days now. It is for a school project so I really need to keep working so it can get finnished in time😅

[pastel root]

no worries dude! It is all good :D

[white plover]

i have an image , it isnt being transparent although it should be

what should i do

[ionic beacon]

It doesn't look transparent
Can you upload the image here?

[white plover]

.

[ionic beacon]

Yeah that's not a transparent background

[white plover]

well what is

[ionic beacon]

Either use Photoshop or something to remove the checkered background or find another picture

[white plover]

like this?

[pastel root]

fake PNG's make me sad

[pastel root]

That one should work yea

[white plover]

true asf

[rugged rover]

If a parent has a canvas group is there a point for a child to have one as well?

[mortal robin]

only if you want to independently control that child (and its children) from the parent group

[rugged rover]

I'm doing a tween fade so I want everything under it to fade

I'll keep the parent only

Thanks

How can I make my entire canvas clickable? I want the user to be able to click and hold (already have a script for that) to make a search box appear.

[mortal robin]

put a big invisible UI element on the whole thing

[digital hearth]

UIToolkit: Does anyone know if pseudo classes like :hover are supposed to work with template instantiations? Specifically, this psuedo class

    background-color: var(--yellow-dark);
}``` 
doesn't seem to work on template instances w/ a `VisualElement` named `station-view`

My current kludge of a workaround is

ve.RegisterCallback<MouseOverEvent>(me =>
{
    ve.Q<VisualElement>("StationView").AddToClassList("station-view-hover");
});

(no pseudo class)

[fallen magnet]

Hmm I would think there shouldn't be any specific issues but I know I had some issues today because templates don't have any styling applied to their root when added

Also does anyone know if there is a good way to detect hierarchy changes?

[rugged rover]

Hello. How can I make the zoom in and zoom out (scale change) change with the location of the click? Is there some kind of scaling pivot I need to change?

I want it to zoom in where I click

[sturdy night]

Are there any guides of in depth tutorials that go over UI best practices?

even so far as proper ways to script UI and such?

[dusky stream]

Good morning. Hi friends... trying to make something like this, I'm close but no cigar.

and finally

what did i do wrong hehe

Wanted a selectable list not just a scroll

[low pike]

you will need more than 1 TMP text

[dusky stream]

how would that work tho?

like when reading data into it

[low pike]

instantiate a new tmp text game object, set it's text to be the new wrestler

[dusky stream]

ka prefab?a

er prefab

public class DatabaseManager : MonoBehaviour
{

public TMP_Dropdown WrestlerList;

public TMP_Text WrestlerList2 = new TextMeshPro();

did that, unity did not like the "new" keyword

[low pike]

you probably have to add the TMP to a gameobejct with someGameObject.AddComponent<T>();

[dusky stream]

is the Hierarchy right?

[low pike]

you'd be better off having the tmp height at the same size of the font

[dusky stream]

like this?

[low pike]

not quite

this height value

[dusky stream]

make it match the font size?

[low pike]

you changed the size of the yellow box, not the recttransform.
Undo the change you did, and resize by putting your cursor on the line (not the white box) and drag it to the same size you did for the yellow box

[dusky stream]

it wont let me resize that

wrong pic, hold

[dusky stream]

thats what i did..

the yellow box

[low pike]

the first thing I do in the gif is wrong

the second thing is correct

[dusky stream]

ok

so this

[low pike]

that is the game object that needs resizing

but you've not resized the correct part of it

[dusky stream]

sigh this has to be so complicated

why cant it use C# controls :/

[low pike]

the yellow bit is the tmp, the white box is the rect transform.. you need to resize both.. and you do that the way I show in the gif

this is damn easy

[dusky stream]

ok hold

[low pike]

but you can do it via script, just pointless

[dusky stream]

i am not finding this stupid 'rect transform'

[dusky stream]

yes i see THAT

[low pike]

the 4 blue dots are the rect

corners of

[dusky stream]

o

[low pike]

You didn't undo this first, like I said to do

the yellow box and the white box want to be the same size

[dusky stream]

i think the vertical group is causing a issue...

it wont resize

what object am i selecting in heirarchy?

im a failure tbh

i'll try this later after work, cant do both at same time w/o frustration

ty for help in the mean time @low pike

[balmy harness]

Is there a way to update the size of an object (UI Image in this case) to be as big as Text that is parented to it without using code?

[velvet lintel]

can someone help me with these ui components... im trying to have a chat, that has a vertical layout group, and the messages have a content size fitter because the text needs to wrap around

[sturdy night]

Does anyone here have experience with the Scrollbar component? I'm trying to mimic how a vertical scroll would act on a webpage, but scrollbar acts like a mobile device(It continues to scroll after letting go of the handle). Does anyone know where I can disable 'scroll-momentum' if that's a thing?

[mortal robin]

there's like an inertia setting on it

on the Scroll Rect

[sturdy night]

Thanks @mortal robin

[merry wing]

anyone know what this weird icon is? (using UIToolkit)

[frosty pewter]

Something from visual scripting. Look through the gizmos list.

[merry wing]

wow, thanks, it's this:

aaand removing Visual Scripting package got rid of it.

[balmy harness]

Is there a way to update the size of an object (UI Image in this case) to be as big as Text that is parented to it without using code? I am trying to make a hover over info, and the text that is shown can be of different length, and I want it to always have a fitting background

[frosty pewter]

A Content Size Fitter should do it. Though some things are finicky and I forget if text is one of them

[shell ledge]

Are there any Japanese game developers in here or people who have had experince localizing unity games into Japanese? I have some questions about Text Mesh Pro and Kanji characters.

[sterile wedge]

you should probably ask the questions you have right away, instead of waiting for someone to get back to you

[shell ledge]

Ok, i'll keep that in mind next time.

[low pike]

if the background is a child then just change the anchor presets to stretch

[balmy harness]

Oh right, I can just put the text as a parent instead of a child

Thanks

[low pike]

oh, i thought you already had it set that way. It's not how I'd do it.. but yes, that works

[rapid ferry]

i need help i cant choose my own png as background of my panel

[mortal robin]

did you import your image as a Sprite?

[rapid ferry]

i fixed it but i got another problem

when i play my game the menu looks like this how can i fix this?

[mortal robin]

That depends on what you'd like it to actually look like

You should familiarize yourself with https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

to learn how anchors work

[grizzled inlet]

HOW to register even leaves here or how to see them?

[mortal robin]

wat

[mortal robin]

what's the question?

[grizzled inlet]

Why do I have different indents on different screens if I use Vertical Layout Group

If you do not use the Vertical Layout Group, then everything is fine when changing the resolution

If I change the size here and adjust the fake screen, then everything is fine, but on the other it will go beyond the canvas

help please guys

[red latch]

guys any idea why my fonts have this darkshadows around them? It only appears in iOS

[low pike]

if using TMP, scale isn't 1,1,1

[low pike]

because you're not automatically setting the width of that rect

enable "Control Child Size"

also - it looks like you're making something for mobile?
If so, I recommend using the Device Simulator -> https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.device-simulator@3.0/manual/index.html

[brisk steeple]

I have some problem with making custom font for text mesh pro. I didn't had this issue earlier. When I am creating new asset the character table is empty, no matter what font I try to make,

[grizzled inlet]

I make it for a mobile phone so that it is vertical, but for some reason, at different resolutions, everything goes for the canvas border

[grizzled inlet]

how to install it?

[long harbor]

Any idea how to fix the rectangle view

[frank osprey]

Okay, so the screen resolution is that white rectangle, it passes just above the "Back" button

[long harbor]

yes even that is not correct resolution the white rectangle inside

[frank osprey]

So your background, and all the UI elements must be inside of that rectangle to be able to see it

[long harbor]

I think everything is inside

[frank osprey]

I mean inside the bounds of the rectangle on your scene view

[long harbor]

Yes inside the rectangle but when i change it and open the game, i had the whole space you saw around

[frank osprey]

Then your anchoring is not right. The black background, that is probably the "BorderBackground" or the "PanelBackground" object, must be stretched and the anchors in the corners, not in the center

Anchors are those small arrows that point towards the center of the canvas

It makes that "X" when they are anchored center

[long harbor]

It is now like this

thats how it looks in fullscreen tho

[frank osprey]

Select the object you just anchored

And take a screenshot of the scene view

[frank osprey]

That's anchored center

Middle center

You need to stretch on both axes, and hold Alt while you're doing it

It's the bottom right square

If you do it right your background will stretch so it takes the whole canvas area

[long harbor]

Yup i think it worked

I dont see any issue so far

worked with editing / playing and full screen

[frank osprey]

All good then!

[long harbor]

Thank you appreciate it very much!

works like a charm

[grizzled inlet]

help guys please

[low pike]

you can't just post a screenshot and ask for help

no one knows what your problem is

[grizzled inlet]

check up man

[low pike]

this screenshot is nothing to do with the stuff above

[rapid ferry]

I think he means htat

*that

but then, I have to agree, without context, this would seem absured

[low pike]

Even those two screenshots look fine to me

[rapid ferry]

Actually yeah right

[grizzled inlet]

game mode

[low pike]

right, because you've not got the widths set to be dynamic

[grizzled inlet]

?

norm setting for mobile game?

[low pike]

put the slider all the way left or right

[grizzled inlet]

what slider are you talking about?

[low pike]

there's only 1 slider in that screenshot

your recttransform doesn't change size

[grizzled inlet]

and which is better to use?

[low pike]

If the size of things are changing, then you need to work out which one is best for you.. one of the stretches

[grizzled inlet]

?

[grizzled inlet]

😭

[delicate sundial]

How the hell I m supposed to make animated UI in Unity...
They don't support Bink format
Old and new Particles doesn't work in UI
Shaders doesn't works in HDRP

Like what the hell... I m not gonna do some element frame by frame 1000 images or tons of texture sets...

I honestly don't know how I m supposed to do some regular animation/juice to UI

[grizzled inlet]

Help guys

[low pike]

what kind of animations do you want to do? show a few examples

[grizzled inlet]

how to enable on Canvas Safe Area?

[dim surge]

is there a way to invert the mask provided by the mask component?

[coral sphinx]

is there a way to like move a canvas

[dim surge]

theres no one answering questions 😂

[delicate sundial]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cip3zdlPYiI&t=15s
logo, hovers
or something like it's done in Ori or Hades

[sturdy night]

Is there a general agreed upon way to make a UI system with multiple windows and menus?

[azure flame]

You can have opened "windows" register with closing event to trigger when something else opened. And keep record of open windows if it is something more complex and perhaps have state machine keeping track of their configurations in this case.

[sturdy night]

Alright, those are things to look into to.

[azure flame]

First thing you can do with just an Action you can trigger and add closing actions for other windows to, to execute when it triggers.

[azure flame]

Look into canvas render modes, World space one you can move.

[low pike]

all of this is extremely easy.. and doesn't require any third-party animation file/type (eg: bink)

I'd do it via code, but it's doable other ways too.. or there are assets on the store (DoozyUI being one)

they're either moving an image around to the selected option OR that image is on all the options and they toggle it on/off as an option is selected/ deselected

when something is selected it does a call that moves the transform position to show more options (eg: colours) and has a canvas group on it to fade the alpha 0->1

[carmine stream]

My game isnt displaying pngs after its built but is displaying during editor. The images are children of different canvas's

anything I should know or could someone help?

halp

[silver summit]

Hey, I have a problem with transparent UI images. How can I fix the color of the green panel to be like in the preview from adobe

it looks more weathered than the original, because the color from the background messes it up

[mild kernel]

With built in components, the easiest way I imagine is to use a solid green square, give it a mask component and child another leaf image into it, maybe?

[silver summit]

but then the leaf images will missalign if the resolution changes, no?

[mild kernel]

Maybe. I'm not online to test it.

Alternatively, I suppose you could instead put the leaf image on top of everything? Give that transparency.

[silver summit]

because the panel will be sliced, so that the left rounded edge remains the same on differnt resolutions

[mild kernel]

Then just use a solids green square below it.

[silver summit]

yeah this sounds more like it, will try that

[worthy karma]

pls explain to me

[mild kernel]

You have two options

Option 1 is the easiest which require you to make the canvas a world space canvas, size it down and position it like you would so a sprite ad a child object of the ship.

Option 2 is leaving the canvas in screen space and position the element in code by converting the ships world space position to screen space to get the point.

[worthy karma]

I should try option 1 yeah

If I make it done I'll show off the result here

[long harbor]

Anyone know how to fix the scene, everything looks offset because i opened a new scene window

[dim surge]

click the cube in the top right of the scene view to turn it into orthographic mode

then click on the little arms to change the view direction

[low pike]

when editing UI (screenspace/ overlay) click the '2D' button on the scene view

[dawn rain]

Change the resolution in the game view it fixes it for me most of the time

[long harbor]

I will try that, thank you!

I also had a problem with right clicking, for some reason the tool changed, on right click i could move the area i was looking into but now when i right click and move it, the panel also moves around (360•)

@dawn rain

[grizzled inlet]

How to make sure that the screen is not used on the phone here? made a script on Safe Area, it works, but there is no black screen

[grizzled inlet]

Help guys

[azure flame]

Attach a black image element covering it?

What exactly do you want to do.

[grizzled inlet]

So that the scroll menu is not visible, that there is a dark background or that I do not understand how it works in other games

[azure flame]

Scroll view has a mask, it shouldn't show content outside of it when configured properly

[grizzled inlet]

?

[azure flame]

Yes, only this one is not configured. Goto Create UI menu, create default scroll view object, and look how its mask in the viewport is configured.

[grizzled inlet]

I don’t understand where to look at it

[azure flame]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/live-training-shop-ui-with-runtime-scroll-lists#5c7f8528edbc2a002053b4c6

[grizzled inlet]

thx

[stray breach]

I got this (see below), now I want to make it into a pill kind of shape, but it stretches everything instead of only the middle how do I change that?

[sterile wedge]

have you set the sprite type to sliced?

can you show what's going on now?

[stray breach]

No it is just a single sprite with the green lines changed

[rapid ferry]

"Importer(NativeFormatImporter) generated inconsistent result for asset(guid:2e498d1c8094910479dc3e1b768306a4) "Assets/TextMesh Pro/Resources/Fonts & Materials/LiberationSans SDF - Fallback.asset"
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallGlobalEventHandler ()"
anyone who knows what this warning means and what I should do

[mortal robin]

Honestly there isn't really a good way besides creating a separate "stretched" version of the sprite

Slicing really only works for rectangular borders

[stray breach]

Aight I already used that but hoped there was a more efficient solution, thanks man.

[coarse heart]

how do i make it so i can input a motor torque and that will change a parameter

[glad citrus]

how to render mesh on canvas like this ?

[mild kernel]

You need to render the model to a render texture, then use the texture on a Raw Image component on the UI.

[stiff barn]

Hi, is it possible to change the Y position of Rect-transform of an image through input?

i want to change the Y position to 20 on my right click

[stiff barn]

I found the solution

[rapid ferry]

Why are my assets not appearing as their image?

[low pike]

hmm.. I don't have a titleset. But a normal Image has the thumb on the parent.. and then all the actual sprites have that icon when you expand

[rapid ferry]

No but the things is I can see them in the project browser when I want to.

Here too

[somber pivot]

So I've only the got the Rect transform box when it's not a parent of Menu but idk why

[slender wigeon]

Probably a dumb question but its best to ask rather than stumbling around in the dark. Im trying to put a checkerboard background behind the model so that it can be easily alpha transparency'd, but I dont know how to do that. I tried making my own png checkerboard but it doesnt work. is there a real way to do it?

[mild kernel]

Your menu isn't not of type RectTransform. You made a world object and put it as a child of a canvas.

[slender wigeon]

Whenever I have searched "png checkerboard" nothing comes up

[mild kernel]

I'm confused, what does a checkerboard image have to do with transparency?

[somber pivot]

ohh
Thanks

[slender wigeon]

Im trying to allow OBS Transparency in a same way that VSeeFace does it, and thats made in Unity and looks like this

So that a model can be put in front and then use OBS's "allow transparency" to get a clean background

[mild kernel]

Usually when software has a checkered background like that, it just means there's nothing there (ie transparent). It's not a literal image.

If you make your own checkered background, it's going to show up as an image.

[slender wigeon]

Well is there a way to make Unity show nothing as a checkered background just so thats its more clarified for users?

[mild kernel]

Just ... don't have the image?

[slender wigeon]

But then it just shows the cameras background as black, even with transparency down

[mild kernel]

You can uninitialize the camera but that's probably also not what you want.

There's no such things as having "nothing". Whatever software you're using probably has some requirements as to what the background needs to be. Like a greenscreen value.

[random ginkgo]

How do i put text in more than one line

[somber pivot]

I know this isn't code but I don't know where to post this:
I can't build my game, it just breaks off in the middle of building

[azure flame]

You can do with attributes https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextAreaAttribute.html

[random ginkgo]

So do i change this? im so confused

[azure flame]

Yes.

[sturdy night]

Does anyone here know how to make a dynamic scrollbar? Right now I have a scrollbar that works well enough on a 16:9 screen but change it to 16:10 and the scroll area shrinks. Is there a way to set the scroll area to stretch while keeping the handle to a specific aspect ratio?

[inner dagger]

You will have to change either the Canvas Scaler settings or the UI Element Anchor Presets, probably

Also, is there any reason that this is not a built in function of UI elements?

[rugged rover]

Can someone please explain why this image is normal sized in scene but large in game?

I've spent way too much time trying to wrangle with UI

[low pike]

not without looking at the recttransform values, and canvas setup

[rugged rover]

Yeah I’m going to have to redo the canvas setup, I must have missed a setting

[low pike]

shouldn't require anything being set

is that image actually a UI image? Or did you drag it into the hierachy and it's a sprite renderer?

[rugged rover]

It’s a spriterenderer

Isn’t that the same thing?

[low pike]

nope

Sprite renderer is for 2d, not UI

dont drag things into the scene that you want for UI

[rugged rover]

How should I add the UI then if not in the hierarchy?

[low pike]

right mouse click -> UI -> add whatever element you need -> drag assets into the inspector

http://learn.unity.com -> search for UI

[rugged rover]

I mean that’s what I do I right click the canvas for example and add UI->Text for example

[low pike]

so how did you end up with a SpriteRenderer?

[rugged rover]

I added it as a component

Under the canvas

[low pike]

UI -> image

the image component has a sprite field, you assign the sprite there

[rapid ferry]

so, ive added those little silhouettes and theyre quite light

i want them to be black

they turn black on the "play campaign" part but no where else

NVM

found it

[rugged rover]

I'm starting my UI from scratch. What could cause these not showing up in game view?

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

I followed this tutorial exactly (except for the progress bar and button)

Only the center image shows...

[sturdy night]

Does anyone know how to make the scrollbar Handle a fixed size? The way it seems to work out the box is the handle source Image will fill out the top and bottom anchor points, but If I put in my own source image for a custom looking handle, the anchor points won't fit the new image.

The anchor points in the unity editor seem to be grayed out, so I was wondering if there is a way, to set your own anchor points within the scroll area.

[raw nest]

is there a way to get ALL ui objects currently under the mouse?

[teal scroll]

how do i make items in vertical layout group always start from top to bottom?

[low pike]

you've got the alignment set to mid center

[teal scroll]

yeah, i keep messing with that but it does nothing

[low pike]

then there's something else missing from your setup

[teal scroll]

umm, not sure what

i added a scrollwheel, that didnt seem to change it

[teal scroll]

strange

ahh

it was the content size fitter

it doesn't scroll without it with many items 🤔

yeah, when i add the content size fitter it wraps around the first item and centers it

how could i make that go up 🤔

[ionic drum]

Got a few TextMeshPro instances that just display as a bunch of blocks

They're fine in the prefab and work nicely in the editor, but once loaded dynamically at runtime using Addressables, some of the text instances simply break

I disabled and re-enabled the instance in the top of the list to the left to demonstrate that it works if I touch the instance after it's loaded

Any idea why this happens?

[raven herald]

How can i do that the UI will fit every screen size

[sterile wedge]

set it to stretch and anchor properly
This might be handy https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html
Try it out yourself

[raven herald]

thx

[random spade]

Making variable size layout elements according to documentation:
"If you have a Layout Group (horizontal or vertical) and want each of the UI elements in the group to fit their respective content, what do you do?

You can't put a Content Size Fitter on each child. The reason is that the Content Size Fitter wants control over its own Rect Transform, but the parent Layout Group also wants control over the child Rect Transform. This creates a conflict and the result is undefined behavior.

However, it isn't necessary either. The parent Layout Group can already make each child fit the size of the content. What you need to do is to disable the Child Force Expand toggles on the Layout Group. If the children are themselves Layout Groups too, you may need to disable the Child Force Expand toggles on those too."

But this doesn't seem to be doing anything.

[random spade]

The content size fitter doesnt work with any objects? Only with some? Like text or layouts?

That explains why layout group isn't setting the size either

If I have a ui element with some images inside and a vertical layout, how do I make it's size fit those elements?

I feel like I'm missing something.

[coarse heart]

hi im trying to be able to set up a basic ui how do i make it so when the i input a number it change a public float

[sturdy night]

is there anyway to set the size value of a scrollbar to constant number? really stumped on this simple problem :/

the default behavior seems to be to automatically resize depending on the resolution, which is all well and good, but not what I want atm

[rugged rover]

Why doesn't GridLayoutGroup work with SpriteRenderers? It only seems to work with Images...

[teal patio]

I'm making a collectible card game and I need to design the board of the game, but I wanna do it in pixel art
Which resolution should I use? I can fit everything I need very nicely in 1080p, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to support lower resolutions if I do that

I thought about making it in 640x360 so that I could scale it up to all the resolutions I intend to support, but then I'm afraid I won't be able to fit everything inside

[raw nest]

I think i found a bug with the unity UI

Heres the script attached to the viewport: https://pastebin.com/Q3PAFY5K

The script detecting the pointer leaving or entering the ui doesnt go off when im dragging something

[rapid ferry]

How do I make my sprites appear?

someone please explain to me what PointerEventData, what raycast have to do with UI elements... I dont understand how the event system works ... I have been reading but didn't understand how it goes... a video link would do great too ... thank you

[mortal robin]

raycasts are how the event system discovers what objects your pointer is currently hovering over

[rapid ferry]

thank you, I was about to ask you a question when you answered but now i am re reading and trying to understand more and more

thanks

[rugged rover]

How can I fix this? The SpriteRenderer is drawn on top.

And the UI Image is drawn behind everything...

I need all them to be images, not spriterenderers

[rugged rover]

Nvm fixed it with canvas component

[low pike]

If you drag an image asset from the project window into the scene hierarchy, it will create a sprite renderer.. this isn't for UI. The correct way to do it is to create an Image by right mouse clicking -> UI -> Image (if you don't have a canvas it'll auto create one) -> drag the image from project window into the sprite field of the image

[rugged rover]

This carousel wheel asset I got from the store uses SpriteRenderer not Image, it is not put under the canvas. But I had to make it images so I replaced it and put it under the canvas

[long harbor]

Hello, is there any tool that i can check if the spaces between backgrounds have the same distance?

[sleek remnant]

Hello, i've been having a big issue with my UI when building my game.
In editor the result is perfect :

but when i build ... :

this is messing up everything and i have no clues in the console or anything so i'm a little lost (i already asked in programmation channel but they redirected me here)

and this is the setting of the canvas

[jagged monolith]

How are you anchoring those shapes @sleek remnant?

[sleek remnant]

this is what is inside these shapes, i didn't touch the anchor points i guess

and this is the canvas

[jagged monolith]

Are you using sprite renderers inside a canvas @sleek remnant?

[timber elbow]

And colliders too. Kind of a bad decision.😅

[sleek remnant]

yes it's sprite renderer

[jagged monolith]

You should be using UI Images instead

[sleek remnant]

this is what i did for fix the problem, i replaced all sprite renderers by image and the problem stayed

so i went back to start point

[timber elbow]

Then share the updated setup

[sleek remnant]

i didn't keep it, as i say i went back to the spriterenderer setup

[jagged monolith]

That's not gonna work unfortunately

Canvases are made to work with UI images and works with different screen sizes

There's a reason why rect transforms are so much more complex than regular transforms

[sleek remnant]

Yes i see, but since i tried to replace all sprite renderers with UI Image and the problem stayed i don't know what to do next to solve this

[timber elbow]

Because just replacing them is not enough apparently.

That's why I was asking you to share your setup.

[sleek remnant]

i see, what do you mean by setup ?

[timber elbow]

Like what's your rect transform(of the image GOs) config and stuff

[coarse heart]

Can someone help me with the ui how do i make it so i input affects a parameter of a object

[mortal robin]

Can you be less vague about your question? What kind of input are you talking about and what is the "parameter" you are trying to change?

[coarse heart]

@mortal robin i have a car controller script and want to make an input system to change the power of the car on the go

but i dont know how to link the input to the code

[sleek remnant]

So this is what i have, the targets moving is one of these gameobject :

After that i changed with this :

I changed the sprite renderer to Image & transform to rect transform but the issue is still there, i don't know what to do

[rugged rover]

How come it won't let me click a button? I had to add a canvas component to this panel with "Order in Layer" of 1 to make it appear in the front.

[jagged monolith]

Do you have a graphic raycaster on the canvas @rugged rover?

Also, when debugging UI you can select the eventsystem to see whatever is currently selected, clicked etc

[rugged rover]

I’ll check when I’m back home, should it have one?

[jagged monolith]

Yes

[rugged rover]

I’m guessing it has one, because I can push other buttons before I enable this panel

For example I have a button that I press that opens this panel, then that’s when I can’t click anything

[rugged rover]

If I don't have the canvas component with override sorting on, it lets me interact with the buttons but it's drawn in the back.

[tiny rune]

What's textmeshpro?

and is it better to use than the regular stuff?

[mortal robin]

You should pretty much always use TMPro in place of Text and TextMesh

It used to be an asset on the asset store but Unity acquired them and added them for free to Unity. Overall just a better implementation of the Text and TextMesh components

[tiny rune]

oh ok thanks

[timber elbow]

What's the place of the object in the hierarchy? Take a screenshot of the hierarchy.

[sleek remnant]

(there's multiple canvases in the hierarchy because they are 4 displays/screens for this app)

[timber elbow]

What's CanvasMiniGame and CanvasJoyaux? Are these canvas in a canvas?

What's CiblesUI? What anchoring does it have?

[rugged rover]

How can I disable interactable UI from being interacted with when I'm in a pause menu overlay?

[weak dew]

What is the goto setting for UI scale mode?

[timber elbow]

There's no "goto" setting. It really depends on your needs.

[weak dew]

Hmm, I would like for it to scale well on different resolutions. Is that possible with just adjusting canvas scaler settings or would I need to fix them manually

[timber elbow]

You will definitely need to fiddle with the ui to make sure it looks ok on different resolutions. Scaling can help with that to an extent. I generally found that it's better to use 50% width-height if you have a wide variety of screen sizes with different aspect ratios.

[weak dew]

Like this?

[timber elbow]

yes

If you're aiming at mobile, try the device simulator package to test your ui on different devices.

Or just set resolutions manually in the game tab.

[weak dew]

thank you!

I was working with 800x600 as a reference for some reason and now I have to remake my whole UI lol. I was wondering why there was so little space to work with compared to seeing other games

[timber elbow]

Yeah, you've gotta choose a target resolution early on. Usually that would be your testing device resolution.

[weak dew]

Do you know why sometimes image objects dont render sometimes? For example I am creating a border object with 4 lines and the top line sometimes doesn't render depending on the position of the parent. The only way to fix it is to increase the height. It doesnt reflect whats shown in my game preview mode

[timber elbow]

Not sure I understand. Maybe take some screenshots?

[weak dew]

sure one sec

basically im trying to cheat and make a border so that I can scale it with the parent object "item border"

in theory as long as the lines are the same size they should render but this isnt always the case. I had to set toplines height to 1.8 where as bottomline is only 1 in height

[timber elbow]

If the line's width is less than 1 pixel of resolution, then there's a chance that it's not gonna render depending on it's position position.

make them thicker and it'll work

[weak dew]

i guess its an issue with unity then I'll just use them for now until I get real borders. They are all over 1 pixel but varying in size in order to render

[timber elbow]

it depends on the output resolution. Since the area of the editor scene/game view is usually smaller than the resolution that your canvas tries to render, something like this would happen. If you try to maximize the window, you'll probably see that it doesn't occur.

[weak dew]

ahhh thanks

[sleek remnant]

CanvasMiniGame is the main canvas, it is used for managing all mini games, CanvzsJoyaux is used for one of the mini games

[timber elbow]

That barely answers my questions.😅

[sleek remnant]

they are indeed canvas in a canvas. CibleUI just en empty gameObject to store the UI elements that goes off

[timber elbow]

Canvas in a canvas is definitely a NoNo.@sleek remnant

What about the CibleUI, does it have a rect transform? How is it setup?

[low pike]

You can have subcanvases.. infact it's recommended to have subcanvases to help improve performance

[timber elbow]

@low pike Hmmm... Never heard about it. Mind pointing me somewhere I can read about it?

[azure flame]

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

[low pike]

https://youtu.be/_wxitgdx-UI?t=1559

That entire video is very interesting, but I linked to where he talks about canvases

[timber elbow]

I watched that video multiple times in the past, but I never paid attention to the nested canvases part.

Just remembered that it's a good thing to separate ui into several canvases.

Should probably rewatch the whole thing. Might find out something else I missed.😅

[low pike]

I probably watch it at least once a year

and promptly forget everything 😄

[urban locust]

hey I want to render my unity character to a 2D texture and display it in the corner of the screen like the Minecraft Bedrock style view. I've placed a camera in my scene and set it to look at my character and made it output to a render texture but idk how to display that render texture on my ui canvas. all should be done in the editor btw

[jagged monolith]

Add a raw image to the UI and set your render texture as the graphic

[urban locust]

oh. thank you

[teal patio]

I'm making some card slots for my game, and on top of these slots I need a space to show which modifier they have, but I feel like this is looking super weird.. Do you have any advices?

[dire elm]

anyone knows why this is happening with textmeshpro?

my point size is ~10% so its not that

[sturdy night]

Is there a way to make things in the UI hierarchy "click-through-able"? I want to have a scroll bar underneath an image, and I want to be able to click through the image and grab the scroll bar. Strange request I know but is there a way?

[glad niche]

Any who can tell me why my UI Text isn't showing? There should be a text Player(0) above the health slider but I cannot for the life of me get it to render

[glad niche]

Fixed it... Damn text color alpha was on 0 by default 🤦‍♂️

[rapid ferry]

Hey there, I'm looking to learning how to use the canvas when making something like a title screen, so that is why I ask, what's the purpose of the canvas? what does it make easier and what stuff should I make with it (also, why when I create one it doesn't fit on the camera?)

[sterile wedge]

see if this answers your questions https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UICanvas.html

[rapid ferry]

Thanks

[limber shoal]

How do i use a PNG sequence for unity UI ??

[mild kernel]

You need to split the sequence into individual sprites:
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-sprite-animations#5fa66921edbc2a0020bcaadf

Then from there, it's normal animations.

[rapid ferry]

Hey, I want to ask something

if I want to make my own text in Aseprite but have invisible buttons on top of those for functionality, how do I locate objects in the canvas such that they are on top of the text? and how do I keep the size right?

[rapid ferry]

Btw, forgot to mention that it explained to me what the canvas is, but I'm still kinda dumbfounded on how to use it, and the reason it's very large

I'm not sure what to do really

[weak dew]

I have a simple crosshair script that makes the crosshair randomly move around. The problem is sometimes it goes off screen. Is there a way to prevent that? I'm using transform.local.position

[true trench]

the layout padding on layout groups has a minimum of 1. much too big for my ui elements and they space weird. what do i do?

[rapid ferry]

so the screen's supposed to look like that

but when i press play, it looks like this

(Game Screen)

@ me if you know

[rugged rover]

Trying to figure out my issue with my scrollview, it moves the whole thing

There’s more on the right being masked

You can see the small white part of the next tile on the end

Probably a really dumb mistake too

(Also have to find out how to disable background scene input when I’m in this view)

[sterile wedge]

Think of it as a blank paper that you draw things on. Just put your ui elements as a child of it like the documentation says. No canvas, no ui gets shown

[bleak nexus]

How do i make a working pause menu when i press esc my mouse cursor is still connected to the gun

[rugged rover]

I'm dumb, it's fixed

[raw nest]

im working in a prefab, and im trying to make a canvas inside of it world space but

render mod isnt an option. Anyone know a fix for this?

[sterile wedge]

look into sprite slicing, then you can slice right down the middle vertically

[sterile wedge]

Hello, I have 2 RectTransforms that are children of different parents and have different anchor settings. I'll call them A and B.
I want to set A's y to B's y, but RectTransform.anchoredPosition would give me different values.

I found this thread https://forum.unity.com/threads/get-real-screen-position-for-a-canvas-ui-element.449455/
and I think RectTransformUtility.PixelAdjustPoint is what I need to use, but I don't understand how to use it. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransformUtility.PixelAdjustPoint.html

EDIT: I found a workaround for now, but would still like to know how to set a RectTransform's position to another RectTransform's position when they have different anchor settings and different parents

[tawdry sable]

I have encounter this problem in the past but forgot about the actual method. But the hacky way, probably set A tranform.position to B transform.position.
Maybe you can test it quick to see if it works

[sterile wedge]

Didn't seem to work 🙂 thanks for the suggestion though

[trail lion]

sorry guys really easy question, how do I change the shape of an image? the background of my Minimap should be a circle and not a square

[sterile wedge]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1618167/transparent-png-image-shows-up-black.html

[trail lion]

thanks

[sterile wedge]

I need to scale a UI Image to match the distance between 2 other UI RectTransforms.
These 2 RectTransforms have different parents and different anchor settings though.
I have tried using this code to try and get both their screen space positions, but it doesn't seem to give accurate differences when different parents are involved. Please help if you have any ideas.
Code is from this thread https://answers.unity.com/questions/1013011/convert-recttransform-rect-to-screen-space.html

 public static Rect RectTransformToScreenSpace(RectTransform transform)
    {
        Vector2 size = Vector2.Scale(transform.rect.size, transform.lossyScale);
        return new Rect((Vector2)transform.position - (size * transform.pivot), size);
    }

[long harbor]

Any idea why i dont have this sun?

[mild kernel]

Because you don't have a light in your scene. Add a directional light.

Also not a UI question. #archived-lighting

[signal pelican]

I am getting a nullReferenceException at this part of code:

Do you have any advices? I changed the text component to TMP -Gameobject

[ionic beacon]

One of those things is null

If you just switched to TMP and it worked before then it's probably tmproUgui

[signal pelican]

I had private Text textComponent;before and private TextMeshProUGUI tmproUgui; now.
After that I changed everything that had textComponent in it to tmproUgui

Was that even right?

[ionic beacon]

Did you assign the new elements to that

[signal pelican]

I guess not. Can you tell me how?

[ionic beacon]

The same way you assigned the textComponent originally

If it's a serialized field, drag the element into the slot in the inspector

[slate finch]

I have a health bar object, and a character object.

If I place the health bar object in a my UI canvas, it renders. However if I put the health bar object as a child object of my player object, it disappears and doesn't render anymore, I believe because its behind something. My hierarchy looks like this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/heeunhol06ja7es/Unity_2021-10-11_16-09-05.png any thoughts?

[low pike]

If you move your health bar as a child of the player.. it still requires a canvas. It sounds like you're just moving the health bar bits and not the canvas

[slate finch]

I just added a canvas to the slimefoe object, made the canvas as a child of that and it still doesn't seem to show

[long harbor]

Any idea how to fix move tool?

its not placing correctly, when i move it, the object goes like 1 meter away

[mortal robin]

Do you have grid snapping enabled by accident?

[fervent pilot]

How does one align a screen-space reticle to where the player character is actually aiming in world space?

[mild kernel]

Raycast from the character's position in the direction it's looking. Get the hit.point and convert it from world to screenspace via WorldToScreenPoint and position the reticle to that position.

[mild pilot]

Hi all. Got a UI design question

U guys know how in Mac, the programs are all on the bottom
And the programs bar only shows up when the mouse is hovered

I wanna do the same here, below the exp bar on the bottom, to save space and it'd look cool too. And practical. So the player would just mouse over to the bottom most screen, and the menu pops up, and choose one. If they're familiar with the placement, then they can really directly move to that section of the bottom bar and click
So i'll have the "Inventory, Skills, Quests, Map, Options" buttons there, along the screen horizontally

The only thing i'm worried is what if the player never figure out that all the menu buttons are all there?

[mild pilot]

And btw why is my icons stretched like this even tho the parent already has Horizontal Layout Group?

[fervent pilot]

Got it. Thanks.

[balmy harness]

Can someone help me with my mask? Its not looking right

[tender horizon]

I have a return button and it disables where it is and enables another UI but it works fine except 1 problem it doesn't hide itself

[jagged monolith]

Does it work if you do it in the other order @tender horizon?

[tender horizon]

As in menu to settings? Yes

[jagged monolith]

No I meant enabling menu first, then disabling self

[regal schooner]

how do i get Recttransform local height?

in c#

[tender horizon]

Fixed it thanks!

[sterile wedge]

I think it's RectTransform.rect.height

[fervent pilot]

Do Unity Style Sheets work with in-game UI? Or just the Unity editor?

[summer mango]

Hi, why is my PauseScreen prefab so freaking small in my scene, while I have it another size in the prefab??https://gyazo.com/00c64b8f8952e9a6774d629e2dc859f7
https://gyazo.com/3c5ed2ff545a24127dd3b02d1c35c6f7

[chilly lynx]

HI, i've setup some UI button with animation (Only used normal and highlighted states) for my 2D game. It works great. But if i disable the panel by using Menu.SetActive(false) then when i turn it back on, the highlighted animation won't show when hovering mouse over it anymore. How can i turn it on?

[pseudo apex]

Depends how you place and stretch the canvas.

[chilly lynx]

Not really sure what that mean tbh. I use an animator for both StartMenu and PauseMenu. Pause menu is disabled, only get active when press Esc key. After i enabled the PauseMenu then the Animator is gone somehow. It doesn't work in StartMenu also.

[summer mango]

I fixed it, had to change all the sizes relative to the canvas

[pseudo apex]

I didn't reply to your problem, so that makes a lot of sense.

[pseudo apex]

When you disable a gameobject, it will completely restart itself, so you will have to have all the animations set on create when you do these kind of things. It depends how you created this hover animation basically.
But the main cause is that memory allocated to the object completely resets. Whatever you did during the start to create that hover effect on the button will have to be done again upon activation.

[long harbor]

Hey guys, i am not really sure what is the problem or might be the controller script but for some reason, in my area, in some spots, the player was not able to walk, it was like there was a wall / colission issue

[pseudo apex]

Activate so you can see the collision boxes and renders in the editor while you walk around, that might help clear some things up @long harbor
Usually when this happens to me is when I made the floor with some weird tiles or some shit, so the collision box get stuck on them or something, but it can also be potential raycasts that detect collision and stops movements

[jagged monolith]

You can also use the physics debugger to see where there are colliders. Window>Analysis>Physics debugger>Collision geometry

[long harbor]

Thank you guys, didnt know about this one!

[long harbor]

Fixed it guys, i found out that some invisible lights i had / lamps, had collision

[nocturne valley]

learned for rect tranforms if you want to organize UI elements with emptys, the emptys have to be set to stretch

I feel like that's something that should be pinned, it's caused me so much frustration

[long harbor]

I think one of the most important tutorials should be lighting to avoid glitched floors / walls and have the correct lighting source

[rapid ferry]

So I learned to use "sub-canvas" to make less frequent updates if only one part changes. Using unity 2017.4 btw
But then a button that is somewhere inside a subcanvas does not work (cant click/hover) any idea?

[long harbor]

Any idea why i dont see on my project those icons?

[nocturne valley]

turn on and off gizmos

[long harbor]

Thank you!!

[ripe trout]

Anybody know how to add Emissive to a World Space UI Text?

in HDRP

[jagged monolith]

Also @long harbor this channel is for UI questions. You should be in #💻┃unity-talk

[sterile wedge]

Make sure it has a graphic raycaster component

[old nebula]

(I think this is the right place to ask), how do I make Text not appear over 3D Objects?

[sterile wedge]

is it a UI Text or a TextMesh?]

[old nebula]

TextMesh

[sterile wedge]

TextMesh, right? not TextMeshProUGUI?

[old nebula]

Yeah, I clicked on that and a pop-up appeared saying it would add a lot of things to the project and I don't know Unity enough to know if I should add it or not ^^;;

So I used normal TextMesh

[sterile wedge]

yeah it's fine. TextMeshPro is just a text package that is better than Unity's built in UnityEngine.UI Text, and they were acquired by Unity a few years ago. Just for context, they have a 3d TextMesh, and a normal UI 2d TextMeshProUGUI

Sadly.. I don't know how to use TextMesh, just wanted some clarification. maybe someone else can help.
Or, with this info, maybe you can start searching around with better context

[old nebula]

I guess bottom line is: Is TextMeshPro better to use overall?

[sterile wedge]

mmhm. Use it instead of the regular Unity Text

[old nebula]

Ok, I'll try, thanks!

I assume it already has the "No text over 3D Objects" thing baked in?

[sterile wedge]

I honestly don't know 🙂

[old nebula]

Fair hahah XD

[jagged monolith]

It does yes. Did you get it sorted @old nebula?

[sterile wedge]

use TextMeshPro if you're not already

[rapid ferry]

Thanks that was it!

[analog trail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjW5okCIX7w here, for anyone looking to make a accordian style UI. I got you, no paying 15$ in asset store. sorry about video quality though. 😭

[old nebula]

Yes! It works now

I will now try to make the text always face the camera, but since I'm using AR I deleted the camera object and made an AR Camera

Will transform.LookAt(Camera.main.transform) still work?

[jagged monolith]

Yes

[old nebula]

LookAt() shows the text flipped, even if I do an 180 on the Prefab

[balmy flicker]

yo can someone help me

[desert blade]

i have a textbox that changes size, and i want it to have a background image sort of as a "Container".
but i need the image to resize horizontally based on the textbox length. how can i achieve this?

for example something like this

[sterile wedge]

add a content size fitter to the image. and set horizontal to preferred

make sure image is the parent of the textbox though

i'm not sure if you need to put the content size fitter on the container or the textbox though.. test it out

[desert blade]

kk thank you! ill check it

[sterile wedge]

you can google something like "how to make parent ui expand with child unity", but it's 100% got to do with content size fitter, and maybe horizontal group layout

[jagged monolith]

Canvases don't use sprites they use UI Images @exotic oyster

[obsidian loom]

The image is child of a canvas?

Canvas fills entire screen unless it is in world Space I thought

Set it to world space and then change heigth/width

Yes

Only too many canvasses gives worse performance

[jagged monolith]

You should read up on sprite VS UI @exotic oyster. For card games both are viable options

If you want your text directly on top of your card you'll need to set the canvas to world space mode and give it a scale like 0.001

[old nebula]

Hi again! I'm trying to make the AR text be detected by raycast hit collision and apparently it's only detecting the ARPlane, I think this is because the text does not have Collision to it? If that's the case, how would one attach collision to text?

[jagged monolith]

using TextMesh not a canvas @old nebula? Then you should just add regular colliders

[old nebula]

Yes, the Text being a 3D object

Ok, I'll try, thanks!

[digital kayak]

@rapid ferry i'm not sure about an image vs raw image, but right click on the hierarchy -> UI -> Image to make an Image

you don't need to mess with the component

[rapid ferry]

k

[digital kayak]

@broken shale can you screenshot the inspector of Button

[broken shale]

https://gyazo.com/1347d696ebc43a96207612a74f83817b

[golden cave]

the script just needs to be on a game object in the scene, then you drag that game object to the on click slot of the button . . .

from there, select the method you want to call from the drop-down . . .

[digital kayak]

when you press play, does the Width change at all

[broken shale]

nope

[digital kayak]

can you try setting sizedelta instead

[broken shale]

vector2 right?

[digital kayak]

yeah

[broken shale]

nope no change either

[digital kayak]

can you send the script again

[broken shale]

owait

now im getting a unassigned

refernece exception

even though its assigned in the inspector wut

[digital kayak]

what is unassigned?

[broken shale]

uhh my recttransform

oh fk

ok i think sizedelta worked

[digital kayak]

cool

[broken shale]

thanks alot man

ohgod

now setting the position of the button

doesnt work LOL

[signal pelican]

I am using the link tag of TMP and want to click on word so that another text can be loaded. Are there any docs for it to write the script?

[broken shale]

//script instantiating my button prefab
        InstantiatedObject = Instantiate(ButtonPrefab);
        InstantiatedObject.name = "name";
        InstantiatedObject.transform.parent = ScrollContent.transform;
        TimelineButton timelineButton;
        timelineButton = InstantiatedObject.GetComponent<TimelineButton>();
        timelineButton.Init();

//inside button script
        public void Init()
      {
        rect = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
        rect.anchoredPosition = new Vector2(100, 100);
      }

anyone know why my button isnt moving from this script?

[prime nacelle]

How do I get the stretch to work properly? when I build it doesn't to it cleanly

[prime nacelle]

here it is suppose to be anchored

[jagged monolith]

If you want it to anchor to the top, you also need to change the pivot of the recttransform to 1 on the Y @prime nacelle

BTW you can change your game view resolution to different ratios to see how the UI behaves

[prime nacelle]

that could be a time saver 😅 are there suppose to be more than this?

[sterile wedge]

you can add more. but you can always just use free aspect and go crazy to see how your UI behaves

[prime nacelle]

ooooh and I can take the window out of the console menu! thanks

[prime nacelle]

how do you know it needs to be 1?

[jagged monolith]

Play around with the pivot and scale and you see how it behaves

If you have 0.5x0.5 it scales from the center

if you have 0,0 it scales from the bottom left

[sterile wedge]

an easy shortcut is to hold shift + alt and click on the anchor setting. it'll set both the position and the pivot

[jagged monolith]

Oh I don't mean scale, I mean height and width

Important distinction with UI

[prime nacelle]

Thanks. What's the protocol if you have empty's as parents do you make the parent stretch out in all directions and then make the children anchor ?

[rugged rover]

How can I make the edges of my square image rounded? Does this require a mask?

[native aspen]

Hello everyone! I have made a great splash screen animation in avi format, and would like to use it in Unity as the splash screen. Problem is, Unity likes to compress it, quite a L O T. How could I keep the quality of the original video?

[obtuse tangle]

I've made buttons that work with OnPointerDown and OnPointerUp (I want specific actions when pressed and when released that's why I didn't go for the Button component). OnPointerUp, however, can be executed when the finger (mobile game) is lifted even when it's not over the button image. Is there a way to detect when it's let go over the button and when not?

[rugged rover]

How can I use a scrollrect with SpriteRenderer?

[old nebula]

The Colliders worked, thank you!!

Now only thing that's left is not having LookAt() flip the text

[rugged rover]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kIVuSx0qAs

Is this possible to do in Unity?

For a UI Image

[low pike]

Yes, of course

How.. I guess either a shader, or using worldspace UI maybe? Best way is prob a shader

[torpid yew]

I have a sprite sheet and used unity's sprite editor to create a sprite from the sprite sheet.
I kinda messed up and want to delete that sprite but I can't do it.

Seen solutions telling me to press backspace or ctrl backspace but none of those are working (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)

Here's an illustration of what I would see in the Projects tab where the sprite sheet is

 ______________     _________________________________
| Sprite sheet | > | Sprite (this should be deleted) |
|______________| > |_________________________________|

[buoyant cliff]

Any ideas why this overlapping happens during gameplay?
Scene View: https://imgur.com/26obyVh (normal elements)
Game View: https://imgur.com/oicu7NA (overlap)

CommandLineContainer panel has a top-left anchor with vertical layout group.
DisplayLine panel also has a top-left anchor with horizontal layout group. (With the child text elements also anchoring to the top-left)

[low pike]

If, at runtime, you toggle everything (for the terminal) off/on.. it'll probably fix itself

confirm that first

[obtuse tangle]

Any ideas?.

[stuck crescent]

how can I make a button ignore right mouse input? I'm making a click anywhere to continue button for dialogue and while at it I want the player to be able to reposition the camera while holding RMB + drag, but the button blocks the right mouse button input it seems

[stuck crescent]

I think, but not sure, that instead of using the button component I would have to create a script with a OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData) right? I did this inside it and nothing happens:
if (eventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Left) { continueObj.GetComponent<StandardUIContinueButtonFastForward>().OnFastForward(); }
Guess i'm missing something?

[indigo goblet]

how u use ui controllers or what do u use for controlling and managing your ingame ui

[mortal robin]

yep this is about right

debug log some data from the eventData parameter to see what's going wrong

[buoyant cliff]

When I add a ContentSizeFitter to an element then remove it, the element acts as though the size fitter still applies?

[round badge]

Is there any simple solution to world space UI in hdrp yet? Can only find threads from 2019/2020 regarding this issue

[bleak socket]

Do monobehaviours inside a gameobject with a canvas renderer get an unity event function called when a camera renders them?
For example, one with a sprite renderer have OnWillRenderObject() called.
I'm looking for something exactly like that.

[idle lichen]

im using a render texture to make a map, how can i click the ui buttons through the render texture?

[idle lichen]

can anyone help?

[idle lichen]

i want to interact with the buttons by clicking from a render texture

[low pike]

show your setup - are the buttons part of the render texture? or on top of it?

[golden cave]

When you lift up the finger, check if the position is over the button game object, if not, exit (return) from the OnPointerUp method . . .

[hard raven]

just wondering if anyone could help me in figuring out how to lay this UI out? I'm currently trying to get a kind of panel layout, where the size of the panels is consistent regardless of resolution, but whenever i change the size of a child within a panel, the panel itself changes size as well

This is the kind of layout I want to get but I’m not sure what settings I should have to get it

[warm wolf]

What do you mean by panel itself changes?
But I do this in 2 ways:

1. I use the "better UI" asset and use the snap anchors in that package, to get the anchors equal to the corners of the panels. This makes the panels scale in ratio to the screen width and makes them work at any resolution (though the aspect ratio will differ if the screen does too.
2. Use a canvas scaler and have the canvas scale to match the width of a target resolution. Design for that resolution and make sure your UI dynamically resizes depending on vertical width. This can give you some nicer resizing and can be used together with 1.

These two are how I do it but there may be better ways

[hard raven]

oo ill look into that asset
and by the panel changes, I mean if i increase the width of a child inside of a panel, the panels width increases with it, for example the first screenshot is of the child by default and when I make it bigger, the panel it is inside of gets bigger as well

and im just trying to find a way of keeping the parent panel a consistent width

[warm wolf]

??? no idea how you are managing to do that... never seen that before

[warm wolf]

Are you manually draging the child thingo wider and are its anchors set for width or something? child will never affect parents size unless you have a script on the parent like a layout group which does this specifically.

Do you have a layout group on that parent?

[hard raven]

I have a horizontal layout group yeah

and a layout element too

[warm wolf]

Ah reply to me if you want me to see this.
That is why your parent is expanding, don't use layout groups if you want the child to change sizes not decided by the layout group.

In your example, you should have a sub-child of that menu which has the layout group (if you want a list of things which can vary in quantity) and resize that sub-child as you want and have that layout group control its children only.

[hard raven]

I've got that set up now and it's working just how I need it, thank you!

[idle lichen]

the buttons are in world space

and then the render texture is showing a camera looking down from above

[twilit wraith]

Hey, I'm having a weird issue. I'm working on an app. I create a texture from the phone's camera, then give it to an image to display on the ui. Thing is, the texture displayed is just a transparent white background. When I view it from the inspector, it shows the same, but the moment I modify any properties on it, it suddenly shows the correct photo. I have no idea what's happening

[low pike]

As I thought. The render texture is just an image, you're not sending any events to the/ getting anything from the buttons.. as far as they are concerned they have not been touched

[idle lichen]

Ok, would there then be a way to make it so if I click on the map it for example sends a raycast from the top down camera to where I clicked in the world

And then I could detect if there's a button there etc

[low pike]

yes

[ember geyser]

Any way of refreshing automatic UI navigation at runtime?

[ember geyser]

this is really wrong and i cant find a way to get the automatic navigation right

(p1 and p2 buttons are spawned so i cant manually set the connections)

[hushed phoenix]

Hi I am trying to rotate an image in canvas but i am not able to make the perfect script for it.... I want to rotate my image 25 degrees on the A button and -25 degrees on D button on the x axis and if nothing pressed...snap it back to 0.

PLS HELP

[jagged monolith]

What's your script currently?

[hushed phoenix]

nothing

tried to make one but failed

lemme show you

[hushed phoenix]

@lunar narwhal

[winged wren]

Hello!

So, I am in a situation, in which I can't find a solution. I have a parent with Rect Transform and it has 3 children, all with Rect Transforms. I want them to align one after another vertically (see image). Each of the children have content inside of it and I want to do animation, that scrolls from one to another smoothly in different resolutions (this is the problem). How do I make it fit every resolution? With one panel its easy, you just make it stretched, but how do I do it with 3? And then make it align with each other? I tried Grid Layout Group, Vertical Layout Group, but without luck. Unity's UI has always been a mystery for me.

[ripe condor]

Every time I load up my project it gets booted into safe mode because it can't find "UIDocument". If I open the code, change something and save and then change it back and save again, it fixes. But then when I start it up again it errors out again. Hopefully this is a common issue b/c I have no idea how I would fix it?

[digital kayak]

what mode is your canvas scaler in?

you can set it to scale with screen size

[winged wren]

It is Scale with Screen Size

[digital kayak]

in Match Width or Height?

[winged wren]

Expand

I don't really know what it does, but it seems like it fits better to screen

[digital kayak]

expand-

Expand the canvas area either horizontally or vertically, so the size of the canvas will never be smaller than the reference.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-CanvasScaler.html

if messing around with the canvas scaler doesn't work then you can set the Parent to stretch vertically

then have a vertical layout group

[winged wren]

I tried adding vertical layout group, and they all disappeared. I mean their height and width became 0

because I thought that vertical layout group was the answer

[digital kayak]

did you tick 'Control Child Size'

because that can cause them to shrink

is something like this what you want

[pine echo]

i'm making a settings menu on my game and this happens
i've already tried to tweak some values

[winged wren]

I now ticked control child size width and it seems to be working as I wanted. I ticked control child size height and it shrank vertically, so I unticked that. I also have child force expand ticked on both

Thank you @digital kayak

[digital kayak]

can you show your hierarchy? what are you using to space the words out

[pine echo]

ok

i'm not doing anything to space the words out

i just use unity's built-in UI dropdown

[digital kayak]

can you show the inspector for it?

[grim axle]

Here's a title menu I designed, feedback is appreciated!

[jagged monolith]

<@&502884371011731486>

[steady yarrow]

Yeah he posted in many 😦

[grim axle]

Anyone got some feedback for my title menu?

[digital kayak]

looks clean and simple 👍

[grim axle]

Thanks!

[quaint hazel]

What do you guys use for svg ui in unity .

[rough gull]

How could I make a good looking UI for my multiplayer camping game?

that fits the game

[quaint hazel]

Look at what similarly themed games did and take notes of thnigs you like, then prob sketch on paper the arrangement and then place it

[rough gull]

ok ty

[coarse rivet]

Looks great, did you make it by yourself? I'm too these days watching some videos on ui design

[grim axle]

I did make it by myself, thank you!

[coarse rivet]

Do you know it already or you too watched some tutorials, if yes pls tell me whom do you watch

[grim axle]

I watched a menu UI tutorial by Thomas Brush

I'll see if I can find it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqZjZ6yv1lA

[coarse rivet]

cool

Does it also teach button programming (like switching from one seen to another, like from main menu to game scene)

[grim axle]

It teaches button animating

[coarse rivet]

And button programming

?

[grim axle]

Don't think so

But it's really easy

Just make a public method, open the button component and call that method

[coarse rivet]

Cool, I will try it

[stone pollen]

Why is the color of my ui button not changed to red, after I changed his "enabled" state to "false" ?

[mortal robin]

confusingly I think enabled color actually refers to the interactable state, not the enabled state of the component

i.e. to fix it - I think you need to just delete line 23