📲┃ui-ux

[mortal robin]

Since a disabled button will not be able to change the graphic color

[wise shadow]

don't know what other channel i'd put this in, but i'm having some issues with materials not tiling

[stone pollen]

damn, that worked!
Thanks.

[strange sentinel]

yo idk if this is the place to ask but i got a main menu set up and im new to unity and c#, can anyone help me get an OnMouseOver Function to Enlarge the text elements on buttons when i hover over them

i think i can handle the scripting part but i dont know if 1) id need multiple scripts for each text/button or if i can attach it all to a parent/the main menu object i have with all of my buttons attached or 2) where id attach it, if i would attach it (if multiple) to the TMP text attached to the button or the Button itself, probably the TMP text right?

[rigid summit]

to each, simplest

otherwise you will go insane trying to filter and process events, its probably way over your head atm

you can write a script that has a field target

similar to Button, it also has a target

the root rect is receiving events, but the target gets animated

this way you can attach the script to for example transparent rect, and it will receive events instead of the small rect target

@strange sentinel

[strange sentinel]

cheers thankyou

gonna be honest i did not understand alot of it but with what i got ill go experiment and find out

[quaint hazel]

bumpies

[mild kernel]

Unity has a Vector Graphics packages for SVG support.

[quaint hazel]

yh but it doesnt work for ui

atleast i havnt been able to

sprites work but not images

[mortal robin]

Sprites are what you use for UI

[fluid ginkgo]

Why hasn't UI been pushed off onto another thread that's on another core where the target device has a separate, spare core?

[mild kernel]

Perhaps you can suggest it:
https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/205692319-How-do-I-submit-feedback-about-Unity-

[fluid ginkgo]

are you joking?

[mild kernel]

No?

[fluid ginkgo]

after 10+ years of troubles with the performance of UI transforms and dirtying and all the other issues of the UI system, and the growth of multi-core cpus to the point that 4+ cores is the norm on mobile phones... you really think they need this suggested to them? I'm seriously asking.. why hasn't it been done?

[mild kernel]

Who are you asking, here?

[fluid ginkgo]

Anyone that uses UI and thinks they might know why it hasn't been done.

Of all the things that a game engine does, can you think of anything more appropriate to existing on another thread than the UI?

[mild kernel]

Nope

[fluid ginkgo]

Neither can I. that's why I'm very curious as to why it doesn't at least have a thread of its own (like Audio) and why it's not been given priority access to one of the many inactive cores on just about all modern devices, consoles and computers.

Correspondingly, Input should be on its own thread, and polling at whatever is the fastest rate wanted from the lowest latency input device connected to the target platform. Between them, the input thread and the UI thread could decide if an input is for the UI, or for the game, and pass through that which is for the game, and block that which is to be swallowed by the UI.

If I also need to suggest that, to a 30+ billion dollar company, there's no hope for SRP, ever.

[azure flame]

@fluid ginkgo Not a place for rants. You're going for a record today. You've been directed already to a proper place where to provide input on development.

[fluid ginkgo]

Do you happen to know why UI isn't on its own thread? @azure flame ?

[azure flame]

#📲┃ui-ux message

[fluid ginkgo]

It's not a suggestion. It's a question.. WHY IS IT NOT?

If you don't know the answer, that's fine. I thought someone might know a reason why it's not on a thread of its own.

If there's a good reason why it's not on a thread of its own, that will inform my usage. And the usage of most everyone else.

[azure flame]

Because it's part of the Unity's main thread?

And can't be offloaded like audio?

[fluid ginkgo]

You seem as unsure as I am. I don't see how UI needs to be part of the main thread, and I honestly can't think of anything more appropriate to threading offload than UI (especially since it has differing update criteria to most/all game logic).

Physics has been (especially Box2D) very successfully offloaded to other threads and Jobs, and is significantly more entwined with most games and their logic. Similar to Audio, we call at UI to update it. So I don't see "logical" reasons for not pushing UI to other threads. Are there other reasons it might be stuck on the main thread?

diegetic UI might be the exception. It might always need to be on the main thread, so that it can be in the same transforms computational "world" as the world objects. But most UI is not diegetic.

[strange sentinel]

i loaded up my project and for some reason my background is in my Canvas

whenever i take it out of my canvas

it disappears completely from my scene view

i have literally no idea why

[mild kernel]

If your background is in your canvas, it's using a RectTransform which can't exist outside of a canvas.

If you don't want to use the UI for your background, create a sprite instead.

[strange sentinel]

i wouldnt mind usually however it seems to be messing with particles

my particles are never picked up by the camera and seem to not be able to be shown infront of my background whatsoever

my main camera in scene view also started showing completely blue today lmao so many issues today that idk where they came from

[mild kernel]

Then use a sprite. Screen space canvases are literally that, in screen space. It sits on top of everything.

[strange sentinel]

if i put my particle generator inside the canvas would it work or nah

[mild kernel]

No, particles are in world space. There are assets and third party particle systems that work on UI you could research.

[strange sentinel]

so i cant just slap a particle generator in the foreground infront of my UI main menu

camera doesnt even pick it up so i assume not

[worn grove]

You can get particles working in UI but you need a canvas that renders using a camera for them to show, and their sort order and layer need to be correct.

[lost ridge]

Hey!

I was wandering...

I made a Sprite atlas

but it doesn't use as showed inside the profiler

do I need to take all image component and re-assign it ?

Also how it's possible to have different material instance for a copy of the same UI ??

(Take a look at the Background Blur being twice)

It's EXACTLY the same parameters!!

[desert blade]

if you ever find out tell me lol
you will probably need to do something using camera nearclipplane

i dont know what you mean overlap tho

like you can do a horizontal layout group

it seems like you are doing it already tho

[midnight hound]

Heya, i'm having a very weird issue with TextMeshPro:
https://i.gyazo.com/1e2db28831a9bd65539d85466ce2166b.mp4

Basically, whats happening is that i manually put together text flow (since linked text isnt sufficient for what i need it to do). when getting the overflow character index, it doesnt work on the first load, but loading the text again, the overflow index is being picked out correctly. Is this a bug, or am i missing something?

it essentially boils down to this

...
textObject.text += text;
textObject.ForceMeshUpdate();
...
int lastChar = textObject.firstOverflowCharacterIndex;
...
string newText = textObject.text.Substring(lastChar).TrimStart(' ');
textObject.text = textObject.text.Substring(0, lastChar);
... // textobject changed to the second one here
textObject.text = newText;

any idea how to work around this issue?

(i hope this is the right channel to ask)

[sturdy night]

Does anyone know to make text scale with a background Image?

say I have a jpeg of Google search, and I have text from unity on top of the image, when the resolution changes, the text gradually moves away from the search bar. Are there any tricks to keep text in a certain spot regardless of resolution?

[azure flame]

If you use the same type on anchor on both the Image element and text they will be resized the same way.

[rugged rover]

How can I skew text so that it's in the shape of a trapezoid?

As in, I'd like to be able to translate only the top two corners of this to give it a slanted effect.

[sterile wedge]

there are some resources out there if you look up "how to skew ui unity"

[humble juniper]

How do I get the screen at Start of the compiled Game, where I can select the Resolution and if windowed or not. (do not need any quality settings)

Somehow this is gone in my project, so on my iMac it always starts in 5k Fullscreen - runs fine, but sometimes I would prefer a smaller windowed version.

[jagged monolith]

This is an old feature that has been removed unfortunately

[humble juniper]

Ah ok

[sharp ravine]

Is there no way to align UI? My OCD is killing me not being able to know if my UI is flushed!

[digital kayak]

you can check the positions (compare the numbers) of the rects, if you want to automatically snap to something there are pivots and anchors, and layout groups too

and if i remember correctly if the rect is a child of another image then it can snap to that parent when you change size

[sharp ravine]

Not what I’m looking for unfortunately…

That’s work I’m not looking to do (trying to figure out those positions), weird such a simple UI feature is not available…

[digital kayak]

i mean there are many tools to align ui that i listed

manually checking the numbers is just one

there are probably some things on the asset store that can assist, i think there's another ui system called ui toolkit or something

[humble juniper]

And there is no way in newer versions to select resolution or windowed/fullscreen at the start of the compiled game/app (development build)?

[mortal robin]

You can do this, you just have to make your own.

[cedar ember]

Hey guys, how do you expand the size of the boxes?

I can't seem to extend the box for How to Play

[sterile wedge]

Click on your scene view and press T

You should be in a mode where you can drag the boxes

[cloud lintel]

Can I convert GraphicsFormat into TextureFormat?

[boreal remnant]

Hey gang, I have a question that's a bit out there,
Does anyone know of a mobile app developed in Unity, that has very sleek and responsive UI, and is available on the app store?

[rapid ferry]

Hi I tried creating a custom dropdown it is opening correctly and I want to close it when clicked on outside of the dropdown content area how to acheive this?

[jagged monolith]

Have a look at the built-in dropdown @rapid ferry I think it does that by just adding a plane over everything else under the dropdown

[mortal robin]

sure, Pokemon Unite

[winged wren]

I am having an issue where when you open game for the first time (doesn't matter if it is in editor, or android), the UI is slightly off. When in Unity Editor, I press Game tab, then get back to Scene again, it fixes itself. It's not an issue for me to do it in the Editor, but how to fix it in Android?

[obtuse tangle]

If I build my game with the game tab's resolution left on a selected one (let's say 1920x1080 for example, which is 16:9) and then opened the game on a screen that's let's say 20:9, would that show objects that are not supposed to be viewed by the camera? Or would it be resized via bars or whatever to fit the selected resolution?

[mighty oar]

Do I need a collision box on Buttons to call OnMouseOver() like with other objects, or?

[jagged monolith]

For UI components you should use the IPointerEnter/Exit interface

[runic venture]

The components are all crunched together in the inspector, and I can't scroll

[lost lake]

Hello, How do you Z order elements on a Canvas when you use a Grid Layout and Hierarchical sorting conflicts with the Grid order?

[nocturne valley]

attach a canvas component to whatever I want to change the sorting order on

[twilit wraith]

Hey, is there a way to link two ui elements so that when one is selected, it doesn't deselect the other?

Or is there a way to make it so an input field continue to register the keyboard even when not selected?

[near locust]

Hello! I'm currently trying to make a drag and drop system for an inventory UI. So i have a grid of cells in which can generate item icons. I'm using the IDragHandler interfaces to be able to drag them. However when calling "OnBeginDrag" and changing the parent of the item object, the object seems to be offset until its parent is set back to a cell

I put a red dot for the mouse's position

[mortal robin]

You will have to do some of your own coding for a secondary "selection" and/or adding text to the non selected input field

[near locust]

Problem fixed: made the dragged UI object a child of the canvas

[polar thistle]

I'm making some widgets today and was playing around with masks. Is there any way to mask an image and move the mask around without the child object moving as well? I don't want to have to code a bunch of movement stuff ... but it looks like masks only mask child objects, not siblings above/below them in the heirarchy, which means the child objects depend on the mask location

[velvet seal]

Is there a way for a derived class to hide a field from a parent class in the inspector without making a custom editor for the whole thing?

[polar thistle]

[HideInInspector]

But I'm not 100% sure what you mean "hide a field from a parent class".. you just mean hide the field in the inspector?

[rapid ferry]

how do i make any text to show in front of a sprite?

do i layerthem?

[digital kayak]

is the text on the canvas and is the sprite a gameobject

[rapid ferry]

sprite is not but yes the text is in canvas

oh also the text goes over the sprite when the layering is under 0

so text will appear on my sprite when the sprite is layered -1

nvm its working

nvm its not

[polar thistle]

if they're in the same layer, then make sure the text game object is below the sprite object in the heirarchy

you can do this programmatically with SetAsLastSibling(), or if you're in the editor, just drag the game objects up/down in the heirarchy:

ParentContainer
|
+--Sprite
+--Text

[rapid ferry]

there's still a problem

it still dosent work after putting the text in canvas

do i need to make all my asset layers below 0?

halp pls this is a school project due in sunday

[ivory mulch]

Hey guys, I have an issue. My UI seems to be ultra low quality for some reason. There is no compression on it, doesnt seem to fix anything.

The smaller images are not supposed to be pixelated

[rapid ferry]

oh i need to put the sprite layers under 0

[ivory mulch]

Quick question. How do I prevent my health bar from moving? I am using the slider component
https://gyazo.com/7921163d058d871dff9c400262e2a393

[bold mountain]

Opinions on using a rendertexture to use a 3d object as.. a visual representation of an inventory?

on the ui

like, say, a 3d shelf or table, or display stand, populated with animated 3d objects

(or rigidbodies)

[real arch]

if you render the image just once and then just load the image from chache , sure that could work

[bold mountain]

I was hoping to have it live, coming from another camera

[real arch]

just for one object at the time?

if its only for one object then it can work

not if you are trying to have like 10+ Objects renderd every frame

[bold mountain]

was picturing like a bookcase type thing with cubbyholes, and have spinning 3d objects to represent the inventory items

probably too fat eh

I guess I could find out myself with an experiment

would it just be like.. rendering the 3d mini-scene twice, or is there a lot of overhead for an every-frame rendertexture

[feral temple]

How can I retrieve/change POS Y in Code directly?
When I access Recttransform.position.Y its -361 something
I need to to change the -50 value directly

[sterile wedge]

anchoredPosition

[rapid ferry]

how can i make a slider fill image not to stretch?

[hazy lake]

Hey guys ! I have a problem

Im having issues with scaling for different screens

How do i make my game look good on every display?

Like here it s elongated

[sterile wedge]

You’d need to set the anchoring of your UI elements properly

[hazy lake]

It s set to by doing alt and the bottom most right option

[sterile wedge]

It’s a little in-depth for me to explain, but there is a UI tutorial in unity learn

Usually you use stretch a lot

[hazy lake]

No not really

It s a 16:9 image

And it streched a lot

[sterile wedge]

You can also use preserve aspect ratio in your Image component

[hazy lake]

Oh thanks

[sterile wedge]

This is my experience. Perhaps you have yours set differently. There are many ways to do UI, hence why it’s a bit difficult to tell you what you could do

But at least you’ve discovered the anchoring bit on your own

[hazy lake]

Gosh everithing broke and it autosaved

😫 😫 😫

I think im having a mental breakdown

[digital kayak]

what setting is your canvas scaler in?

[hazy lake]

Nah im redoing it entirely

It s a rearange in a new project

[hazy lake]

Scale with screen

[torn python]

when i drag to scroll, the animation is smooth, but when i use scroll wheel it gets choppy

is there a fix?

[coral echo]

Hello. i need to make Scroll Viewer which would have table with informations (string) from other scripts. I have problem to make table (dont know how) and problem the table would change size of new informations ... i saw some String table in UI document but i dont know if i can use it into scrollview and i dont have it in assets. Doesnt anyone know what to do?
i would do it as 40 texts but i have problem with resizing the bounds

[real arch]

@coral echo try seperating the issues
first try to make a table
then you can see what you need to do to get it to adjust the scroll content size

[coral echo]

yea i did it. ty!

[torn python]

i want my button to hover green whenever it's selected

is there a way to 'select' a button using code?

[azure flame]

The last answer shows how, using EventSystem https://answers.unity.com/questions/945867/highlight-button-via-script-at-runtime.html

[torn python]

ty

[reef jasper]

I'm having a real brainfart moment. On a canvas, how do I get an image to scale itself to fit behind a TMP text object, based on the text content? Like a basic frame

[azure flame]

Depending on settings text will resize its RectTransform, I think with dynamic anchor you can fit image there as a child to it will resize.

Nope, this way you'll have to update rect manually.

@reef jasper Content size fitter on the text object will resize it set correctly, then child image with stretch anchor. It will have to use custom material to be sorted under the text.

[reef jasper]

Thanks : ) I have no idea what the Content Size's "Unconstrained" vs "Preferred Size" means but Preferred seemed to be the only setting doing something

[cedar ember]

How can you maintain the look of the game on different screens? I'm confused with what to use in the UI

[azure flame]

Use anchors in relative position and set canvas scaler component to the one you need.

If you use reference resolution you can fix the look for any screen, but it will resize smaller, there are trade offs. Experiment with that components and screen sizes to desired effect.

Keep in mind that you will have to size the camera view accordingly. There are tutorials for that online.

[cedar ember]

Hmmm, I see

I take that back, I honestly did not understand what you said

But, I'll check on tutorials online and see what they did

[azure flame]

Things to lookup - canvas scaler component is on the root canvas. And how RectTransform anchors work for relative positioning.

[reef jasper]

Uh, so about that custom material, I didn't think I'd get lost but I underestimated how involved that might've been. How would I go about tempering with the layering?

[azure flame]

Eh, I tester with URP material shader it worked fine. The default material which is when it's not set at all, I think will draw the child over the parent, since UI is sorted by hierarchy. But if you use non UI shader text will be sorted above it and it will become background

Might be problematic sorting it this way if more UI overlap on the screen

If it's become the problem you can use default UI shader on the image and instead place it above the text to be under it, and resize its rect through code to set the same size as the text rect.

[reef jasper]

Ay, I think I'll have to do that, I don't seem to be able to overwrite that hierarchy shenanigans even when swapping materials around which is bizarre, shader settings are also greyed out no matter what material.

Hierarchy layering is proving itself a very silly design choice

[azure flame]

No, you need to create your own material asset to assign there

It's greyed out when material is unset aka using the default material.

Hierarchy sorting makes sense internally, since canvas has own way of rendering entire thing when UI components used.

Allows for optimizations, I think.

[reef jasper]

Oh some options are actually greyed out with custom materials, but not all, I missed that

But when the positional logic depends on hierarchy I have to say it's very silly to constrain the two together?

[azure flame]

That's why they have Layout components to manage that. I might have missed some configuration that would allow to do that with just components

[reef jasper]

I see :')

Also this is hilarious, it works in scene view but not game view, hah, I'll find workarounds I guess

[azure flame]

Usually it's the other way around, you resize the image and fit the text. Since doing it other way around could break layout

[reef jasper]

ah, uh, I thought that was what we were trying to do? That does sound like; text content deciding how big the image size should be, yes?

[azure flame]

Not sure I understand, your question was to resize the image to text. Other way around is basically a button component does that, just pick appropriate text formatting.

[reef jasper]

If I right click and create a preset button the image texture doesn't do anything to fit around the text, it is stationary. The text simply wraps. Surely that's not ideal for anything

[azure flame]

Text has a lot of options. TextMeshPro text has even more.

wrap, autosize, etc..

[reef jasper]

alright but that's not... that's not really relevant to the image resizing question any more. Either way, I just find it rather silly to constrain text inside a stationary box instead of intuitively allowing the option to stretch the box to frame the text

[rapid ferry]

Hi, I have a situation where one of my sliders' fills won't show up in game. It's anchored just like the rest and the value updates as intended. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[empty sparrow]

hey guys, I am making a cubic mining game and I want to make counter that count how much cubes I destroyed with specific tags and another counter that count how much cube from specific tags in scene, and I don't know how to do that.

[rapid ferry]

Declare an int cubeA and cubeB and wherever you destroy the cube add

    cubeA += 1;
else if(cube.gameObject.C
ompareTag("Cube B"))
    cubeB += 1;```

Make sure to add the tags in the editor

and wherever you change scene also change cubeA and cubeB to 0

[empty sparrow]

is the cube variable the text?

[rapid ferry]

i just used cubeA and cubeB as an example, but you would change them to whatever the different tagged cubes you wish to count are. They're integers, not text.

[empty sparrow]

no i mean if(cube.gameobject) this cube is it the text vareable?

[rapid ferry]

oh, that's the cube that's being destroyed

you'd probably want to store the cubeA and cubeB values on another script and just access it

[north magnet]

hello, I am making a button object but when I click the button it doesn't execute the function. Can anyone lend me their knowledge? Thank you very much.

also when I hover over the button it doesn't transition into the new sprite

[empty juniper]

how do I use toggles? To be specific, how do I add the bool that I want it to change. I input my script in the On Value Changed thing, but my public bool is not appearing

[obsidian loom]

Maybe this can help?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46850003/unity-canvas-button-not-working/46853063#:~:text=Run the game in the,next to the field pointerEnter

[north magnet]

I solved it! I needed to add a Graphic Raycaster to my canvas

[obtuse tangle]

I have a button that's being handled with IPointerUp and IPointerDown Handlers. I want to catch the case when the finger is pressing the image/button (the script is on an image) but moves away from it while it's still touching the screen. Would IPointerEnter & Exit help?

[dense terrace]

My textmesh pro text hasn't been working for a while (it shows up as pink boxes), and it seems like my shaders are too outdated for my hdrp project or something. I've tried reimporting tmrpo many times, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas how to fix this?

[candid umbra]

fr some reason when i try to drag my inputfeild into one of the slots its just not working

like im trying to drag it in but its just giving me an X mark

this is my code

[frosty pewter]

show your input field

[candid umbra]

in the hierarchy?

[frosty pewter]

in the inspector

[candid umbra]

ohk

[frosty pewter]

That is a text mesh pro input field, which is different. use TMP_InputField

[candid umbra]

oh ok

ty

wait what do i put in my code?

cause when i try to type it in its giving me an error

[frosty pewter]

You need to import the namespace

[candid umbra]

oh ok

how

[frosty pewter]

your IDE should suggest it

[candid umbra]

ok

yeah its working now tysm

[craggy condor]

Hello! Newbie question: if my game has a camera moving all around the place, but I want to have a static 2D UI too, what's the best way to do it? Should I have two cameras, one zooming around the game and another camera "looking" at static UI elements, and combine these two views? Or should it be done in some other way?

I tried searching for UI tutorials but just found fancy ingame 3d menus and other complicated stuff I don't need.

[digital kayak]

if your UI canvas isn't in world space then it should stay with the camera as it moves

so no need to have more than one camera

[craggy condor]

Okay, so another canvas but just one camera

Thanks! 🙂

[foggy wave]

i have 2 cameras in my game and UI element but i want the UI to show in seoncd camera only not first one, how to do that ?

[digital kayak]

you can set the UI to camera space and set the camera to be the second camera

[foggy wave]

any other way ?

[digital kayak]

disable or hide the canvas whenever you switch over to the other camera

[low pike]

@amber hornet This is the resolution we use.. but mostly because that's what the designer chose when he started designing the apps

[sterile wedge]

i usually use 720x1280

[cloud lintel]

How can I center the Content child object of a of a Scroll View's viewport?

It always anchors to the left

[sacred wadi]

how i can display a message through code like when the player dies show on the screen you died?

[mortal robin]

Show a UI text element

[sacred wadi]

thank you

[amber hornet]

Thanks

[sand prism]

I love the mask I have over my elements right now, it's not something that would be efficient to do manually for each UI element- but I don't want the mask affecting what is hoverable or not..

by "hoverable" I mean a unity Event Trigger that is not firing when the UI element is "masked"

all UI elements under the mask parent have Maskable set to false but are still effected by the mask.
How can I solve this?

[sand prism]

I ended up creating a new parent without a mask for the element that was outside of the other mask to work.. but it seems odd and would like an explanation if anyone knows whats up

[sacred wadi]

Hello how to show this ui text when the player die?

[timber elbow]

With code. Just activate the text gameobject when the player dies.

[hexed harness]

I want to add an imput field to the UI, with multiple line support, but I don't know to to display multiple lines at once on the screen, currently only one line is shown
Can anyone help to fix this?

[wild cairn]

hey, any clue why textmeshpro is looking like this in camera view?

in scene view, it looks like this

using unity 2020.1.14 & URP

[ocean parcel]

How do I center the layout elements in a horizontal layout group ?

[ocean parcel]

nevermind i had to use a grid layout group

[mortal robin]

You can center with a horizontal group

[dry plover]

it does the same thing to me

[fierce oak]

Does anybody know of a video or tutorial that gives details on the Dos and Don’ts of VR UI?

It just occurred to me that this might be a good place to ask about that. We tried making the facial UI screen space way back when but found out that with how much your own head jitters simply due to humans moving and shaking more than they know they are, the UI felt like it was constantly jiggling and it was hard to focus on, so we ended up having to make the canvas world space and trying to make the head UI lerp towards your head direction so it doesn’t jitter with your head

And we’ve since had a lot of issues coming up with a good way to make the UI (especially the resolution of text) feel close to your head and super readable, basically like a screen space canvas, but lerping toward your head rotation so it doesn’t jitter...

[fresh hamlet]

Hey all, not sure if this is the place to ask, but I'm working on a Nintendo Switch port of my game which is normally played using a mouse.
I've implemented a way to move the mouse cursor with the analog stick, but I also would like the player to be able to point the joycon at the TV so it acts as a cursor.
Technically I have an idea how to do this (gyro), but I'm thinking how I should approach this from a ux perspective: how does the player know they can point at the screen, and how do you prompt them to calibrate the cursor? Should this be a toggle in the options menu, or is that too obscure?

[low pike]

Wii games just used to auto display a hand when the remote was pointing at the screen

[lime kite]

Hi there, does anybody knows how to block Physics2D.Raycast through clicking on ui?

[mortal robin]

• Physics2D.raycast doesn't interact with UI stuff at all.
• If you are trying to click on 2D objects you should use Physics2D.GetRayIntersection instead
• If you want to easily let UI elements block such things, the better thing to do is use the event system for clicking on your 2D sprites instead of doing your own raycast. For example using things like IPointerDownHandler, IPointerClickHandler interfaces.

[river charm]

Check ICanvasRaycastFilter

[surreal shore]

I want to do something in Unity, and I'm not entirely sure how to approach it conceptually. I have a prefab containing a 3d model. I want to attach to that model a 2d overlay/billboard, that doesn't scale with the camera, as a label or marker.

Something like this:

I need to do it as a prefab, not hard coded into a scene, as I'm Instantiating the prefabs into my scene with a script.

[cedar ember]

Is there a way for the camera to scale on different resolutions like how you can do it with the UI?

It's pretty bad if the game shows/hide some elements due to the resolution of the game (Ping me if you got an idea what to do)

[young cargo]

see if any of this helps https://www.febucci.com/2018/10/unity-ui-tutorial/

or you want to scale the world, not ui? maybe not then

i feel like you shouldn't see more or less of the game depending on the resolution

[cedar ember]

Yeah, I'm trying to do this, but I can't find the solution to it yet

[young cargo]

is your camera ortho?

[cedar ember]

Yes

[young cargo]

i guess that makes sense

i'm not sure offhand how to solve it though, sorry 😦 i would google about scaling consistently with an orthographic camera

[cedar ember]

It's all good. THanks for trying to help me out

I'll deal with this tomorrow, then. Got school things to handle now

[mortal robin]

The basic approach is just adjusting the orthographicSize of the camera to show everything

you'll have to do a little math with:

• the world space "range" that you want to ensure is shown
• the aspect ratio of the game display area (aka Screen)

orthographicSize always represents the height in units of the world that the camera shows

if you want to show a specific height, you're done. If you want to show a specific width then you have to do a little math with the aspect ratio

[reef jasper]

How can I disable the dynamic vertical spacing on my TMPro UI? It changes depending on what characters are typed

[nocturne valley]

Am I stuck with using the new UI Builder editor window if I want to use UnityEngine.UIElements.Button? It's not a monobehavior so I don't see how I could access it in my normal scripts

[low pike]

show us what you mean

[low pike]

Classes don't have to be MonoBehaviour to be referenced

but pop into #🧰┃ui-toolkit and ask there

[nocturne valley]

I'm learning that you have to query the xml file for the button you want to reference it, so the new Buttons aren't drag n drop GameObject buttons that work with a monobehavior script

[sacred atlas]

How do I check if my mouse is hovering over,entering,leaving a UI button ? OnMouseOver() does not work

I found this

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/108625/how-to-detect-mouse-over-for-ui-image-in-unity-5

seems to work but not sure if that is the right way to do it

Esentially I have multiple buttons on my UI

and they contain images inside of them, you can click on them to activate something, but just hovering over them tells you the info about what will happen when you click on it instead

[mortal robin]

You should be using either:

• The Event Trigger component
• Your own custom script with IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler, etc...

OnMouseOver is some janky old deprecated thing that's not part of the UI/Event System

[sacred atlas]

Thank you !

[mighty oar]

Might someone be able to help here, I'm not too sure how to get the little message text to appear infront of the thing in the way of it

[mortal robin]

It needs to be lower down in the hierarchy to appear in front

[mighty oar]

perfect, thank you :)

[agile raft]

Yoo guys, how to clean that dirty color on top of my game over title ? it's using text mesh pro btw.

[digital kayak]

this seems like it may be an issue with your font asset

does this happen on the default font

[tight mortar]

Hi!

I'm pretty sure this has been asked millions of times, but I cannot find anything.

I have a texture that is pure white (255-255-255) with rounded corners, and no opacity on it. (alpha 255). When I add a panel to any Unity UI, and set the background of said panel to be my texture, it's not white, but gray...

speaking of a screen space UI

If I take a screenshot, and use the color picker in PS, it tells me the UI is 235-235-235 instead of the 255 255 255 white

[mortal robin]

Do you have a canvas group?

[tight mortar]

No, just a scaler on the Canvas

[mortal robin]

what's the color set to on the Image component?

[tight mortar]

pure white (255-255-255) with alpha of 255 as well

This is the color difference. Left being the screenshot and right is the actual texture overlaid in PS

[mortal robin]

postprocessing on your camera?

[tight mortar]

Nada 😄

Restarted Unity, now it's white...

And it's gray again

[ionic beacon]

When you create a button, the label is automatically created as a child text element

[next smelt]

So I'm not sure what's going on here, but I've got two UI buttons on the bottom of my game's title screen that open URLs using Application.OpenURL

The weird thing is that it opens the given URl twice instead of just once, anybody knows what's going on here?

[ionic beacon]

Can't say much without seeing code/setup

Probably the onclick function has been registered twice

[next smelt]

I use bolt but I'll try to make it as C# as i possibly can- (there's no UI specific section in bolt's discord so im improvising by coming here)

[next smelt]

ok that's going to be harder than i thought

[slender oyster]

im having issues importing fonts with japanese characters for my game using text mesh pro

does anyone know what character set i should be using to generate the font assets?

[slender oyster]

ok so i found the range of characters in the unicode database

and it's U+4E00 to U+9FFF

[steep haven]

Are there any tutorials on creating "ScalingUI?" I have some UI on gameObjects. I want it to scale bigger when the player is far away and smaller when the player is near to it.

[rapid geyser]

Hello ! Are there any UI or UX designer here who I could ask to have a look at my game and give a bit of feedback? I've been working on it for 4 years and it's released on Steam. It's a map editor for pen & paper games. I'd love to improve the UI/UX more but I might need a bit of feedback to know how to best improve it

[digital kayak]

if you send it here then someone can comment

[rapid geyser]

Wasn’t sure if I was allowed to post a link

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1543590/Wildshape__Map_Editor_free_demo/

Steam

Wildshape - Map Editor (free demo)

Please note: The free version will be for players to join games and features a demo version of the map editor. To use the map editor to its full extent and host games to your friends please have a look at the Pro version DLC! You will get access to thousands of objects, plenty of features for map making and much more!Ever wish you could play you...

▶ Play video

Any tips on how to improve you guys might have are very much appreciated ! Thank you!

[jagged monolith]

Since you're asking in this channel, I'll say that the UI looks very Unity Default ™️ 😅 I would recommend thinking about what kind of style you would like and then go searching for some asset packs, there are quite a few out there

This is just judging by the videos and screenshots

[rapid geyser]

The UI has been reworked from what is in the screenshots @jagged monolith. I’ll update them when I find the time

[coral cape]

Hi all, I made a drag and drop control, but now when I drop an element to another canvas group, the element gets resized unevenly. How can I have a list of element in a canvas group resize evently every time I drop an element?

[coral echo]

Hello I hope it belongs here. Im using unity editor to make open dictionary(file dialog) to open/save the file (get path) but it doesn't work in build game. Don't you know any way to create it? I was thinking about using windows form svn

[coral cape]

Are you calling the windows' API call to open the dialog prompt or are you using your own custom dialog browser?

[coral echo]

Now I'm using this: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.OpenFilePanel.html

[coral cape]

That's only meant for Editor usage only.

Hence the EditorUtility -> https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.html

[coral echo]

But it doesn't work in build :/ so I'm searching for build

[coral cape]

Right, because the function you used only works for editor, not build. You may need to create your own UI to handle save operation. Usually in this case here, you'd best prefer to save the files in your application persistence path instead for the sake of keeping your game safe from unwanted harm to someone's computer.

Imagine someone complains that they can't save their game in a protected folder path?

May I ask is there a reason you need to ask the client for a location to save... whatever you want them to save?

[coral echo]

Yea I want to :/

[coral cape]

Is there a reason?

Whatever your reason it may be, my answer won't change. You'd need to create your own dialog prompt to handle this.

[coral echo]

My task is copy UI from XNA to unity and user can save file on wanted path

[coral cape]

I'm sure there's plugin or other asset package that you can download to save yourself the time and effort to create a dialog box to ask the user to save the file.

[coral echo]

I found one but I don't understand how work with packages (I'm new with this)

https://github.com/gkngkc/UnityStandaloneFileBrowser

This one

When I opened the package in my project I got errors with plugins perhaps I have every setting same :/

[coral cape]

Did you see the notes?

[coral echo]

Do you mean readme?

[digital kayak]

how are you setting the parent of the image?

and what do you mean by unevenly resizing

[coral cape]

transform.SetParent( parent.transform );

So when I drag and drop element, for some reason it ended up shrinking and shrinking down. I had preferred width and size, but no matter how many time I reset the scale or it's orientation, it keeps shrinking width wise.

[coral echo]

Yea I did. I set everything as it wants to

[coral cape]

Then you got options, #💻┃code-beginner for more assistance with the error, or make your own UI and handle everything from there.

[digital kayak]

if you set the parent in the editor (without code) does it also act this way

[coral echo]

Oki ty

[coral cape]

Again, I can't do this in editor time, as code and draggable events only occur in runtime. Beside, I know for certain that at editor time, it'll scale all object accordingly, but it only affects when I drag and drop into the control. The Canvas group or the horizontal/vertical stack layout component doesn't appear to uniformly scale all controls.

[digital kayak]

if it definitely works out of runtime you can try LayoutRebuilder.ForceRebuildLayoutImmediate after setting the parent or enabling and disabling (with a wait for frame in between) the layout group

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

[coral cape]

This did not fix. Checking out the canvas.forceUpdatecanvases

Looks expensive to call every time I drop an element...

[digital kayak]

i find enabling and disabling the layout group works as well

either way you'll need to rebuild the layout group and so any other layout group (any ui element with relative positions) will also need rebuilding

[visual brook]

Not really sure if this question belongs in here, but i want to make a 2d badge that will sit in a position in my 3d world and always face my player (so if the player rotates the 2d badge rotates to face the player) - im not sure what this really requires so i was hoping someone could help point me in the right direction. i figure this is a ui question since a badge like that seems like it would be more of ui type of deal

[digital kayak]

if you're really worried about performance you should avoid layout groups and try to make your own (or find a lighter one online) although i don't have much experience with that

[visual brook]

the use case is that i may have one game object (say, a tank) drive on to a piece of terrain occupied by a building, and i want to hide the building and show an icon that tells the player that there is a building in that terrain spot, its just not being shown since something else is there

[coral cape]

Right now the performance is within the reasonable range. I have a few UI elements, nothing expensive or anything. Just quite annoyed that UI element doesn't uniform scale properly when it gets dropped or added to the collection.

[digital kayak]

you could do this with a worldspace canvas

[coral cape]

worldspace canvas, then update your Icon to match the same rotation as your camera to achieve that billboard effect.

[digital kayak]

unity's recalculating order is a little weird and clashes with the inserting of things into code leading to situations like these

[visual brook]

I'll look into that, thanks guys

[still vector]

anyone know why unity UI gizmo are buggy as hell lately ?

we can't modify or select anchors anymore

the gizmos are from the UI on the right, and if we click them, it de-selects our element

we can't do any UI modification anymore (currently on 2021.2.1f1 Mac OSX)

They actually seem to still be usable, but their renderer seems totally broken, and you need to "guess" where the to click

Like there is a very very big offset between where you need to do the action, and where it is rendered

[wild cairn]

changing from FXAA fixed it for me, in case it's still an ongoing issue for u

[still vector]

Seems there has been an issue which has been made, if anyone is experiencing the same problem and wants to add visibility to it, cast your votes 🙂 https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/tool-handles-are-invisible-in-scene-view-when-certain-objects-are-selected

[outer widget]

How do I create this with Unity UI components ? It's the thing you swipe right/left the dot changes accordingly and you change page according to the dot or whatever.

[still vector]

I believe you are talking about a Carousel

[outer widget]

does it have a name also ? Total clueless about ui

oh !

[still vector]

and that those little dots are just stylized radio buttons, which are synced to the Carousel state, to show it's progression

[surreal shore]

I was advised to ask this again here:

How do I make a vertical layout group take the height of all its children combined?

[fluid sinew]

Why is my UI messed up in the webGL version and works fine on Desktop with the same resolution?

all my other screen scale properly, it's just this one Canvas that is messed up somehow...

For reference, this is how the proper layout looks

[azure flame]

Use Canvas scaler with reference resolution options, so layout won't depend on actual resolution.

[fluid sinew]

I have the Canvas Scaler Setup like this but it is still giving me problems. I'm using some custom scripts on the buttons for animations so I figure that has something to do with it, but on a different screen in my game it works just fine, even though those buttons also have the script... (and the script should just be affecting the y axis anyway, not the x)

🤔 when exactly is the CanvasScaler doing all it's scaling and positioning? Because I am saving the starting Positions of my buttons for animation reference in Start(), so if that happens before the Canvas Scaler does it's thing, this might be the reason yes?

[rapid ferry]

Are the anchors no morr exist?

In unity 2021.2

[fluid sinew]

Okay I think I'm on to something here, something about the WebGL is at a different pace then the desktop versions and that is throwing off the Scale. I tried setting a different Canvas as my starting screen, if I then switch to the starting screen everything works as intended

[fluid sinew]

Okay so I got it fixed and my last post was on the right track. It is a timing issue of WebGL. I now have an intro canvas that gets displayed for less then a second before switching over to my main menu and everything is working flawlessly 🤷‍♂️

Can't believe I wasted 4 hours of my life for this...

[surreal shore]

I'm trying to get something to appear in a ScrollView starting at the top, and scrolling down as the list is built up. It's currently starting in the middle and scrolling up/down at the same time

Not sure how to explain it better than that

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, I have another ScrollView that's working correctly.

But this one just refuses to do what I want it to

Pictures to illustrate

I try changing the Pos X and Pos Y to 0 and it just changes back

[azure flame]

Make sure your content object anchored to the top

[surreal shore]

I think it is? How do I check?

My content's anchors are
0 1
0 1

[azure flame]

Also you are using layout groups, they move things around, set them to top center or left

[surreal shore]

They are :/

[azure flame]

Your content object has weird coordinates as well. It should be just centered

Experiment with it. Copy component values from the working one if you lost.

[surreal shore]

I have. I can't see anything I haven't clicked on at this point

Believe me, I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't tried everything I could xD

[azure flame]

Just create a default, clean one, only add layout component with top left and see how it works.

Make that work then examine what's wrong.

Specifically copy values from the default content object, you should not have touched it, it is driven by the scroll components

Only add layout control on it and it work out of the box

[surreal shore]

Oh ffs, now my thing isn't working even outside of the scroll view.

It's Content Size Fitter

Content Size Fitter is making it expand in both directions.

How do I make Content Size Fitter expand down only?

[azure flame]

It works perfectly by default. besides layout component you usually would want a Size Fitter so the content object would be trimmed to content. You don't need to touch anything else on it.

[surreal shore]

With Content Size Fitter

Without

[azure flame]

Default setup also adds stuff on the bottom just fine

[surreal shore]

Default Setup is 'Unconstrained', it isn't doing anything at all

[azure flame]

Just like it says. You want Preferred size instead

[surreal shore]

This is with preferred size

Settings

[azure flame]

Everything is default here apart single column and preferred size fitter

[surreal shore]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1461424/content-size-fitter-alignment-issue.html

It appears the issue is this Pivot parameter

[azure flame]

Make sure your child objects setup properly as well so fitter can take their dimensions. Might want to add Layout Element component on them to fix that

[sturdy night]

Doesn anyone know how to make the scrollbar slider be smooth when using the arrow keys?

currently, it's only smooth while using the mouse to drag it

[coral cape]

How can I move the UI elements via code? I've tried anchoredPosition, localposition, and position. All done nothing...

[hazy lake]

What is a good flat and modern font?

[mortal robin]

Jetbrains Mono is good and completely free: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

There's also Roboto: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto
And other free fonts on Google fonts.

[hazy lake]

Yes! Roboto is what i mean it s super professional looking and it s free

[limpid shale]

whats a good method to implement radio buttons with?

in the ui

not the gui class since I know that has toggle-able buttons that work as radio buttons, but im looking for things that work as UI elements.

oh lol just saw toggle

should have looked a little more

[limpid shale]

its kinda weird cause I was googling for a bit about radio buttons and toggles but I kept finding stuff about the GUI ones and not the UI ones

then I just stumbled onto them

is there a way to have a toggle change the colour of a background image?

I could stack the same image as a different colour for the toggle, but I think that could cause some graphical bugs around the edges of the background sprite

oh then again the layering actually looks decent

[mortal robin]

You can select any graphic you want as the transition target

You can also do it in a script of course

[limpid shale]

I can, the problem is that i want the colour transition to work for toggle, not for when it's selected since then it can be deselected while I want that option to remain selected.

like, when the button is toggled, I want it to remain orange until another toggle button in the same group has ben pressed

which can be achieved by recolouring the check mark and making it the same sprite as the background, but it feels like a janky solution to the problem that requires more image draws than necessary

[obtuse tangle]

I'm confused. By pressing W I can't seem to be able to move UI objects around. Did something change?

[tender drum]

All of a sudden the alpha in our UI is not working on a specific device model... we didn't do anything except upgrading to 2020.3.22....
UI looks good as always on editor and rest of devices but one of the test ones its like its ignoring the alpha values in the UI..... very strange... any ideas?

this is how should look

and this is how it looks on that specific device (iphone 11 pro max)

we built again, reinstalled... made sure we have the same build... nothing... on that device thats how it looks now...

any hint.. idea ... suggestion? Im ccompletely lost

[obsidian yarrow]

Does anyone know how you can get an editor component in the editor to show a multi-select dropdown for a bitmask ([System.Flags] enum)

because it seems it still only lets you select one even when using the flags component

[slow crane]

Hey guys, move event is sent each time a UI movement input is done, right? it doesn't play if there was actual movement through the menu. (like, even if there are no options to the left or right you still get sound)

[burnt swift]

why does it look so strange in unity?

[mortal robin]

Compression in import settings

[burnt swift]

i now changed it and its better, but there is still one pixel

[mortal robin]

Just disable compression

[burnt swift]

now theres more

[lucid yarrow]

hello, I'm having troubles with Content Size Fitter again, where the height isn't set as I'd like.

this is my hierarchy:
https://i.imgur.com/YI4fYBF.png
ChatFeed has Vertical Layout Group (control child size and child force expand for height are unchecked),
MessageText's height is dynamic (multiline and rich-text with size) and has ContentSizeFitter (Preferred Height) (this looks good, height is readonly and set as expected)

But how do I make ChatEntry fit to height of MessageText height, so that the chat entries don't overlap? Nested Content Size Fitter is no good, and I've tried various combinations of Layout Element but no go - the height is always set at 0 (or some minimum value that I set, but not the dynamic height of the child).

current output is https://i.imgur.com/s7ihQ9E.png

[lucid yarrow]

so it appears the solution is to add a vertical / horizontal layout group to ChatEntry, even though it has one object

pretty messed up

[boreal moat]

I have a row of image icons under a horizontal layout group panel. How do I center the whole panel based on which image icon I select? Thanks

[tight cosmos]

Hey guys is it possible to have my UI canvas in edit mode viewed directly on the viewport rather than a huge rectangle in world?

[obtuse tangle]

Why doesn't pressing W to move a UI object allow me to move it?

[primal basin]

my transform gizmo is in the corner, it remains there even when I have a button on screen

Unity version 2021.2.2f1

[mortal robin]

Looks. like your Gizmo Handle Position is set to Center

Maybe you want it to be Pivot?

[warped moss]

Is it possible to make text appear on collision and go away after a few seconds?

I tried doing so

but it keeps on

saying something which I really don't know.

[mortal robin]

Everything's possible with the right code

[azure flame]

Something that you should post when asking a question. Use coroutine for timed events

[warped moss]

Sorry forgot to send an image

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

public class StartScript : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject uiObject;

    void start()
    {
        uiObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter (Collider player)
    {
        if (player.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {
            uiObject.SetActive(true);
            StartCoroutine("WaitForSec");
        }
        IEnumerator WaitForSec()
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
            Destroy(uiObject);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}

[azure flame]

Read the full error. This usually happens when you try to start it on the inactive object.

[azure flame]

Did you try starting it by method not by string?

string overload might not know about local methods.

StartCoroutine(WaitForSec());

[warped moss]

wtf

actually worked

Why am I so stupid

and had "

[azure flame]

When you place a method inside another method, it called a local method. String version of the coroutine does not know to look in local methods it seems.

It shouldn't be used anyway

[twin olive]

I want a event trigger component on a button that is stored in a scroll Rect. But I want to be able to scroll though the scroll rect with my mouse over the buttons and that not stop me scroll has any one dealt with this before?

[grave seal]

I added vertical layout group

But it appears to have a huge spacing

No idea why

[mortal robin]

You have Child Force Expand Height on

[grave seal]

ty <3

[obtuse tangle]

Any clue? Have they changed it?

[rapid ferry]

i sent over my project to someone but they said the text was off, so i put on "scale with screen size" in canvas. if im using freeaspect what do i put for the general resolution

and also how will i know if it actually scales properly

[timber elbow]

You can try setting different screen sizes in game tab and seeing how your ui scales to them.

[rapid ferry]

alright ty

[rapid ferry]

for some reason it still isn't scaling right

[timber elbow]

Yeah, it's tricky to get it working on different resolutions

[shadow yew]

Is there a way to make my minimap render texture higher resolution? I'm getting weirdness on my icons.

[timber elbow]

Gotta put some thoughts into what anchors you're using.

[rapid ferry]

what is anchors

everything i have is just anchored to the center

i didnt know it made a difference

[timber elbow]

You can anchor it relative to the sides and other different options. I suggest looking at some ui tutorials that explain this.

[coral echo]

Hello. Im using dynamic resolution changing for my UI. On game looks fine (as expected) but when I built the game UI is ruined. I changed resolution to full hd resolution ( I use windowed). It builds same as in unity editor, but when I start making the window bigger it starts being more ruined. (Smalling is fine). Ruining: corners of panels go over camera view the camera view (even UI is locked on camera view) ... Literally mess... Doesn't anyone know how to cure this? I hope I described the problem well

[primal basin]

That doesn't change it

[primal basin]

fixed the issue

[rapid ferry]

I am not sure if my question should be asked here but this is really important, I dont know if i pressed a key accidentally or not but now when I open a prefab , the gizmo of movement goes somewhere specific.. i dont know why or how this happened

I think to the middle of the UI that I made for the prefab

[mortal robin]

you have your gizmo tool thingy set to Center instead of Pivot

What that looks like precisely depends on your Unity version, but something like this

[rapid ferry]

what am I supposed to pick out of those ?

[mortal robin]

Pivot

but you should play with them and see what they do to get familiar with it.

[rapid ferry]

I get terrified i am gonna mess something up and not know how to get back to how things were 😅

[mortal robin]

they're just two very simple toggles

[rapid ferry]

but thank you i will try it after my backup is finished

@mortal robin I can't find it 😅 i am on unity 2020.3

found it

thank you

[rapid ferry]

hi i am trying to import text mesh pro and i get this error how do i fix it ?

[mortal robin]

how did you install the package?

[rapid ferry]

it was in the project as default and it said install essentials so i did and that came up and then i removed it and installed it from package manager

[rapid ferry]

its the same on any project i make on any version

[flat crystal]

Hey guys, I've got the weirdest bug in a year of game development with Unity.

I created a new text with TMPro, and no matter what font I use, I can't use the V (in caps) character.

The log says:

The character with Unicode value \u0056 was not found in the [Dogica SDF] font asset or any potential fallbacks. It was replaced by Unicode character \u0020 in text object [Wave status].
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object,UnityEngine.Object)
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI:SetArraySizes (TMPro.TMP_Text/UnicodeChar[]) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.0.6/Scripts/Runtime/TMPro_UGUI_Private.cs:1274)
TMPro.TMP_Text:ParseInputText () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.0.6/Scripts/Runtime/TMP_Text.cs:1902)
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI:OnPreRenderCanvas () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.0.6/Scripts/Runtime/TMPro_UGUI_Private.cs:1644)
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI:Rebuild (UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdate) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.0.6/Scripts/Runtime/TextMeshProUGUI.cs:216)
UnityEngine.Canvas:SendWillRenderCanvases ()

I repeat, no matter what font I use (in this text I'm using Dogica), it will return this error, and it will not write the letter...

Even if I use a character form the basic font of TMPro

[mortal robin]

Cosmic ray?
Try restarting your computer

[flat crystal]

I'm having this bug in my code since months

[polar sparrow]

Hey guys - I got particles to appear in my ui, but how can i get them to appear behind buttons?

So in front of the background, but behind the buttons

[azure edge]

Trying to get this canvas layout stuff working, but just not sure how to get the behavior I’m looking for.
I’ve got a scroll view, and the content GO in it has a HorizontalLayout component, AND a ContentSizeFitter- (set to horizontal constraint : minimum)
The objects it arranges horizontally are added dynamically at run time, and the content area DOES indeed expand horizontally as these columns are added. If more objects are added than fit in the scroll view area, the horizontal scroll bar shows up: this part works perfectly.
On the COLUMN prefab itself, a VerticalLayout component is attached, and I WANT to add a ContentSizeFitter, so it will expand vertically as elements are added to the column. But I get a warning in the editor that this element is control by a layout group, and so ContentSizeFitter shouldn’t be used. (If I try it anyway, and set vertical constraint to “minimum”, all the elements just overlap each other and the column does not expand in height.)
So, how can I do this? (Have a column that vertically expands when elements are added to it, where the column itself is an element of a horizontal layout group.)

[azure edge]

total shot in the dark- check the language setting on your PC. Don't THINK that would effect ONLY character capital V, but worth double checking.

[flat crystal]

What should I look for?

My language is set to Italian (I can set it to english, but I doubt it would change anything), just as my keyboard

Idk what other settings I should look for

[azure edge]

"I doubt it would change anything" alas, me too- but it's the only suggestion I've got 😦

[flat crystal]

If it was an OS error, wouldn't it cause all my V characters to break?

Oh, by the way, this doesn't work only in my project, in other projects it works

[azure edge]

AH, then certainly not a computer settings. This also makes the solution simple, but time consuming. create a new project, import things 1 at a time till it breaks the capital V (or do it as a kind of binary search- try importing one half, then the other, when you find which half breaks it, start over using only half of THAT section... etc..)

oh, you culd also try deleteing the libraray folder in the project first... could be corruption in there.

[flat crystal]

Okay, I'll try that

[opaque belfry]

Hey guys, I have a question about the Canvas Scaler. When I'm building an UI targeted at full HD and a user has a 4k screen, do the graphics get scaled up? So, when I have a 512x512 pixels graphic, might that look blurry? What's the best practice here? Building an UI for the highest resolution I want to support so that the UI just gets scaled down for lower resolutions?

[azure edge]

yes, that is what I'd do: Use the largest graphic possible. (Of course if memory becomes an issue, perhaps not, but that's rare nowadays)

[opaque belfry]

Alright 🙂 and having a 4k graphic scaled down to fit full HD is no issue?

[azure edge]

I see no issue with this, except large memory usage.

@flat crystal say, did either of those help with your issue from yesterday?

[flat crystal]

Yeah! thanks

I figured out it was a weird setting in the font setting

I changed it and everything worked 😄

[azure edge]

apply two materials to it.. one with normal back face culling, the second using front-face culling.

[half raft]

This is going to be really basic, but how do I make a button not be fucking useless? It's not recognizing when the mouse is over it, it's not recognizing when it's being clicked, Google is not helping. It's just sitting there on the screen doing nothing, and yes, I have changed the colors associated with hovering and pressing. I double checked to make sure nothing was blocking the raycasting even though it's a blank fucking canvas, and yeah, nothing was blocking the raycasting.

The button is also set to interactable, so it isn't that

And I do have an event system

[mortal robin]

Does your event system have an Input Module on it?

Does your canvas have a Graphic Raycaster component on it?

[half raft]

Yes, and yes

[mortal robin]

Which input system are you using?

the old one or new one

And can you show some screenshots of your setup?

[half raft]

I don't know, I didn't know there were two input systems now

[mortal robin]

then you're using the old one

[half raft]

This is the Event Manager

[half raft]

Great.

[mortal robin]

ok now can you show your hierarchy

and the button

[mortal robin]

that looks good. And where is it in the hierarchy?

[half raft]

Button settings, It's literally just a default button, I haven't even done anything with it yet, I'm just trying to get it to work on the most basic level

[mortal robin]

ok that looks good... and now - your canvas settings?

[mortal robin]

well.. that all looks good lmao

🤔

[half raft]

You know, it's just my fucking luck for the most basic of shit to break specifically because I'm the one using it

Maybe it's the new input system

Where is the new input system

[mortal robin]

go to Project settings

[half raft]

Project settings > Input Manager?

Yeah, already know that one

[mortal robin]

If active input handling says Input Manager (Old) then you're good

[mortal robin]

Plus the Standalone input manager would have complained here if you were on the new system

[half raft]

Yeah, says Old

[mortal robin]

Can you show the Text object?

Have you changed that at all?

Oh here's one thing to check too

Play your game and have the Event System selected in the inspector/hierarchy

[half raft]

Nope, I had this issue at first with a button I tried to customize, I have since deleted that and just plopped in a default button just to figure out what the fuck was happening

[mortal robin]

and look in the preview window for the Event System as you mouse over the button

[half raft]

Yeah, tried this fix, doesn't update with fuckin' anything

[mortal robin]

see if it shows what object you're hovering

nothing?

[half raft]

It literally does not change

[mortal robin]

Can you save your scene

try a fresh scene

just put a button in it

all the other stuff should come automatically

see if that works

[half raft]

This is already as fresh as a scene gets but sure

Exact same problem

This is what is displaying in the event system all of the time, no matter what my mouse is doing

@steep grove Problem is, I can't even get the button to detect when it is being clicked

I do not have the time to care about scripting the button if it can't even tell it has been clicked

I know how to script the button. I put a script on the button to debug log that it has been pressed, and guess what, that script didn't work

so I deleted the button

And tried with a new button

Same problem

[steep grove]

so, I haven't used the unityui in a while, but, I use to have to make a script that would get the button component

the button doesn't just do things on its own. It is detecting it is being clicked

but you don't have it doing anything when it is clicked

[frosty pewter]

It does have hover states that should be clear whether it's working or not

I'm honestly interested in knowing why it's not working - the setup looks good at first glance

[half raft]

There's some new bullshit system where you have to put in a gameobject with the button and use voids in that gameobject to make the button do shit, and it sucks, but there's no other option

[frosty pewter]

"new" ie. every old haha

[half raft]

I don't care if it's new or old or rotting in the same grave as Larry King, all I give half of a shit about is that it doesn't work

[frosty pewter]

Perhaps try deleting and instancing a new event system

then I can only suggest restarting Unity, it all looks correct

[half raft]

Tried restarting unity, nothing. Tried a new event system, nothing.

[steep grove]

do this real fast just for simple testing make a new script, just do

public class ButtonExample : MonoBehaviour
{
  Button button;
  void Start()
  {
    button = GetComponent<Button>(OnButtonClick);
  }

  void OnButtonClick()
{
  Debug.Log("Button Clicked");
}
}

and put it on the object

err hold on, I typed that all out in here, let me make sure lol

[half raft]

Yeah, no, it doesn't

VisualStudio doesn't even let me type it without bitching at me

[frosty pewter]

Apparently you need to make sure that the Input Manager has matching axes and buttons as the input module

[half raft]

Great. Wish I knew that before deleting all of the commands in the default input manager and making my own input manager buttons.

[steep grove]

@half raft

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class IntField : MonoBehaviour
{
    Button button;
    void Start()
    {
        Button button = GetComponent<Button>();
        button.onClick.AddListener(OnButtonClick);
    }
    void OnButtonClick()
    {
        Debug.Log("Button Clicked");
    }
}

is the correct way, not the previous way I posted, sorry

you don't have to do it this way, the UI buttons let you select to do something on click

[mortal robin]

oh that's why then 😛

you can reset it

[half raft]

I'm so fucking tired of this shit. Right, let me reset it.

Can I at least rename the axes once I reset it?

[frosty pewter]

Well, you've enlightened me to a new way to break UGUI events at at least.
Yeah I imagine if you rename then in the input module too nothing will break

[mortal robin]

yes as long as you update the StandaloneInputModule as well

[half raft]

The fucking- You know what, sure, never mind, I'm not gonna even ask what that means

[mortal robin]

This component here

StandaloneInputManager

see how it has axis names?

[half raft]

Those all have to match?

[mortal robin]

to the axes in the input manager, yes

[half raft]

Alright, now it works

Thank you

[mortal robin]

clearing out the input manager is not something people typically do 😛 Sorry that took so much to diagnose

[half raft]

Yeah, well, I was never warned by any of my tutorial things that it would have massive implications down the line

So I just set the thing to the amount of controls I needed and figured it wouldn't be an issue. Clearly that made too much sense.

[mortal robin]

I'm surprised you weeren't getting any errors in your console about trying to use undefined axes

Or were you?

If so that would have been a hint

[half raft]

I wasn't getting any errors

[wise prairie]

Sorry you suffered. But I found solace in sympathising and remembering a million times I've been down similar paths in Unity's Wonderland of Wonk.

And you write way too well to be permitted happiness all the time.

[half raft]

I have zero clue what that means

[mortal robin]

I think he means ignorance is bliss

[sturdy patrol]

Here

@frosty pewter

Anything under the UI_DialougeWindow does not work

[wise prairie]

The annoyance that caused you to seethe and write so eloquently and hilariously about the foibles of Unity - you suffer for your art. Like Phil Collins spitting out some of the best love songs of all time, whilst broken hearted. Or akin to that, of a type.

[half raft]

Ah, yes, a game where you tilt a board to roll a ball, the pinnacle of art

[wise prairie]

MarbleMadn3ss!

[half raft]

... Holy shit it is marble madness, I didn't even know that game existed before

[wise prairie]

You're forgetting the 3. Like Wip3out. You're special, because you're Lord Earl of A Balanced Breakfast, the third!

And Super Monkey Ball 3 still hasn't been made.

[quaint hazel]

For world UI is there a way to make the text reasonable sized without a super small font size

[digital kayak]

use textmeshpro and click on autosize, then you can make the textbox smaller and the text will fit into it

you can also decrease the scale of the canvas

[quaint hazel]

Changing the values in the canvas scaler did nothing but changing the transform did so I did that.
Works ok now

[keen edge]

I have a small issue, with the Scrollbar handle being frozen, I can scroll my chat with the mouseball , but the scrollbar(handle) is not movable)

[azure flame]

Also testing any component functionality start with the default one. Recreate from the default one and track down changes up to a point when you start getting problems to find out what's causing it.

And this is Event System debug data I was talking about. It appears only at runtime, need to extent the window from the bottom.

It will show you if something blocking raycasting to the bar handle

[keen edge]

The event system didnt show anything, but the funny thing is that before this issue, the Handle was shrinking quite fast, the problem is by clicking this and that random things related to that, i've make it not shrink and dissapear, into not being able to be used at all, smart me

[keen edge]

Update the issue in theory is in the scrollView, i've added as you advised a brand new Scrollbar, it get's "fronzen" once i add it in

[azure flame]

I mean create entire default thing and reconstruct what you have in steps, so you know when it fails.

Entire ScrollView

[keen edge]

Aha I see, i'm working on a chat for a online game + Mirror

[bronze marlin]

is it possible to get all pointer events in ugui? i'd love to put a component on a canvas, or even an event system and receive callbacks when any game object is clicked/dragged/hovered etc

[chrome elbow]

hi please ive been asking for help nobody seems to respond.. i would like to know why my mini map is looking like this

[chilly lion]

Is this okay for a PauseMenu? I'm planning to re-use the same Canvas for HUD. The PauseMenu gameObject is also a panel

[digital kayak]

how should it look like?

[digital kayak]

what mode is your canvas in, and have you tried increasing the scale of the object

[chrome elbow]

yes but it looks ugly and right now i tried it again on a different save and i got this (sending screenshot)

it shouldnt be like this

its really not like i can mess up these few steps all i did was add a render texture size 512x512

[digital kayak]

chose the image and expand it

you can put the anchors in the corners

[chrome elbow]

i already showed what it looked like previously this shouldnt look like this

[digital kayak]

click on preserve aspect on the image

[chrome elbow]

where would i locate this

[digital kayak]

it shows when you drag the sprite in

[chrome elbow]

its a raw img i used with a render texture

[digital kayak]

have you clicked on set native size?

[chrome elbow]

its just a bigger rectangle lol

[digital kayak]

i'm not sure

[chrome elbow]

u and me both

[jagged monolith]

Show the RectTransform settings @chrome elbow

[chrome elbow]

where do i find this?

[jagged monolith]

On your map object

[jagged monolith]

The object with the rawimage, not the canvas

[jagged monolith]

You should set your Canvas Scaler to scale with screen size bttw

[chrome elbow]

sorry im new to unity wehre can i find this

[jagged monolith]

On the first image you shared

You should really go through a minimap tutorial, there are a few on youtube

[chrome elbow]

i mean i went through 2 and nobody explains these things lol

i shouldnt be getting errors at this stage like this all i did was add a raw img and a render texture before that mini map looks fine

[cyan sentinel]

Anyone knows, why the UI mask is so jagged here?

The texture is 1024x1024px

[jagged monolith]

Try following a tutorial from scratch like this one. it's not perfect but it will get you most of the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28JTTXqMvOU

Your render texture in the screenshot has really strange dimensions so just leave your own stuff behind for 7 minutes and try the tutorial

[chrome elbow]

lol i am telling you this is the exact same steps this isnt really helpful its like the same thing over and over.. the dimesions are not the issue they are exactly the same as my dimensions.. there is something going on with the script most probably because he did nothing that i didnt already do and i followed his tutorial to a T

i could try this in a new save and we can see that it will work just fine because i did it before indicated in my first screenshot

[chrome elbow]

.

[keen edge]

Hi guys, one noob question again , how do i stop my Conent from being able to be scrolled when there is no content? I mean if you write in chat, you should be able to see and scroll only the chatting part, not to be able to see extra spaces into the infinite

i've tried masking and masking 2D, but then it struck me it has no logic, because it's not showing text, outside of the chat area...

found the Content Size Fitter, in a youtube tutorial, not sure but i don't think it was what im supposed to have there

[cyan sentinel]

I guess you first want to align the text to bottom, not top, right? and then you can use the content size fitter on the concent inside your viewport of your scrollrect.

[keen edge]

the text is already aligned at bottom, but after adding the Content Size Fitter, it messed my text to go to the middle basically when I use it for vertical fit, it just makes the content Height go to 0, i've tried to re-create from the begging the whole thing , now the scrolling doesnt work again haha, pepega developer

[keen edge]

i've sent you a friend request if you could help me , we could talk the details in private

[cyan sentinel]

Sorry, not going to do private support here

[keen edge]

im not saying for free

[cyan sentinel]

Yeah, but I dont have time to do support, as I got a project going. Just hopping in and out here

[keen edge]

oh well :), ok np, thx anywya

[azure flame]

Not a place for it, if you want to post a job opportunity use links in #📖┃code-of-conduct

[keen edge]

it;'s not so much of a job, rather a private request-offer but ok, i will delete my message, ty

[mossy forge]

How can I force the child image in the content horizontal layout group to height expand but keep its scale?

[azure flame]

Image has a preserve aspect ratio settings

If it's not exposed in the inspector (don't have the thing open right now) set appropriate image type so it won't rescale

[mossy forge]

oh ty didnt see that

[civic notch]

I wonder is there any asset that makes UI really easy?

I found unity UI's to be a little weird at times, just overcomplicated

And hard to achieve some things that id think would be out of the box

Like scroll view is weirding me out

I feel like i have little control aswell

[azure edge]

scroll view IS a weird one.. make sure you are aware of the "content size fitter" component- I've found those very useful on the "content" object.

[visual brook]

Is there a good way to make the scroll view work in world space?

or do i need to resize every sub component to try to make it fit lol

[shadow yew]

I'm struggling to figure out a solution to ui consistency. Each of those character panels are duplicates. The healthbar is slightly smaller or larger depending on where it is positioned. I'm sure this is some sort of snapping behavior but how do I fix it?

[rapid ferry]

anyone know a fix for this its text mesh pro and i got it from the package manager its the TMP essentials package

[torpid quiver]

how to i make it so when i press a button it shows/hides a menu(i use the new input system but it shouldn't matter)

[sterile wedge]

Break it down. How to do something on button click. How to show/hide a menu

[torpid quiver]

I just need to show hide script I can make the button press

[runic tiger]

How do you guys normally handle screen navigation in UI heavy games and with non linear flow between screens? Just wanted an idea in terms of an architecture.

[dawn sinew]

whats wrong with this text

[karmic oxide]

it scales with the box, disable dynamic scaling for it in the editor

[dawn sinew]

oh k

[true steppe]

Hi, I have a problem with a Scroll Rect which does not want to scroll :
https://www.noelshack.com/2021-46-6-1637422021-screenshot.png
https://www.noelshack.com/2021-46-6-1637422021-screenshot.png
The "Albert etc ..." list of button are located in the panel1 object which is the content (and child) of the ScrollRect object.

Yet nothing scrolls ... Thanks (I made the wrong image, normally the Grid Layout Group is located in the panel1 object, not with the scroll rect)

[ionic jackal]

When I select UI Components why do they draw in the top left?

[safe hull]

I'm trying to make a 2d panel ui/menu .. but it looks extremely small / unfocused. Any ideas what I have messed up?

[sterile wedge]

Are they a child of a canvas?

[ionic jackal]

I found out the issue, it's a bug with Unity 2021.2.1

[sterile wedge]

Dont use scale 2x

[sterile wedge]

Weird, cool

[ionic jackal]

Fixed it by upgrading to 2021.2.3

yeah weirdly the gizmos came back when you disabled them

lol

not sure how you make that bug but it was kinda funny

[safe hull]

@sterile wedgeMy scale is actually .5 .. but I simply increased the fond size a lot, and now it looks a lot more sensible

[sterile wedge]

Also, use TextMeshPro instead of Text if you’re not already

[safe hull]

@sterile wedge Always? Or textmesh for world text and text for canvas text ?

[sterile wedge]

Always

I was refering to using the ui text of textmeshpro btw..

[sterile wedge]

When i said Text here, i meant unity’s UI text

[magic isle]

Question:
How can I display the text from the inspector to the game/scene view? I just imported textmeshpro packages. Is there some simple step I glossed over?

[magic isle]

update: it fixed itself after I alt tabbed for a while

[true steppe]

Hi, my scroll rect don't want to scroll and i don't know why (I tried everything, without viewport, with, without content size fitter, with etc etc ...)

• https://www.noelshack.com/2021-46-7-1637494833-capture4.png
• https://www.noelshack.com/2021-46-7-1637494769-capture3.png
• https://www.noelshack.com/2021-46-7-1637494769-capture2.png
  Thanks

[obtuse monolith]

Are there extensions or libraries for 'traditional' UIX?
Hunting through the references reveals that I might be able to cobble together my own window manager, etc. by leveraging existing UI components and building an event system around them.. But this feels like reinventing the wheel and a lot of work.
Attached are some examples of 'traditional' UI.

Best way to describe it would be.. Winforms for unity haha

Okay, may have answered my own question, there's a winforms port here https://github.com/Meragon/Unity-WinForms

Maybe it'll even work

Nah doesn't work 😓

[mild sparrow]

Trying to set some canvas UI elements to match positions with an object (for things like health bars, pop up text, etc.) but am running into an issue.

I've got my camera set to Screen Space - Camera, but when I use the code below it sets the rect transform position of the UI to something crazy like 7560, 7506, -4320 even though the correct WorldToScreenPoint position should be -220, -131, 10. Any ideas why this would be the case?

public class WorldSpaceUI
{
    [SerializeField] Camera _camera;
    [SerializeField] Transform _target;
    [SerializeField] Vector3 _offsetPosition;

    void Start() {
        _camera = _camera ? _camera : Camera.main
    }

    void LateUpdate() {
        Vector3 targetWorldPosition = _camera.WorldToScreenPoint(_target.position);
        transform.position = targetWorldPosition + _offsetPosition;
    }
}

[dim prawn]

I'm having a slight problem with going back to a specific scene for my UI

the buttons in the first 3 scenes work but everything after that doesn't

never mind

I found out I didn't have an EventSystem for those scenes ._.

[graceful bough]

This is a beginner question, but how do I increase the size of a texture in a GUI skin? I have a custom cursor system using a GUIskin but all the textures are tiny

[hardy creek]

HI. So I have a mobile game that I want to pop up a panel when the user taps on a game object. How do I make the panel pop up at the position of the gameobject?

The gameobject is a fish that moves

[mild kernel]

You can use a world space canvas and simply position it like you would any other object. At the fish's position with some offset on the height.

[hardy creek]

Ok thanks

So like this?

[mild kernel]

If that achieves what you want, then yes.

[hardy creek]

Ok, now to make it only appears when I want, do I deactivate the canvas component or the panel component?

[mild kernel]

Ideally you enable/disable the canvas component.

[hardy creek]

Thank you, really helped.

Now I have another question

If I put a background image, will it interfere with other game objects?

If so, how to avoid it?

[safe hull]

I'm instantiating a prefab and parenting it to a canvas. I set the position as a new Vector3(0,0,0). However, the instantiated version seems to appear at a really weird location and with an even weirder size. What could be causing that ?

[digital kayak]

these things happen when you parent it after instantiating, simple fix would be to pass in the parent as an argument when you instantiate

what position are you setting? if you're setting transform.position that's not what appears in the inspector which would be rect transform's anchoredPositon

[safe hull]

@digital kayak thanks man .. just set the canvas as the parent on instantiation, and it works like a charm!

I can now die in my game, get alerted about it, and respawn!

[obtuse monolith]

Many many hours to accomplish this and a few problems to boot.
No idea why multiple windows do not work, I guess I have to write window selection somehow..
The windows themselves are just generic instances of a class based on name of button, no idea how to define custom functionality. Might have to wind up prefabbing every window which would be hell.

Dubious as to whether I'll be even able to render camera viewports in windows too!

I'm confused as to why producing such a basic ux in unity contains such difficulties

[upper narwhal]

the ui child object doesnt scale along with the panel? How do I make it so that the white slots scales along with the panel?

Ping me if you know the answer!

[steep haven]

Two ways: First scale the parent object. By doing that you should be able to scale the child object. Second, use some sort of layout (horizontal layout in your case). When you expand on the parent, it will automatically scale the child objects.

I'm trying the change the color of TextMeshPro-Text element. However, when I change the color, all other TextMeshPro-Text elements also change their color. I'm creating a "new" gameObject for this but its still happening. Any ideas how to resolve this?

[azure edge]

I have a scroll view on my canvas. It shows a bunch of columns, and users can scroll vertically, or horizontally. I’d like to make the column headers NOT scroll vertically, only horizontally- such that they are always visible with the contents of their column.
I’m initially thinking I’ll need to do a vertical scroll view INSIDE a horizontal scroll view- but want to see if anyone had a better idea first.

[odd falcon]

Hey gamers, I am getting items in a dictionary which are instantiated button prefabs so that I can activate them, However when they are activated, I can't navigate through the buttons

[mortal robin]

did you select any of the buttons initially?

e.g. EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(displayInvetry.itemsDisplayed[0].j.Value.gameObject);

[odd falcon]

oo yeah, I was trying to do that through code (hence the 3 random lines of random utter bullcrap)

lemme try that

crap

Argument 1: cannot convert from 'int' to 'InventorySlot'

[mortal robin]

well I made some guesses about what some of those things are

[odd falcon]

I also am not sure if I can use indexing on the dictionary since I am not using a sorteddictionary

[mortal robin]

and no you cant

[odd falcon]

yeah

[mortal robin]

My point is just set one of them sleected initially

you don't have to use that exact code.

[odd falcon]

I tried making a sorted dictionary but I couldn't figure out how to implement IComparable

[mortal robin]

Why are you using a Dictionary at all

what's the key

why isn't it just a list or array of buttons

[odd falcon]

The key is a "inventorySlot" which is a public class

it's just the way I set up my inventory

but yeah

This is just, really poopy tbh

[true steppe]

Apparently we cannot make a list that scrolls if the objects contained in the content of the scroll rect (like buttons), have OnClick Events, how to have a scroll rect with buttons and OnClick events therefore? (https://forum.unity.com/threads/scroll-rect-not-scrolling-at-all.523723/)
Reference to my problem : #📲┃ui-ux message

[azure edge]

this doesn't sound right, I put buttons in my scrollviews, and it works fine.

[true steppe]

Ah 😦 I saw another post that seems to me to concern the same problem: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1564463/how-do-i-have-clickable-buttons-in-a-scroll-rect.html
https://answers.unity.com/questions/902929/scroll-not-working-when-elements-inside-have-click.html

[nocturne gull]

is there a proper standard for like, making and using 2d prefabs? i tried making a prefab of a trading card but depending who i parent it to in the scene its size varies wildly and i just don't understand the system here.
my card is a gameobject with an image component, and it has textmeshes as its children to display stats and stuff.

[sterile wedge]

UI needs to be a child of a canvas

and if they're set to stretch, they will stretch

[nocturne gull]

newb question, is applying the canvas component to the ui not enough?

[mortal robin]

I highly recommend not making your 2D card game out of UI elements

Many people have gone down this road only to realize after several months they had made a mistake

[nocturne gull]

i just wanna know what to apply my card art to

sprite renderer? image?

idfk

[mortal robin]

A GameObject with a SpriteRenderer on it

not a UI Image

[nocturne gull]

alright. the only reason i made it an image tbh is cause you can only apply a button component to an image(??) and i needed the card to be "clickable"

im sure there's other solutions to that though..

[mortal robin]

there are other solutions to that indeed

You can even use the same event system that UI buttons use

you just have to give your card a collider and a script with IPointerClickHandler on it

(and your camera needs a PhysicsRaycaster)

[nocturne gull]

not quite as elegant... but nothing about unity seems to be

[mortal robin]

You could also use an EventTrigger

instead of a custom script with IPointerClickHandler

that will let you set up a callback function from the inspector the same way you can with a Button

[nocturne gull]

hmm

i'll look into that i spose. gonna be pretty important when the whole game is click based

[mortal robin]

Handling the clicking is the easy part

But - look at any popular card game out there.

Their cards are not UI elements

[nocturne gull]

valid

im kinda just prototyping something so i was just trynna get something usable

turns out it ain't

[sterile wedge]

why? What's the downside of using UI?

[mortal robin]

You see these cards flying and flipping and swooping around, and rendering shadows?
https://youtu.be/thg9uezSaxY?t=45
Try doing that with UI.

[nocturne gull]

could you expand on this? I think I want to handle clicking a card in the hand and make it send it to the field, but I want to do so using an external Round Manager script that handles actions and stuff, rather than putting that functionality in the card script where i'd prefer there to just be data.

[mortal robin]

It works the same way that the onClick thing in the Button component works

[nocturne gull]

For some reason event triggers aren’t firing on my sprites.
Also would I be able to do from a different script sprite.stuff.onclick like with the button component.

[mortal robin]

Did you add colliders to the sprites?
Did you add a Physics Raycaster to your camera?
Do you have an event system in your scene?

And yes you can do exactly the same stuff you can with the button on click

[nocturne gull]

Yeah 2d collider and eventsystem comes built in with my canvas. I might’ve missed the raycast on the camera

How do I get an event component from a script? Is EventTrigger a component type? I thought it might not be cause it didn’t autocomplete but maybe it needs to be imported

[mortal robin]

You don't need to get EventTrigger from anywhere

you just set up the listeners in the EventTrigger inspector

same way you you do for a button on click handler

[nocturne gull]

right; i was asking cause i currently initialize a list of button cards in a loop and add a listener to each one in script to determine which card gets placed down on click (keeps track of list order). i wasn't using the inspector for that cause prefabs and the script using those onclick events weren't on the card.

maybe im doing it the dumb way tho

[mortal robin]

It's easier to just do this with your own custom class in my opinion, but if you want to do it from code you add an EventTrigger.Entry to this list: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventTrigger.html#UnityEngine_EventSystems_EventTrigger_triggers

[nocturne gull]

well, i thought i needed to do it from code, and i oft prefer to, but if i don't need to im happy to try simpler methods

[mortal robin]

Well yes you do need to do it from code from your description, but doing it from code with a custom IPointerClickhandler script would be easier than doing it from code with EventTrigger, in my humble opinion

[nocturne gull]

Ah, I see, course course. How’s a pointerclickhandler script work, then? I haven’t used that yet, and I’d rather not overcomplicate things for myself from the get go.

[mortal robin]

You simply attach a script to the object that implements the IPointerClickHandler interface

[true steppe]

there is a way to limit navigation ui only in the gameobject parent ? thx (cant use explicit)

[mental notch]

I don't know how I managed to do this by accident but I also don't know how to fix it. I'm trying to make a simple inventory UI that has 3D objects rendered on it to show what items are currently stored. I've set up the canvas to run with a camera overlay and a second camera off in the distance with its culling mask set to only show the UI, and the object I want to render also on the UI layer, which from everything I can find online seems like it'd be all you have to do to get this effect

But for whatever reason that I cannot fathom, instead, the object is somehow acting like a culling mask and turning the UI transparent wherever it would be rendered, like so:

whereas in the Scene view it's just a normal object like anything else

does anyone know what might be causing this effect? I can't find anything about this kind of issue online elsewhere

[pulsar fractal]

Hey, maybe someone here have an idea how can i stretch the scroll views to looks like this (1st photo) on different resolutions? When im using the stretch in rect transform it looks like this on different resolution: (second photo)

[mortal robin]

Are you using a VerticalLayoutGroup?

[pulsar fractal]

I'm using Grid Layout Group in child (content gameobject)

Also Content Size Fitter

Even without them it looks the same

[marble steppe]

Is there a way to have spine animations in the Canvas Space? I was exoerimenting with the idea to have something like this for UI elements whenever you shake your phone:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4MTeKT0QFY

But at first glance this won't work with the image component, right?

[olive garden]

i am having this problem with unity where it looks fine before i press play but if i press play i am having this weird border thing https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/687749280617725960/913055711393636382/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/687749280617725960/913055711762714644/unknown.png
any idea why?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/687749280617725960/913055827596828672/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/687749280617725960/913055960241696818/unknown.png
is it just me?

[olive garden]

hhmm

[verbal mauve]

hi everyone

i'd like to anti-alias my UI canvas

i don't care how

i just want it to work

[loud jay]

Hi, I'm new and currently trying to learn Unity by myself without tutorials. Trial and error method. I built something there and everything works fine inside. The problem arises when I build the game, the values ​​in the Text class object do not change. I do not understand why. I checked the engine with Debug.Log () and everything should work fine.
Anyone help sort this out?

[mortal robin]

Not without seeing your code we can't

Also are you getting any errors in console?

[glossy cosmos]

how do i get these fonts to go into the font assets thing?

[mortal robin]

You create a font asset

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/textmesh-pro-font-asset-creation

[glossy cosmos]

ohh ok ty

[loud jay]

NOpe i dont have any errors in console

[loud jay]

https://pastebin.com/TYKEQaKB look problem is with variables in line 71-75.

[mortal robin]

What's going wrong with it? Is the code actually running?

[limpid shale]

what is a good resolution to build at for mobile devices in portrait mode?

[mortal robin]

I usually use 1080x1920 as my reference resolution, but you'll want to test with a wide range of aspect ratios. Mobile device displays exist of a wide range of resolutions/aspect ratios.

[limpid shale]

Thank you! Ill use that

yea, ill have to build it for more resolutions, but atm Im just testing for iphones

[signal pelican]

Hi. I want to make a Popup Windows which will open after clicking a Word in TextMeshPro. Do you have any ideas for that?

TMP can handle link tags

[loud jay]

Yes the code is working but please watch this video... These names are not substituted in "Game.mp4" but i can see them in the engine

I just don't know what's going on. I dont understand the error ...Someone had like me? does anyone know what happened and can give some hints?

[mortal robin]

What do you mean by "I can see them in the engine"?
Which text fields am I supposed to be looking at?
Can you please show useful information like the console window and/or the inspector for one of the text objects when showing a video?
Also show the inspector for your script

[loud jay]

I mean Unity. I told about this field.

[mortal robin]

looks like they are updating to me?

What are you expecting them to show that they are not showing?

Sorry the language is a bit confusing to me since I don't speak... Polish?

[loud jay]

Yes, this is the intention for them to update and change. In Unity, everything works perfectly. But when I build it, it doesn't just show these fields. I don't understand why. Yes, it's Polish. I am studying for now and it is easier for me to understand all the work in the native language ..

In this video, the game I built and run from the exe file just shows me my variables ... In this video, the game I built and run from the exe file just shows me my variables and they just don't change and there should be some names and numbers right away.

[mortal robin]

I see. Have you checked the player logs? THere may be errors there

Log file locations can be found here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html

[loud jay]

I was reading the files and found no error. I actually saw the script being executed correctly and that everything was starting correctly ...

[elfin kestrel]

I am unsure why my text mesh pro character obtains a black box around it when i increase the outline on it
Outline Thickness: 1