📲┃ui-ux

[chilly lion]

Basically to set a path to a folder

[hexed bay]

Hi, does anyone know if there is a way to acess this value trough code?

[jagged monolith]

Only through the LoadScebe method it calls

[mild kernel]

We don't allow discussing decompiling on this discord.

[cloud lintel]

Is it possible to change a specific word's color with text mesh pro?

[still path]

Yes, it is easily done with TMPro
You can find an answer here: http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/rich-text/

[cloud lintel]

ty should have looked there, didn't realize color would be a part of that formatting but makes complete sense

[elfin prairie]

i meant as in extracting from .unity and not .unity3d

[devout sphinx]

Is this an okay place to get feedback on a small ui video?

[azure flame]

#archived-works-in-progress would be more appropriate. You can create a thread for replies there.

[cloud lintel]

A text mesh pro input field seems to return the wrong text after setting the text to a default value through code, then typing after. Am I missing something?

I even tried using SetTextWithoutNotify(), but it always returns the default value I set in code no matter what I type.

[cloud lintel]

Nevermind it was a bug on my end

[sullen thicket]

I'm trying to learn the basics of ui, I made a button that turns off a panels image, but it only works once. If I tick the box in the onclick() section and press the button again it brings it back. What is that box? and how do I make it so I dont have to forcibly click it to make the button work?

[humble finch]

Is there any possibles i can use pixel perfect without thier annoying update method that makes UI jitter ?, its the only way i can get crispy text, i tried to use textmeshpro but thier outline option is the sadest thing i seen cant get it to look like the old.

[simple pewter]

is possible to set a png image to be transparent in unity?

[jagged monolith]

Yes... Either use transparency in the PNG itself or lower the alpha of the sprite/image

[simple pewter]

where can i do this? I would like to remove the white bg from the image sprite to be like the others, but Im not sure if I can do this in unity

[jagged monolith]

You can not

Do it in your image editing application

[simple pewter]

ah ok

thanks

[craggy osprey]

Is there any way to make unity remember the state of a toggle after you switch scene and then come back? I've been using Playerprefs but I wanted to hear if there's a better way to do it

[mortal robin]

Save files
Any data not tied to a scene

It will not cause lag

Your code is unecessarily verbose and duplicated though

e.g.

if (PlayerPrefs.GetInt("CurrentCliqqerEnabled") == 1) {
  cliqqerEnabledToggle.isOn = true;
}
else
  cliqqerEnabledToggle.isOn = false;```
Could be simplified to
```cs
cliqqerEnabledToggle.isOn = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("CurrentCliqqerEnabled") == 1;```

Also you use an if/else in the GemCounterToggleChanged() method, and == true is extraneous

[craggy osprey]

ah

so this is not a bad way to do it?

[mortal robin]

it's exactly what PlayerPrefs was made for

[craggy osprey]

great

[frank goblet]

What's the best way to sanitize rich text? I know you can just surround it with <noparse>, but someone could just put an ending tag to bypass it. (it would look like this: <noparse> This is user supplied text: <b>test</b></noparse><b>bypassed user text</b> </noparse>) Is there anything I can do?

(here's the bypass example above, except italicized too to make it more obvious that it is changed)

[rapid ferry]

Where would the setting to change the color of that white stuff be? I feel like i've been everywhere (It's a TMP dropdown)

[real arch]

you mean the background behind the options?

that would be the image of the Dropdown List object itself its the background for the options

[rapid ferry]

Okay ty

[velvet dome]

could someone tell me why my characterdisplaycamera is not only rendering the player

[rapid ferry]

I have this sprite cut up into 9 pieces

How can i make it so that when i use it on a button, it extends the middle piece?

this is not working

[nocturne marsh]

Image type maybe?

@rapid ferry

[rapid ferry]

It turns out i needed to have a border on automatic, not grid by cell size

and set the image type to sliced

it works now

[wanton cloud]

Why is the scroll rect viewport not working?

[mortal robin]

what are your anchor settings?

[wanton cloud]

anchor settings?

[mortal robin]

Yes, how is your RectTransform configured

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

what anchor preset is it using

and where's the pivot, etc?

[wanton cloud]

of the scroll or the content?

[mortal robin]

idk, all of it. That's the stuff you need to look at to recenter this thing

[wanton cloud]

recenter this thing?

[plain totem]

Hi! What do I need to look into to set focus to my scene's buttons to enable navigation using keyboard or non–mouse inputs?

[mortal robin]

EventSystem.current.SetCurrentlySelectedGameObject should get you started

[plain totem]

Thanks! Will look that up.

[thin bridge]

Hello, I am making the buttons of my interface.
I put buttons at corner with anchor as shown on screenshot.
Works on pc, but buttons aren't visible on phone...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/793873256239071242/932204982432841818/unknown.png

Someone know why?

[jagged monolith]

In the game view, change the resolution to your phone resolution @thin bridge. Then you can see what it will look like on device

[tranquil estuary]

I am able to press my button from the bottom, but not from the top. What should I do?

[wanton cloud]

Why is the scroll rect viewport not working?

[proven path]

How do I make the pivot point for the player the center of it's base ("foot position")?

[rapid ferry]

How do you set like how much you want to scroll?

[proud spire]

When using a slider i made a script that changes the color of slider, but when running in the game it doesn't show up. It shows up in the inspector though. Just showing the slider background not the slider fill part

[mortal robin]

the alpha of that orange color is 0. Is that intentional?

[proud spire]

Oh, i made a mistake when picking my colors. Thank you overlooked that

[plain totem]

I won't be able to explain it correctly because I can barely remember how I did that but I believe it can be done by placing a game object where you want the pivot point to be and then moving the player game object relative to that one. I think you can search something like "change game object pivot point" and find the right steps to do that.

Edit: if it's a Rect then look at the Pivot fields.

[lone rapids]

hey!
can anyone tell how can I make scroll UI for text of unpredictable lenght?

just for me scrolling sometimes ends too early / scrolling stops in the middle of the text

[plain totem]

Could you share what it looks like? I'm thinking the text is not fitting correctly inside the parent with the scroll view component.

[lone rapids]

well, i almost fixed it and can't really show what was before

but i still have tiny problem left

the text is just starting, but the scroll wheel isn't completely up. if i drag it up, the text moves away with it

well i guess i'll just ignore that, because it isn't really that big problem

[plain totem]

Don't remember that happening to me, but if you think it was caused by a change you made then I'd suggest creating a new Scrollview game object and place everything back. I know it's not the best help because you won't understand what happened.

[solemn trellis]

alright this is a really stpid question and its hard to explain but just hear me out:
ok, how do you have like a bunch of different windows in the ui? like how do you edit them? just group them and enabled/disable?

[mild kernel]

@eager flower Job postings belong on the forums, #📖┃code-of-conduct has the links.

[rapid ferry]

why my text resolution is low

[azure flame]

Are you using TextMeshPro?

[plain totem]

Do you mean something like a HUD? Where you have a mini map that can be toggled on/off?

[rapid ferry]

just text

[azure flame]

Old text resolution related to atlas resolution it created, I think. Should use TextMeshPro it uses sdf.

[rapid ferry]

ok

thank

[low pike]

@glass prawn you're trying to use normal transforms with a layout group, this doesn't work. Layout groups are for UI elements, which use RectTransform.

[glass prawn]

omg

tysm

[static moss]

is there any text wrapping function?

[bronze marlin]

i'm working on an app that has screenspace and worldspace ui and want to reuse ui prefabs between screenspace and worldspace, but when dropping a ui prefab designed for a screenspace canvas (like a button) into worldspace it's huge. is there a way to have it scale down automatically so i can make a single prefab and use it in both canvases?

[fiery viper]

Hi

How do I anchor my UI elements

I don't understand what I've done wrong to make Unity zoom into a corner of the screen after building the project

like so

@frank osprey if you're available could you please let me know what to look out for in the project

[frank osprey]

Sorry I can't. I just redirected you here so you could get more relevant answers

[lone rapids]

i tried to make a scroll ui, it works just fine, but it has a problem. whenever i try to scroll my text, it jsut scrolls it back to it's prev pos. @frank osprey now it's in #📲┃ui-ux .

[low pike]

TMP has a setting to wrap / truncate / overflow text

[lone rapids]

@low pike if you are able to help, copuld you tell me what did i do wrong?

[lone rapids]

in here.

[low pike]

you haven't given any information about it, or screenshots of the setup, or videos of the issue.. sooo.. nope, got no idea

perhaps the rect being scrolled isn't big enough .. it needs to be the same size or bigger than the text

[lone rapids]

even tho there is much more space to scroll, the "content" still moves back do original position

[low pike]

I can't see anything useful from those screenshots

How big is the rect for the text?
How big is the rect for the content?

How big is the rect for the scoll area?
How come there's a content size fitter on the scroll area?

[turbid gorge]

I tried designing some UI for a coffee shop management game, this is the scheduling tab. The player will be able to choose the shift colors. Thoughts?

[eager flower]

Ah hmm i see ok

[nocturne marsh]

it's pretty nice

[plain totem]

Maybe if you set the Canvas' Render Mode to World Space

[bronze marlin]

I can't seem to get my ui to batch draw calls with different sprites. To test, i tried creating a sprite atlas, but Unity still only batches images with the same sprite.

I'm testing in editor with two unique sprites, both of which are added to a sprite atlas. I tried screenspace and worldspace canvas. I tried with sprite atlas v1 and v2. I tried restarting the project. Sprites are not in resource folder.

Does it look like I'm doing anything wrong? Any common beginner mistakes?

[rapid ferry]

Hey guys, does anyone know how to replicate the bubble effect from Spongebob?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I50cWpN3G7Y

Like this. I would import this as a movie, but I want to make this by hand

[sand plume]

Hi folks I have a bit of an issue, I can't seem to scroll my list, I can only scroll when I hover on the handle of the scroll bar

it worked fine yesterday night but now it doesnt

lmao

any help?

[merry wing]

I've got a Texture2D that I'm creating a bunch of Sprites out of in code. But even though the coordinates of the Rect I'm using to specify where the Sprite is on the image look right, they're coming out in the wrong order.

This should be sequential

this is the image it's getting them from

If I create a Sprite using this Rect:

then I should see a 1, but I see a 16

ah - I was thinking (0,0) is the top left of the image, but it's the bottom left

[lone rapids]

well... does anyone know how can i make the scrollbar to appear on the top instead of middle when i change the text?

just i have code with unpredictable amount of text, but the scrollwheel always moves to the middle .-.

that is just a bit annoying

[sand plume]

Not sure if u still have the issue, but u just need to change the pivot point to 1 for the handle, that is what worked for me

[rapid ferry]

How do I add my custom font to textmeshpro?

[lone rapids]

thanks but... it didn't really change anything. when i try to manually drag the scrollbar value to 1, after text changes, it's back in the middle

[lone rapids]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W11uv7jf1e4

[sand plume]

And the anchors?

[lone rapids]

i do not really know what these do, i am a nob o_O

i tried changing all those to 1, but still when i change amount of text, the scrollbar moves

[sand plume]

are you changing the handle settings or something else

[lone rapids]

the scrollbar settings itself

btw if you are gonna answer, could you pin me...?

[sand plume]

@lone rapidshttps://youtu.be/ZI6DwJtjlBA try this vid see if anything works

[lone rapids]

okay, gonna take a look

[sinful ingot]

anyone knows how to fix this?

[rapid ferry]

Hey guys, does anyone know how to replicate the bubble effect from Spongebob?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I50cWpN3G7Y

Like this. I would import this as a movie, but I want to make this by hand

[nocturne marsh]

should be fairly easy with particles

[night valley]

is the textmeshpro "reveal one character at a time" feature documented anywhere?

only seen it referenced elsewhere but i can't even find a scripting API for TMP

[mortal robin]

yes it's in the docs

Basically it's just this https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/api/TMPro.TMP_Text.html#TMPro_TMP_Text_maxVisibleCharacters

[night valley]

ah, thank you! and somehow i couldn't find my way to those docs

i guess the search i did was localized to the core api

[mortal robin]

Yeha when you want to see docs for a package, you can usually find it by searching on google like "textmeshpro package"

Then make sure you're going to the link that says "packages" in it like here

[sweet cedar]

Im not sure if this is the right place to put this, but whatever. In unity, my ui looks fine, but in the build, its messed up. Why?

On the top is unity, on the bottom is the build file

The healthbar adjusts for screen size, but the ammo and text doesnt

Does anyone know why this would be happening?

[mortal robin]

none of them look like they're adjusting properly for resolution.

Use the game view resolution options to play with different resolutions in the editor

and configure your Canvas Scaler component(s) and your RectTransforms such that they respond properly to different resolutions

[sweet cedar]

Could I make it so that the ui auto changes to fit the resolution?

[mortal robin]

yes

I recommend reading this first, it will give you the tools to do so: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html
That plus understanding the CanvasScaler scaling modes

[plain totem]

How can I make the button navigation system ignore a non Interactable button? I thought that just by toggling the Interactable field to false it would be ignored. I do have that set of buttons set to Explicit navigation so I don't know if that forces the system to select a non Interactable button.

[broken sedge]

guys i want to make ui like this

[night valley]

is the textmeshpro outline really only available by making your own script? and apparently not compatible with some font asset types, i tried setting outlineWidth and outlineColor and it just doesn't show up

[low pike]

You don't need a script to do outlines on TMP

[night valley]

yeah i looked around and the setting's in the shader but i'm using purposely pixelated bitmap fonts and it just isn't available there apparently

[gloomy zephyr]

Anyone got any idea why my Kill-feed is not moving with each other? Im wanting to make it so it will move to the left at all times. However it keeps over lapping another without moving the other text componets. Please ping me

[sterile wedge]

Just make it a single text, and combine the string. Align text to the right.

Use textmeshpro so you can use rich text to change the color of the words

[gloomy zephyr]

👍 Thanks will do

[low pike]

Use layout groups

combining the string will be annoying because of the colours (even with rich text)

Horizontal layout group with 3 TMP textboxes

[smoky cliff]

Hey Im not sure if this is the right place to post but I have this issue where the font on the vfx graph (also on shader graph)comes up like this, it becomes really difficult to read anything when my screen is zoomed out. Thanks in advance.

[reef canopy]

Hello all. I know this isn't a code question, but not sure where else to put it. I want to add a scene with a level select map (think something like Candy Crush level select) where there is a scrolling map. I would like to lock the scroll to only scroll up and down. To do this, I added a Scroll View to my canvas. I stretch/anchor the scroll view about 3 time higher than the visible display screen. In the Viewport->Content area, I add a Panel (which has the map image). The viewport is also stretched/anchored to match the Scroll View parent. The Content area is stretched/anchored to match the Viewport parent, and the Panel is also stretched/anchored to match the Content parent. The image shows fine, but when I drag to scroll the image, it only moves very little. How can I create a view that allows the user to drag the map up and down?

[inland latch]

Is there a way to make it so you cant navigate a UI with keyboard input

so i cant go left or right in a ui with my keyboard at all and its strictly limited to just my mouse

[reef canopy]

@inland latchthis isnt really UI question, but in Project Settings, select Input Manager. There you can map your keyboard

[inland latch]

where abouts in there can i directly say that in a ui the keyboard cant navigate it though?

[reef canopy]

just capture the events and do nothing with them

[inland latch]

like since W A S D and arrow keys navigate and i believe both enter and space select

[reef canopy]

and you want to disable those?

[inland latch]

i want it so that in a ui no keyboard input can do anything with a ui

[reef canopy]

Im not sure I understand the question? So, you want to disable keyboad for just UI interactions? Like in a Dialog? Just dont add any listeners to the UI elements

[rapid ferry]

Hi I have a problem designing my progressbar.
I use the Slider component and have a background and a fill image.
The fill is a rounded rectangle and tiled with the sprite editor.
I have attached a screenshot how it looks like with fill amount of 1.
However when I change the fill amount to 0 the fill bar gets squished into the left side.
Is there a way to make it disappear "cleanly"?

[prime echo]

Add a white sprite shaped like you want it to disappear between the green thing and the red thing

Don’t know if it was understandable

[mortal robin]

Don't use a slider

Just use a normal Image component in Filled mode

Slider's the old fashioned way to do it and requires you to mess with a bunch of pivots and anchors to set it up properly

[magic walrus]

i have a canvas that holds unit health bars, when i have it set either to scale with screen size or constant pixel size it looks like it does on the left, and if i put it to constant physical size it looks how i want it to on the right

the difference is kinda subtle, but if you look at the bottom of the blue mana bar on the left side you cant really see the black outline under it that should show. whereas it does show when im using constant physical size.

does anyone know why that might be and what i could try doing? constant physical size isnt gonna work for some lower resolutions...itll look too big

[plain totem]

Should I use the Event Trigger component instead of a button's OnClick()? I see that Event Trigger is more robust and can practically do the same thing.

[rapid ferry]

Anyone here knowing how to disable the Selected function and reset the pressed function of this button?

[mortal robin]

Using a Button component gives you the built in Transition effects and makes your UI element Selectable if you care about UI navigation

[plain totem]

I was thinking of keeping the Button component and just using the Event Trigger for the click events and all the other events it has. Is that fine?

[mortal robin]

It's fine sure doesn't make much difference as far as the actual pointerclick event

If you need it for other events seems reasonable

[feral slate]

Hello, could anyone explain to me how i could make my TextMeshProUGUI show text mixed with a image. I want to display the heart count with text and hearts graphically. for example "lives remaining: (heart picture) "

[plain totem]

Got it, thank you!

[sterile wedge]

look into sprite assets
That's exactly what you need

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/textmesh-pro-sprite-assets

[torpid yew]

I'm using a scroll rect to display the profiles of connected users.
These profiles consist of images and some TMP text, the problem is that TMP does not adhere to the boundaries I set, while the images do.
Replacing TMP with a text component works, so how do I force TMP to stay within the bounds of my rect transform?

[plain totem]

@torpid yew Could you show what it looks like?

[torpid yew]

yeah sure one sec

[torpid yew]

This issue doesn't arise if I were to use text components over tmp

[plain totem]

Which object has the image and which one has the TMP?

[torpid yew]

Empty has the image, label the tmp

A player UI card has two states for no player in the lobby, and one for when a player joins that'll show the information and what not.
That's why it's set to inactive right now

lmk if more information or screenshots are required

[plain totem]

If you have the desired layout and seems like a TMP issue, you could re import the TMP Resources and see if that helps.

[plain totem]

Could you show a bit more of the space below the scroll view? Just want to see if all the texts are visible below it or just a small portion.

[rapid ferry]

so like
yall know
how u can layer the viewmodel infront of the real view
well
if ur in multiplayer looks VERY wird
*weird
so how do i
have the cake and eat it at the same time
i couldnt find a damn tutorial on that

[quick saffron]

when i put this uv map in it just fills the empty space with black, is there any fix for that?

[long bramble]

hey would anyone know how i make it so if you collide with a gameobject (which is a key in my game), it will add 1 to a text UI to make it 1/5 keys or like 3/5 keys so on

[sterile wedge]

Break it down to steps
1)how to detect collisions between objects
2)how to do something on collision
3) how to set text of a UI text

[signal pelican]

My TMP clickable text notices the click (I used debug.log to check) but I can’t get the index from -1 to 0. can anyone help?

[lone brook]

Hello! Has anyone encountered this problem? I want to remove it but i dont know how to find it. Thanks!

[nocturne violet]

hey is this the best way to do this? Sorry kinda trash at UI

[nocturne violet]

go to your panel and check there

not in game mode, in scene mode

[lone brook]

What should i search?

[nocturne violet]

you should have something like this in your hierarchy

check if there are extra ones, or the manager of the panel is adding new lines and deleting the old ones(in code)

[lone brook]

Thank you

[nocturne violet]

Fixed it? @lone brook

[lone brook]

I will try later haha

[nocturne violet]

ah aight. Gl

[lone brook]

is it in game manager?

[nocturne violet]

ummmmmm

i dont think its game manager

it should say UI manager/ canvas manager/ panel manager

its a script

[lone brook]

i want to remove it because even i eliminated the enemies and reached the area, i still cant proceed to the next level

[nocturne violet]

its probably a script then

you have to find the gameobject that handles that canvas

and then check the script of that canvas

[rocky pelican]

how to fix:
I have panel1 and panel2 i made so the panel1 is active = false but if i press where the change scene button was on the panel one the button works hard to explain

[lone brook]

thanks!

[night valley]

is there a way to get textmeshpro to just export an image file of the generated font atlas? they all seem to be packaged into the font asset things and inaccessible and unmodifiable externally

like i want to get it out, do external editing and put it back in

using a bitmap font fwiw

and i guess this is all in the service of getting pixel perfect bitmap font outlines without rendering like 4 or 8 copies of the text mesh, in case there's better ways to achieve that ...?

[night valley]

also i apparently have to wait a frame before using GetParsedText for textmeshpro after setting the .text field for the result to actually be updated according to the new text, is there a way to force that sooner? which seems like a crazy thing to ask

apparently the parsing is just happening in update for some reason instead of (or in addition to, at least) when you specifically ask for it

[quiet merlin]

why is this player sliding off the platform?

there is box collider on the floor & player

along with rigidbody on the player

both collider and rigidbody are 2d

[gilded wraith]

Hey does anyone know how to set up a scroll rect?

When I move my content the scroll bar moves, but I can't click it in game mode

Please @ me if you can

[broken sedge]

guys this all placeholder are in different hierarchy , should i make one empty object and put the gun and attachment info in one script

[reef canopy]

Hello All. Is there a reason why when I add a sprite to the Content area of Scroll View, it will not show up? I can see it in the Scene view, but not in the actual game

[mortal robin]

If you're trying to use a SpriteRenderer for UI that's incorrect

You should use the UI Image component

[tender musk]

Hello. I've got a problem. I followed Thomas Brush tutorial to make the buttons jump a little when you hover over it. Everything worked fine, so I wanted to apply the same thing to other canvas, but instead all the buttons jumps in one place. I've googled and found nothing. I even closed unity and didn't saved it. But the problem stays.

[reef canopy]

@mortal robinCan you think of a better way to accomplish this goal: I want to create a scroll able level select map (2d) but add parallax layers as well as some animations. Can this not be done in Scroll View?

[rough gull]

is this UI good enough for my game?

[coral cape]

I have a question regarding of scrollView, button, and DragHandler.
The Viewport is the viewport of the scroll view, the backdrop is the "content" of the window. The main timeline contains a script that handles drag events. The problem I'm running into in Unity, is that when I add a button on the backdrop (That covers the whole window view), my drag handler no longer sees the main timeline. Instead, it sees the backdrop when raycasting ( EventSystem.current.RaycastAll() ). I need to find a way so that the raycast can detect main-timeline first before checking the backdrop. Is there a way to do this or am I'm missing something here?

[mortal robin]

Probably easier to do this with Sprites rather than UI elements

[silk coral]

how do i set a spriterenderer's render priority (spriteRenderer.rendererPriority) to the last one to be rendered?

[jade fern]

I'm looking for some UI related asset I can use to create battle systems UI akin to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM2EUBOjRis . I can organize out the windows with what Unity provides, but I just was wondering if there's an asset somewhere in the store that would handle such scenarios easier than default. Or at least some assets to help with that experience.

[merry estuary]

When creating elements for UI in another program (photoshop, aseprite etc), would the size of the things matter or can I just resize if needed inside of unity?

[broken sedge]

use verticle layout

[carmine cliff]

hi... I have an canvas which is set to scale to screen size and within that canvas, i have an element anchored to the bottom. In unity it works perfectly but when I do an android build, it doesn't anchor to the bottom. Setting the Match To Height (1) will snap it to the bottom but the width is messed up... Setting it to 0.5 does nothing. I even tried to put the element in a parent which is stretched on all anchors and put the bottom anchored element in it...doesn't work either.

any ideas before I force it to the bottom with a script?

[jagged monolith]

Have you tried setting your game view resolution to the same as your phone @carmine cliff?

[carmine cliff]

I didn't... I don't really wish to considering not all phones have the same resolution. I set a base one 1080 x 1920 (portrait)

[jagged monolith]

Well it's an easy way to try and recreate the same behaviour so I don't see why not

I always leave match to 0.5 and anchor things normally and it behaves as it should

[carmine cliff]

the ui elements that i have slide in from the phone's edges so "approximate" is not good enough...I guess forcing it using code is the way to go then huh ?

[low pike]

@carmine cliff are you using the device simulator? Use this for mobile dev, you can easily switch between devices and check that you're UI is updating correctly for different screen sizes

what you're doing shouldn't require a class to resize anything

[carmine cliff]

I'm not actually but yeah very good tip... I'll check it out. Is that a package or something?

[low pike]

Yep

It's a must have for mobile dev

[carmine cliff]

found it ... thanks 😄

[low pike]

no problemo

[raw nest]

is it possible to create images dynamically? I want to create a menu that spawns an object (like this AND gate), and i want the button to contain the image OF this AND gate. I could spawn this AND gate into the button, but in the future i want the player to be able to create custom gates, and i dont want to spawn a whole mess of circuits just to use as the image of a button

[azure flame]

You would want modular components comprised from preset images. Not a good idea to allow freestyle drawing, especially if it will be shared. Unless the game is freestyle drawing.

[raw nest]

what do you mean by "freestyle drawing"?

[azure flame]

... in the future i want the player to be able to create custom gates

You don't have to bake into an image, just have a module displaying constructed gates from components

[raw nest]

gotcha, thanks fogsight

[mellow crag]

in unity

in paint.net

how can i make the texture look like how it actually is in unity?

[raven coyote]

How can I enable the display of UI elements for editing ?

[gilded wraith]

Make sure gizmos are turned on

[low pike]

I assume they mean the images aren't visible

Is there a canvas group in the hierarchy above? Alpha of it set to 0?

[raven coyote]

Thank you, yes, it was set to 0.

[proven haven]

Hello, Can anyone provide a little info on how child elements can be scaled and positioned properly when their parents scaled? Once I added the parent to vertical / horizontal layout groups and after they got scaled down I get something like this. I'd like the elements to be constrained to the border of the parent but also scaled up/down appropriately.

[lean drum]

I changed my camera from screen space to world space but there is nothing on camera preview although my canvas is in front of camera

[timber elbow]

There are things that vertex and me pointed out in the other channel

[frosty pewter]

it still isn't inside of the camera's frustum
the camera is like 950 units high, and only sees 50 units away right now
the white box is all the camera can see

[lean drum]

Can you please guide what can I do to take it into the frame? I am sorry I am very unfamiliar with the design side.

[frosty pewter]

alter the far value so it encapsulates the area you need.

[lean drum]

Thank you.

[low pike]

or move the canvas to 0 on Z

[clever prairie]

Left is an image of text with bilinear filtering, right is TextMeshPro text... it's not super easy to tell with the amount of compression artefacts in the video, but when I pull out the TMP gets... what's the technical term... ugly and weird? Anything I can do?

[low pike]

Is the scale for the TMP GameObject at 1,1,1 ?

[clever prairie]

It's multiple levels deep, but they're all at 1,1,1

[low pike]

unfortunatel that's all I've got.. other than make the font larger

[clever prairie]

Thanks, I'll keep looking. Maybe the Render Mode or something will help when you create the font asset.. I'll just keep clicking random buttons for now

[low pike]

@ocean pollen you're game view is zoomed in x3

[ocean pollen]

yes

thats just to show on a screenshot how bad it is

[low pike]

change it to x1 and show us

[ocean pollen]

i played with font size, scaling of the canvas/text

pixel multipliers

nothing works

[low pike]

show us the inspector for the canvas

[ocean pollen]

it looks completely fine in scene space

but i want it in world space to tilt the buttons

the only time the text looks good is when i make it super big

[low pike]

It's tiny

100x100 is not very big at all

[ocean pollen]

right, i also tried making it big and moving camera back

what size would u recommend

[low pike]

How I do world space canvases is..

[ocean pollen]

ill try

[low pike]

Empty Parent normal game object

• scalar empty game object, scale set to 0.002
  -- Cavnas set with scale at 1,1,1 and width/height at 1920x1080

[ocean pollen]

i tried having an empty game object inside the canvas and the button inside that

but not the canvas inside an object

[low pike]

this is still <100pixels

it doesn't change anything

the way I suggest does, as the canvas is the 1080p instead of the size of a stamp 😄

Which also means, if you're designing things in photoshop, you have the canvas in PS at 1080p, and then bringing it into Unity will have the asset at the same size/ positioning

[ocean pollen]

ok cool

so what about the camera

since now the canvas is super small compared to the camera

canvas

[low pike]

depends how far away it is..

[ocean pollen]

ok

now i set the camera to -1 and i can see the button

but

again, super blurry/pixellated

[low pike]

you in 2022.1 ?

[ocean pollen]

i thought i downloaded the latest one.. apparently not

[low pike]

there is no "latest" one

there are 3 or 4 versions running along side each other

[ocean pollen]

so if u try to do the steps u described, do you get a crisp text?

[low pike]

2019.4
2020.3

Both of those are LTS and stable/ best for long term projects

2021.2 is tech stream, and will be dropped when 2021.3 is released, which is this years LTS
2022.1 is beta

[low pike]

yep

[ocean pollen]

can u show a screenshot

[low pike]

How big is the button now you've changed the setup

[low pike]

because if you haven't changed it's height/width.. then it's still tiny

[ocean pollen]

yes but the idea is that i want this button to fit around 10% of the screen

[low pike]

move the canvas back so that the corners of the white square of the canvas meet the camera frustrum

then increase the size of the button

[ocean pollen]

yeah the canvas is like

100x smaller than camera frustum

that's the canvas

in red circle

[low pike]

thats the button, not the canvas, no?

setup how I've told you to

[ocean pollen]

ok

im not sure this is still right

[low pike]

change the scale of 0.002 up to what works for you then

your button is too small at 100

you'll need to play with

• the distance from the camera to the canvas
• the scale of the canvas parent
• the height/width of the button

all of those to get the size you want

[ocean pollen]

i tried all that and it's pixelated again

my button is 1000x300 now

text is size 100

still pixellated

i just dont get it

[low pike]

might be something wrong with the version of TMP/ the version of Unity

[ocean pollen]

which version are you using then

the 2022 one?

[low pike]

no, it's beta

I don't even touch 2021

2020.3.25

[ocean pollen]

i'll try downloading that one

i tried all thse tips and tricks from videos and just nothing works, no matter how you play with distance/scale it always ends up pixellated

[low pike]

remove TMP and re-add it

[ocean pollen]

same thing

we shall see

discord struggling with file uploads..

but same thing in 2020.3.26

[shrewd socket]

Heya folks, I've been trying to do something using unity's UI system and I'm stumped at this point.

I just want to have a pannel with two elements in a layout group (horiz or vertical, doesn't matter).
one element that has a min size, and a max size, and for the other element it just fills the remaining space.

Is this possible in unity UI?
I've been trying to use a layout group with child force expand set for the correct axis, and control child size set for both, and then I am trying to use layoutelements on the two child elements, but they don't seem to expand to prefered size or at all when the parent's size changes 😦

[rapid ferry]

how do i deal with multiplayer viewmodels ????

itll look weird if i put all the viemodels in one layer then overlay them

since u can see

the other player's viewmodel

[shrewd socket]

I'm getting what I assume is a bug with the Horizontal layout group.
I seem to have it set up properly, but the first child element is actually centered, not aligned to the left for some reason:

Posision X here should stay the same, but changes, and the column (the field name fields content) slides instead of staying on the upper left, adding padding to both sides of the element

https://i.gyazo.com/65f19857ac97f21e1d326cdb7f38807a.mp4

There's no elements between the layout group, and the column either

pannel columns has the group, and column a is the column

A side note, the above DOES work if I switch to a grid layout group, however, a grid layout group doesn't have support for elements with dynamic width, so I can't use that.

[noble cradle]

Hey! I'm thinking of having a book as a central piece of ui with pages you can go through. These pages will be animated when moving through the book. Is there any good way to render the UI to the texture used for the pages, and retain interactions? Any thoughts on performance impact?

Feel free to @ me if you have ideas/questions 🙂

Perhaps simply displaying the UI a bit above the pages would save me some hassle

[cursive path]

hi

my text is not appearing in the panel, although it shows that it is on from the heirarchy menu

although i used the same script

for another panel

and it works fine

its triggered on collision

the pannel is appearing, just the text isn't

[azure flame]

make sure that your panel is not obscuring it. UI Items are sorted by order in hierarchy

[cursive path]

the text is inside the panel

its a child of the panel

[azure flame]

Then it should be on top

look for another panel further down

[cursive path]

but it works fine for the other panel

[azure flame]

Examine and compare their structure

[cursive path]

i did they are identical

even the layers are

man my brain hurts now

i always get stuck on simple stuff

the text is appearing

but its hidden by something

omg it works now

it was just toooo small bruhuuuhrurh3uqbof

im so dumb

ty fogsight

[lone rapids]

i have a lil text problem, when i make new text and there is jsut 1 letter, text cross each other. but when there are more letters, it turns back to normal. i used content size fitter to fit all texts properly (it is inside parent of texts)

[low pike]

unconstrained means it won't change anything

you want horizontal to be preferred size

[ionic wharf]

Someone can help me?

I need to put an outline in the text like the first image
But, I try to use the Outline but I can reach in the same result
I tried to use TMPro too, but doesn't work too
How can I add an thick outline like that?

[low pike]

TMP has an outline property, scroll down

[ionic wharf]

I've tried to use it, but the text go like the second image :/

[low pike]

what font size is that? What scale is the rect transform?

[low pike]

obvs talking about TMP

works np with TMP

[ionic wharf]

Is possible to do it with normal text? Or only in TMPro?
(I don't know how to speak english very well :/)

[low pike]

I dunno, normal text is rubbish.. I only use TMP

[next orchid]

is there an easy way to add a gradient to the alpha of a panel?

[ionic wharf]

My thickness are maximized, but very thin yet :/
I not have idea how to solve it :/

I don't know how to use TMPro here
I'm trying to do it since weeks
But I don't know how to set the outline like this image

[proven path]

why is my shadow not moving? It just stays in that one spot and it's annoying the crap out of me

[mortal robin]

Where are you expecting it to go?

[proven path]

It doesn't matter what direction I'm facing, the shadow just stays facing that one direction. The "AI" capsule that I have moving around, its shadow works fine.

[mortal robin]

What kind of light source are you using?

If it's a directional light, this is normal/expected

[proven path]

yup that's what I'm using

[mortal robin]

That's how directional lights work. They're considered infinitely far away with perfectly parallel light rays. If you want the shadow to move as you move you'll need a Point light

[proven path]

thank you! That fixed it!

[lone rapids]

there was still same issue even after i changed horizontal to preferred size

[ionic wharf]

Someone can help me?
There another way to set outline in a text?
I want to do it

But using basic Text and Outline I only reach on this way

And here with TMPro :/

[low pike]

When TMP looks like that, you've set it up wrong

either the SDF you created for the font is too small/close together, or the font size on the TMP component is too small, and/or the scale is not 1,1,1

[quasi cosmos]

why doesnt my button onclick show the normal window?

I can't execute scripts like this

[frosty pewter]

Your inspector is in debug mode

[quasi cosmos]

lmfaooo thx

[tidal pelican]

how to make the 3rd and 4th processor inside the scrollview

[heavy echo]

Hey!
I have a 'problem' with my circle. I don't find it smooth at all and it's quite disturbing to the naked eye. I tried many parameters in unity but nothing works...
(Circle made with Photoshop in .PSD in 1024x1024)

[brazen cradle]

how do i make a gameobject point towards the mouse pointer?

i have this currently, and it technically works, but not in the correct direction most of the time...
Vector3 diff = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - transform.position; diff.Normalize(); float z = Mathf.Atan2(diff.x, diff.y) * Mathf.Rad2Deg; transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, z - 90);

oh sorry wrong channel :(((

[somber pivot]

I want to make an input field and when you type in some special word it would do sth

[feral slate]

Hello, could anyone tell me how i can attach a text file to a 3d object?

[silk coral]

can someone explain raycasts to me?

is there any reason why i would want to keep blocksRaycasts on?

on a canvas group

[rain briar]

Would love you all's thoughts:

Been polishing up the UI of The Callisto. These things are part of it: In this, when the player looks at an item for more than a quarter of a second, a UI popup appears over the item, potentially with selectable options for children. When the player pulls back on the triggers (which we currently don't use), you can trigger events. In this example, they keyboard has a "log in" option.

[split prism]

looks awesome

[feral slate]

I have this problem, the text should be attached to the 3d object but still is displaying on the UI. Could anyone help?

[real arch]

You could make a seperate layer for your world space ui

[feral slate]

I made a separate layer and applied it to all of the children of the object but nothing changed 😦

[real arch]

is it only in the scene view?

[feral slate]

i got no clue but i managed to fix it, thank you for your help

[lavish stream]

Hey is there a way to fix this? Where the Slider Fill warps out of shape when closer to its 0 value

[mortal robin]

Using a slider is an old hack. You can just use a normal Image component in Filled mode

Then you don't have to deal with weird anchoring and alignment issues

[shrewd socket]

Do layout groups not have the "Child Controls size" checkbox anymore? I see it referenced in a lot of forum posts but there's no box with that name

I'm just trying to make a vertical container that expands for multiple text objects that can be various line lengths:

trying to make something like this but with multiple rows/inputs that can handle an input name that's multiple lines long without overlapping

i've almost got it using layout elements and flexible height/width, but it doesn't expand when more text is added:
https://gyazo.com/2468dcb3146f1ffb29fadfcb61f0bf2c

I can't even calculate it myself because it's not giving me an accurate size in anything I can find for the textmeshpro text that's actually displayed either, so if anyone can even think of a way to calculate it manually i'd be up for that.

[mortal robin]

Show where you're looking. I believe it has been renamed at least once

[honest belfry]

Can anyone explain why this is happening? The final layout is correct, but the first two times the ui appears it is not formatted correctly

[shrewd socket]

Control child size would be my guess but it does the opposite of what seems to be implied of "child controls size" in all the forums i've read lol

[mortal robin]

It's the "Control Child Size". The old name was extremely confusing because it does the opposite as you noted

[shrewd socket]

Oh... so maybe I was reading people being confused too xD

[mortal robin]

Yep

[shrewd socket]

I think i may have figured it out though using content size filters with layout groups, despite the warning not to

[mortal robin]

Yeah sounds familiar 😂

[shrewd socket]

That warning i think added like 2 days to my work time on this ;w; lol

I wish it had more contextual info

Also sometimes the locking of the height/width/x/y position of rectransforms is super wonky with layout groups in play mode

[unkempt dirge]

anyone know why my coin is rendering above my text? the coin is set to the sorting layer default 0, and the text is on a canvas set to UI 2, which is below the default layer

the coin is a gameobject with a sprite renderer

[mortal robin]

Sprite renderers and UI elements are on totally different systems basically

I'd guess you're using a Screen Space Camera canvas?

[unkempt dirge]

is there a way to get around that ?

[unkempt dirge]

yes

[mortal robin]

Then you just need your coin to physically be further from the camera than the canvas's plane distance

Or use a screen space overlay canvas

[unkempt dirge]

well for some reason when the camera is resized based on the players aspect ratio it changes the position of alot of stuff

in the z axis

i mean

[mortal robin]

Shouldn't

[unkempt dirge]

but it does tho

[mortal robin]

Show it

[unkempt dirge]

yellow is coins

it works without rescaling now which is fine for now

[mortal robin]

no idea what these screenshots are supposed to show.

[wispy shell]

can anyone help me understand why my text is getting cut off by my terrain?
I want my UI layer to be visible in the front at all times. notice the GOGO in the top left

[frosty pewter]

Then use Screen Space - Overlay instead of camera

[wispy shell]

well dont i feel silly. thanks

[frosty pewter]

or reduce your plane distance so that it's always going to be in front, but depending on the nature of your game that could be complicated'

[unkempt dirge]

is there a way to snap the scale of an object to the grid along with the position?

[tidal pelican]

:(

[sterile wedge]

You can look up how to make parents expand with their children. A content size fitter is involved, but since we don't know your hierarchy setup, hard to tell you what to do

[fleet glacier]

This is for inventory UI so i need the panel to not scale or else it messes up the item placement
Like even without the canvas scaler it still scales im so confused?

top imagine is what I want I think xD

[honest belfry]

Ok the position of this element is controlled by the top left point... this is the pivot point... right? However, no matter what i change the pivot values to, it doesnt move the pivot. Can anyone help?

[primal trellis]

is this Roll! ?

[honest belfry]

yeah

[primal trellis]

I love that game

[honest belfry]

i'm working on new descriptions cause theyre pretty bad atm

[primal trellis]

is the pivot connected to the objects?

[primal trellis]

yeah, some can be confusing

[honest belfry]

what do you mean by this?

[primal trellis]

does it have influence on the objects you're trying to move?

also, did you make roll?

[honest belfry]

yeah

[primal trellis]

sweet!

[honest belfry]

also now i'm seeing the issue, the rect transform has a height and width of 0 so the pivot can't move 🤦‍♂️

[primal trellis]

F

well glad to meet an idol of mine haha

[honest belfry]

Thanks so much :), I'm really just a dude trying to make a game about dice haha

[primal trellis]

it's so intuitive

I love it

[honest belfry]

Stay tuned for more updates! There's still a long way to go for the game

[primal trellis]

just bought roll lol

had watched it before

can't wait

[primal trellis]

it's gonna be great I can feel it

[primal trellis]

game is addicting lmao

[sand plume]

Hi guys, I have an issue with my scroll list

I can't scroll it

not sure why, changed heights of things from what I read on forums, but nope othing worked

[simple pewter]

how to move tiles in tile pallette?

idk how to use the moving tool

😭

[low pike]

that's not UI, it's #🖼️┃2d-tools .. but you should find a tutorial for it first and follow that, a beginners tutorial should teach you..

[night valley]

is there some way i can access the state of a button corresponding to the transitions you can set up for one? like the normal, highlighted, pressed, selected, disabled thing

... and the actual UnityEngine.UI namespace seems to be missing from the scripting api docs online for 2020.3?

[low pike]

the docs have moved, and are.. not as good

[night valley]

oof yeah it's the separate package docs thing even though this is still supposed to be the supported default way to do UI right?

[low pike]

because the UI is a package now, it's moved to the package docs place - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/index.html

and those docs miss out info that was in the old docs (still accessible by changing the versin to 2019.4)

[night valley]

yeah that version of the site is awful to use

[low pike]

UIToolkit hasn't taken over yet - its not ready

[night valley]

good lord, especially for UI classes that are inherited like 10 deep

anyway any idea for my actual question?

[night valley]

oh the current state is protected for ... some reason

[low pike]

was in a meeting

What are you trying to do?

Using IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler, IPointerDownHandler, IPointerUpHandler, ISelectHandler, IDeselectHandler might be able to do it instead

[night valley]

i ended up just making my own class inheriting from Button to access the state since it was protected, i just wanted the transition color tints to also apply to the text (TMP) of the button

there seems to be a material/shader prerequisite (i guess?) for the colorMultiplier (in color tinted buttons for example) to actually work in setting colors brighter than their base color ... any ideas why it wouldn't be working?

i have the default ui material on the default button you add from the create menu and it doesn't work

like a 50V gray does result in the original color but pushing it above that doesn't make it white like i expect it should

[low pike]

I never use the tint

You'll want the graphic to be white, and then set the colour as whatever the tint is set to

[night valley]

that doesn't work for what i'm going for but i guess i can use the sprite substitution instead

[analog spire]

I have an issue with a scrollrect. So I have a panel that i'd like to be able to scroll. It contains an other panel which have a vertical layout.

Depending on where i add the scrollrect (either in parent or child panel) and which content i feed, i have either :

• Bouncing back immediately with no scrolling.
• Infinite scroll
• Nothing

If i try to add a content size fitter in prefered size setting, the panel shrinks immediately :/

[mild kernel]

There's a very specific set up and pivot requirement to get dynamically sized content to work within a scroll rect (and masked for that matter).

It's too much to explain on mobile, I suggest just finding a video in YouTube for it.

[low pike]

Using a canvas group to fade things out, is it possible to stop this from happening ? Without combining the sprites in ps

[sterile wedge]

I think I found a few resources.. see if they help
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/m27ab8/is_there_a_way_to_fade_out_a_group_of_overlapped/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1016519/flatten-canvas-group-before-fading-alpha-hiding-ui.html

[low pike]

excellent - cheers @sterile wedge

[clever prairie]

I'm fading TMP (mesh renderer/in 3D space) in and out using color.a ... it works great, but it seems pretty slow

Is there a better approach?

I guess I could stagger the fade steps more? But it'd be great if it was pretty smooth

[mortal robin]

How are you doing the fading? How many TMP objects are there?

[clever prairie]

1 TMP object, with a decent chunk of text

Using LeanTween

Also tested it quickly just fading it in Update() and very resource heavy

[atomic maple]

Do you guys know of a good way to handle tables in Unity for UI? Currently I have a UI screen where I instantiate a UI prefab for every row of the table, but of course it takes ages to open or close the screen if there are more than ~500 rows. There's gotta be a better way

[sterile wedge]

Which link did you end up following?

[rustic warren]

For anyone who is using the Localization package, what is the best practice for structuring the asset files. I notice that when I create a string table, it puts all the assets in one directory (that you choose) and its flat. Is it possible to move around the assets so it follows a locale language per directory with the table reference in the root or something?

[low pike]

Neither yet - I didn't see your suggestions until the end of the day. Will be looking into it on Monday now

[low pike]

Put a canvas group on a parent (or the TMP itself) and fade that instead... see if that makes a difference for you.

I use DOTween and only ever fade canvas groups

[pale pollen]

My UI Button looks like this on the 16:9 screen. How do I make it look the same on the 18:9 screen

[low pike]

show the inspector for it

[rapid drift]

Is there any react / flutter like MVU framework for uGUI?

[small grove]

Hi, I am having some trouble setting up button colors.

it's working fine but when I press the button it stayed dark until I changed selected color to invisible and now when I click on the button it doesn't stay dark but it doesn't change the color next time I click on it till I click somewhere else on the screen and then it works

these are color settings I used

[solemn pivot]

Just starting to learn Canvas and UI stuff in unity for the first time, beginner question:
After adding a Canvas and UI camera, my game view now only shows the UI elements and none of the game elements.
Game elements return if I turn off the canvas game object

How do I get both to render together?

[low pike]

you don't need 2 cameras

remove the UI camera

[solemn pivot]

Thats not what the tutorial I was following said

If I remove it, I wont be able to continue these tutorials

If I remove it, now I see my game again, but I dont see any of my UI

[solemn pivot]

How do I get my UI to overlay my game without a second camera?

[low pike]

Should just show up, unless you've changed the culling mask on the camera to disable UI?

[solemn pivot]

I haven't done anything but add the UI canvas

[low pike]

show me the tutorial

[solemn pivot]

https://youtu.be/OD-p1eMsyrU

theirs just works, mine doesn't

[low pike]

The first button he adds, there's only 1 camera

Are you doing anything fancy with your UI? Or just keeping it 2d?

[solemn pivot]

Just 2D

[low pike]

ok, delete the UI camera it's not need

then share screenshots of

• the inspector for the camera
• the inspector for the canvas

[solemn pivot]

I got it to combine, but now I have this stupid enormous canvas directly over top of my game scene

with no option to reposition it

[low pike]

that's correct

[solemn pivot]

this will not be usable in a game scene with any actual content in it

[low pike]

in the scene view, the canvas is HUGE
but in the game it renders correctly

[solemn pivot]

That kind of sucks. I get it wont be big in game but trying to debug the scene when crap like this is overlapping it wont be fun

and turning off the UI every single time I want to debug game content will add up to a tedious time waste

[low pike]

you either need to use 2 scenes, and have the UI in it's own scene.. don't load it while you edit the game scene..
or disable the UI parent

You can have more than one scene open at the same time

[solemn pivot]

Wow and everyone who does UI in Unity puts up with this?

I feel like I am suffering culture shock here, ive always heard canvas and UI sucks but I didnt realize how fundamentally unfriendly it is until now

[maiden fable]

Anyone know why my UI would turn grey and not be usable? I haven't edited it in a while, besides adding 3 elements(Slider and 2 texts). But now all of them are grey and unusable??

[low pike]

it's not interactable

one of the various components in the hierarchy has been set to not interactable

[solemn pivot]

I am working on a dialog box UI element but I just discovered some of my math is somehow dependant on the resolution of the UI canvas

        Vector2 direction = bubbleBody.transform.position - bubbleTail.transform.position;
        float degree = FindDegree(direction.x, direction.y);
        degree = 360 - degree;
        float distance = direction.magnitude;

        float distanceExponent = Mathf.Pow(distance * 10f, exponent) * 0.1f;
        float tailWidth = Mathf.Clamp(initialScale / (distanceExponent + 0.1f), 0.01f, 1f);

        Vector3 rotation = new Vector3(0, 0, degree);
        Vector3 stretch = new Vector3(tailWidth, (distance * (scaleFactor * 0.01f)), 1f);

        bubbleTail.eulerAngles = rotation;
        bubbleTail.localScale = stretch;```

How do I make this code not affected by canvas size?

My guess is Distance is the problem, because its using transform.positions?

all the random multiplication can be discarded, that is just debug me trying to get the effect to look right

it looks like this makes it work at any resolution, though for some reason I still need to calculate the direction the old way to aim the tail, using viewport positions the tail angle degree is wrong

Hmm nevermind, that didnt actually work

for some reason, distance is greater up/down than it is on left/right

I used to use Transform.positions to check distance, but that value changed depending on the size of the Canvas
but ScreenToViewportPoint changes depending on the aspect ration of the Canvas
I need a value that doesnt change ever, not "realative" to anything, a single "distance" that is always right

[solemn pivot]

I cant seem to find the formula to eliminate the aspect ratio's influience

I was pretty sure this would work, but it doesnt

[rustic warren]

How does one remove a localization string table used by the localization package? They don't have any documentation on how to remove localization tables/assets the right way. I don't want to manually have to remove stuff in the file system.

[solemn pivot]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/939254930873651210/fixMe.gif Still stuck on this, made no progress in the intermin

[light birch]

Hi there!
So I have this problem with buttons. Sometimes they simply can't be clicked in a build, but when resetting that same build, they work fine. The buttons are in world space and work perfectly fine in editor.

Could it be some kind of layering issue? But if so, why does it always work fine in editor? 😵‍💫

[nocturne marsh]

what is the bubble tail?

an image?

what's the size of the image?

[whole cape]

can i have some help? i want to make it so that my ui stays in the same position relative to the camera, no matter the dimensions of the window, atm i get this wierd stuff. is there a way i can achieve this?

[nocturne marsh]

Move the anchor

[solemn pivot]

its a UI sprite. Its size is irrelevent, I only reference its position

[nocturne marsh]

It's size is relevant since you are scaling it :)

[solemn pivot]

In that case, the size is not known, it could be 10px it could be 1000px

I dont see why it matters, when I scale something I am affecting the scale value of the UI sprite, I am not manually setting its dimensions

[nocturne marsh]

Your goal is to scale something so that it has a certain desired size

You know the target size and you are trying to find the scale factor

For that you need the original size

It's simply targetSize / originSize

[whole cape]

i set the anchor values to 0 and changed some stuff in canvas scaler, and it seemed to work! thanks

on another note, how do you properly use a scrollview?

[small grove]

Hi, is that text white background just a visual bug in the editor or am I doing something wrong here?

[frail jewel]

if i want to overhang this off the canvas, because i dont want to see that left side, is this the best way to do it? Or is there a "proper" way?

[small grove]

when I zoom in it goes away

[frail jewel]

you need to edit your TMP font asset to give more padding, more atlas space or a better SP/D ratio.

[small grove]

what should I change?

[frail jewel]

Nothing in there. you need to go to the font asset creator, and play with the things i mentioned.

[small grove]

ok but why does it dissapear when I zoom in?

[frail jewel]

I don't know the specifics, just how to fix it

[small grove]

ok

[maiden fable]

Anyone know why my UI would turn grey and not be usable? I haven't edited it in a while, besides adding 3 elements(Slider and 2 texts). But now all of them are grey and unusable??

It also says missing at the top of the canvas even though my other UI elements don't

[rapid ferry]

whats a good darkmode contrast for buttons

[mortal robin]

The screenshotted one is deactivated (empty checkbox)

[maiden fable]

Ye ik that. I’m talking about when it’s on. It’s just off by default and turned on by script

[mortal robin]

Can you show what you mean by "grey and unusable"?

[maiden fable]

It's like it's got this grey layer on top. It's my second canvas if that means anything

[mortal robin]

Looks there's another semitransparent UI panel in front of it

[maiden fable]

That's what i thought, but i tried changing the sort order and it still didn't change anything

[mortal robin]

Hierarchy order is the main thing that matters for UI

Could be another uI element on the same canvas

[maiden fable]

Another ul element??

I recreated the entire canvas and it's still not working. No idea

Even turned off my other canvas and it's still not working

[mortal robin]

do you have any canvas groups?

[maiden fable]

Like are they under a parent object?

[mortal robin]

No there's literally a component called Canvas Group

[maiden fable]

Oh no

I added one to both but it hasn't changed anything. Although i think the problem is something else because even in the editor the UI is "greyed out"

[mortal robin]

Basically you need to disable everything in the scene except your UI and then start disabling things in the UI itself

eliminate all possible sources of the problem until you find it

[maiden fable]

Aight th

thx

[solemn pivot]

Still desperately in need of help solving this

Getting nowhere on my own

[maiden fable]

Fixed it. Had a panel above the UI elements

[trail spruce]

Sometimes I really wish Unity allows for some of the Handles and Gizmos to be used in the game view..

Or rather as part of the game proper..

Instead of having to write my own code to just draw wire circles around a thing

[solemn pivot]

I have my Canvas set to 'Scale with Screen' and I noticed my UI elements scale VERY differently if my Game window is set to 'Free Aspect' vs if its set to any fixed aspect

Which should I be testing my game in? How can I make sure everything is "the same size" on different resolutions?

[solemn pivot]

Hmm

I am having some scale issues between the UI canvas and the camera

when my game gets narrower, canvas scales smaller
when my game gets shorter, game camera scales smaller

so depending on the size of the window, the game world and canvas UI arent to scale with eachother

I can find very little decent doccumentation on unity UI and canvas

it seems kind of, broken and half baked, teetering on completely nonfunctional?

How does anyone use canvas for anything?

[rapid ferry]

how do i only change the outline size of 1 text

not all at the same time

am using TMpro

idk if right channel

[sterile wedge]

I think, this.
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/textmesh-pro-working-with-material-presets#5fa309bfedbc2a00219210c9

[vale viper]

Guys, anyone here knows a fix for having a stretch UI when importing to mobile devices? I want my UI to have a 16:9 aspect ratio always, the UI should shrink or expand depending on the size of the device, anyone knows how?

[mild pilot]

Is there a way to disable the default effect of escape key on InputField focus?
I dont want it to unfocus, and wanna handle it manually

[terse edge]

hey, i'm currently trying to get my webcamtexture have pixelated filter on it with render texture and raw image over it, but it doesnt work. how do i make it so that the render texture works on ui objects like images too?

i did a test with normal 2d sprites (not ui) and it looked pixelated but when i tried with images it doesnt get pixelated

btw things i tried: canvas setting render mode to screen space. i did that and the ui now looks tiny for some reason

not only the ui looks tiny, it also disappears on the game view

[median iris]

Is your CanvasScaler having the correct settings? (Scale with Screen Size)

[mortal robin]

You can remove the Cancel binding in your Input Module (a component on your Event System)

[median iris]

If you want a RenderTexture in your UI, you gotta use RawImage instead of Image, iirc
Idk if I understood that part of your question correctly

[magic plank]

is it possible to have a ui like this in edit mode that i can interact with?
(image taken from another engine)

[mortal robin]

yep

You can do all kinda of stuff through editor scripting. See #↕️┃editor-extensions

[rustic warren]

So I have a panel with a horizontal layout and two child panels that have their own vertical layouts and a TMP text. I have the horizontal layout manage the width of the two child panels and because the two text elements have different length strings, they throw off the even distribution of space of the two panels. Any tricks to correct this? I wouldn't expect the parent panels layout to be affected by child components two levels deep. The left panel is ~915 and the right is ~850 width

[obsidian crag]

Hi, just to confirm: You want both panels to have the same width, right?
To do so, you can disable the "Control Child Size" in the first Horizontal Layout Group and then set the Width manually on the panels.

[rustic warren]

@obsidian crag I do want them to be the same width but I want them to scale with the screen. So setting them manually would defeat the purpose.

[obsidian crag]

Ok,
Does the panels inside have Content Size Fitter? If yes, try to remove them. This way the text labels should not affect one panel's width anymore.

[rustic warren]

They don't have content size fitters.

[solemn pivot]

Is there like a master reference resource tutorial series on Canvas/UI? Because so far its been an absolute shit show, I cant get it to a single thing

its a completely different alien creature compared to the rest of all of Unity

and its 100% because it uses completely alien logic to decide its dimensions

if your aspect ratio changes, if your resolution changes, if your pixel depth changes, if your unity units change, if its tuesday, it doesnt matter, if any single thing changes anywhere at any time, its entire system of units completely rescales itself

and renders every single value you try to give it completely meaningless as one second 0 to 1 could be the entire screen, and then the second second 0 to 1 is only the distance of half the screen

or its not even the distance of the screen at all, suddenly it converts itself spontaniously to world space and flies off to world 0,0

Canvas fucking sucks, nonstop grief and frustration

[echo bear]

very, VERY weird question but hear me out:

i want to extract the default unity knob sprite, but its in a file with no extension, would there be any way to export this as an image

[fallow rock]

Open the file in its location

[soft vigil]

Hi for some reason my UI overlay is not showing up when I play the game

[soft vigil]

I am not sure what I could be doing wrong

[night valley]

is there a reason a Selectable's current selection state and even the SelectionState enum itself are protected?

now i'm having to write pointless code to effectively duplicate their functionality because i don't want to do everything in a mega class inheriting from Selectable

[solemn pivot]

When I run this code, it spawns a Canvas image at the dead center of the viewport. This is the expected behavior.

when I run JUST this on the spawned object, it places it in the bottom left corner of the canvas

I don't understand why this is the case, why is it not the same?

[sterile wedge]

If you're trying to position RectTransforms, use anchoredPosition

[solemn pivot]

Why does it work not with anchored position in the first block but not the second?

[sterile wedge]

No idea.

Do they have different parents?

[solemn pivot]

Nope, they both refer to the exact same object

the only difference is I moved the code from where I spawned it, to the object itself after it gets spawned

which shouldn't make any difference in a logical world

[sterile wedge]

No clue. Can't help

[solemn pivot]

Anchored positon seems to work

except 1 time out of 10 it spawns in the wrong spot

and I have no answer as to why

[solemn pivot]

Its still not working. I am setting to RectTransform's Anchored Position, and its positoning itself relative to world space coordinates

lerp positon A to B over time, simple animation.

it spawns at dead center 0.5, 0.5, despite no where in my code telling it to spawn there

and then refuses to move

it moves, but it moves over worldspace coordinates

so it moves like 1 unit, instead of from one entire side of the viewport over

I cannot believe anyone, anywhere, uses canvas for UI, for any game, ever

Its compeltely nonfunctional

how does anyone do anything with this utter piece of shit?

Every single time I try to tell it to do anything, it always does some other thing, not the opposite thing, just some OTHER thing, completely at random

you press play, press stop, press play again

and it does two entirely differnet things

despite nothing changing

canvas is so fucked

are there alternatives to unity's Canvas?

Because this is just fucking awful, its unusable

[rapid ferry]

TextMeshPro looks fine in scene but in game mode looks blurry AF, changed ratios etc nothing is working.

[quartz wharf]

Haaalou! Hope y'all are having a fantastic day. I was wondering if anyone has a setup where you have a scrolling panel and a grid layout with some items in it? I can't get my UI to work...

EDIT: Nvm, got it to work...

[terse edge]

basically i want my raw image render texture work not only for 2d sprites, 3d cube, but also ui like images, button, text

[wise prairie]

How to turn off/on TextMesh Pro's Glow via code at runtime?

[cedar ember]

Does anyone know how to fix this? The texts are a bit blurry. I'm using Text TMP

[frosty pewter]

change the scale of your game view to 1x

[cedar ember]

I changed it to 1x a while ago

[frosty pewter]

it's not 1x in your screenshot

[cedar ember]

I managed to make the text sharper by increasing its font size to 128 and reducing its scale to 0.25

Anyway, thanks!

[night valley]

trying to match the size of a background image to a textmeshpro text object's text as it changes, and it seems the TMP members that give info about the size of the visible text simply only report correct values a frame late (regardless of script execution order etc.)

am i missing something or is this intended behaviour, it seems like a glaring flaw to me

like frame stepping through it, i see the text has changed, after that point in the same frame it's logging incorrect values for the bounds/renderedwidth/etc., which only then update for the next frame

or i can wait for the end of frame in a coroutine for the correct values but at that point it's also too late to make changes to the images since at that point they'll only get reflected in the next frame

ForceMeshUpdate() seems to have made the values update, though i would have imagined the "mesh" would have already "updated" considering the new text was already visible on screen ... this thing's quite janky for having been made official, lol

[spring lark]

How do you display UI on top of sprites ?

I have a world space canvas on my unit with a little health bar and I'd like for it to render above any object in the game

like, not hiden by this little fairy there

[solemn pivot]

With a rect transform, what are these two boxes?

The arrow one is the anchors? But it wont move when I try to move the rect transform itself

How do I "move" or "scale" rect transforms the "right way" ?

[solemn pivot]

how do I edit instanced prefabs of UI elements?

there's no canvas so I can't see it

sticking a canvas inside of every instanced UI prefab is not good either

[solemn pivot]

Okay I finally have a lead on the absolute insanity that is Canvas

the physical size of the "game" window at the moment I run the game somehow is a factor of the size of the UI in game

smaller window physically scales up the UI assets

but only when I hit play

after its running, the spawned UI then scales to the canvas scale if the game window is resized

[mortal robin]

It is shown in scene view as 1 pixel = 1 unit

so as you resize the game window, that changes the game resolution which changes the apparent size of the canvas in scene view

if you se tthe game to a specific resolution in game view, it will stay at that size

[visual bane]

can anyone link me a good course to learn the UIElements library?

[boreal storm]

@sand prism What I'm making is an app for the HoloLens, so i'd somehow have to create a collider around all those objects in order to drag them.

[sand prism]

I don't use VR/AR but would assume you want a world UI canvas in that case.

[boreal storm]

Will look into that, thanks.

[raw nest]

im getting this issue with an image on my canvas. when in edit mode it looks fine, but when i go into play mode it mostly disappears (you can see specks of it in the bottom image)

it kind of appears more when i shake it around a bit

[raw nest]

I found a fix for it by going into shadergraph and changing it from unlit -> sprite unlit

[wise prairie]

How to turn off/on Lighting or Underlay of TextMesh Pro Material/Shader with code? How to access shader/material properties of TMP via code?

[wise prairie]

Is this the place to ask TextMesh Pro questions?

[jagged monolith]

@boreal storm for the HoloLens MRTK has a huge toolkit you can pick and choose from

[deep scaffold]

Hey, I don't know if this is the right channel or not, but I'll move if it's not...

Basically, I am doing a project as a school assignment (for the end of the year) and I wanted to make a roulette kind of game, where I would model the picture below. I was wondering whether it's better for me to make a 3d cuboid or just use a blank image as the roulette table

[trail spruce]

Does anyone know how they'd go about creating a UI window that has 3D content of its own? Is a RenderTexture ideal?

$000

[inner zealot]

anyone tell me why text isnt appearing when maximizing screen?

[dusky lichen]

It looks like you're just trying to line up your canvas with the free-aspect ratio cam. Set the appropriate ratio and see if its still in frame

[inner zealot]

wdym?

[inner zealot]

.

[dusky lichen]

In the first screenshot see up in the top left it says free aspect

And the scale is also not 1

[inner zealot]

yeah

[dusky lichen]

Set that to what ratio you're actually going to use

[inner zealot]

idk what ratio i am going to use?

i am following a brackeys tutorial so thats why

@dusky lichen

nvm

full hd 1920x1080

[dusky lichen]

My point is you have this super tall camera, but when you full screen it, it might not be showing the text anymore since it wont be that tall

free aspect changes the camera to whatever your game view shows, its not the actual camera if that makes sense

[inner zealot]

yeah

but how is this going to fix it?

[azure flame]

You should checkout manual page on UGUI it explains how to use it. There also tutorials on Unity Learn.

[inner zealot]

where is that?

nvm

[jagged monolith]

You don’t just move transforms around with UI @inner zealot, you use anchors. Here’s a video https://youtu.be/w3sMD-3OJro

[frozen thorn]

Hey guys I have a problem with the main camera that is useless.. I see a blue background (tying to learn)

[inner zealot]

send a screenshot

[inner zealot]

2d right?

[azure flame]

@frozen thorn What canvas mode are you using? Default screen space mode does not use the camera.

[frozen thorn]

yep

[inner zealot]

sorry i cant help

[frozen thorn]

what does that mean

[azure flame]

In that mode you position UI elements inside the canvas rectangle to see them

[frozen thorn]

Well I am watching a tutorial he did the same thing and his camera is working

[azure flame]

Double click on canvas to display its rectangle gizmo

[inner zealot]

check the comments they have solutions

[azure flame]

And place UI elements within the rectangle

[frozen thorn]

Can't resize it tho?

[azure flame]

In default mode canvas is your screen not camera

[frozen thorn]

Well what is default mode

[azure flame]

Camera is only to display world positioned objects and canvas only in world mode.

Follow the tutorial more closely. And #📲┃ui-ux message

[frozen thorn]

Sure and how could I resize a canvas

[azure flame]

The canvas is your screen in default mode, it depends on resolution

#📲┃ui-ux message

[frozen thorn]

So you are saying that camera is useless rn?

[azure flame]

For UI display, yes

[frozen thorn]

Oh I got it thank u so much

[azure flame]

If the tutorial you are following is unclear you should checkout courses on Unity Learn.

There's a search for tutorials and courses and new learning routes.

[frozen thorn]

Thank u so much for info

[smoky echo]

i dont have a text tab

[wise prairie]

Please help: How to change a TextMesh Pro Shader's parameters via script?

[dusk linden]

Hi all! Hoping someone knows about canvas. I have constructed a widget that has a few components and made it into a prefab. When rendering this prefab, it looks like this:

And until I updated my project to a new Unity version, the layout in the prefab editor looked exactly like that too

But after updating, when I go to edit the prefab, it looks like this:

Everything is out of alignment, nothing is sized properly, etc. Is there something simple I'm missing? maybe a "conform to real size" button or something?

[brittle marsh]

It's under legacy. But I'd install text mesh pro instead

[smoky echo]

yea tnx i found it yesterday

[brittle marsh]

Oh good 😄

[crude sonnet]

Is it possible for my UI element to keep itself as a square while I change the height of it's parent HorizontalLayoutGroup? HorizontalLayoutGroup controls the child Height but not the Width. So what I want is, when I change the height of HorizontalLayoutGroup my buttons gets higher, but also can get wider as well to keep their ratio?

[crude sonnet]

Okay this can be answered with AspectRatioFitter I believe

[crude sonnet]

Okay so second question comes related to this, how should I be scaling my text in a button like this? Best fit gives different font size values for different letters (w and i for example) and fixed font size doesn't scale with the parent

[high thunder]

I have a mock browser I'm using in a game. I have it setup so that if you click the head, you can drag it, but after adding the scale handles, I realize it might not be the best approach to do what I'm doing atm (see below imgs). What's a good method to scale this 'mock browser/window' ingame?

Here's what the window looks like (handles around the edge, light gray is head)

And here's a bit of what I have at the moment

I think that manually changing the anchor point and the scale factors would be cumbersome-- especially for 8 different handles

There some built in thing?

[near jungle]

is it possible to scale my canvas to the scene in the blue circle? for some reason the canvas has a fixed size and i cannot edit it.

[azure flame]

That's why I recommended you to start with the tutorials on UI. Default canvas mode is a screen space, where its viewport is screen resolution dependent and not camera.

You can also find canvas modes in the manual.

[near jungle]

Is it that much complicated then?

[near jungle]

Since i only want to have it pretty simple

[azure flame]

It's all simple once you study a tutorial covering it.

[near jungle]

I know, i will check the manual then.

[near jungle]

i managed to fix it 🙂

[humble finch]

How do i get sharp text with TextMeshPro? i tried default settings but everything looks really bad

[high thunder]

Can you send a screenshot of your settings?

Under the TextMeshPro component

[dusk linden]

Does anyone skilled with Unity UI know what might be going on here? I've got a CanvasRenderer game object that has 2 child game objects and looks like this:

And when you scale HeroItem in the editor, everything scales perfectly

But, when I add HeroItems to a ScrollView at runtime, it looks like this:

What I think is going on, is the HeroItem itself is being scaled to fit the size of a listView item, but its children are not scaling

Anyone know why that might be?

This is how they are created:

  private void UpdateHeroItems() {
    var heroes = _store.Heroes;
    for (int i = 0; i < heroes.Count; ++i) {
      HeroModel model = heroes[i];
      if (!model.IsEnabled) {
        continue;
      }

      GameObject newButton = _buttonPool.GetObject();
      newButton.transform.SetParent(_contentPanel.transform, false);

      HeroItem heroItem = newButton.GetComponent<HeroItem>();
      heroItem.Setup(model, this);
    }
  }

[inner zealot]

A meta data file (.meta) exists but its folder 'Assets/TextMesh Pro' can't be found, and has been created. Empty directories cannot be stored in version control, so it's assumed that the meta data file is for an empty directory in version control. When moving or deleting folders outside of Unity, please ensure that the corresponding .meta file is moved or deleted along with it.

anyone know whats this?

[neon bane]

Hi everyone. I've got a question. I'm currently working on a game where you have a scrollview with quite a few elements in it. Each item in the scroll view contains an image element, a button and a text label. And for me it seems kinda performance heavy. Means that in my case the FPS are dropping from ~400 FPS to ~40FPS when scrolling.
Do you have any idea what I could do about it?

[low pike]

You'll need to pool the buttons and reuse them. There are assets on the store for doing this

eg: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/enhancedscroller-36378

_I haven't used this, it is one that pops up in my searches often though - just showing an example.. _

[neon bane]

Thank you very much. I will look that up 🙂

[mortal robin]

Change the game resolution from the game view window to be more like a mobile device

[near jungle]

i am sorry, but in my context i dont really know what you are trying to say

[mortal robin]

Unity has a game view window

This is where you see your game running when you hit play

That window has a drop down menu in the top left to change the current game resolution

By default it's set to "free aspect" but you can change it to whatever you want

That will let you see how your game looks on a device of any resolution you want

[mortal robin]

Wdym by "actual configuring it"

[worldly mural]

I'm having some fun will scrollrects and now I'm a bit stuck. in editor my "subpanel" scrolls the button content just fine (well ... fine enough for the girls I go out with)

but in build ... nooothing. no drag, no scrollwheel ... I'm missing something obvious [and not a single fuck was given ... thanks]

[sand prism]

any UI experts, what would you call a dialogue/inspect thing like this?

and what would be the best way to do that.. programmatically even if that's the way

[wise prairie]

"callout" is name of these things. Programmatically... not fun.

[sand prism]

heh.. maybe I can find something open source, or an asset worst case.. thanks man

[broken sedge]

guys how do i make this loading effect on ui image

[broken sedge]

its look like its a progressbar with undetermined time

which class should i looked in

[solemn pivot]

Sprites have Sprite Mask, does UI elements have an equivalent?

Rect Mask 2D is a rectangle, it can't contour to a sprite

[warm wolf]

I can't believe I can't find a simple tutorial for this:
How do you create a Multiline textarea input which will allow for scrolling if overflowing down?
Just using the default inputfield scroll works, but because the text rect doesn't expand, I cannot actually click the text that is out of the text field.
Adding a content size fitter to the text object for some reason completely screws up the scrolling.

Does anyone know of a example of a multi-line Inputfield with scrolling?

[limpid monolith]

I have a question about the XR Interaction Toolkit, it seems that if I want the Ray Interactors to be able to Point-and-Click on both UI and 3D objects, that the behavior is behaving unexpectedly in this specific case:

1. Place a 3D object in the scene
2. Place a world-space canvas with a button in-front 3D object.
3. Add necessary scripts to canvas (Tracked Device Graphic Raycaster) and 3D object (XR Simple Interactable) to allow selecting them.
4. Point-and-Click on UI button and observe that the selection was confirmed.
5. Point-and-Click on the 3D object and observe that the selection was confirmed.
6. Try to point-and-click on the 3D object going through the Canvas. Observe that the selection was not confirmed (Canvas is blocking the raycast)
7. Move the canvas behind the 3D object.
8. Point-and-Click again on the 3D object, observe that the selection is confirmed.
9. Point-and-Click on the 3D object while also aiming towards the button behind it. Observe that Selection is confirmed both for the 3D object AND the UI Button (3D object is NOT blocking the raycast)

Is this intended behavior? I've tried multiple configurations of the Ray Interactor, including but not limited to "Hit closest only" etc. But it seems that the UI will get selected even if blocked by a 3D object

[honest belfry]

Is there anyway to make a content size fitter that fits a non-child or a child of a child?

[honest belfry]

or to anchor a ui element to a non-parent?

[quiet merlin]

trying to create a tile palette from a image. its a tile sheet, and I've selected "Multiple" in the inspector, its not letting me put it in.

[solemn trellis]

i am unbelievably confused. why is it that with these settings, which worked for me before, make the items show up like how they do (in the scene view, left side. it doesn't show everything)

also, any unity ui alternativs? it makes no sense and is unbelivably bad

[rapid ferry]

You aren't controlling any of the properties (height or width)

[dusk linden]

You could probably write some code that binds two disjoint objects in that way manually, but what are you actually trying to do? There's probably a better way

[honest belfry]

I found a hacky way around it... basically i wanted to place an image at the end of some text and have the background resize to fit the image if it is there

[dusk linden]

Ahh I see, well glad you figured something out 🙂

[honest belfry]

I just added a margin on the right of the text and anchored the image to the empty space

[analog spire]

is there any wysiwyg rich text editor ?
SOnething i could download, type and format text in and it would give me the Rich text equivalent with all the <> inside
Like <b> This is bold </b>

[frozen thorn]

Hey guys I have an issue my image covers a sprite (it's over it) and i don't know how to solve it

[misty fossil]

what is this? to showcase UI of a project?

[low pike]

What is what?

[low pike]

What you have selected is a 'Sprite Renderer', that's not for UI. If you want an image for UI do not drag it into the scene from the project window, that creates the sprite renderer. Instead rmb -> UI -> image -> then drag the sprite from the project window into the sprite field on the image component

[frozen thorn]

Can I move it after that like in an animation?

[misty fossil]

Cuz it says ui - ux and i thought here you could showcase ui and ux designs people are making but i think i am wrong

[low pike]

All you have to do is

• read the channel topic to see what this channel is for
• scroll up a bit and look at what others are talking about, there is not a single message about showcasing UI

#🔎┃find-a-channel for a list of channels, and you'll find #archived-works-in-progress #502171626805133312

[low pike]

This question isn't completely clear...
UI can be animated though, if that's what you're asking

[thick sundial]

I am having trouble with content size filters and scroll rect.
I want to add a bunch of elements programmatically and then scroll through them.
I cant seem to get the Scroll Rect to adapt to the content size.

[low pike]

Does the scroll rect have a layout group?
The elements you add, do they have a height / width? (check this after they're instantiated.. the layoutgroup will resize them if you have some things ticked)

If the new elements have a size of 0, the content size fitter has nothing to go off

[sly skiff]

I'm having a problem where users in other languages ( other than english/us ) can't use decimal points in my InputFields ( in some cases they are able to type a comma to get the decimal value ).. from some research i see this is an old issue but still a problem - anybody know if there's a way to address this problem?

[mortal robin]

Sounds like a culture issue

You're probably parsing the number using the system culture (which happens when you don't specify a culture in your parse call)

[sly skiff]

Thanks yeah i think it might be this.. the ui stuff was written over a year ago, one of those painful to revisit things.. thanks for the suggestion i'll give it a whack

[dense rose]

Guys, i need help. I am trying to make mobile game, and i want try my game on ios, but when i start unity remote, and try game, its just dont react.. :/ i am on new input system

[mortal robin]

The new input system doesn't support Unity Remote as far as I'm aware

[dense rose]

Oh okay thanks, and another problem.. When i use old, and tap on input field, it dont shoe keyboard on ios…

[low pike]

The Unity Remote was never fully supported and was extremely temperamental

[tough wind]

Hey, bit of a beginner for UI things, how do you make it so your button gets unselected whenever you hold click and drag your mouse off the button?
Cause I have a button and if I hold it, nothing happens cause I need to let go of left click, but if I drag my mouse off the button while holding left click and then let go of left click, nothing will happen because my cursor left my button but it's still selected (I can hit enter and it will use the button)
I hope I explained it well, so is their anyway to make sure it does not stay selected?

[silver summit]

Hey, can someone hint me in the right direction on how to capture a "screenshot" of a specific object (with its content) in Canvas? To bring context:

User will be able to create a photo collage.
He selects images from a grid, that will appear as children of a Panel.
User can manipulate the selected images inside the Panel to create his final composition.
User can then save the created collage as a 1080x1920 .jpg file

Everything is fairly simple except taking the photo, which then also has to be 1080x1920, but the user can be on a mobile device like iphone 11 that has 828 x 1792 res