Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
If you are not using the demo scene, just create a new scene and add a 3D cube to
the scene using
GameObject
|
3D Object
|
Cube
from the Unity menu. Then, in the
section that attaches the 3D UI to the ship, just attach the Canvas to the cube instead.
Some prerequisites
For the examples, we'll use some free assets from the Web. Be sure to grab them
before we start building:
(great free asset to generate Avatar heads with some premade ones that
we'll use)
These assets will help the UI look just a tad shinier.
Next up, some Sprite 2D work
As the new UI system predominately uses the new 2D sprite system, we'll need
some assets to start building our UI. For this, import the
HUD_BaseA.psd
from the
Textures
folder of the
Doomstalker UI
pack you downloaded earlier and drop it
into your project.
Remember, if your project type is set to
3D
, it will import images as a
Texture
at first (unless you went 2D), so be sure to update the
Texture
Type
to
Sprite
(
2D
and
UI
) for each image first.
With
HUD_BaseA.psd
selected in the
project
folder, set the
Sprite Mode
in the
inspector to
Multiple
and then open the
Sprite Editor
(using the
Sprite Editor
button).
Looking at this spritesheet, since most of the artwork is transparent (which is
brilliant for spacey effects), because of this however it can be a little hard to make
out all the controls. So when viewing/editing this sheet, it's best to use the
Alpha
viewing mode by clicking on the button, as illustrated here:
