Mastering UI Development with Unity: An in-depth guide to developing engaging user interfaces with Unity 5, Unity 2017, and Unity 2018

Mastering UI Development with Unity: An in-depth guide to developing engaging user interfaces with Unity 5, Unity 2017, and Unity 2018

Master Unity's UI system by creating captivating user interface components. Learn about UI texts, images, world space UI, mobile specific UI and much more here. Key Features Develop a game UI with both technical and aesthetic considerations - Use all the UI elements provided by Unity's UI system - Step-by-step examples of creating user interface components present in the top game genres Book Description For a great game, it needs a great user interface that shows the game settings and the right information to the player. Unity allows you to create complex and great looking user interfaces to give your games that professional look and feel. This book will help you realize the full potential of the powerful Unity UI system to create the best UI for your games. You will master Unity's UI system by walking through the creation of many different user interface components. You'll learn how to create visually engaging heads-up-displays, pause menus, health bars, circular progress bars, animated menus, and so much more. You'll not only learn how to lay out the visual elements, but you'll also learn how to program for these features and hook them in to your game. The code you create within this book will be reusable for many other projects! While working through the examples provided, you'll learn how to develop a UI that scales to multiple screen resolutions so that your game can be developed on many different platforms with minimal changes. What you will learn Design principles and patterns for laying out elements in your UI - Techniques that allow your UI to scale appropriately in different resolutions - How to use canvases, panels and layouts - Properties of the event system - Access the components and properties of the UI elements via code - Implement all of Unity's UI elements - Develop key UI components that can be used in multiple game genres - Add visual flare to user interfaces with the use of animation and particle effects - Create a UI that displays in the Screen Space as well as World Space Who This Book Is For This book anyone looking to improve their games through a great user interface with Unity's UI system. If you're looking for a book that explains how to develop specific user interfaces or a book that thoroughly explains how each of the individual Unity components work, this book is for you. Dr. Ashley Godbold is a programmer, game designer, artist, mathematician, and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Master of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design, and a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media where her dissertation research focused on educational video game design. She works full-time as a Game Developer and also runs a small indie/passion studio. She teaches college courses in Unity, 3ds Max, Adobe Flash, game design, and mathematics. She is also the author of Mastering Unity 2D Game Development: Second Edition by Packt Publishing.