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Designing a clear method of communication between the game and the user, whether hardware or software.

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Attempting to get a UI Panel to match the color and background of a GUI Window. Currently, using the default style for a GUI Window. Attached is a screenshot of the GUI Window. I've tried access the ...
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In my game, when the player enters a battle, they have 4 options: to move around the field, to do an active move(like a healing spell, a punch,...), to use an item, or to look at their passive ...
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which options should go in which boxes (Start, Credits, options, Quit)
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Recently I heard about possible algorithms to determine if the mouse cursor is on a GUI element such as a button: Determine the element's coordinates and size to check whether the cursor is on the ...
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This is primarily a user interface question related to match-3 games and visualizing a goal for the player using clear imagery. I'm interested in having a match-3 game where if you get certain matches ...
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Shooter games : Either Blue/teal/azure or other shades of blue and transparent or gray and transparent MMO games : Either blue and transparent or shades of Brown+Gold or a very dark red, so dark it's ...
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Many games with health systems will always display the amount of health in a head-up display. A good example is Hollow Knight, which has a detailed head-up display in the upper left corner: Some ...
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More often than not, 2D and 3D games markup interactive NPCs (and objects) with the exclamation mark symbol. Typically yellow. But of course, sometimes it's an "i" or a small cloud, or other ...
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I'm using Godot 4. I want to increase the distance between the Button's Text (and possibly icon, later on), and it's outer edges, while keeping the "Colors" options such as "Font Hover ...
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I'd been following Godot tutorials to add Drag & Drop functionality to Control nodes. They've presumably been created for Godot 3.x, but my project is 4.0. And ...
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I'm trying to build some UI for my game made in Godot 4.0. I want to make a "Toolbox" scene and need to decide what containers to use. I come from web development, where I'd use a ...
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I am developing an RTS right now and this topic came up in discussion about the UI design and patterns in Starcraft 2: When you issue a building command in any race, it will create a "draft" ...
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I have been trying to work on raycast, where if a raycast hits an object then an image will be displayed on the canvas, like on COD Warzone if I go to an elevator shaft, and look at the wire to go up, ...
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In the script below, "btn" is a local variable in OnEnable() method. It's said that local variable is deallocated (lost) when leaving the countaining method. Why this one (btn) is not ? Nb: ...
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I am using the Unity UI Toolkit and I would like to create my own TextField class (ie. input field, similar to the one I'm typing in now to write this message) with better functions using the Label ...
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I am trying to make a game without any text. I'm using icons in place of them to describe various aspects of the game (health, armor, stats) without using English language. I am wondering if anyone ...
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I want to use a TextureProgress which reflects the state of a Timer. I have tried to emit signals: FROM: the Node2D._process() ...
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Current tools: Unity 2020.3.2f1 (Win10) UI Builder preview package My end-goal is to do the following: At varying intervals, change values for many data objects in the background, such as prices, ...
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I am looking to make a musical sheet similar to the image below: I want to: use sprites prefabs have each sprite correspond to a different line Move down notes are more are being played have tail ...
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I could really use another set of eyes on this. I am running into this error: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object I can't figure out. In the script below. I've ...
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Hello I would like to make a curved healthbar (like if it is drawn on a cylinder). See the spatial UI element left to the shoulder of the character on this photo for what I mean. There is a main ...
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Within my Unity Project in my code, (see below), I have a button called Check which executes when CheckPress() function is called. I read two approaches by which this can be done. Appraoch 1: Using <...
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I am looking for the name of this sort of tap handle. This is a screenshot of it in the game Monument Valley. It has four spokes and can be rotated, behaving as one would expect of a similar design on ...
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I have created UI text object And then created Text field in behavior class: ...
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I have a widget base class and I would like to reuse (logic and wigdets as well) it. I created an empty widget and set the parent class to the base class I would like to inherit from in the class ...
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Today I learned some cool tricks about sizing containers and its children, I mainly using this, because I need to build some forms. But now... It is some preffered way how to handle forms? Or some ...
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There are a lot of posts regarding this problem in various website and even in this one but no one has given a feasible solution to this problem. I have a button that has a custom sprite. I also have ...
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I want to change the size X of my 'Horizontal Box' widget's through blueprints but cannot figure out how to do that... the properties that I want to be able to control from blueprints are marked red ...
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I was attempting to add UI overlay to my game in 1 scene (to test run it) and wanted to scale it correctly so i went to Canvas scaler and changed it to Scale with Screen size, and then suddenly my ...
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I am developing an urban racing simulator in a very "underground" stylized setting. It's name is The Underground King and you have the ability to either: A) Race in a 2d side view. B) Do something in ...
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I would like to create a game in which PC and NPCs would have a field of view, shown as a cone in the front of the entity (see picture for an example). As it would be the first game I develop using ...
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I've recently come across a problem with the UI DropDown component. I would like to resize other UI components depending on whether the dropdown is opened or closed. Unfortunately, the dropdown ...
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Only one text field, and inside it - different sections, menus, and popups, all in ascii. How to make that? I mean something like this: ...
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How do I make text appear when I mouse over GameObjects in-game? What is the Unity jargon for this? I'm assuming it's 'annotations'.
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I've made a basic UI with the following interface in Unity: I have a few different states that I want to switch between by pressing buttons - the "in-game" the "menu" and "submenus". There's buttons ...
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I'm having this terribly annoying problem where my text is being overwritten by Unity. This Happens regardless of whether I am using tags or not. Here is what I want to appear (more or less, I don't ...
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I was trying to develop a simple drag and drop items for Web. What I was trying to do is to make the UI elements from web view to mobile view when the aspect ratio is changes. I need this web view ...
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I am following a tutorial called Complete C# Unity Developer 2D: Learn to Code Making Games. In one section we create a text-based game, where we display a canvas with some UI elements to the user. ...
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I'm trying to make a "highlight frame," like a flashing box around a button for use in the game's tutorial. When the frame is tapped, I'd like it to register the tap (so the frame can be dismissed) ...
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I want to implement UI layout in Unity: And here's what I've already done in Unity using an scroll view and putting a Vertical Layout Group and a ...
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I have a code that keeps a gameObject between scenes, the theme is that this gameObjecte has as a child a button, which I can change the linerenderer color, besides changing the image of the button ...
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I feel sure that I'm missing something obvious, but I've been stuck with this over the past few days. I want to make a relatively simple UI component for a character creation screen that looks ...
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I've been making a game where the player is on the ground and has to dodge objects falling to the ground. Since I'm using libGDX (But the question still applies to any other language/framework), The ...
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I am still in the conceptualisation and early prototyping phase of a game that revolves around RPG/Bullet-time hybrid game where players compete in vs. style executing attack/defence moves per turn. ...
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I have some RectTransform on Unity UI. I have already implemented some Zoom functionality but now I need it to zoom to the area where the mouse cursor is located. Currently, it zooms to the anchor ...
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Recently I've been putting together an in-game UI for a passion project I'm working on, but I absolutely hate the UI meta at the moment. I love Morrowind's UI, in that it is central and easy to access....
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I'm trying to create a button within the settings menu that allows you to change the image of a GameObject per click. So, let's say there are only 2 different images available to choose from and it ...
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I have been working with Unity for some time, and I am trying to get a better understand of the UI system. I am a mobile developer and am redesigning the UI but I am unable to achieve what I want. My ...
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this might seem like a silly question but I'm raycasting on specific objects (Targets) in a scene and zooming in on them but i also have a few UI elements (buttons, toggles...) on the side of the ...
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i want to add a tutorial part to my game that i make by unity.i have some panels that for tutorial purpose i want to limit user to just click a button.most of games make a dark panel over all places ...
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