Posts Tagged ‘Texture’
Unity: How to create a GUI Sprite Sheet – Part 2
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
This is the second part of a series that will explain how to create a GUI sprite sheet for Unity. For this part, we will take the images created in the first post and import them to Unity. Also, this post features how to correctly set the images to be part of a GUI Skin object so they can be used as part of a game’s interface.
After having all images correctly placed at the sprite sheet, create a new GUI Skin by right-clicking anywhere inside the Project tab and select the following: Create->GUI Skin. Then, import the images in Unity, by dragging and dropping them inside this tab. It’s a good idea to put everything GUI related at the same folder, like this: (more…)
Unity: How to create a GUI Sprite Sheet – Part 1
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Featured, Programming
This post is the first of a series that explains how to create a GUI sprite sheet (a.k.a. atlas map) in the Unity game engine. This map consists of buttons, text areas, backgrounds and other interface elements joined together to create various joined image files with all interface elements inside it.
Here, the focus will be on how to prepare and create this images at an image editing software, which is the most important step. The next post of this series will explain how to import these images in Unity and place them inside a GUI Skin object.
The first thing to do is to have all the GUI elements needed for the game or specific part of the game. They have to be already created before building the sprite sheet, at least their size have to be already defined. Throughout this post, the following GUI elements will be used to exemplify how to correctly join the images together:
Unity3D: Non-rectangular GUI buttons – Part 3
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Featured, Programming
This is the last post of this series, which explains how to create non-rectangular GUI buttons for Unity3D games. If you haven’t read any of the other posts yet, it is highly recommended that you take a look at part one and part two before going any further.
So, let’s start from where the second post left: we already have our Unity3D scene set up with the 3D hit test model already imported and placed inside the scene. All we have to do now is import the PNG images and make then appear as a GUI element. To do that, just drag and drop then somewhere inside the Project tab. After the images are inside Unity3D, create a GUISkin by right clicking an empty space in this same tab and select Create->GUISkin as shown: (more…)
Unity3D: Non-rectangular GUI buttons – Part 2
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
This post series explains how to create non-rectangular shaped buttons in Unity3D. This is the second part, so if you missed the first one, it is almost required that you read it here. The first post explained how to set up the 2D image, and then, make a 3D model out of it to serve as hit test area. This 3D model is necessary because we are going to use Unity3D’s Raycast collision detection do make the buttons.
This post will explain all the steps necessary to prepare the Unity3D scene to receive the non-rectangular GUI code.
Unity3D: Non-rectangular GUI buttons – Part 1
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Featured, Programming
Unity3D is a great tool to make games, but sometimes we encounter some limitations like the hit test area of the GUI buttons: they all have to be rectangular. This post series shows how to overcome this limitation letting you create GUI buttons that can have any shape.
It will cover it all, since the initial operations required to export the button’s PNG file from the image editing software, to the code at Unity3D. So, the post series will be divided into 3 parts, that will cover all the necessary steps.
In this first post, everything that must be done outside Unity3D will be explained. You will need a image editing software (like Photoshop or GIMP) and a 3D modeling software such as 3D Studiomax or Blender.