Demonstrations

Image Buttons Menu

Images with white or transparent background image is imported in the scene and then the Shader is selected as Unlit/Transparent that selects the image only. Now the aim is to make this image a simple menu that is responsive on click.

Here, the resources are downloaded from the website given in the book, a script is written and attached to the Main Camera. Main Camera detects the click on the image and then executes the button specific action that is to print which image is selected at the top center of the game screen. And then the cube of size of a button is created and a button image is kept inside it around the center and its Mesh Filter and Mesh Renderer is removed. It is then copied and applied on two different button image. Video of a game play, and two screen shots are provided as a part of the demonstration.

Bibiliography

TheFlyingKeyboard | Fly The Keyboard With Us!. 2021. Unity UI C# Simple Main Menu | TheFlyingKeyboard. [online] Available at: <http://theflyingkeyboard.net/unity/unity-ui-c-simple-main-menu/> [Accessed 19 February 2021].

This reference is selected because the explanation on creating a menu is very code along with some code snippets but it not completely beginner friendly and the complete script to refer is not provided but to get a grasp on creation of menu whether be image or not, this one explains very well.

YouTube. 2021. START MENU in Unity. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8ac_qUXQY> [Accessed 19 February 2021].

This reference is selected as in this video the developer demonstrates how to create a simple yet eye catching menu. Here the tutor utilizes TextMesh Pro, set the color gradient for the font itself, Button and then aligning both along with some shadow hover effects. This is very well explained, beginer friendly and the action to occur after button of the menu gets clicked is also well explained.