NGUI for Unity电子书

NGUI for Unity

Table of Contents

NGUI for Unity

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with NGUI

What is NGUI?

UnityGUI versus NGUI

Atlases

Events

Localization

Shaders

Importing NGUI

Creating your UI

UI Wizard

Window

Parameters

Separate UI Layer

Your UI structure

UI Root (2D)

Parameters

Camera

Parameters

Anchor

Parameters

Panel

Parameters

Summary

2. Creating Widgets

Creating our first widget

Widget Wizard

Selecting an atlas

Creating a widget from a template

Transforming widgets

Moving widgets

Rotating widgets

Scaling widgets

Common widget parameters

Sprites

Sliced sprites

Tiled sprites

Filled sprites

Labels

Parameters

Creating the title bar

Buttons

Parameters

The play and exit buttons

Text input

Parameters

Creating a nickname box

Slider

Parameters

Creating a volume slider

Toggle

Parameters

Creating a sound toggle

Popup list

Parameters

Creating a difficulty selector

Summary

3. Enhancing your UI

NGUI components

The draggable panel

Parameters

Dragging the MainMenu

The drag-and-drop system

Powers selection

Draggable items container

Draggable items

The drop surface

Prefab instantiated on drop

Handling an invalid drop

Replacing the current item

Removing the current item

Animations with NGUI

Smooth powers apparition

Clipping to hide options

Scrollable text

Localization system

Localization files

Localization component

Language selection box

Localizing a Label

Summary

4. C# with NGUI

Events methods

Creating a tool tip

The tool tip reference

Showing the tool tip

Tween methods

Main menu apparition

Simple Tween

Smooth Tween

Using keys for navigation

Error notification

Saving the nickname

Sending messages

Forwarding an event

Summary

5. Building a Scrollable Viewport

Preparing the Game scene

The scrollable viewport

Draggable background

Linking scroll bars

Keyboard scrolling

Creating draggable barriers

The BarrierObject prefab

Dropping a barrier on Viewport

Creating an ActiveBarrier prefab

The ActiveBarrier prefab

Instantiating the ActiveBarrier prefab

Barrier's building process

Forwarding events to viewport

BarrierObject cooldown

Cooldown implementation

BarrierObject smooth apparition

The barrier availability tool tip

Summary

6. Atlas and Font Customization

The Atlas prefab

Creating a new Atlas

Adding sprites to Atlas

Simple sprites

Adding sprites to Atlas

Available powers icons

Selected powers icons

Sliced sprites

Adding a sprite to Atlas

Configuring a sliced sprite

The Main Menu window

Tiled sprites

Adding a font

Exporting a font using BMFont

Creating a font in Unity

Assigning a new font to Label

Customizing the MainMenu

Summary

7. Creating a Game with NGUI

Enemy spawning

Creating the enemies container

Creating the Enemy prefab

Creating the enemy spawn controller

Forwarding events to viewport

Handling enemy collisions

Collisions with active barriers

Colliding with the bottom of the screen

Healthbar

The EndOfScreen widget

Creating self-destruct code

The hacking slider

Self-destruct code

Assigning code to an enemy

The hacking process

Handling player input

Summary

Index