Chapter 9. Designing Menus
In order to create a rounded example game in this chapter, we will look at creating a separate scene to our existing island scene to act as a menu. Menu design in Unity can be achieved in a number of ways using a combination of built-in behaviors and 2D texture rendering.
Game titles can be added using GUITextures, GUI class scripting, or by adding textures to a flat plane primitive; these may be used to create for example a splash screen with developer logos, parts of a game's GUI or loading screens. In this chapter, you will learn:
- Two different approaches to interface design
- Controlling GUITexture components with scripted mouse events
- Writing a basic Unity GUI script
- Defining 2D spaces with Rect values
- Styling GUI code ...
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