Creating the menu with the Unity GUI class and GUI skins

As we already have a working menu, rather than removing it from our scene, we will temporarily disable the objects that make it up.

Disabling game objects

One at a time, select the menu_playBtn, the menu_instructionsBtn, and the menu_quitBtn in the Hierarchy, and deactivate them by doing the following:

  • In the Inspector, uncheck the checkbox to the left-hand side of the name of the object at the top
  • Ensure that this has turned the text of the object to light gray in the Hierarchy and that the element itself has disappeared from the Game view preview—you should now be left with only the game title logo texture visible

Creating the menu

For this example, we'll be using Unity's GUI class, and make ...

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