Unity 5.x Cookbook

Displaying the value of an interactive UI Slider

This recipe illustrates how to create an interactive UI Slider, and execute a C# method each time the user changes the Slider value.

How to do it...

To create a UI Slider and display its value on the screen, follow these steps:

1. Create a new 2D project.
2. Add a UI Text GameObject to the scene with a Font size of 30 and placeholder text such as slider value here (this text will be replaced with the slider value when the scene starts).
3. In the Hierarchy panel, add a UI | Slider game object to the scene—choose the menu: GameObject | UI | Slider.
4. In the Inspector tab, modify settings for the Rect Transform to position ...