Resizing the UI according to the screen size and resolution
One of the most difficult things to do in the older versions of Unity was scaling the UI (or GUI, the old Unity user interface system). In fact, the system was hard to learn, and most of the features had to be implemented by scripts, including scaling. However, in Unity 5, scaling the UI is much easier with the Canvas Scaler (Script) component. This component will take care of the scale of all UI elements that are contained in Canvas.
How to do it...
- If we check the previous recipe, we can see in the Hierarchy panel that Canvas is already present in our scene. This is because whenever we create a UI element and Canvas is not present in the scene, Unity will create it for us. Of course, ...
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