Masking UI and game objects in Unity is incredibly simple! — UI The following example will use two images, but it can be extended to any type of UI element. Masking a UI element means using a second superimposed element to show only a portion of the first one. The first thing to do…

Learning about Unity UI Image: Sprite, Colour, Type — Following this series of power tutorials, I’m going to dive into the basic properties of the Unity UI Image component. From the creation menu, it is easy to add a new image element to the canvas. Notice that an image element, text or anything UI-related is just a canvas object…

Unity UI Rect Transform is your friend — Similarly to other game objects in Unity, also UI elements have a transform component, but due to their intrinsically different nature, this transform is way different from the others. Unity UI elements have a Rect Transform (Rect stands for rectangle). Let’s look at it. Position The position (Pos) parameters are not…

At no cost at all! — Since we’re diving into this journey in the Unity UI tools, I think we should stop here, at Spritesheet-Ville. Spritesheets are quite complex images, usually .PNG format, containing many sub-images, the Sprites. In one file. you can carry as many as you want but you’ll need to cut it, or…

Learning the Basic concepts of Unity UI — Hi guys, let’s start a series of articles about Unity UI. Just to get warmed up, let’s begin with some basics. To create a Unity UI object, you can follow these steps in the creation context menu: After the creation a couple…

Hope you’re not in this, but if you are, here’s some help to get out — I was in a relationship deadlock with my wife. I sincerely hope you’re reading this out of curiosity, but if you are not and live in a deadlock yourself: I feel you, here is some help for you. What is a deadlock? Let me share an example for you: imagine, in IT, a process…

AR Vuforia project coming to life — In this Unity AR project featuring the Vuforia Engine, I have a 3D horse model that pops in AR using a specific image target. AR Object Detection in Unity with Vuforia Using an Image Target for object detection in an AR Unity Projectmedium.com A simple UI drives transitions between states, allowing the user to switch from the vanilla horse to an exposition of its leg muscles and finally the…