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Unity UI Button with radial fill sprite only clickable on visible area?

Discussion in 'UGUI & TextMesh Pro' started by MikkoK-HS, Aug 23, 2018.

  1. MikkoK-HS

    MikkoK-HS

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    I'm trying to create a dynamic radial menu where the amount of buttons can easily be changed. I had the idea of using a single circular sprite for the background of the buttons and adjusting the fill amount to create any size of button I need.

    However, I've run into a problem. The clickable area of the buttons seems to cover the entire sprite, not just the area that is visible according to the fill amount. I tried setting Image.alphaHitTestMinimumThreshold to more than zero but it doesn't affect the areas of the sprite hidden by fill amount, just the areas that are transparent in the original sprite. I also tried adding a mask that would hide parts of the button, but apparently you can click buttons even through a mask, which seems a bit weird to me.

    Is there a way to create a button that uses a radial fill sprite, where only the visible are is clickable?
     
  2. Hosnkobf

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  3. MikkoK-HS

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    @Hosnkobf
    Hey thanks for the tip, that solved it. You had me scared there but it only needed some very basic vector math.

    What I did was I calculated the origin vector and the click point vector, then compared the angle between those vectors to the fill amount.
     
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  4. Deleted User

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    I don't understand what it is you did exactly to solve your issue either. Could someone provide an code example, or explain a little more in depth more on how I can calculate the angle between the original vector and the click point vector and implement it into a script that'll only make the fill areas clickable?
     
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  5. BadToxic

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    For anyone struggling with the same problem, here the solution:

    Code (CSharp):
    1. using UnityEngine;
    2. using UnityEngine.UI;
    3.  
    4. public class ImageFilledClickableSlices : Image {
    5.     public override bool IsRaycastLocationValid(Vector2 screenPoint, Camera eventCamera) {
    6.         bool result = base.IsRaycastLocationValid(screenPoint, eventCamera);
    7.         if (!result) {
    8.             return false;
    9.         }
    10.         Vector2 localPoint;
    11.         RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(rectTransform, screenPoint, eventCamera, out localPoint);
    12.         float clickAngle = Vector2.SignedAngle(localPoint, new Vector2(0, -1));
    13.         return (clickAngle >= 0) && (clickAngle < (360f * fillAmount));
    14.     }
    15. }
     
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  6. Arthur-LVGameDev

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    This should get added to the base/core UI code -- no reason not to, it isn't expensive (at least relative to existing alpha test capabilities), and I think it'd be very helpful for many developers to have this be built-in & work directly out of the box!