[Official]New UI System.... coming in Unity 4.6

I assume you are talking about the current Unity GUI. Basically every single person who is using Unity would miss it a lot, because the Unity editor is based on it.

 

Most peoples' old projects use the "old" GUI system. If it were removed, those projects would not work anymore. I don't think most people would want to go and upgrade all their old projects with the new GUI system just to get them working again.

 

The "old" GUI is essential for many even for just displaying debug info at runtime without the need to create a hierarchy of objects that would be a nightmare to maintain for something that won't be even into the final game.

 

I'd like to know if this new GUI will cater to this user case:
left mouse click = shoot, unless that click happens over a UI button.

With the current GUI there are 2 solutions
using GUILayer.HitTest in Update, and this won't work with the new GUI
using GUIUtility.hotControl in OnGUI, which probably won't work either.

Moreover, I'm interested in the synchronization.
Will the button click arise in Update, FixedUpdate or another function similar to OnGUI?
Thanks.

 

I should've used more clarity in my post, sorry. I meant after the new UI, when people start new projects, I don't see who would chose the current UI over the upcoming one.

 

I am going to make a retro theme for the new GUI that looks like the old one

 

It's definitely coming soon, I've already published an asset on the Asset Store that supports "uGUI" (as well as nGUI and others) which I developed using the 4.6 beta. I have to say, the workflow for uGUI is just amazing.

 

4.6 confirmed for Unite.

 

?

 

That was a joke lol.

I guess this forum doesn't understand jokes like that, it's alright, my bad.

It was a silly way of saying 4.6 is MOST LIKELY coming at Unite.

 

One thing, can we use both at the same time? I mean will GUI.depth work with the new transform based UI?

 

They're 2 completely separate things

 

Sorry, it was not my intention to destroy your joke
Even if Unite is going to be in a few days, it is not impossible that something leaked or even that an actual announcement was made. Unlikely, but definitely not impossible. Those thoughts were the cause for my reply.

 

As somebody who's been writing a LOT of editor extensions lately, I can't use the new one over the old one for a lot of my needs.

 

It's not so simple: a release often fixes some bugs (that you know about) while adding new ones (that are unknown when you port). Certainly porting to Unity 5 mid-development is crazy (a 5.0.0 will be way more buggy than a 4.6.2)

 

It all rests on the testers shoulders, u can't really know how buggy it will be, you can just extrapolate stats

 

Are you saying that you've downloaded a pirate copy of unity with the new gui and can't figure out how to use it?

 

There's a beta for Unity 4.6 which includes uGUI

 

Then, logically, wouldn't they post in the beta forum to which they have access to ask this?

 

That's a good point, looking at the guy's profile he just joined today, and that was his first post. So yeah, probably pirate.

 

Yes, I know. It can be freely downloaded from their CDN.

 

It's an emergent fact of software development that for each level in the version, point-zero releases have more bugs, for the simple reason that they add more features and yet those features are less battle-hardened by users.

 

Yes, plus I like it for quickly prototyping UI flow in a new project before spending time getting the real UI working.

 

Yay: http://unity3d.com/unity/beta/4.6

 

Did they really just say the whole thing is written in C#?

Does that mean we're not looking at any real performance gain over, say, NGUI - with the very high cost of rebuilding meshes from C# scripts? - For mobile developers, a significant UI performance gain is/was perhaps the most exciting thing to look forward in the near future of Unity....

Will be interesting to take a look at the beta, anyway

(Edit: Panic over, looks like at least Canvas/CanvasRenderer is native, and CanvasRenderer.SetVertices looks very useful!)

 

No, the whole portion that was written in C# is open source - but not every aspect of the new UI is on the C# layer. Certain things still exist on C++ land.

 

Wanna create your own skins for the new GUI system super quickly? Prototype like a boss with GUI Generator!

 

There are official beta access users without access to special forums or groups.

 

Kind of feel spammed by you now. I liked your video 10 posts above but now again?

 

http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/ui
There are some tutorials and walkthrough videos too. How cool is that

 

4.6 + Tutorials on it on day one = Pure Awesomeness. Thanks Unity.

 

AWESOMEEEE!

 

WOW! Day-1 GUI tutorials and Opensourcing the new gui!

 

HOLY S***! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? GONARCH ET LABORA!

 

Yesss. Thanks, Unity!

 

Hey just downloaded the new gui update. One question: How do I install both 4.5.3 and 4.6 beta on the same computer without using separate drives on Mac OS X?

 

Thanks I'll try that

 

Yea, sorry, I just thought it worth mentioning since 4.6 hit public beta allowing anyone to try it. Point taken though it was, as they say "too soon".

 

They delivered! Haven't played around with it yet, but it looks awesome from the videos.

 

Any examples/tutorials/etc. yet for creating drag and drop functionality?

 

Any news on how to interact with the new UI via scripts?

 

It's quite simple. The information is publicly available in the beta documentation.

 

I've been using old GUI Text in my project and now I switched to new UI system.
How do I fade in/out text now?

I have script that operates with GUI Text.
How to make it work with the new UI?

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using UnityEngine;
3.  
4. public class TextFadeInOut : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     public float fadeDuration = 3.0f;
7.     public bool fadeIn = false;
8.     public bool fadeOut = false;
9.    
10.     private void Start ()
11.     {
12.         StartCoroutine(StartFading());
13.     }
14.    
15.     private IEnumerator StartFading()
16.     {
17.         if (fadeIn)
18.             yield return StartCoroutine(Fade(0.0f, 1.0f, fadeDuration));
19.         if (fadeOut) {
20.             yield return StartCoroutine (Fade (1.0f, 0.0f, fadeDuration));
21.             Destroy (gameObject);
22.         }
23.     }
24.    
25.     private IEnumerator Fade (float startLevel, float endLevel, float time)
26.     {
27.         float speed = 1.0f/time;
28.        
29.         for (float t = 0.0f; t < 1.0; t += Time.deltaTime*speed)
30.         {
31.             float a = Mathf.Lerp(startLevel, endLevel, t);
32.             guiText.font.material.color = new Color(guiText.font.material.color.r,
33.                                                     guiText.font.material.color.g,
34.                                                     guiText.font.material.color.b, a);
35.             yield return 0;
36.         }
37.     }
38. }

 

UI.Graphic.Color (look it up in your local copy of the 4.6 scripting reference)

 

There are no code examles in docs.
How do I refer to my UI.Text or UI.Button in the script? (When I try to I get an error "The type or namespace name `UI' could not be found.")
Could you give me some code example, 'cause I can't figure out how to use this new API.
Thanks.

 

Well, it's pretty simple...

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5. public class ColorChanger : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     private Graphic myUIElement;
8.  
9.     void Start ()
10.     {
11.         myUIElement = GetComponent<Graphic>();
12.     }
13.  
14.     public void ChangeColor()
15.     {
16.         myUIElement.color = new Color(Random.value, Random.value, Random.value, Random.value);
17.     }
18. }

 

Someone know how to check if mouse is over the GUI?