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

Unless the player is going to be dragging multiple items at once, you could probably handle that with a simple array and a couple of offsets to compensate for the location of the bag, then a single button. That's how I'd do it, at least.

 

Hmmm, I meant that the problem with such a system is having a very lengthy list in the hierarchy window, if each sprite/button/gui widget is a game object. EDIT: Unless you mean we can turn sprites into just variables in an array instead of in a gameobject?

 

That's absolutely what I mean. It's how I handle pretty much all my inventory systems at this point. Accessing an array and just building tiles and doing everything behind the scenes is generally more efficient and easier to manage in development.

 

Guys the truth is.... the new GUI is coming out in 4.6. But 4.6 will never be released.

 

I am looking forward to the release of Unity 4.6 and the new uGUI but I am also looking forward to using it in conjunction with TextMesh Pro. Such a powerful tool when it comes to handling text.

 

Would it be possible to extend the event system to send these events through the GUI event system? I'm talking about two finger zoom or two finger drag events for example that are not just read through input.touches, but that are actually sent as events to GUI elements based on their position.

Lets take an example. Say I have a GUI item that shows a 2D map. When you use two (or more) fingers on this map, I want you to be able to zoom and/or drag the map. When you use two (or more) fingers outside of the map, I want you to be able to change the view direction and/or field of view of the camera. You could even do both at the same time.

I understand that multi touch events are a bit trickier to handle then classical mouse events, but it would really be great to have those too.

 

My bad, I haven't fiddled around with the Unity 2d system yet, that sounds good.

 

wow! excellent!

if i make a button i can choose spriteSwap or animation
or both by adding two button components
because i wanna swap sprites and animate the label when pressed

1. is there a better way then adding two button components?

2. the button provides a nice ui to hookup to onClick but how can i hook up to other button events like pointerEnter & Exit?

thank you

 

Animations can swap sprites. In other words, changing colors and swapping sprites are the fast easy ways, but animations can do everything.

 

Will we be able to make small tweaks using the arrow keys?

 

Will the GUI have a style or skin, e.g a menu has a group of buttons and text labels that share a set of common elements, color, font, image, sfx. Changing large groups of buttons and GUI elements could be made simple if you could have a style group allowing you to change all of the elements in the group from one location?

I suppose a style or skin is very similar to a prefab but the main difference is that a style/skin would be limited to formatting information e.g font and font size not text.

 

Styles should work across prefabs. A prefab is about content/functionality, a style would be about presentation. I can certainly see value in having dedicated style management stuff.

 

Agreed. You could sorta pull off styles with prefabs (title_prefab, subtitle_prefab, etc...) but it would be bulky. For small projects/tools I still use the OnGUI stuff, and built a rudimentary CSS type class that uses GUIStyle. It would be useful if something similar was available on in the GUI.

 

thanks. also: EventTrigger component can be used to handle ui events (https://github.com/jaredoc/unity-ugui/tree/master/overview)

 

i have a gui that depends on z
https://9362f7c5b78532c299c3cc8ce7b...ost/0B1zNP8rWT1IEQUYzQVlTYUxHcGs/FlowWeb.html
is there anyway to make the canvas respect z?
or how to adjust hierarchy (z) order in code?
thanks

 

You should probably post this in the GUI Support part of the forums: http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/unitygui.25/

 

Please tell me 4.6 is coming soon.

I mean, come on. What's taking so long lol.

 

It's coming soon.

 

Since UnityGUI and uGUI are completely different systems, wouldn't that not be the correct place to ask questions about uGUI?

 

I was meaning after it was already built and the end user was using it.

 

will there be any native tool to help us convert IMGUI to uGUI?

 

Do we have a list of tutorials for upcoming uGUI? I've seen one video with an overview, can anyone please share consolidated list if any?

 

I doubt this is even possible.

But the transition would be so much easier if the delegates accepted enums and booleans, not just strings and integers.

 

Without reading this whole thread, does the unity4.6 will come in patch?

 

@Asdlkjqweo I dont think so.

 

lol when is it going to be out?

now i REALLY want this...

 

@CaoMengde777 I'm guessing 22th August

 

How did you guess that date?

 

It's the last day of Unite 2014, which would be a fitting event for releasing a new version or at least announcing a proper release date.
http://unity3d.com/unite/unite2014

 

My guess is August 25. I think 4.6 will be announced and shown at Unite - on day 1 - then made available for download on the following Monday.

 

October 21, 2015.

 

While being impressed by what I have seen so far in the videos I'm worried about the things I didn't see.

Just watching carefully through the video, I can't see how text is adjusted for different resolutions (Unlike the images which seem to be stretched according to anchor placements). Text seems to get a font size and that's it. Any changes to game resolution will retain the same font size.
Is there an option to set the size of the text to retain a certain proportion of the screen, so we don't have to change the font size according to each device/screen we output to?
How does exactly using "Best fit" work with text?

Would have also been very happy to see the implementation of guides and external rulers for each canvas game object.

 

That is what the 'Best Fit' toggle is for; it will re-adjust the text to 'best fit' to its parent object's size(If the text is anchored via a percentage of the parent's width/height). ive attached a screenshot of the same title strip resized to different sizes, with it's text set to 'Best Fit'.

When Best Fit is enabled, you are also able to set a Min/Max text size so that your text doesn't scale to be too big or too small.

 

I am willing to bet £1-million that uGUI will not ship on this date.

 

Would you be willing to bet it would be before that date?

 

Yes. Any takers of this bet?

 

@Andy Touch So this literally means that uGUI will be out before Unite, right?

 

I would really like to know how much time difference is between the releases 4.6 and 5.0. Or could it happen that 5.0 is released before 4.6 ?

 

4.6 will be out before 5.0.
5.0 will have new GUI in it aswell.

 

All they've said is that they won't be released on the same day. Since 5.0 hasn't even gone to beta yet (again, confirmed by UT), you can safely assume that 4.6 will be out before 5.0.

My guess is that 4.6 will be announced during the keynote on Aug 20 and available immediately.

 

Yes, I am here, i will bet for this date for sure.
Unity 4.6 will not come in summer as Unity Tech says.
Amount is 10,000USD.

 

Ok, it's just that I don't want to upgrade/adjust a project 2 times in a row. So not sure if I should wait for 5.0 or take the plunge for 4.6. Guess we have to wait until 20th August anyways^

 

I guess not many people read the year on that post...

 

I am willing to to bet $10,000 that Unity 5 will ship before 21st October 2015. Any takers?

 

Really? Bet not taken, but that seems very fair - how about 4.6?

 

Well, that's the U5 date that Murligod proposed.

 

Don't feel forced to upgrade your project every time a new version comes out. Only update if you really need one of the new features, otherwise your better off continuing on w/e version you were on. Avoids the early-bird bugs and having to update already written code.