Simple VR UI

Hello!

I'm relatively new to Unity--after jumping ship from Unreal I'm trying to find my way around this new world. One thing I'm trying to do is create a simple UI settings menu. Something that can pop up (doesn't need to follow the user's point of view), has a few tabs or pages or whatever, then can be closed.

I know that I need to use a canvas that's set to world space, and I can figure out setting up buttons and all, but I can't figure out how to make the canvas multi-tabbed or multi-paged, and how to have the canvas open & close when a button is pressed. Am I correct in thinking that a canvas can have multiple pages or tabs, or should I be creating a different parent element which contains multiple canvases? I'm not finding many tutorials online dealing with 3d menus in a VR environment.

Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction!

 

Your questions have nothing to do with the menus being "3D" (whatever that means) or VR. A canvas is a canvas. (The only caution is that you'll want your canvas to be in World Space mode, but you already figured that out.)

So you just need to go through a few of the UI tutorials (which you'll quickly find via the Learn link at the top of this page). Multiple pages/tabs are nothing more or less than activating/deactivating GameObjects within your canvas, arranged however you want them. Same for opening/closing the canvas in response to a button or some game event.

 

Thank you so much! I guess I was thrown off by the 3d element, but I ended up figuring it out after realizing what you said, that a canvas is a canvas.

Cheers!