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PlayMaker News => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fat Pug Studio on November 24, 2016, 10:04:35 AM

Title: Recommend a simple 2D UI asset
Post by: Fat Pug Studio on November 24, 2016, 10:04:35 AM

Hi guys,

i've been making a game for almost a year now, and been learning unity for more than a year. I'm not really skilled but i have some basic programming skills and things are going slow but fine.

One thing remains pretty horrible for me. It's the dreaded user interface, i'm really having trouble with canvases, scalers, rect tranforms and all the clunky mechanics the unity implements and that are over the top for my needs.

I tried NGUI but it's too complex, way over my needs.

There's InstantGui which is free on the store, but it is also clunky, i haven't managed to find my way around.

What i need: Some simple 2D GUI system with simple button resizing, sliders and toggle boxes.

Main menu would be something like this:

(http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/thumb/3/38/Steredenn_-_General.png/300px-Steredenn_-_General.png)

(http://pixelnest.io/work/steredenn/medias/arena.gif)

And the other place where i would implement the UI would be shop, which would also be simple:

(http://media.indiedb.com/images/members/4/3295/3294092/profile/DreadStarshop.png)

(https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/s6.jpg)

Some things i saw, but haven't tried

DoozuUI - Uses Unity UI but seems simple enough. Unfortunately, there's not a demo to try it out (as far as i have seen). Has support for Playmaker which is neat.

Psd 2 Unity uGUI Pro - It's idea has stricken me as simple. I make an interface in Photoshop, then simply transfer it, but it also has no demo to try out.

2D Toolkit - It has support for Playmaker, but i don't know can i make only UI in it, or should i transfer my whole game to 2D toolkit? Also, i haven't tried it, i don't know if it's easy or not.

So, any suggestions or experience in using any of these?

Title: Re: Recommend a simple 2D UI asset
Post by: jeanfabre on November 25, 2016, 01:42:42 AM

Hi,

 I guess you should maybe go back into spending some time to learn properly either Unity UI or nGUI, because they totally worth investing time to properly master them.

Any other framework will only get you 80% where you want, and you'll be stuck again for the remaining 10% whereas ngui or UGUi will give you 95-99%

I would totally go for giving doozie a try, as it seems solid and indeed has PlayMaker support.

Bye,

 Jean

Title: Re: Recommend a simple 2D UI asset
Post by: Fat Pug Studio on November 25, 2016, 02:05:18 AM

Thanks Jean, i guess you're right.