Simple Score

[Cybrknight]

Can I use NGUI without a panel for use as a score label, or is it more efficient to use something else?

[ArenMook]

You need to have a panel somewhere in order for the UI to work. It can be all the way down on your UIRoot if desired, but it has to be somewhere.

[Nicki]

For a score panel, that usually changes every Update, you will want to put it into its own panel, so it doesn't redraw everything else in the panel as well.

[Cybrknight]

Thanks Nicki,

So a panel is an area of the GUI that changes together? Also, would you use NGUI for a score, or something else?

[Ferazel]

Cybrknight - From what I understand a UIPanel is an area of UI elements that are rendered together. UIPanel allows for areas of UI to be clipped to areas and other spiffy functionality. You can definitely use a NGUI AnchorPoint/Panel/UILabel to render a score item or an item that changes frequently. Just if it is a part of an area that needs to have recalculated bounds or something with a changing value there may be overhead with that if there are a lot of other items on the same panel as the label.

[Nicki]

In the latest game I worked on (http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=131148) all the GUI is done with NGUI. I recommend it.