Parenting NGUI widgets together

[eyali]

Hi All,

I know it simple problem but it seems that I can't solve it. I have 3 UIButton and I want to group them all to make a prefab and attahced the prefab to the panel.

Any ideas?

Thank u in advace

[Docteur Cox]

I think your should just create a subpanel to group your widgets and set your main panel as parent to that panel. 

[eyali]

I'll give it a shot...thnx. But what about performance hit?

[Docteur Cox]

No idea, I'm fairly new to NGUI too, so you should wait for more experienced user to answer

[ArenMook]

Panel
- GameObject (prefab this)
-- Button 1
-- Button 2
-- Button 3

[eyali]

What do u mean by GameObject ? any gameObject can do it? say for example an empty?

[OnlineCop]

eyali: That is correct, an empty GameObject.

Create the main panel as normal.
Create a new (empty) GameObject
Create 3 buttons, as children to that new GameObject.

In the Project window of Unity, create a new prefab and drag the new GameObject with those 3 attached buttons into the new prefab instance.

Then if you have different scenes with their own panels, you can still instantiate the prefab you've just created and get the same button layout everywhere (good for consistency across screens, which players like).

[ArenMook]

Select a game object and hit ALT+SHIFT+N -- this adds a new child underneath.