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Misc Archive / [Release] Word Candy - Mobile game using NGUI

« on: January 19, 2015, 05:20:27 PM »

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share the release of my new mobile game using NGUI, called Word Candy! You can find it on the Google Play Store, Amazon Store or the Apple App Store below. Check it out!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WordCandy
http://www.amazon.com/WakeZero-Word-Candy/dp/B00RAQPYGM/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id953904545

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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Culling Mask on (UI)Camera being changed unknowningly

« on: December 17, 2014, 10:46:52 PM »

Yea, that's how they are setup (so they all can use 0,0,0 world space). Still not sure what's causing it, but now that I check in the update call if the culling mask changes, I just set it back to the original value with no issue.

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NGUI 3 Support / Culling Mask on (UI)Camera being changed unknowningly

« on: December 16, 2014, 01:10:22 AM »

Hey, I just wanted to point out an obscure bug I finally tracked down. Occasionally on my mobile device, the foreground NGUI widgets would fail to show up when loading a level etc. and I couldn't find the root cause. It finally reproduced itself in the editor, where I found out the camera responsible for those widgets had somehow had it's culling mask reset. I have no idea how it's happening, because I load those cameras in as prefabs at launch and don't touch them. My setup is as follows.

I have my main camera rendering my game objects, and two UICameras handling my UI (one for the background, and one for the foreground) which basically sandwich the main camera. Each of the UI cameras is on it's own layer, and their culling mask is set to that layer. They are both children of UI root, and whenever I add a panel/widget to those layers, I parent them to their respective camera. The root is marked DontDestroyOnLoad so it persists through scene changes. Whenever I add widgets/panels I use NGUITools.AddChild, and whenever I dispose of them I call NGUITools.Destroy.

Anyway, as far as I can tell I'm not making any calls that would affect the culling mask being changed. Any ideas on what the issue could be, or how I might go about fixing it? So far I think I'm just going to have to make sure they are set properly each update.

Thanks!

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NGUI 3 Support / UIGrid can't be used as anchor target

« on: December 12, 2013, 02:48:49 AM »

First off, I am loving the new anchor system. It's much more intuitive than the old system.

I have one problem though: I can't use a UIGrid as an anchor point. The deprecated stretch and anchor scripts however treat it just fine.

What I am trying to do is have a tiled sprite as a background in the scroll view window that moves with the elements in the UIGrid. I then want to overlay a gradient over the tiled sprite so one end is one color, and the other end is another. To do this however, I need the tiled sprite to be the length of the UIGrid.