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NGUI 3 Support / NGUI and Unity 5

« on: September 12, 2014, 04:34:18 AM »

Unity 5 is coming. My games are 2D and fully developed in NGUI.
Will NGUI keep working with Unity 5 (or it's not possible to know yet?)?
Will I have to change my code to adapt my games with NGUI to Unity 5?

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NGUI 3 Support / On adding events

« on: September 11, 2014, 04:58:47 AM »

I need to be sure about one point.
About:

1. UIEventListener.Get(gameObject).onHover = OnHoverNGUI;

and

1. UIEventListener.Get(gameObject).onHover += OnHoverNGUI;

(which is just the "+" symbol), please, tell me if I am right:
The second ADD a new method/function to be execute on a click and the first set the ONLY method/function, so it there were a previous one, the previous will be never execute.

Is it correct?

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NGUI 3 Support / UI Camera events vs UI Event Trigger

« on: September 11, 2014, 04:22:28 AM »

I have been using UI Event Trigger to handle events on my sprites, but I am starting to guess I'm doing it wrong.
Why should I use UI Event Trigger (or even UI Button) if UI Camera is sending events and can get them on my scritps?

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NGUI 3 Support / Animations modifying images (spriteName)

« on: September 08, 2014, 05:50:23 AM »

Hello.
I want to make an animation and modify the png with NGUI within the animation.
With pure Unity, I could add a SpriteRenderer script and then modify the sprites in the animation.
How should I procced with NGUI (and Unity 4.5)? In the Animation Window, I don't see any field to modify the spriteName. I'm using UI2Dsprites with Atlases and I want to make the typical animation based on an Atlas with 10 pngs moving my character.

Thank you.

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NGUI 3 Support / Scroll View doubts

« on: July 14, 2014, 05:13:32 AM »

After having read carefully the video tutorials of this component, I can make several things, but still have 2 doubts. I'll try to be as detailed as possible.

• I have a scroll view and inside some buttons. If I use unified anchors with the buttons, the scroll view stops to drag, since positions of the buttons seem to be fixed. In this case I used anchors related to UIRoot. However, if I don't use unified anchors, when I move from 16:9 to 4:3 the buttons are no longer aligned to the left as I wish.
  How should I proceed?
• If I add the UICenterOnChild script to my scroll view, the buttons are auto-centered. What I need is to autoalign to the left (with a little separation to the left) like in many games.How should I proceed?

Thank you.

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NGUI 3 Support / HD and SD atlas - Pizel size

« on: July 12, 2014, 11:47:57 AM »

I am making games for 2 resolutiones: HD por iPad Retina and any device with more than 1024 px of width and SD for devices below 1024 px of width.
I am using Reference Atlas and my doubt is:
Which is the difference between those 2 options?

• HD atlas with pixel size = 0.5 and SD atlas with pixel size = 1
• HD atlas with pixel size = 1 and SD atlas with pixel size = 2

I just want to sure if I understand.
In first case I put UIRoot with FixedSize and height = 1536.
In the second case I put UIRoot with FixedSize and height = 728.
All that is exactly the same or are there differences?

Thank you.

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NGUI 3 Support / Snap button is not giving exact pixels

« on: July 11, 2014, 11:37:03 AM »

When I use this button it sometimes gives me not the exact pixels of the sprite
If my sprites (png) is 110x107 it gives me 110x108.

If, moreover, I have used a unified anchor then sometimes I can't even fix it, ie, it's like the anchor forces you the pixels somehow.

How should I proceed?

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NGUI 3 Support / Problems with texture packer

« on: July 03, 2014, 12:27:39 PM »

Hello.
I employ the last versions of NGUI, Unity and TexturePacker. I have an TexturePacker atlas that I want to import/convert into a NGUI atlas. I follow the steps, drag the .txt JSON file and more or less it works, but some sprites are "moved", ie, they are not taken as expected.

Any solution?

Thank you.

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NGUI 3 Support / Is UI Root necessary? or How to start an interface?

« on: July 02, 2014, 02:54:07 AM »

Hello.
Every time (or it seems to me) I add a new NGUI element to my scene, either by NGUI tab in the menu or by draggin a prefab a sprite is create which is named "UI Root" and contains a UI Root script.
I have many troubles with the autoscaling of that component.
In http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=6710 it's said "If you don't need the auto-scaling functionality of the UIRoot, you can get rid of this component altogether." so I'd like to remove that element.
But I can't completely remove the UI Root. And then I don't know how to proceed. My concern is:

1.- With a so weird autoscaling (let's say scaleX = 0.003333333) it's not easy to position my UI Camera, so: May I set the UI Root scale to (1, 1, 1)? Should I or may I remove the UIRoot script from the UI Root sprite to have remove that autoscale?
2.- Which is the structure of a NGUI user interface?, ie, how should I proceed? Do I need to have a main UI Root to place of my NGUI elements? I am quite a bit lost about how to start.

I have watched several of your video tutorials and it's clear how to make advanced things, but the initial basic setup is my main doubt.

Thank you.