Author Topic: UI Key Navigation Problem — NGUI 3.10.1 and Unity 5.4.1  (Read 3439 times)

Jason RT Bond

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UI Key Navigation Problem — NGUI 3.10.1 and Unity 5.4.1
« on: September 19, 2016, 10:11:00 AM »
I've been using NGUI for some time in a project (launched some time ago, doing maintenance updates) and our main menu and config menu are built using the UIKeyNavigation component. Everything's been working until recently I upgraded NGUI to 3.10.1 and Unity to 5.4.1. Now, the menus don't navigate correctly. The actual behaviour is strange and I'm not sure I can give an exact description but it's something along these lines:
• One has to hold up/down on the joystick or keyboard and wait a second before the next item becomes highlighted. (We use only vertical.)
• The highlighted element seems to snap back to the previous element regularly

About our setup:
• Essentially we have two panels with a series of buttons as children. Only one panel is on at a time.
• Each button's UIKeyNav component explicitly defines the next button up or down in the "override" section.
• The UICamera defines the Y axis as "Uni_Vertical", which is our custom axis fed by several inputs (joysticks & keyboard). We have this defined because we ALSO have axes for each input separately (to accomodate multiplayer).
• We have a couple helper scripts attached to buttons but disabling them does not solve the issues above.

Although this is a game already launched, we'd love to keep it current a little longer as we provide updates every now and then (and some platforms, like iOS, require you to stay on the tech treadmill or you can't submit updates :P).


Please let me know if you have any thoughts on what might be the issue or what avenue I might be able to investigate.

Cheers!

diederik

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Re: UI Key Navigation Problem — NGUI 3.10.1 and Unity 5.4.1
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2016, 01:26:19 PM »
Hi!

My initial thought is that it might have something to do with (default) Input Axes that have appeared in your InutManager due to the Unity update. Maybe these have a different sensitivity or gravity than the ones you had set up?

I'm sure you have checked the axes that are defined in the UICamera are the correct ones?

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Jason RT Bond

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Re: UI Key Navigation Problem — NGUI 3.10.1 and Unity 5.4.1
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2016, 06:59:58 PM »
A little more info: I reverted NGUI to ver 3.8.2 and the issue is resolved, even staying with Unity 5.4.1. So it would seem to be an issue with NGUI changes between 3.8.1 and 3.10.1.

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Re: UI Key Navigation Problem — NGUI 3.10.1 and Unity 5.4.1
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2016, 12:58:38 AM »
I second what diederik said. Check your input axes. I'm guessing you have it set so that the value goes from 0 to 1 very slowly when you press a button. It's great for simulating slow acceleration, but it's awful for UI navigation. A certain threshold has to be reached before the UI navigation is performed.

You can always create a new project and import NGUI into it (along with the examples), and test the keyboard navigation there.