NGUI for Unity : master NGUI components swiftly, and employ them to create a thrilling, action-packed 2D sci-fi game

182 Pages·2014·9.35 MB·English

by  Bernardoff

NGUI for Unity
Master NGUI components swiftly, and employ them
to create a thrilling, action-packed 2D sci-fi game
Charles Bernardoff
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
NGUI for Unity
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Credits
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Charles Bernardoff Roshni Banerjee
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Reviewers Shambhavi Pai
Adrián del Campo
Andreas Grech
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Philip Pierce Joel Goveya
Abdelrahman Saher
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About the Author
Charles Bernardoff has a bachelor's degree in Game Design and Level Design
delivered by ISART Digital, a video games school located in Paris, France.
With four years of experience as game designer, level designer, and C# scripter
at Cyanide Studio, Playsoft, and Airbus, Charles has worked on the PC versions
of Blood Bowl, Dungeonbowl, and Confrontation. He has also worked on Unity
and Flash mobile games, such as Space Run 3D, Oggy, and Psycho Gnomes.
He now works as Game Designer and Unity developer on PC and mobile Serious
Games at Airbus.
I wish to personally thank Abdelrahman Saher, Usuario, and
Andreas Grech, great reviewers who helped in making the book
better. I also want to thank my family and friends for their great
support while I was working on this project.
About the Reviewers
Adrián del Campo studied Computer Science at the Antonio de Nebrija
University, specializing in server and DB administration. After a few years of
working as a sysadmin and Java programmer, he decided to move to the game
industry, pursuing a master's degree in Game Development at the Universidad
Complutense. After that, he worked in top companies such as Pyro Studios and is
currently working in Mediatonic Ltd. as a video game programmer. You can find
him on twitter as @acampoh.
Andreas Grech is a Malta-based programmer and coffee aficionado. With over
seven years of professional experience in the software development industry, he has
worked on desktop applications, web experiences, and video games.
After earning his degrees from MCAST and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and later
working in Oslo, Norway, for a number of years, he settled back in Malta to start
working in the video games industry, professionally with the Unity game engine.
Since then, Andreas has written a number of video games in Unity, including
Typocalypse 3D, a web-based typing-shooter game, and No Photos, Please!, a local
two-player stealth party video game. He also maintains a technical blog about his
programming experiences at http://blog.dreasgrech.com.
Philip Pierce is a software developer with 20 years' experience in mobile, web,
desktop, and server development; database design and management; and game
development. His background includes creating AI for games and business software,
converting AAA games between various platforms, developing multithreaded
applications, and creating patented client/server communication technologies.
Philip has won several hackathons, including Best Mobile App at the AT&T
Developer Summit 2013, and a runner-up for Best Windows 8 App at PayPal's
Battlethon Miami. His most recent project was converting Rail Rush and Temple
Run 2 from the Android platform to Arcade platforms.
Philip's portfolios can be found at http://www.rocketgamesmobile.com and
http://www.philippiercedeveloper.com.
Abdelrahman Saher graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2012. After
graduation, Abdelrahman worked with the video game company Every1Plays,
where he participated in the programming of a couple of mobile games. Later, in
2013, Abdelrahman moved into the challenging role of lead programmer with the
video game company AppsInnovate. Apart from his work, Abdelrahman recently
started his own start-up video game company, Robonite.
I would like to thank my family and friends for helping me and
always being there for me.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Getting Started with NGUI 7
What is NGUI? 7
UnityGUI versus NGUI 7
Atlases 8
Events 8
Localization 8
Shaders 9
Importing NGUI 9
Creating your UI 10
UI Wizard 10
Window 10
Parameters 10
Separate UI Layer 11
Your UI structure 11
UI Root (2D) 11
Parameters 12
Camera 13
Parameters 14
Anchor 17
Parameters 17
Panel 18
Parameters 18
Summary 20