Questions tagged [ui-design]
Designing a clear method of communication between the game and the user, whether hardware or software.
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How to get UI Panel color to match GUI Window
Attempting to get a UI Panel to match the color and background of a GUI Window. Currently, using the default style for a GUI Window. Attached is a screenshot of the GUI Window. I've tried access the ...
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What are good keywords for my UI buttons?
In my game, when the player enters a battle, they have 4 options: to move around the field, to do an active move(like a healing spell, a punch,...), to use an item, or to look at their passive ...
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What buttons should I put where? (Start, Credits, options, Quit)
which options should go in which boxes (Start, Credits, options, Quit)
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Custom GUI with mouse pointer events handling
Recently I heard about possible algorithms to determine if the mouse cursor is on a GUI element such as a button:
Determine the element's coordinates and size to check whether the cursor is on the ...
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Differentiate Generic Tromino or Tetramino Match vs Specific Shape (Square, Line, L, ect..) in Match-3
This is primarily a user interface question related to match-3 games and visualizing a goal for the player using clear imagery.
I'm interested in having a match-3 game where if you get certain matches ...
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Is there some psychological reason for why most game's UI is always the same colors?
Shooter games : Either Blue/teal/azure or other shades of blue and transparent or gray and transparent
MMO games : Either blue and transparent or shades of Brown+Gold or a very dark red, so dark it's ...
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How can I visualize the players health without creating too much UI clutter?
Many games with health systems will always display the amount of health in a head-up display. A good example is Hollow Knight, which has a detailed head-up display in the upper left corner:
Some ...
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What is the canonical name of the interaction symbol over NPCs heads?
More often than not, 2D and 3D games markup interactive NPCs (and objects) with the exclamation mark symbol. Typically yellow. But of course, sometimes it's an "i" or a small cloud, or other ...
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How to get equivalent of "padding" on a button?
I'm using Godot 4. I want to increase the distance between the Button's Text (and possibly icon, later on), and it's outer edges, while keeping the "Colors" options such as "Font Hover ...
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Drag and drop differences between Godot 3 and 4?
I'd been following Godot tutorials to add Drag & Drop functionality to Control nodes. They've presumably been created for Godot 3.x, but my project is 4.0. And ...
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What's the difference between VBoxContainer and VFlowContainer?
I'm trying to build some UI for my game made in Godot 4.0. I want to make a "Toolbox" scene and need to decide what containers to use. I come from web development, where I'd use a ...
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Design reasons against directly cancelling draft building
I am developing an RTS right now and this topic came up in discussion about the UI design and patterns in Starcraft 2:
When you issue a building command in any race, it will create a "draft" ...
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How to shoot raycast, and display image on canvas
I have been trying to work on raycast, where if a raycast hits an object then an image will be displayed on the canvas, like on COD Warzone if I go to an elevator shaft, and look at the wire to go up, ...
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Reference as local variable in Unity c#
In the script below, "btn" is a local variable in OnEnable() method. It's said that local variable is deallocated (lost) when leaving the countaining method. Why this one (btn) is not ?
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How to tell which letter or vertex of a letter is at a certain screen position with a Unity UI Toolkit Label or TextElement?
I am using the Unity UI Toolkit and I would like to create my own TextField class (ie. input field, similar to the one I'm typing in now to write this message) with better functions using the Label ...
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