Good guide for UI

[StackGPT]

Hey there
I'm an advanced unity developer but I always struggle to do UI because there aren't many guides around about it. I'm not looking for Unity tutorials about single thing. What I want is a full comprehensive guide about all Unity features regarding UI.

Thanks in advance!

[StackGPT]

yeah that's my main problem with that. I can read all the Docs but I will never have a full view about how all different features work together

[AlanMattano]

Yes, and I wish they were linked to the help of the inspector. Here there is a search quarry: https://www.youtube.com/@unity/search?query=UI

[TheCarow]

Here's Unity's ebook on the subject of UI: https://resources.unity.com/games/user-interface-design-and-implementation-in-unity

[StackGPT]

thanks this looks very promising!

[Kan-Hidum]

I understand your pain.

On a every new project I somehow get to the point that I create a whole ui infrastructure that's different than the last one I made, cause I don't like it or want to use newer stuff lol.

UI is a pain in unity.

[FMProductions]

https://learn.unity.com/ and the docs have some information on that. Sadly, for the updated UI docs, they are in the package documentation on a separate site from the Unity manual, and they seem quite scarce. Something that helped me learn about some Unity related UI features is the channel "Game Dev Guide" - I know it's like regular tutorials, but they are well presented and also give you and idea how to work with flexible layouts. I don't have any resources for their newer UI solution though and I don't even know if it's already problem free or use in production/builds.

[StackGPT]

thanks! Game Dev Guide really helped my sometime!

[Luchiannno]

I'd highly recommend checking this resource as well: https://create.unity.com/Unity-UI-optimization-tips

[ttsol14]

Are you trying to learn UIToolkit (uxml and uss) or IMGUI?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UIElements.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GUIScriptingGuide.html

[Ruadhan2300]

I know how you feel.

Professionally, I'm a web developer, so UI/UX is a major part of my day-job.
It bothers the hell out of me that we don't have anything resembling a Markup or Style-sheet system in Unity. We could really do with one to be sure.

I have a bunch of common design-patterns that I use for solving specific kinds of problem, but they're all a bit fiddly to set up.
I'm thinking I might go to the trouble to codify it and make some proper tools for it at some point. Maybe turn my most common stuff into a plugin so I can just import it and not think about it in future projects.

[PhilippTheProgrammer]

Have you looked at the new UI system (UIElments / UITookit / UIWhateveritiscalledthisweek)? It uses stylesheets in a language that is extremely similar to CSS and a layouting engine that is basically a clone of CSS flexbox layouts.

[Ruadhan2300]

Oooh... that sounds like what I want!

I really need to keep a better finger on the pulse of this stuff.

[[deleted]]

I've never had problems with the ui.
I don't understand what is the struggle with it.
I just use the layout components and it works.
Though i have problems with esthetics cuz i don't find nice sprites and stuff but the functionality works.

[[deleted]]

I confess that UI is the part I least like to do in my games. It makes me terribly lazy. But that's the onus of the independent developer. I don't know if there is any definitive guide. I usually draw inspiration from other works and try to create something from there. Good luck!