Setting up the game’s UI.

In this tutorial we’ll set up the HUD to display the player’s score and the number of turns.

If you remember, we’ve already set the Makinom project’s UI system to use the Unity UI module, i.e. we’ll do most of the setup in the scene, using components and the Unity UI. You can learn more about UI systems in general in this documentation, or about the Unity UI module in this documentation.

HUD Scene Setup #

First, we’ll set up the HUD’s game object and components in the scene. At the end we’ll create a prefab out of our setup and use it in the HUD setup in the Makinom editor.

We’ll show them in the upper left corner of the screen.

Use the context menu in the scene hierarchy to add a simple HUD: Makinom > UI > HUD > HUD

Rect Transform #

Change the newly created HUD’s Rect Transform:

Now move it to the upper left corner of the canvas.

Add a HUD Text Content to the HUD using the scene hierarchy context menu: Makinom > UI > HUD > Content > Text Content (TextMesh Pro)

Adjust the new game object’s bounds to match the parent HUD’s bounds (or place it any way you like).

HUD Text Content Component #

This component is responsible for setting the TextMesh Pro component’s text in the HUD, we’ll use a Makinom text code to show the value of our lives int variable.

You can display int variables using the text code <var.int=key>, replacing key with the variable key you want to show.

TextMesh Pro – Text (UI) #

We’ll use a larger font size – select the Text child object of the created Text Content game object and change the TextMesh Pro – Text (UI) component’s settings.

That’s it for the HUD – now create a prefab out of it by dragging the HUD game object from the scene hierarchy to the project view (e.g. into Assets/Tutorial Resources/Prefabs/).

We need to clean up the Canvas and Event System that where created by Unity for our UI setup in the scene. In the scene hierarchy, select the Canvas and EventSystem game objects and delete them (e.g. via the Delete key).

Using the UI Prefab #

All that’s left to do is use the UI prefab we just set up in Makinom.

HUD 0: Player Info #

Open the Makinom editor, navigate to UI > HUDs and select the Default HUD that’s already been added in the initial project setup. Change the following settings.

HUD Settings #

Information Settings #

Unity UI #

And that’s it – click on Save Settings to save the changes.

The next tutorial will handle generating the level.