UI Components

What are UI Buttons made of and how do they function?

The UI Image component is the main graphic element of the UI system in Unity, and is used for everything from button and panel backgrounds to slider handles and speedometers!

The Text component, used to render text onscreen for various purposes such as labels, buttons, and other information.

In Unity 4.6 we add the new Event System to trigger things in code from your UI. This tutorial is a quick overview of the system and how it works.

UI Sliders can be used for various purposes from settings menus to health bars.

UI transitions are available to several different UI components, this tutorial explains how they work and what they can do.

The Scroll Rect is a rect that can be scrolled horizontally or vertically to create masked spaces with hidden content in your UI.

Scrollbars can be used to control scroll rects to navigate content in your UIs.

Masks are used to hide part of a UI Image element. They can be used to define an area to animate images into, or in conjunction with the Scroll Rect component to achieve a scrollable space.