Unity UI canvas modes and canvas scaler explained
Christina Creates Games
Jun 4, 2024 13:02
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Learn all you need about the differend canvas modes and the canvas scaler in this Unity UI deep dive tutorial. We are going to cover:
- Basics of how to structure UI into multiple Canvases and why
- How to check if your cursor is over UI
- Sorting Canvases
- Each of the three different Canvas Modes (Overlay mode, Camera mode, World Space mode)
- Taking screenshots without the UI showing and why you probably want Camera Mode for that
- Placing UI into the world with World Space canvas and understanding how its scaling works
- Billboarding UI in World Space
- The three Canvas Scaling modes: Constant Pixel Size, Scale with Screensize and Constant Physical size
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