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Mastering UI Development with Unity

You're reading from   Mastering UI Development with Unity An in-depth guide to developing engaging user interfaces with Unity 5, Unity 2017, and Unity 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125520
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Ashley Godbold Dr. Ashley Godbold
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Preface 1. Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts 3. Automatic Layouts 4. The Event System and Programming for UI 5. Buttons 6. Text, Images, and TextMesh Pro-Text 7. Masks and Other Inputs 8. Animations and Particles in the UI 9. World Space UI 10. Mobile-Specific UI 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

TextMesh Pro-Text

There is a bit of limitation to what you can do with UI Text. Luckily, there is TextMeshPro. TextMesh Pro is a Unity asset that allows for significantly more text control. Additionally, its rendering allows text to appear crisp at more resolutions and point sizes than possible with the standard UI Text. TextMesh Pro used to be a paid asset in the Unity Asset Store, but it was adopted by Unity around March 2017 and is available for free now. Unity has stated that they will be implementing TextMesh Pro in Unity 2017, but at the time of writing this chapter, has not done so yet. However, it is a safe bet to assume that it will be implemented in Unity soon and will not need to be downloaded as a separate asset. It may eventually replace UI Text entirely, but it is not entirely clear at this time whether that will happen.

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