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Getting Started with Unity 5

You're reading from   Getting Started with Unity 5 Leverage the power of Unity 5 to create amazing 3D games

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398316
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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An overview of GUI

A GUI is a collection of visual components such as text, buttons, and images that facilitates a user's interaction with software. GUIs are also used to provide feedback to players. In the case of our game, the GUI allows players to interact with our game. Without a GUI, the user would have no visual indication of how to use the game. Imagine software without any on-screen indicators of how to use the software. The following image shows how early user interfaces were anything but intuitive:

An overview of GUI

We use GUIs all the time and might not pay too close attention to them, unless they are poorly designed. If you've ever tried to figure out how to use an app on your Smartphone or could not figure out how to perform a specific action with desktop software, you've most likely encountered a poorly designed GUI.

Functions of a GUI

Our goal is to create a GUI for our game that both informs the user and allows interaction between the game and the user. To that end, GUIs have...

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