Making a RTS game #19: Displaying our in-game settings! (Unity/C#)

Today, we’re finally going to create our in-game settings panel! :)

⬅️ Tutorial #18: Preparing our game parameters| TOC | Tutorial #20: Saving the player’s data properly ➡️

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The last episode has been about preparing and refactoring stuff so that we can display our game parameters neatly in the UI. The goal is to allow players to modify those settings in-game, rather than only giving the developers and game designers access to it. Also, we’ll make sure that we have a good control over our audio channels via the use of audio mixers.

Alright — we’re long overdue for a bit of UI ;)

Note: just like in the previous tutorials about UI, I won’t go into the details of all my UI elements because the style of your game should remain personal. I’ll simply explain my overall hierarchy and mention the important elements that I’ll use in my scripts.

Preparing our game settings UI panel and toggling it

Let’s start working on our game settings panel! We’ll just be crudely placing some elements…