Associate UI with gameobject

Questions & Answers
1

Hi,

I currently face the issue of wanting to load specific UI parts (Overlays) when I click on certain game elements, but I couldn’t figure out how to correctly associate the UI prefabs with the object prefabs.

Thanks in advance.

2

The object prefab can have public variables of the Type of the UI elements. Create that object prefab and then drop the UI prefabs into fields using the inspector.

3

/* Public Variables */
public GameObject UIOverlay;

/* Private Variables */
Transform canvas;

void Start () {
canvas = GameObject.Find("Canvas").transform;
}

void CreateOverlay () {
   GameObject overlay = Instantiate (Overlay, position, rotation, canvas) as GameObject; // This sets the overlays parent to the canvas

// Set the overlay layer to the UI layer
overlay.transform.layer = (1 << LayerMask.NameToLayer("UI")); // Possibly remove the .transform, not sure, test it.

}