beginner UnityGUI question

I’m trying the Unity 30 day trail program and I’m in the manual about UnityGUI scripts.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/Game%20Interface%20Elements.html

My question is, where do I put the scripts described in the manual? It’s great at giving me the scripts but I can’t find where they go. :?

Write your scripts, with OnGUI functions, and attached them to any object in the scene. Some folks create empty game objects and attach their UI scripts to those, others attach their UI scripts to existing objects, that’s all up to you.

Does that work for the button functions as well? I’m completely new to the program, as well as gaming in general so I’m very lost. I figure if I can at least do the very basic example they give, I can just build from there.

EDIT:
Oh I got it to work. Thank you very much! :slight_smile:

I’m new too and this tutorial really helps clear a lot of the question I had too, I’m not sure if you’ve gone through it yet or not. The tutorial is pretty easy and straight-forward, it does take a little time to get through, but I wouldn’t skip it if I were you. Here’s the link:

http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/3d-platform-game.html

Actually, I downloaded that already but I haven’t gone through it yet. I’m still going through the manual. :shock: But thanks for the help. :slight_smile: Maybe I should be looking at that first. lol

I successfully altered my menu and even positioned it in the spot I want. :slight_smile: They don’t do anything yet but the space is there. :smile:

Hiya all!

I’ve also been playing around with the trial version, I would love to buy the Indie license, unfortunately its way too expensive for me, considering I don’t know much about coding. I assume I wouldn’t get far if I wanted to make a 3D game/environment so I’m not sure if it would be a wasted effort.

I don’t know any of the programming languages that are supported in Unity (I am familiar with Python, but never written anything in Boo language or even heard of it until I found Unity), and I highly doubt I would be able to learn any of them on my own. I am a VERY slow learner when it comes to coding lol.

The whole interface creation side of Unity is a bit daunting to me…
If only there was a way to create an interface without much scripting :frowning:

I’ve searched for hours for beginner guides to GUI scripting with Unity but there really aren’t any, and the manual doesn’t go into much detail.

I really like Unity, and I’ve managed to create my 3D world and place a few objects that came with Unity, but I believe that is as far as i’ll be able to go since I’m not a hardcore programmer :frowning:

I have used other software, such as Blender to create python scripts for server/client communications, which is easy for me. It’s too bad Unity doesn’t support Python lol (and I find that strange).

I am open to suggestions, if anyone has any ideas. I’d love to learn more about Unity, but I’m afraid by the time I do… my trial will have expired.