character name input?

Unity Engine
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basicly what i want is to have a script that asks the player for his/her name. i want that name to be stored in a static variable wich i can use everywere in the game, like in my GUI, or when you talk to npc’s in game.
it would be cool if in adition to the ability to write the name using your keyboard, there would also be displayed a kind of picture on the screen of a keyboard. when you clicked a character on the picture, it would write that character into the name

you can find this in a lot of games like for example in the “the legend of zelda” serie.

thanks in advance :smile:

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You can get text input from a user by using the GUI.TextField function:-

static var charName: string;

function OnGUI() {
    charName = GUI.TextField(textRect, charName);
}

There are some suggestions about making an onscreen keyboard in this thread. It is fairly straightforward but it does take quite a bit of effort.

3

thanks a lot!

this was exactly what i was looking for :smile: