Customising The UI - Slider

Unity Engine
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Hi Guys,

I want to change how the effect of the slider works. I’ve been looking through it’s API and can’t see how you’d change it the way I want to.

Basically what I’m after is…:

  1. The Handle in the scrollbar permanently fixed to the center.
  2. Upon sliding. Instead of the Handle moving left or right, I want the material in the background to slide left and right. As if you’re moving the texture behind the Handle, not the handle itself.
  3. To make the material longer than the length of the actual slider, as if the material could go on further than you can see currently in your vision.

Imagine the slider that you get in some games…

Can anyone think of how you’d be able to achieve this? Either by somehow extending the current slider. Or would I need to write a entirely new custom script for a slider. If that’s the case, does anyone know a good tutorial for that?

Thanks guys!

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Maybe you could do this with two sliders. One on each side of a button that acts as a fake “handle”. You would have to flip the slider on the lefthand side and do a little scripting based off of the drag distance from the fake handle.