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I have a GUIText element that I’m positioning on top of a graphic. The position looks fine at first, but I soon realize it’s only staying in the correct place for a single resolution. It’s not necessarily a shock that elements shift against the background when the resolution changes, I’m just not sure what the fix for this is. Searches for the problem find a variety of issues that are basically unrelated to the problem I’m having.

I set it up by putting a GUIText element on top of a graphic in the scene and made sure it lines up visually. The coordinates for the GUIText are X: .165 Y: -1.11344 Z: 0. The GUIText is a child of the graphic to which I am aligning it.

Is there an easy way to do like an offset for this GUIText element off of the parent element? The strange thing to me is that I have another image behind the GUIText’s parent image and the parent and this other, further back image, stay perfectly aligned with eachother at any resolution.

Appreciate the help.

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GUIText lives in Viewport space while the parent object (apparently) lives in world space. It might be possible to make a parent/child relationship work, but I’d approach the problem differently:

  • Break the child relationship so you have two, top-level game objects.
  • Place an empty game object at the position you want to anchor the text relative to the object that was the parent.
  • Make the empty game object a child of the previous parent object.
  • Make sure the anchor and alignment is set correctly so that when the anchor is at the empty child’s position, you get the layout you want.
  • Make sure the pixel offset is set to (0,0).
  • Put the following script on the GUIText
  • Select the GUITExt in the Hierarchy view, and drag and drop the empty game you place for position on the ‘toFollow’ variable.
#pragma strict

public var toFollow : Transform;

function Update() {
     transform.position = Camera.main.WorldToViewportPoint(toFollow.position);
}

If your objects move around, you may have to change Update() to LateUpdate() to get smooth movement.

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Honestly you guys get so technical??

Any new comers?

Try this video it helped me and it will help you and it is way more easy:

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