How to make this custom GUI/Menu?

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Hi,

I’m designing a custom GUI a I need some guidance on how to do it. There are two things I should do:

1- Have a menu that holds like 40 icons inside it, they can be laid in With some selection tool or something, that gets on the screen via swipe on center of the screen.

2- Then user can drag one of the images out of that GUI menu and then place it on the screen and move it around, pinch it to scale it and rotate it.

How I can achieve this?

Thanks.

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Break a big job into smaller jobs:

  • Set up an orthographic camera
  • Create a grid of planes in front of the camera
  • Apply icon textures to each plane
  • (Is this happening in the editor, or at runtime?)

Then:

  • Figure out where on the screen the user is touching
  • Convert that to a raycast
  • Figure out which plane is being touched
  • Allow touches to move the plane (dragging)
  • Allow touches to rotate the plane
  • Allow touches to scale the plane

What you’re asking for isn’t necessarily simple or easy, but there are tutorials around the net that can show you how to achieve most or all of the bullet points above. You may also find libraries such as NGUI or Prime31’s UIToolkit helpful.

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There are many tutorials out there explaining how to create inventory GUIs. Not exactly an uncommon task. Please do some searching before posting questions.

There’s also asset store packages that do it for you, if you prefer to pay for the work instead of doing everything yourself.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/134266-Sleek-Inventory-Complete-GUI-System-for-Inventories