What I am trying to do is 'stack' my GUI label displayed statements one after the other. For example, when particles collide with a trigger, we display the GUI: Particles Collided. The second time particles collide, we display: Particles Collided again. What happens is that the GUI goes away, or they overlap each other.
Is their a way I can stack each GUI one after the other? Kind of like this:
Particles Collided
Particles Collided Again!
...Repeat every time particles collide
Edit
I made a very crude example of a GUI that gets printed whenever I step onto a trigger. Its not stacking, again the question remains unachieved: How can I stack GUI Text Statements?
public class MyMessages : MonoBehaviour
{
List<Messages> MessageList = new List<Messages>( )
;
void Update()
{
/*foreach (Messages msg in MessageList)
{
MessageList.Remove(msg);
}*/
}
public class Messages
{
string newMessage;
public Messages(string msg/*, Vector2 pos, Color txtColor, Font txtFont*/)
{
// Format the message
/*
Vector2 Position;
Color myColor;
Font myFont; */
newMessage = msg;
Draw();
}
public void Draw()
{
Debug.Log("Start to Draw");
GUI.Label(new Rect(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, pos.w), newMessage);
}
}
void OnGUI()
{
if (onTrigger) {
string myMessage = "On Trigger";
pos.x = 600; pos.y = 46; pos.z = 100; pos.w = 200;
Messages m = new Messages(myMessage);
}
if (ParticleCollisonVar.x <= 1)
{
string myMessage = "Particles Collided!";
pos.x = 520; pos.y = 500; pos.z = 1000; pos.w = 2000;
Messages m = new Messages(myMessage);
// Stack each time the above condition is true?
foreach (Messages msgs in MessageList)
{
MessageList.Add(msgs);
}
}
}
}
Would this be easier to achieve with the Game Object->Other->GUI Text ?
There isn't anything built-in from Unity that can make this happen, you need to code your own stacking display.
Luckily for you, I coded such a system for an old game I did in Unity. I'll paste the code here, but do NOT copy and paste this! It has game-specific features in it, and hard-coded positions in it that probably won't work in your game. Look at the code, and understand how you create a list of messages that can be stacked on one another.
///////////////////////////////////
// DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THIS!!!
///////////////////////////////////
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class Messages : MonoBehaviour
{
public Texture2D Background;
List<Message> MessageList = new List<Message>();
List<Message> toRemove = new List<Message>();
public Font boldFont;
public void AddBoldMessage(string newMessage, Color color)
{
foreach (Message ms in MessageList)
{
if (ms.Text == newMessage)
{
// Don't flood the user with the same message!
return;
}
}
int lowPoint = 100;
foreach (Message m in MessageList)
{
if (m.Position.y >= lowPoint)
{
lowPoint = (int)m.Position.y + m.height + 5;
}
}
Message msg = new Message(newMessage, new Vector2(-300, lowPoint), this, true, color, boldFont);
MessageList.Add(msg);
}
public void AddMessage(string newMessage)
{
foreach (Message ms in MessageList)
{
if (ms.Text == newMessage)
{
// Don't flood the user with the same message!
return;
}
}
int lowPoint = 100;
foreach (Message m in MessageList)
{
if (m.Position.y >= lowPoint)
{
lowPoint = (int)m.Position.y + m.height + 5;
}
}
Message msg = new Message(newMessage, new Vector2(-300, lowPoint), this);
MessageList.Add(msg);
}
void Update()
{
foreach (Message m in toRemove)
{
MessageList.Remove(m);
}
foreach (Message msg in MessageList)
{
msg.Update();
}
}
void OnGUI()
{
foreach (Message msg in MessageList)
{
msg.Draw();
}
}
public void Remove(Message msg)
{
toRemove.Add(msg);
}
}
public class Message
{
public string Text;
public Vector2 Position;
public Messages Parent;
public int height;
GUIStyle s = new GUIStyle();
RectOffset ro = new RectOffset();
int state = 0;
int TTX = 3;
float timer = 0;
public Message(string msg, Vector2 pos, Messages parent)
{
ro.bottom = 10;
ro.left = 18;
ro.top = 10;
ro.right = 10;
s.padding = ro;
s.normal.textColor = Color.white;
s.normal.background = parent.Background;
s.wordWrap = true;
s.stretchHeight = true;
s.clipping = TextClipping.Overflow;
Text = msg;
Position = pos;
Parent = parent;
height = (int)s.CalcHeight(new GUIContent(Text), 300);
}
public Message(string msg, Vector2 pos, Messages parent, bool BigLetters, Color theColor, Font theFont)
{
ro.bottom = 10;
ro.left = 22;
ro.top = 7;
ro.right = 10;
s.padding = ro;
s.normal.textColor = theColor;
s.normal.background = parent.Background;
s.font = theFont;
s.wordWrap = true;
s.stretchHeight = true;
s.clipping = TextClipping.Overflow;
Text = msg;
Position = pos;
Parent = parent;
height = (int)s.CalcHeight(new GUIContent(Text), 300);
}
public void Draw()
{
GUI.Label(new Rect(Position.x, Position.y, 300, height), Text, s);
}
public void Update()
{
if (state == 0)
{
Position.x += 2000 * Time.deltaTime;
if (Position.x >= Screen.width / 2 - 150)
{
Position.x = Screen.width / 2 - 150;
state = 1;
}
}
if (state == 1)
{
timer += Time.deltaTime;
if (timer >= TTX)
{
state = 2;
}
}
if (state == 2)
{
Position.x += 2000 * Time.deltaTime;
if (Position.x > Screen.width)
{
Parent.Remove(this);
}
}
}
}
Right, I will analyze this and see what I can do, I will report back to the same thread with my updates. Again, I will not copy and paste your code.
No, it won't. There are, quite obviously, custom updates and methods in the Message class which create the proper on-screen labels, and also enable some fly-in effects. You can't just replace an arbitrary Unity type with something that's been custom-coded.
GUI.Label supports multi-line text. You can position the text within a rectangle. Use a GUIStyle to control text justification, text wrap/clip, font, etc. This way your message list class could simply keep track of the text strings, then you draw all the messages at once as a single object, rather than worrying about stacking a bunch of GUI objects.
There is a very good message ticker that works just like what you're describing here on the unify community, but it uses a guitext object in the scene, if you're cool with that.
Would this be easier to achieve with the Game Object->Other->GUI Text ?
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