Interactable Player display icon

Unity Engine
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So quick background, I am working on putting together my first 2D networked multiplayer game (not first unity game). On the player’s display I would like to show a clickable, possibly right clickable too, icon or info card representing all the other characters (player and non-player) in the area with which the the player can interact, attack, etc. I here is a simple example of this card I for clarity.
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Really my question here would be if there is a more built in way to do the UI piece of this than what I am currently doing. Right now I am using a game object with a sprite render for the player picture, then I am attaching a game object to that with a script that uses IMGUI to add in the text and status bars.

What I am not clear on is if there is a good way to make this a clickable button? Maybe add a collider to game object, or is there a way I can do all this with a GUI button that I have missed? Also layout, is there anything built in to unity to get these objects to lay out in a list box manner, or do I need to script something custom to do that?

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by this you mean “immediate GUI” i.e. the legacy OnGUI functions?

for in game UI, you really should be using the canvas methods, because then the answer is simple a fairly simple “yes”

Panel, Image, text, two sliders (non interactable, update through code), event system

make a script which implements IPointerClick to do what you want when someone clicks on the thing you attach the script to
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler.html

again, canvas has “layout components” which will order the children of whatever recttransform you add the component to etc.
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/user-interface-ui

and lastly, “unity UI” section is for the new stuff anyway per it’s description :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks, this is why I asked. I thought that there was probably a better way to do it, but I am still not used to what all is available in the new UI tools. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and answering what ultimately ended up to be a rather silly question.

Sometimes the best place to hide information from me is right in front of my face :sweat_smile: