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Build a simple UI

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Build a simple UI

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- [Instructor] One more way to add interactivity to an architectural scene, is to create a user interface. Now Unity has a complete set of user interface tools, so let's take a look at how to build a simple interface. And then we'll go ahead and connect these up using scripts. User interfaces are basically game objects. So we can go into Game Object, and you'll see we have a UI menu option. Now we have a number of different options here, and I'm only going to cover a few of these. But most important is that we do need to create a place into which to put our user interface items. And so in this case, we are going to create what's called a Canvas. Now this creates a blank Canvas in our hierarchy. And if we select this, you'll see that it's basically an object in the scene. In fact, if I zoom out here, you can see it's actually fairly big. So I'm going to hit the F key to frame all, and we can kind of see this a little bit more clearly. So if I click off of this, you can see that it's in…

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