Dev Update #8 UnityUI Tests

I've been streaming some of my work on http://www.twitch.tv/fragmentalstew. Unfortunately the stream is too low quality to see what's going on. Mostly it's me trying things and then them not working. I do make a little progress, though. Also I don't have a webcam or mic hooked up currently so my only means of communication is through wordpad.

 I made a simple mockup of the UI with a prefab of a toggle. I tried to dynamically instantiate a list of those prefabs but I had trouble making the new instantiated toggles children of the canvas. I found a video about it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLsmuYMs8Q and downloaded the video using firefox's video downloadhelper addon so I could control playback speed. I used the code that was linked to this video, with a slight modification to use SetParent instead of Parent, to display a list of toggles that are children of the canvas. They scroll correctly and everything. Now I just have to apply this to my own project and I should be able to create a mockup for the new UI. I'm still not entirely sure what everything in the code does, but I'll figure it out.


 Update: I made a draft of this post a while ago but never posted it. After this post, I created 4 separate lists of toggles and connected them to the same scrollbar. They don't scroll evenly. Each list is centered instead of starting at the top and the longer the list, the faster it scrolls, but I moved on to something else which I'll describe in my next post.  I also added rudimentary health/xp/mana bars.