Mastering UI Development with Unity

Creating a static four-directional virtual D-pad

A D-pad is simply four buttons on a directional pad. To create a D-pad for a mobile game, you just need to create a graphic that contains four buttons on the directions.

The art used in this example was obtained from https://opengameart.org/content/onscreen-controls-8-styles.

To create a virtual D-pad, complete the following steps:

1. Create a new scene named Chapter10Example2 in the Assets/Scenes folder and open the new scene.
2. Import the d-pad buttons.png sprite sheet into the Assets/Sprites folder.
3. Change the newly imported sprite's Sprite Mode to Multiple and automatically slice it.
4. Create a new Canvas with Create | UI | Canvas. Name the new Canvas D-Pad Canvas.

5. The size of a D-pad is ...