Mastering UI Development with Unity - Second Edition

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Particles in the UI

Particle effects are a fun and attractive way to add “juice” to your game. The Particle system within the Unity Engine provides you with the tools needed to make all sorts of interesting effects like sparkles, smoke, fire, and so on. This chapter will discuss how you can use particle effects within your UI.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• Methods for displaying particle effects in your UI
• Adding flying stars to our loot box animation

This book is about UI, not particle effects. Due to the complex nature of particle effects, I will not be covering all the settings involved and the various intricacies of using particle effects. I will walk you through the steps to create a single particle effect ...