Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials

Creating the menu with GUITextures and mouse events

In this first approach, we'll create a menu that uses a texture with a transparent background presented as a GUITexture, in the same way as we have just done with our main title logo.

We will then need to write a script in order to make the texture receive mouse events for mouse enter, mouse exit, and mouse down/up actions.

Adding the play button

In the Book Assets | Textures folder in the Project panel, select the texture called menu_playBtn. Go to GameObject | Create Other | GUITexture or select GUITexture from the Hierarchy Create button menu as before. Select the menu_playBtn object in the Hierarchy that you have just made and in the Inspector, set its Transform Position values to (0.3, 0.55 ...