Generalizing multiple icon displays using UI Grid Layout Groups (with scrollbars!)
The recipes in this chapter up to this point have been hand-crafted for each situation. While this is fine, more general and automated approaches to inventory UIs can sometimes save time and effort but still achieve visual and usability results of equal quality. In the next recipe, we will begin to explore a more engineered approach to inventory UIs by exploiting the automated sizing and layouts offered by Unity 5's Grid Layout Group component.
Getting ready
This recipe assumes that you are starting with the project Simple2Dgame_SpaceGirl setup from the first recipe ...
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