How To Create a Drop Down Menu – And Get Selected Value [Beginner Tutorial - Unity 2019]

How to create a dropdown in Unity! In this tutorial we build a simple dropdown menu and get the selected value.

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[MrReese]

This was very useful, thank you. And it is way more complicated than it should be. Even I could design a more user friendly dropdown menu than the one that is in Unity right now, jeez. However, I do have an issue with this: when I set it up the way you did, I have a field below script function in the inspector window which MUST contain an int - and whatever I put in there is the result of every option out of the dropdown menu...

The correct way to do this in Unity 2020 is as follows: declare a dropdown menu in the beginning of the script ("Dropdown" if you use normal text or "TMP_Dropdown" if you use the TMP version) and then don't give the function an int as value, don't give the function anything and give the if statements the dropdownObject.value to compare. Here is my example:

public TMP_Dropdown dropdown;

public void DropdownHandler()
{
if (dropdown.value == 0)
{
Debug.Log("first value");
}

if (dropdown.value == 1)
{
Debug.Log("second value");
}
...etc

I have not found a fix for the dropdown menu not scaling properly though, it's a complete mess visually. What has Unity done with this...

[misterr]

Perfect, thanks!! Was so difficult to find a TMP dropdown example anywhere!! Excellent work Oxmond!

[originalnick]

Short, Simple and CLEAN! Thanks a lot mate!

[RobertGercia]

Thanks, short and simple. God Bless you!

[dasap.]

Finally, a short useful tutorial i need

[williamobrien]

Very simple, quick and easy to follow. Thanks! This really helped me out in the middle of a game jam :) .

[alaahoussen]

Thanks, I love this video because it is very short and very useful

[cloudlessrainvisions]

Thanks, this has the information I needed. But to be honest the pedagogy has some issues. You're not really explaining what you're doing, you're just doing it.

[xermi]

Thanks! This was very short and useful!

[sebas_tian]

very usefull tutorial, thanks so much

[hdkung]

Thank you.
Is there any way to change the text before clicking the dropdown bar? I want mine to look like your thumbnail of this video.

[bobh]

This was a big help, thanks! Can you do a tutorial on how to select an object on a panel in-game and then place that object on another area of the GUI like how it is on SimCity?

[antonclark]

Quick question, why didnt you use a switch statement?

[tim]

If I choose a selection and switch the scenes the dropdown is on the default selection. what can I do that the dropdown selection is on the same selection than before I switch the scenes

[aeiouxyz]

Hi, how about when the option clicked then video will play instead of showing text?

[FlappyBandAid]

​ @Operngeist1 Thank you! That fixed it! For those who are having issues, go to the Main Object>Dropdown Script> Output change it from where it says: None> and choose "Output" Thanks again.

[jakehartnoll]

Thought I'd put this in here, but I came up with another method which works the same, but is better if you have a large amount of items in the drop down. For my case I was checking an array of adjectives and assigning it to another object, which could be anything.

public void HandleAdjectiveInputData(int val)
{
if (val >= 0 && val < adjectives.Length)
{
selectedAdjective.clip = adjectives[val];
}
}

[jornnieborg]

it isnt working for me, when i make the dropdown menu and add text the options stay white and they dont display text

[alanbursztyn]

GRACIAS POR TANTO GENIO, QUE VIVA EL PROGRAMADOR Y QUE SIGAN LOS EXITOS. ABRAZO GRANDE

[nghfre]

somehow its not working for me. the code looks good but when i pick one it doesnt change the text?