Unity 5 UI Tutorial - Dropdowns [#1 - Manual Setup]

In this introductory video I’ll show you how I would manually set up a dropdown and code the opening and closing behavior.
Difficulty: Beginner

[ABOUT THIS SERIES]
The goal of the series is to be able to create a dropdown menu in the unity editor that will allow you to easily edit all its buttons and customize its appearance in one place so you don’t constantly have to be going through the hierarchy finding buttons.

In the second video, we’re going to create a ui utility class with a bunch of static functions that will make it super easy to instantiate (and scale/position) ui elements like buttons and text and so on. We’ll add a menu item to the unity editor that will use the ui utility functions to instantiate a dropdown FOR you (and even create a canvas if one doesn't exist)

In the third video, we’ll be looking at adding and removing children from the dropdown as well as customizing the whole look of the dropdown, children included.
I don’t know how long the series will be, as there are tons of features that can be added.

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[phodaOG]

Fast, descriptive and simple without complications and stuttering in speaking about tons of stuff. AWESOME!

[jasiekthejester]

WOW! By sheer coincidence I came across your video as the first one and it is EXACTLY what I was looking for a that particular moment in time! Thanks SO much for sharing your knowledge!! Awesome tutorial!

[RichardBaileyrichoncode]

Brilliant video. clear and fast. My new favorite Unity presenter.

[jeffreyg]

Simplest solution I have seen so far, thanks!

[gutozardy]

I call this " A REALLY USEFUL UNITY TUTORIAL". Thanks. : D

[binaryspace]

Thus is frankly the best tutorial I have seen for this kind of thing! Thanks for this video!

+1 sub!

[Twisted]

Thank you for this quick and straight forward tutorial. I can't stand tutorials where they turn a 2 minute topic into 20 minutes... Also, damn you're a fast typer xP

[kurty]

Awesome tutorial! <3
I Didn't even know about "isOpen? 1:0" til now.

Thanks! :D

[Trxnce]

Extremely good tutorial, Thanks! You deserve more subs.

[AgentTekk]

Wow. Great tutorial. And nice to listen to, unlike some other channels lol

[TheOmegaTaichou]

hi Lena,
Thanks to the another great unity tutorial, keep going with this unique tutorials on youtube!

[itsmeolee]

Nice video, thanks! Just out of curiosity, what font do you use within Visual Studio?

[ramakantbh]

Saved me a lot of time. Thank you so much!

[cgmaxman]

WOW, super fast and clean : ) Thanks !

[ookamidouketsu]

Someone linked me to this video when I had asked about getting a dropdown selection to create and populate another dropdown. Clearly this video does not do what I was hoping for but...do you have another video that does?

[jhonpauljaspe]

Thank you Very Awesome, Used it for my game, I'm Billionaire now, Thank you Very much much

[averyc]

how would you make this drop upward? I've been going through it but I can't see how to do that

[wiktorzalewski]

hey great video, but for me there is no "implement interface option". what do i do /

[maxdlee]

Thanks so much for this. I couldnt get the new dropdown UI element to work and followed your tutorial. Works great, except I got a "Invalid AABB inAABB" error. Trouble shot it down to using zero for scale (apparently theres a bug in Unity that throws this error if font spacing is set to zero). Instead of using zero for Y scale I used .001f. It wont allow a float unless you put the "f" on the end. No longer getting the error. I am using 5.3.2f1. This bug was reported.

[malickdk]

Thank You for the tutorial, was really well explained.