View the entire tutorial on What Up Games.

Introduction

Keeping players engaged in your game can be a challenging task. For some games, guiding the player towards key objectives is incredibly important and can make or break engagement. A popular approach is to provide a compass that has icons overlay the direction that they should move. In this tutorial, you will create a general compass that has an overlay of gathering objectives for the player to complete. When the player reaches an objective, a UnityEvent is raised which will equip the new equipment and destroy the 'dummy' world objective.

Learning Outcomes

In this part of the series, you will learn how to:

• Work with uGUI components, such as canvas, image, and masking.
• Rotate a repeating texture based on the user input.
• Create a prefab.
• Use UnityEvent to call a custom method to handle when an objective is completed.

Prerequisites

Tutorials may work with earlier versions. The version referenced is the one I used.

• You should have Unity 2020.3 LTS or later to follow along with this tutorial.
• This tutorial assumes you have basic knowledge of Unity.

Resources

• SoftMaskForUGUI
• Icons from Game-Icons