Inventory UIs

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating a simple 2-D mini-game - SpaceGirl
• Displaying single object pickups with carrying and not-carrying text
• Displaying single object pickups with carrying and not-carrying icons
• Displaying multiple pickups of the same object with multiple status icons
• Using panels to visually outline the inventory UI area and individual items
• Creating a C# inventory slot display UI scripted component
• Generalizing multiple icon displays using UI Grid Layout Groups (with scrollbars!)
• Displaying multiple pickups of different objects as a list of text via a dynamic List<> of scripted PickUp objects
• Displaying multiple pickups of different objects as text totals via a dynamic Dictionary<> of PickUp objects and enum pickup types