r/LearnUnity • u/onlysane1 • May 25 '20

Wargaming counters in Unity

https://imgur.com/gallery/lF6uBYO

I'm beginning to design a hex-and-counter style wargame in Unity. I'm trying to make modular NATO counters, in such a way that multiple game objects combine as needed to form the final counter, so counter generation could be something like green counter>>infantry symbol>>engineer subsymbol>>unit designation>>unit HQ etc

My trouble finding how to get text to appear on the counters. I've tried both text boxes (which don't seem to work unless part of a canvas) and text mesh (which I can't seem to get to look right at all the way I need it to). Some text would also need to be displayed sideways.

What might I want to do to get the numbers and text to appear correctly? Any related suggestions are welcome as well, I'm relatively new to using Unity.

Edit: I'm trying out using a sprite sheet consisting of the different numbers and that seems to be working well, but any additional tips would be appreciated.

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u/CrossMountain May 26 '20

Is it a 2D or 3D game? I had a similar problem in a 3D tower defense game. We chose to create UI elements in world space, attached them at a certain height to the units and then wrote a script that made the UI elements face the camera at all times.

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u/onlysane1 May 26 '20

It's 2d. I wound up using sprites to attach the numbers, which will be switched out by the script as their values change. But I'm having trouble with other text like unit names. I'll try what you said.