Creating and Customizing Project User Interfaces

You can use the UI Editor to create and customize various parts of the game user interface, such as images, text, buttons, menus, scroll boxes, and heads-up displays (HUDs).

UI Editor

Use Open 3D Engine’s UI Editor to create and customize various user interface elements and components such as menus, buttons, and heads-up displays.

UI Canvases

Create a canvas in the UI Editor to use as an invisible backdrop for your game user interface elements in Open 3D Engine.

Creating Load Screens

Create game and level loading screens with Open 3D Engine’s UI Editor, and then add the canvas file paths to settings in the game.cfg and level.cfg files.

UI Slices

Open 3D Engine’s UI system uses slices, a cascaded data management system for entities.

UI Elements

Use the UI Editor in Open 3D Engine to manage UI elements like strings, text input fields, images, buttons or containers.

UI Components

Give a UI element additional properties by adding components in Open 3D Engine’s UI Editor.

Implementing New Fonts

Add new fonts to Open 3D Engine’s UI Editor by saving the font asset to your game project and creating a font XML file that describes the asset.

Animating the UI

Use O3DE’s Scripted Entity Tweener gem or the UI System’s Animation Editor to animate game UI elements.