Great game! I loved the visuals for this, and the bugs are extremely well executed! Thanks btw for adding the walk through in the description, I got stuck at various points lol. Also, how did you get the first button of a ui element to be automatically selected? I've been trying to get that mechanic working in various prototypes of mine, and I can't figure it out. Did you use a tool from the asset store? If so, I'd love to know which one, 'cause I'm pulling out hair trying to figure it out lol.
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I'm very glad that you enjoyed it!! Thank you for playing!! It can be a bit longer, if you need more help say me and we can contact with other method. What I did was: I created an empty game object named "buttons" on the UI and added all the buttons that I want as child elements(TextMeshPro with Button component). I created one script named "UIButtons" and added to the empty game object (the parent). What this script makes it he following: It checks with a foreach all the child elements of the transform. If the child has a button component, adds it to a list. I have a variable named currentIndex, being the index of the selected button. I use the New Input System but basically what I did is: when the player move up, it substract 1 to currentIndex, if the player moves down, it adds 1 to currentIndex. With this you have the system running selecting the buttons. To add color or effect to the one that is selected, I created a function named "SelectButton(bool isSelected)". This function takes the button[currentIndex] and add the effect. Let's name it changing the color. so if isSelected is FALSE it change the color of the text to white, if it's TRUE it change it to yellow. So the algorythm is something like this:
Variables: buttonList, currentButton, currentIndex
Awake: Search the childs that has a GetComponent<Button>() != null and add the buttons to the list.
Start: SelectButton() <- Select the first button (index 0) of the list.
MoveBtwButtons() <- Called by your input system. SelectButton(false) first to deselect the currentButton. Add or substract 1 to the current index depending the Y input. SelectButton(true) to select the new currentButton.
ExecuteOnClick() <- With this I execute the currentButton onClick with the action button of your input system :)
That's how I managed it. SelectButton() at the start will select your first element. If you need something more please ask me! Hope I explained it well!