[RELEASED] Arcadia Library released on Asset Store

[Game Troopers]

Introduction


Arcadia Library is a navigation solution for custom menus using Unity3D, allowing an easy flow between panels.
 

• This plugin allows the management of different menus with functions, storing history to back to the previous panels and dispatching events on each menu status, as: on menu loaded, show, hide, focused and unfocused.
   
• Supports Show and Hide functions.
   
• Menus are separated in ‘groups’, which means that you can initialize only the desired menus instead of maintain all of them on scene at the same time.
   
• ‘Layers’ concept. Only one menu can be shown simultaneously by layer, what it means that the current active menus on the same layer will be hidden to made easy the user flow.
   
• Also supports controller input, storing the last selected button/selectable on menus to make easy the navigation flow between panels.
   
• Default show and hide animations. In addition, animations can be fully customized by user.

Code features

• Based on two classes:

• • Menu: Each UI panel or menu inherits from this class.
     
  • MenuManager: Manages all the menus in the game, offering methods to initialize, show and hide them.
• All the menus can be loaded during game initialization or manually by group ID.
   
• Menus are indexed using the type of the classes that inherit from Menu.
   
• Each layer has an stack that stores all the opened menus. Closing a menu of a layer will automatically open the next menu on the stack, if any.
   
• The layer for each menu is defined on the inspector view.
   
• Buttons in the menus are loaded during the initialization and are disabled only during the hide animation of the menu.

More info about the library:

- Unity Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#!/content/121233

- Game Troopers Website: http://gametroopers.net/