Making Menus

Now it’s time to create a menu system for your game! You will create a main menu, a levels menu, and a button to get to the menu after the game is finished.

• To create a main menu you will need a new scene. Create one and call it something you can remember like mainmenu (remember, click File > New Scene to create a new scene and then File > Save Scene as to give it a name and save it. Be sure to save it in the “Scenes” folder!)

Now that you have a new scene, you can start creating the menu.

• From the top menu go GameObject > UI > Button. Do this twice so you have two buttons and move them into a place that you like.

• Change the Text object under the buttons in the hierarchy to Play! and levels.

• Now you can give your game a name or add images to it. This will make it your own game! Here’s what mine looks like:

• For the levels menu, you can use the “levels” scene that I already created, but feel free to change it up so it looks how you want it to!

• Switch to the “mainmenu” scene. You will make the buttons work now!

• To do this, create a new C# script. Replace Start() and Update() with

  public void nextScene(string scene)
  {
      SceneManager.LoadScene(scene);
  }

• You will also need to add using UnityEngine.SceneManagement; to the top of the script.

• Save your script and go back to the scene in Unity.

• Create an empty object and name it “buttonController”. Attach the script you just created to it.

• Go to the Inspector for your “play” button and find the “Button (Script)” property.

• Find the On Click () property and click the little + icon at the bottom left of it.

• Drag the “buttonController” object from the Hierarchy to the bottom left box in the On Click () property. Where it says No Function, click the drop down and select the script you created earlier, then select nextScene(string).

• Finally, write the name of the scene you want to switch to in the bottom right box. It should look like this if youve done it correctly:

• Repeat this process for the “levels” button. Simply change the scene name in the bottom right box to levels and the button will switch to that scene instead.

• Now switch to the “levels” scene and repeat the steps above to make the buttons on it switch to the different levels. You can reuse the same script you already created!

• Run the main menu scene and test out the buttons. You should switch into the different scenes.