Commands - UI

In this section we are listing all the commands that are here to help you with UI.

Toggle Screen UI Visibility

Shows or hides the screen UIs

Quick Name: TU

Hot Keys: ALT+;

Usage: Very often the UI canvas get in your way visually and especially when you want to select some scene objects. This command is useful to temporarily hide any screen canvases hidden while you want to select objects.

Example: You have 5 screen canvas visible, and you want to select few objects that are positioned over them, which makes you repeatedly select some canvas element. This command will help you properly select your objects.

UI Anchor To Corners

Moves the anchors of the UI elements to its corners

Quick Name: UAC

Hot Keys: ALT+]

Usage: Manually moving the anchors is really annoying in unity because they are hard to select and wont always clamp like you would like. Moving anchors to corners is fairly common to do, so this command makes it much nicer to perform.

Example: You positioned an image like you'd like it to look like on the UI, but the anchors are totally wrong since you created the object: moving the anchors to the corners will let the image adapt to the screen size properly.

UI Collapse Anchors

Collapses the anchors to center them relative to the parent

Quick Name: UC

Hot Keys: CTRL+ALT+]

Usage: Since moving anchors is annoying, this command makes it much nicer to work with UI!

UI Corners To Anchor

Moves the corners of the UI elements to its anchors

Quick Name: UCA

Hot Keys: ALT+[

Usage: One of the most common thing you do with UI elements. Since this normally means passing all the offsets to zero it quickly becomes an annoying operation to perform. This command works on all the selected objects on the top, so it can really save your time.

Example: You have few images under a UI hierarchy and you want all of them to be expanded to the parent size as they act as background. Using this command will do that all at once.

UI Collapse Anchors Height

Collapse the anchors width to the center

Quick Name: UCH

Usage: Similar to "Collapse Anchor" but applies only on the height.

UI Collapse Anchors Width

Collapse the anchors width to the center

Quick Name: UCW

Usage: Similar to "Collapse Anchor" but applies only on the width.

UI Expand Anchors

Expands the anchors to cover the parent

Quick Name: UE

Hot Keys: ALT+SHIFT+]

Usage: Expanding anchors is also a very common operation, and like stated before, it's quite annoying to do. This command makes it much easier.

Example: You want to create an objects that spawns the entire screen. This command will help you do this in one call.

UI Expand Anchors Height

Expands the anchors width to cover the parent

Quick Name: UEH

Usage: Similar to "Expand Anchors" but only for the height.

UI Expand Anchors Width

Expands the anchors width to cover the parent

Quick Name: UEW

Usage: Similar to "Expand Anchors" but only for the width.

UI Mirror Horizontally

Mirrors the rect transform relative to its parent

Quick Name: UMH

Hot Keys: ALT+,

Usage: This command is useful when you want to mirror a specific element relative to its parent in a quick call. It mirrors both the anchors and the corner.

Example: You are creating a 4 players couch coop game, and want to create the same UI as for the player 1 for the player 2 on the opposite side of the screen. This command will help you do that.

UI Mirror Vertically

Mirrors the rect transform relative to its parent

Quick Name: UMV

Hot Keys: ALT+.

Usage: Similar to "UI Mirror Horizontally" but vertically.

UI Mirror Anchor Vertically

Mirrors the rect transform relative to its parent

Quick Name: MAV

Usage: Similar to "UI Mirror Vertically" but mirror only the anchors.

UI Mirror Anchor Horizontally

Mirrors the rect transform relative to its parent

Quick Name: MAV

Usage: Similar to "UI Mirror Horizontally" but mirror only the anchors.

UI Anchor Scale Position

Scales the anchor position from the center of the rect transform so that they are bigger or smaller but retain the same aspect ratio

Quick Name: UAS

Usage: If you want a sub object to have anchor margins relative to its parents, using that command is much faster than moving every anchor manually

UI Center Anchors

Given one corner, adapts the position of all the other corners so that their distance to the edges are equivalent to the one selected

Quick Name: UCE

Usage: This is very useful to quickly recenter anchors without having to manually check the values or calculate them.