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WolfMaNeMattOfficial
WolfMaNeMattOfficial
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March 9, 2025
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Custom UI Preview

What's some good practices, Program's etc. to preview or build UI displays in before compiling in horizon worlds ?

I find myself drawing out the designs and layouts of how i want everything to look and be placed externally in my graphic editor like a blueprint. It just seems like the sometimes depending on how much the ui has to display it can take a second to load everything so i just wondered if others had any methods of their own, tips etc.

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gausroth
gausroth
Honored Contributor
March 10, 2025

I draw it on paper first before moving it over to Paint.net. But that is only if I am working with a client. If it is just for me then I'll draw it, then build it in HW.

GitHub: https://github.com/Gausroth/HorizonWorldsTutorials.git Discord: https://discord.gg/hNyDQwdw4N YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GausRothTutorials
    WolfMaNeMattOfficial
    WolfMaNeMattOfficialAuthor
    Up and Coming
    March 10, 2025

    I love Paint.net

      Shards632
      Shards632
      Honored Contributor
      March 10, 2025

      I've seen Figma used as a good tool for this. It has ways of representing some of the flex box layout style constraints that Custom UI supports, too.  There is even, apparently, a secret plugin floating around somewhere for exporting Figma to generated Custom UI code.  Not a plugin supported by Meta, tho.

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        WolfMaNeMattOfficial
        WolfMaNeMattOfficialAuthor
        Up and Coming
        March 10, 2025

        Woah I need to find that 

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