Popups and toasts

Pause menus, dialogs and short "+50 coins" messages.

A popup appears on top of the screen: a pause menu, a "Really quit?" question, a reward box. A toast is a small message that pops up and goes away on its own, like "+50 coins".

Make a popup

A popup is a group of elements set to behave like a popup.

1. Build the popup on the screen: a panel, a title and a few buttons.
2. Select all of them and click Group Selected in the Layers panel. Give the group a clear name, like "Pause Menu".
3. Click the group in Layers. In the right panel, open the Group tab and turn on Popup.

Popup settings:

• Open / close animation: how it appears and disappears.
• Dim the screen behind: darkens everything behind the popup. Pick the colour and how dark.
• Tap outside closes it and Back / Esc closes it.
• Open when the screen opens: for popups that should greet the player.

While you design, the popup stays visible so you can edit it. In Play mode and in Unity it starts closed.

Tip: Turn on Reveal Hidden in the toolbar to see hidden popups faintly while you work on the rest of the screen.

Open and close it

1. Select the button that should open the popup, for example the pause button.
2. In Actions, add On Click → Open Popup and pick your group.
3. On the popup's close or resume button, add On Click → Close Popup (or Back).

Press Play to try it.

Show and Hide, or Open Popup?

You can also use Show and Hide on any group. The difference: Open Popup adds the dim background, the animation, tap-outside-to-close and the Back button, and remembers which popup is on top. Use popups for windows and Show / Hide for simple things like a hint.

Toasts

A toast needs no design work:

1. Select a button and open Actions.
2. Add the action Show Toast.
3. Type the message, for example "+50 coins", and pick its style.

The toast slides in, stays for a moment and disappears. Toasts work in Play mode and in Unity, and they are translated with the rest of your text when you use localization.