After a few months of doing nothing, I got motivation to resume working on the game. Thank you, /u/HappyGirlLucky!
My task is to migrate to Unity's new UI system, which lets me create a user interface that is not so hard on the eyes, and not a pain in the ass to use on mobile. First step was to flesh out some concepts in Inkscape - for details, see my earlier posts. Then, I exported all icons and the standard button shape to png files. In Unity, I made a Canvas object (Screen-space overlay), and I made a Game Object for each menu, and they all contain a Panel, and all the UI elements are on that panel. Not sure if this is the best practice, but the tutorial I was working from used this layout.
This is how the hierarchy looks:
And these are the corresponding menu screens:
For now, I hooked up some of the buttons - the Play button and the Map Editor button from the main menu, and the home button on the other two. Here is a gif in 1920x1080 landscape:
For the portrait version, just watch the middle of the gif :D
