How to create a UI Inventory Button in Unity

Published: 24 March 2025
on channel: Christina Creates Games

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Learn how to create an inventory slot for an inventroy system in this tutorial. It is basically a button with three modes: An action to perform on click, one on hover, a third on double click. This can be used for a lot of different use cases, but you will most likely primarily use it in an inventory system. This works with the new input system and on mouse input as well as controller input.

This tutorial covers:
Creating a new type of button especially suited for inventory systems
Handling three kinds of events: On left click, on double click and on hover (enter and exit)

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📖 Chapters
00:00 Use case: an inventory system
00:55 Setup in the Unity inspector
01:39 Creating the inventory button
06:26 Finishing the setup in the Inspector
06:45 Turn the inventory slot into a prefab to add it to the right click menu

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