--- title: Elevate Your Game with World Space UI in Unity | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of implementing world space UI in Unity 6.2 using uGUI. Covers setting up a canvas in world space mode programmatically, making it face the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/elevate-your-game-with-world-space-ui-in-unity-wopns1muv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Elevate Your Game with World Space UI in Unity | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of implementing world space UI in Unity 6.2 using uGUI. Covers setting up a canvas in world space mode programmatically, making it face the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/elevate-your-game-with-world-space-ui-in-unity-wopns1muv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WOPns1muV.png og:image:alt: Elevate Your Game with World Space UI in Unity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Elevate Your Game with World Space UI in Unity **[git-amend](https://daily.dev/sources/git-amend)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of implementing world space UI in Unity 6.2 using uGUI. Covers setting up a canvas in world space mode programmatically, making it face the camera or player using different facing modes, pausing enemy movement when UI is visible, disabling CinemaMachine camera orbiting during interaction, adding a TMP dropdown menu, integrating CinemaMachine target groups to keep the UI in camera view, and fading the canvas in/out using a CanvasGroup. Also briefly showcases third-party UI effects (blur, animated buttons) from the Asset Store that work in world space. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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