# Manual Setup (Recommended)

This setup uses the Basic template as an example. If you're using a cloned template, apply the same steps to your version instead.

You can manually integrate a demo template into your scene by following these steps:

# 1. Add a UI Document

To add a UI Document, right-click the hierarchy and select UI Toolkit > UI Document.

# 2. Assign UI Assets

Select the UI Document object in the scene. Navigate to the desired demo folder (GDS/Demos/Basic in this example), and drag the Panel Settings and Visual Tree Asset into their corresponding fields in the UI Document component.

These assets handle styling and layout.

# 3. Add Inventory Scripts

Go to Demos/Basic/Scene/Scripts and add the InventoryEvents and InventoryInput scripts to the UI Document object.

InventoryEvents handles item spawning when dropped and cleanup when picked up.

InventoryInput listens for keyboard input and forwards it to the inventory.

# 4. Add a Player Input component

With UI Document object selected in Hierarchy, add a Player Input component.

Drag the Basic Input Action Asset into the Actions field of the Player Input component.

Make sure that the Default map is set to Inventory and the Behavior is set to Send Messages.

# 5. Assign the Player Transform

If you don't already have a Player object in the scene tree, create a cube and name it Player.

Select the UI Document, expand the InventoryEvents component and drag the Player object from the scene into the Player Transform field.

# 6. Assign Item and VFX Prefabs

Go to Common/Prefabs and drag WorldItem prefab into the Item Prefab field and PickupVFX prefab into the PickupVFX field.

Items dropped on the ground will spawn at random positions around the Player.

You can adjust the Drop Radius and Drop Offset here.

# 7. Add an Event System

If you don't already have an Event System in your scene, create one by going to GameObject > UI > Event System.

An Event System is required in the scene because it acts as the central hub that processes input from the new Input System and dispatches it to UI elements or game objects.

# 8. Add a Physics Raycaster to Main Camera

Select the Main Camera in Hierarchy and add a Physics Raycaster component.

The Physics Raycaster is needed on the main camera so that the new Input System’s UI and event system can detect and interact with 3D objects through raycasts.