For making in-game UI your best option is Unity’s own UnityUI paired with Flexbox4Unity, allowing you to use modern CSS3/Flexbox layouts within Unity’s UI system, with RectTransforms etc working seamlessly together (but without all the problems of ContentSizeFitter not … continue reading
This tutorial is for anyone writing editor UI’s – e.g. Custom Inspectors, EditorWindows, etc – using Unity’s new UIElements/UIToolkit. Make sure you’ve read the previous articles on core concepts and how to access the root container/VisualElement.
(NB: UIToolkit doesn’t … continue reading
This tutorial is for anyone writing editor UI’s – e.g. Custom Inspectors, EditorWindows, etc – using Unity’s new UIElements/UIToolkit. Make sure you’ve read the previous articles on core concepts and how to access the root container/VisualElement.
(NB: UIToolkit doesn’t … continue reading
This tutorial is for anyone writing editor UI’s – e.g. Custom Inspectors, EditorWindows, etc – using Unity’s new UIElements/UIToolkit. Make sure you’ve read the previous articles on core concepts and how to access the root container/VisualElement.
(NB: UIToolkit doesn’t … continue reading
Documentation: customizing autosizing, understanding autosizing
Do you hate using Unity’s ContentSizeFitter component, that thing that so often fails to do the one task it was created for, and is incompatible with so many other parts of Unity’s Layout system? One … continue reading
To recap … in Part 1, we learned:
- You can create UIToolkit UI’s entirely in code, with no CSS files, no extra documents, everything in one place: easy to write, easy to maintain, simple and efficient
- Everything in UIToolkit
Unity has three different UI frameworks that run in parallel (IMGUI, UnityUI, and UIElements/UIToolkit). The latest of these is UIToolkit (identical to UIElements, but the marketing team renamed it), and it’s really very good – but most of the docs … continue reading
Difficulty: BEGINNER
With each release of Flexbox4Unity, you get multiple free layout algorithms. Usually you want to use the latest one, but if the latest one has fixed a bug you were relying on, or if it introduces new bugs, … continue reading
Responsive Design is wonderful: you make your UI once, and have it automatically redesign itself to fit different screensizes and shapes, while looking great in all of them.
Game developers have been missing this feature – until now. It has … continue reading
What do I need?
Unity’s core UI system (UnityUI, also known as “uGUI”) has no support for Flexbox. However, you can download “Flexbox4Unity” from the AssetStore and it directly adds this missing support (there’s also a free version with reduced … continue reading