CurvedUI - VR ready solution to bend the canvas

CurvedUI
http://u3d.as/nmE
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Designed for the new Unity GUI, CurvedUI bends the Canvas in world space, allowing player to view and interact with it from any angle!

VR headsets are about to hit the mass market. Enrich your VR project with UI that will fully immerse your players. Get that Minority Report feel with curved, interactive screens. CurvedUI includes a gaze raycaster that will allow you to select UI elements just by pointing your head towards them. Works with Google Cardboard, GearVR, Oculus Rift and other VR headsets.

Not in mood for VR? Use CurvedUI to create sci-fi helmet hud's, interactive 3D maps, world space inventory systems and more!

Features
Easy set-up - takes less than 10 seconds!
Cylindrical mapping to wrap your interface around the player.
Ring mapping to instantly create circular shapes from ordinary assets.
Works perfectly in world space.
Fully interactive from any angle.
Optimized to reduce poly count.
Includes VR Gaze Racyaster - use UI elements with your gaze.
Works on mobile.
Works in Unity Personal Edition.

Get it at
http://u3d.as/nmE​

 

I have an issue where is I set the angle to 360 then some of the touch events stop working towards the edge of the canvas (far left and far right, where they join). Any idea how to fix this?

 

Same issue here!

 

@chisely
Hey, thanks for the cool asset. Is it unity 5.5 updated? Thanks

 

hi there,
i'm having problems with customizing in Unity, please help!

 

is there any documentation with the files? which?

 

Hi, just updated project to 5.6.0f3 and get the following error.

Assets/CurvedUI/Scripts/CurvedUIVertexEffect.cs(640,20): error CS0165: Use of unassigned local variable `ret'

 

@christougher

For the Unity 5.6 error, change line 607 from

Code (CSharp):

1.  UIVertex ret;

to

Code (CSharp):

1. UIVertex ret = new UIVertex();

 

Anyone else still having issues with this since upgrading to 5.6? I've made the change suggested by @EricL but the script still doesn't compile...

 

CurvedUI creator here.

That's the solution to 5.6 compile bug. Thanks for sharing it with forum users!

Sometimes Unity can miss some files on import. Redownload the package and import it again. Afterwards change the aformentioned line, and the script will compile as always.


The update that fixes this issue is on its way to the assetstore to spare you from having to modify scripts.

 

Hi!I do not work alpha in if I use Rich Text

 

Adding, testing and removing CurvedUI stops input from occuring on UI controls after. I noticed that in a stack trace for the TextMeshPro InputField not working as advertised I saw CurvedUI.process or similar as the fail point..and I did not have it in the scene at all. So I deleted the folder and now i can't work on the project because the input system got trashed and rebooting the editor does not work. How do I get my event system working again and controls accepting clicks and rollovers? Frustrating and cost me time I cannot afford. I am going to put it back in the project from the Asset Store downloads just to work again..hopefully... but this is bogus. Do not hog the users application innards like this.

And to confirm. I had to add it back to the project to get my controls to accept inputs. I am using it in exactly no scenes in the entire project. So now I cannot get proper input from the TMP_InputField on ending edit.

 

Hi I could use some assistance in getting controller interaction working with Unity 2017.1.1p2 and VRTK 3.2.0 installed. Seems to be issues with controller initialization due to the way VRTK does SDKSetup support.

Any help appreciated.

Code (CSharp):

1. Can't find SteamVR_ControllerManager on scene. It is required to use VIVE control method. Make sure all SteamVR prefabs are present.
2. UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object)
3. CurvedUIInputModule:SetupViveControllers() (at Assets/CurvedUI/Scripts/CurvedUIInputModule.cs:570)
4. CurvedUIInputModule:OnEnable() (at Assets/CurvedUI/Scripts/CurvedUIInputModule.cs:157)
5.  
6.  
7. NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
8. UnityEngine.EventSystems.BaseInputModule.OnDisable () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Extensions/guisystem/UnityEngine.UI/EventSystem/InputModules/BaseInputModule.cs:62)
9.  

 

Hi I got some help from @bddckr on the VRTK Slack. I still have some questions about the best way to integrate pointers.

 

Hi!

My problem is that I modify text using code but it is not displayed in an android phone. Its work correctly in the editor and the game scene. I have tried to force CurvedUI object to redraw by using the following line (in curvedUI documentation):

YourObject.GetComponent <CurvedUIVertexEffect> (). SetDirty ();

But doesn´t work for me.
Sorry for my bad english :-(

Thanks!

 

@ibyte Would you like to share how you got it to work?

 

Yeah.. It is like they are bragging. Howzabout telling us how you resolved the problem you asked about or found the answer to. I still have the issue where if i remove his folder my UI will not work anymore. there was no reply about this and Unity pushed this Asset. I wonder how many other got borked..

 

Sorry, I haven't checked back in a while. If your using VRTK, I would expect your on their slack and you might have tried a search there.

So I basically took the easy way out and decided to only support OpenVR in my app. Once you setup VRTK for only 1 SDK, CurvedUI no longer has those issues.

If you really need to support multiple SDK's in your app then you need to follow the instructions to add support for a callback from the SDK Manager in each scripts OnEnable() to make sure the SDKManager has finished enabling all active SDK's.

Hope this helps

 

Now I am stuck as I want to only use 1 pointer to do both Teleports and CurvedUI interactions, both using the trigger button.

CurvedUI's Raycast is always on which I don't like and I would like to fully use VRTK's UI Pointer instead

 

Is there any way to implement Windows Mixed Reality headsets with CurvedUI?

I'm using the Lenovo Explorer controllers with CurvedUI.

 

Where the hell is that "Enable Vive" Button ?
It just doesn't exist in the CurvedUISettings component...

 

Hello, i seem to have an issue where the collider component are not getting 'curved' with the button objects. I am using Google Cardboard . Anyone have a solution for this?

Cheers

Daniel

 

I'm having an issue where I can't get the cursor to appear on the curved UI. The buttons still light up, but I can't see the cursor UI. I'm using Oculus with the OVR libraries.

 

Hia.

I am still very new to this kit but I have been thrust into a situation where I need to support all VR devices in one project and I figured I'd just use CurvedUI as the one system to handle all since this way I only have to use RayCast collider and all that stuff. I see CurvedUI supports Oculus, GoogleVR and mouse inputs so this is great... only problem now is that if/when I do this:

Code (csharp):

1. curved_ui_settings = GetComponent<CurvedUISettings>();
2. curved_ui_settings.ControlMethod = CurvedUIInputModule.CUIControlMethod.GOOGLEVR;
3.  

I get hundreds of errors about this:

Code (csharp):

1. CURVEDUI: Missing GoogleVR support code. Enable GoogleVR control method on CurvedUISettings component.

I have the GoogleVR controller prefab in the scene so I thought I should be golden but, apparently, not... What am I missing?
I am currently targeting Daydream, by the way.

Thx

 

Same issue here.. you figured it out ??

 

Getting a null reference exception on this line. What am I doing wrong? Project was just fine when I quit working on it last month, opened it up to this error.

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

CurvedUI.CurvedUITMP.LateUpdate () (at Assets/_GUI & Input/CurvedUI/Scripts/Experimental/CurvedUITMP.cs:140)

Code (CSharp):

1. savedLocalScale = mySettings.transform.localScale;

 

Hi @chisely , I have an issue.

In my cardboard, the demo scene 05 VRMenuGaze isn't right, the gaze pointer doesn't accurate.


But another cardboard app the gaze is the same with 2 eye. What should I do now?

 

Hi, Would it work for a 3d environment ?

 

Wow a lot of issues, and no support. Thanks for the push Unity. Would like to know why this won't work between scene changes. Even if the canvas and event system aren't destroyed it bugs out. Also Gaze control wont properly select buttons on my canvas, I'd prefer to not have to build for touch to simply use this.

 

Have just imported this into a fresh Unity 2019 project. I get this error:
Assets\CurvedUI\Scripts\CurvedUIInputModule.cs(15,36): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'GvrPointerInputModule' could not be found
I am targeting Oculus Go.
How do I go about getting this asset to work? Many thanks

 

You have to import Packages with Package Manager, mostly OpenVR (Desktop) & Oculus(Desktop)

 

I'm using CurvedUI (Unity 2019) just to bend some not interactable canvases, so I didn't add CurvedUIInputModule to the EventSystem.
The problem is that when I select the object on which CurvedUISettings is attached, CurvedUIInputModule will automatically be added on my EventSystem gameobject.

Another similar problem happened runtime. I don't have any CurvedUIInputModule attached to the EventSystem, but when I load the scene it will automatically be added to the EventSystem.

Is there any solution to this? I'm missing some settings? (I just disabled the Interactable checkbox on all CurvedUISettings in the scenes)

 

Hi everyone.
I very rarely check these forums, so if you need help with anything please be sure to reach out to me at the support email: curvedui@chisely.com. This way you can be sure I got the message.

I'll be happy to help!

Cheers,
Daniel

 

Hi, we want to scroll in a ScrollView with a CustomControllerRay. How can we do this, as we can only set CustomControllerButtonState to true/false. I think we need something like CustomControllerButtonStateHoldDown?

 

Hi -- any immediate plans to support the XR Interaction Toolkit?

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/12/17/xr-interaction-toolkit-preview-package-is-here/

Looks like for VR, it should be relatively stable.

 

Hi!
does this tool support Vector Graphics (SVG importer)?

 

Is it possible to have Gaze and Touch Input at the same time?

 

Are there any plans to support ActionBasedControllers in UNITY_XR?

 

I came here to ask exactly that!

 

Very keen for this too, we made the jump to the new input system so CurvedUI is essentially broken. :T

 

Same here...I was going to use a curved canvas but apparently the Curved UI engineers think that its fine to replace/disable components at runtime because the tool is so awesome that it can just overwrite the project architecture.
throwing errors on update, but hey I got a curved ui!

 

Hi,

I have the same question, did you find a fix?

I have this curved UI asset but the input systems are not compatible, MRTK only lets one input module to be active...
https://assetstore.unity.com/packag...ready-solution-to-bend-warp-your-canvas-53258

Do you know any workaround?

Thank you

 

you can't at the moment ...
MRTK have their specific canvas ...
so, you have to invent your mixed solution

 

Oh boy, these user reviews are great.

 

Hello

I am using Curved UI in my unity project version 2020.3.11f1. Now for VR Interaction, I added
VR Interaction Framework (VRIF) from the asset store.

After adding the VRIF framework getting below error :

Code (CSharp):

1. Assets/CurvedUI/Scripts/CurvedUIInputModule.cs(20,22): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Interaction' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEngine.XR' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
2.  

In Player Setting, Scripting defines symbols automatically added CURVEDUI_UNITY_XR as symbol. Unable to remove CURVEDUI_UNITY_XR from scripting define symbol. I think this issue happening due to conflict of input system and scripting define symbol

If I add Input System package from the Package manager, automatically CURVEDUI_UNITY_XR symbol added. I need to use CURVEDUI_OCULUSVR only

Does anyone have a solution?

 

You need to enable Preview Packages within the Package Manager, and import the XR Interaction Toolkit that Unity provides. The CurvedUI is referencing this interaction package, not one from the Asset Store.

 

@chisely

I'm using CurvedUI on mobile in optional combination with Cardboard mode, so I need the ability to interact with the UI through Gaze and Touch at the same time, so a hybrid so to speak.
How can I solve this issue, is there a workaround for this?