Resolved Smooth UI masks

Can we have smooth UI masks built-in Unity ?
i.e UI masks that controls the transparency of the pixels depending on the alpha value, something like what this library does : mob-sakai/SoftMaskForUGUI: UI Soft Mask is a smooth masking component for Unity UI (uGUI) elements. (github.com)

 

Glad to hear that ! That would be an awesome feature whenever it comes out

 

It's things like this that bankrupt small teams, infuriate big ones and push developers to quit unity, I'm working on a UI feature and it so happens that after years of working with unity for the first time I need a soft mask for UI, and I just found out that it doesn't exist. I actually found it funny in a very dark way, it's such an obvious feature. You have DOTS that no one asked for and no one is using, and you only have it for PR reasons, but feature as obvious as a soft mask for UI has not been implemented for more then a decade. It's unbelievable.

 

2023 and Unity still does not support this basic feature despite the amount of funding it has, laughable at minimum.

 

They ain't going to develop it for uGUI anymore either. If they are, I'd be surprised.
But UI Toolkit masking is on the list of TODO. That'll take quite some time as well.
https://unity.com/roadmap/unity-platform/ui

All you can do is either implement it yourself or wait.
But the waiting, you'll be waiting years.
I hope Unity will make an investment on more UI devs to get some more development velocity in there.
Their team isn't large and they're spread across multiple area's as well.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/any-plans-to-hire-more-devs.1328013/#post-8393547

I've complained multiple times about the development velocity but it doesn't seem Unity is going to do anything about it.
I really love UI toolkit, but it'll take years before I finally actually use it. Soon™

 

Unity being Unity part 734...

 

Still so suprised this feature is missing and soo annoying to deal with

 

Hi guys, I just created a UI Soft Mask package to supply those needs. Still waiting for Unity to approve at Asset Store but you guys can check at: https://ams.sorialexandre.tech/ui-soft-mask.
Designed for SRP it works with all render pipelines and build targets.
Also, allows extending any UI shader by adding the soft mask easily into it.

Appreciate any review and feel free to request improvements.