Official The UI Toolkit Sample Project - Dragon Crashers is now available on the Asset Store

While I'm incredibly excited to take a look at this, I have yet to be able to get it to import/work properly. Even when I specifically install the 2021.3.7 version of the editor, I get the following errors when I try to import:



Granted, it could just be user error on my part. I'm using an 2D, URP project before I import the package.

 

@MrCrispy To fix those errors, update the 2D SpriteShape package in the Package Manager.

If you have exclamation points/warning icons that show up over the sprites after doing this, you may need to also select the Assets folder in the Hierarchy and right-click > Reimport All.

Also, you can avoid the above steps, if you use the 3D(URP) template when creating the project.

 

I used 2d URP too. No need reimport anything. Read closely bellow:
I found the solution and I posted on GIT too: you need to UNLOCK this and then the upgrade button will appear instead (after that update errors are gone !)

 

Updating that particular package worked like a charm. Thanks everyone!

 

I can confirm that works fine on 2021.3.9f1, no errors

but really? A BOOK? who have time to read a book? Can't you just spend two hours and create a VIDEO tutorial walking users trough this ultra complicated setup with attached scripts that references other scripts? Is a mess.

No one reads books, create some online reference help area if possible, and then open a screen capture app and record one or two hours of someone speaking walking trough this project.

Can't unity just implement one of those node based windows that show how stuff is linked together? Like how unreal has? At leas we can figure out which stuff loads what and where.

Did you have fired all people that know how to make tutorials or can speak clearly? You have only music in your youtube videos, did you have fired the person that was talking on the tutorials?

Don't you know that youtube has AI voice recognition over videos to figure out what the video is about and show it in the search engines? If you use only music you get penalized.

You've merged with an add company, those advertising professionals should know this stuff. Make a video, speak clearly and reuse trough out the video the words that you want to be included by youtube as key words for search results.

and that landing page for the book, looks like those scam websites that give free stuff just to get your data and then send you spam emails or super expensive products.

 

C'mon mate, really? "No one reads books"? If you're going to say such sweeping generalisations you ought to have some proof to go with that.

Most sane people use books as reference materials. It's much more convenient to flip to the right page of a book (digital or otherwise) to reference what you need, than it is to scrub through to some arbitrary point in a video.

 

If you have time to read a book just to create three buttons in an interface, be my guest.

 

I mean I learned UI Toolkit by reading the documentation, so... it's not that different.

 

this is not a book about learning the UI, is a book on how to create and understand this UI project specifically. you are blind of the hate you have against me. You need to stop and think what I'm trying to explain instead of jumping to conclusions.

I'm ok with having a book or online text resources easy to access that explain each UI module and feature clearly. Is what you are saying with your posts. I'm the same idea as you.

What we have here is that they have released this project and they are telling you to compile a scam looking page so you can get the book explaining this project by mail.

Why do I need to give them all my personal data? Doesn't unity already have this data? What is the point of this?

To understand this project better and faster a video walktrough on how was build and what is inside is way better than reading some not yet released book. The if we want to check what a particular UI element does the online resource you are talking about is the way to go.

 

What are you on about? It's literally a learning guide for UI toolkit that uses this project as an example piece. I could quote what it says above... but it's literally at the top of this page, lol.

It's a reference document that has a hands on, tangible (as tangible as you can get digitally) example to go with it.

If that's not a good learning resource, I don't know what to say mate. You can go back to your Youtube videos I suppose.

As for the personal details, I imagine this it to gauge levels of engagement and cross reference that with their existing user base. You know, see who among their user base is engaging with these documents, and if its worth producing more in the future.

You can always throw nonsense in them with a throw away email account if you are so pointlessly paranoid.

Any way my original post was to pick fun at you saying 'nobody reads books'. You can't say such sweeping generalisations. Tons of people read books; more than ever, would you believe. And Unity have been producing these PDF guides for a while. If no one was using them, they wouldn't keep making them.

 

never knew these exist can you link a couple, i want to check see what is about

 

Thank You for the links, they look like great information to have. Too bad I didn't know they exists when trying to learn out unity. Both unity and unreal have great official tutorials but both companies don't present them in a good way, is never clear where they are located. I recall that to discover both game engines "learning" areas was just a causality of browsing the forums and finding someone posting a link

I don't want the book in the mail immediately when it shows up, maybe there is a place where can I visit and when its available I can get it?

Edit: I'm looking at some of the books, now I'm really annoyed, why this information was not promoted better. The book about optimizing the game for mobile have so much helpful stuff

 

It's a PDF... Just download and store it somewhere on your computer.

 

I checked this demo, it's nice to see working stuff like this, but I am kind of disappointed about animating - is really render texture the only way to create animation? I don't mean moving element left and right, but something more fancy.
Is there any support for flipbooks or anything like that? Or even better - custom shader/material?

 

Just a question, this project needs URP as reported.
This mean that UI Toolkit is usable just with URP or it's possible to use also with HDRP?

 

the new ui works with any of the render pipelines.

 

Hey, for some reason I am unable to Open the project in Unity (tried 2 different browsers). Is there something I need to do to allow it? Thanks =)

 

Ok I was able to sign in to package manager and download it and get into a project (can't believe it all worked)! I hit play and was so impressed with everything. I'm slowly unpacking and learning here and looking forward to making my first game/UI!

 

When you say soon... how soon we talking? It's been kinda frustrating that there was no estimate, not sure many people thought "coming weeks" was gonna mean 8. Not a knock, I'm super excited for it.

*I'm hoping to use it with my students so there is always some planning/timing that goes along with that.

 

We all wait eagerly..

in the meantime i would like some help - can you help me understand hot to transfer a visual tree asset form the project to my project? as for now it transfers but somehow its is damaged and not have all its components

thanx

 

Specifaly i want to take CharPortrait and use it in other project
when i do that even if try to export or pbring the atlas pictures this is what i get




when i try to play with the atlas i cant find specicf image but the whole pallet of sprites



also

even in the regular i cant seem to change the stuff in the bacground image - look here and that some of the fields is not highlihgted soicant seem to change them

and in the coruupted one(the one i tried to transfer to my project) i cant seem to fix at all - becuse it is marked

i wonder how ii can transfer specic component with their bindings

 

The GoldFX position is correct only under the design resolution. If the screen resolution is modified the GoldFX position is wrong.

Work on design resolution:


Not work on other resolution:

 

i did copy yhe whole ui folder





i did some thinking
maybe i didnt copy the refence picture(not sure exctly how does it work)
MAYBE i need the scripts too?
i did change the scripts sothe y fit my needs but maybe there is link from the ui to the old scripts or something
and i didnt copy them

 

Fantastic! Thanks super appreciate the idea around timing and the reply!

 

Yes. i have both of them(locked)

i understand that this assets ui use the sprite atlas - i wonder if i hve problem in this area

maybe i use later versions of unity (2022) and that creates problems?


I probably dont understand new ui tool and the uss- uxml combination - but one of hard things is that lots of the elements are in gray meaming i cant play with them(maybe there is a parent or uss which controls their behaviour?). also i see that in some of the compnenets there is a path thati cant control but maybe this path leads to the broken pictures atlas?

the atlas way of working is still not clear to me and maybe this is one of the confusions(should i download more pacakages or so?)/ anyhelp is very welcome

thx!

EDIT
i do see i have some influence if i change directly the element in the uss
eg
in charportait - if i hoover on health bar progress i can change the background picture-image directly and it changes the health bar i see

 

ן will try go back from 2022 to 2021 - in the mean time i discoverd some change that maybe influecne - in the background picture now its written (transform)

but wheni maanualy change it it looks like this and it works



maybe this is the key for the confusion?

maybe the question now is how i can change it totay without the need to go over one after another?

my version that i use is 2022.1.19f1

 

Anyone know when the book is going to be released? We're trying to determine which approach we're going to go with long term for UIs and UIToolkit is something we want to consider, but there are no good books/documentation on it and was hoping to see this book before we start down the road with the UX artists.

 

Thanks team! We really want to use it, but quality documentation/tutorials had been hard to come by. Much appreciated!!

 

THX allot

i did imported the setting - maybe i am not sure how to use it but it didnt fix the problem - i still have screens who have problems like this


another problem with thi new ui i get is it very hard for me to understand where the problem lies
for example here - i took stuff from your demo to my game - i want to put wepon chosen instead of the potion and i do want to put picture of pilots inside the frame and connect my health system to this health bar



for example here - am trying to change the size of the frame (the orange one)
also i want to understand why the image is deiffernt - i know that at some time i did change it

for this is the protarit screen

i remeber i played with it and changed it

the problem for is is i am not sure how to "click" and ui element in the scene view

and becuase ot that i am not sure how to find leverges for change

for exampLe here i want to change to protrait but not sure where it is


it is probably here

but i am still not sure how to locate the stuff
how to connect what i see in the scene-game view and what i see in the builder ui window

at the end
i did find the place in the script where i changed the picture - i did it thru the character info data scriptable object but it took time. i think i still am very coufused about all the connections

the game screen - the game screen controler - the style S*** - the uxml - the unit controller ...
lots of connections
probably whem time goes on i will have better understanding of how to connect and find it all . i would be thankfull for some tips... thank you

ps.
about the first problem.I do think the importer is working because i do see the seperate pictures in the project files (some from each because i downloded A few to play and try them out in differnt settings)

 

ok - i used your last answer to understand how the whole mechanizem worked and got progress but the graphics part importi wasnt able to solve it so i just imported the whole thing -dragoncrashers ui - in package manager

it worked at last and everything was fine but i needed to adjust the layers i imported to fit my game

and i think this made everything not work again.. not sure what is happening..






i tired checking the styke S*** but the texure is missng


now by the nothing works - all the uxml got earsed some how



hope to dinf solution soon

thanx

ps

really not sure what is happeing/ i rebooted unity and wallaaa... it is all working...

 

Release the book - stop teasing us with it

 

I thought you "didn't have time to read books" and now you complain that the books weren't promoted better. Everything is bad for you, mate.

 

hi

i have some problem with my main screen
but not sure why and how can i fix it because i cant see it in the ui builder
(i play with dragon crashers examples so basickly it is not far for the package i downloaded and changed)


it does compile in runtime



but i cant see it in the ui builder somewhy