Official UI Toolkit 1.0-preview available

I wrote an equivalent system using DOTS for all the calculations, managed to get it running super fast. Can't remember how I actually rendered the health bar but that wasn't really the bottleneck

 

Hi, I'm using linux vulkan HDRP,

in the UI Builder window I get a message saying :

> Your project is not configured to support UI toolkit Runtime UI, to enable runtime support, install the UI toolkit package.

and it's link takes me here.

what am I missing? I have UI builder installed I also have the UIERuntime folder from the github demo repo in my Assets folder. there is no "UI Toolkit" package in the package manager even with preview packages enabled. what exactly is it asking for?

EDIT : oh ok you have to do this : https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/UITK-package.html

 

I'm trying to use the new setup as instructed AKA not Panel Renderer but UIDocument.
I set UIDocument's Source Asset to my UXML, (Panel Settings was already set to the Panel Settings script)

I have a black background Visual Element that I made flex 1, In the preview it covers everything but when I run nothing shows up.

Am I supposed to tweak Panel Settings settings? what am I missing?

 

I made a new question thread here : https://forum.unity.com/threads/trying-to-use-ui-toolkit-nothing-shows-up.966275/

 

OK. So I am trying this out, but now how construct construct a UI entirely procedurally using UIDocument?, because as far as I can see, the rootVisualElement is no longer writable. I want procedurally generate some UI at runtime. I could previously pull this off with the old PanelRenderer.

I explicitly want to be able to generate runtime UI without having to manually create a VisualTreeAsset, I cannot see any way to manually set and define the root procedurally.

 

Actuall nevermind. I used to simply replace root element with PanelRenderer.




Edit: yeah - just realized that, but the docs may need somewhat clearer language to imply the rootVisualElement is not null.

 

Is there/ will there be a way to show the visual elements in the scene view, kind of like how the canvas works? I’m developing some tools, and the lack of scene view visualisation makes the tool a lot less useful. Also, are there any code examples with some explanation somewhere?

 

I have a UI setup that is currently working with the old input system. This morning I tried switching to the new input system so I could better detect when events had been consumed by the UI and not pass them through to my game. Upon upgrading however, I found that the mouse position doesn't seem to be updating correctly. When hovering different elements they flicker constantly as if the position is sometimes not where the mouse is. I have an element at the center of the screen and that seems to flicker too even when not hovered, so it seems like sometimes the Point action might be thinking the mouse coordinate is (0, 0) even when that isn't the case. I'm on unity 2020.1.3 and have the latest Input and UI Toolkit packages. I tried making my own input actions, I also tried using the UIToolkitInputActions included in the package to make sure it wasn't something wrong with the setup, but they both have the same problem. I also tried turning the repeat delay and rate to 0, I know that shouldn't affect pointer position but I tried anyway. Has anyone got this working and is there something else I should try? Thanks!

 

Yes, I know about the Game View visualization and the UI Builder. The reason I need it for the Scene View is because that is where I can draw buttons and tools. The tool is for procedural/user predefined UI using the UI Toolkit, and having to switch between Scene View and Game View is counter productive. Alternatively, is there a way to draw buttons in the game view instead, or just render a Visual Tree to a texture displayed in the scene view? Modifying the UI Builder does not seem like an option here.

Also thanks for the examples, will look into it and learn from them.

 

This looks like the place to wait and find the DOTS UI Toolkit workflow. The only DOTS workflow for UI correct? I also posted a issue asking on the github sample. Excited to see DOTS come to UI in Unity.

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UIToolkitUnityRoyaleRuntimeDemo/issues/2

 

Why doesn't vertical cursor key work in this example? (Navigating the menu with up/down keys)

 

Hello, I'm using the unity version 2020.1.7.1f and every time i create a UI Document it never create the panel.

But it appear in the debugger.

 

Hello JuliaP, i don't have those options,
Only this:

 

I had it installed, at least it appear checked, i install it again and it works now.
Big thanks.
Gonna do more tests next days.

 

Awesome work guys, great tools
i have a question, any plan to support RTL text?

 

+1

 

How can i add a list of countries to a Foldout and a then a list of languagues in other Foldout after select the country?

 

@benoitd_unity I see that in "com.unity.ui@1.0.0-preview.9" are you depending on nuget packages and adding them like an upm package also.

A colleague of yours (@xoofx) created on github a really nice solution:

https://github.com/xoofx/UnityNuGet

Are you using something like this now?

Historically, managing Nuget packages with their huge chain of dependencies in Unity has always been a major problem that is easily solved in .NET projects through the Visual Studio UI and the Nuget client.

Is this something that you are working on internally at Unity that could be exposed to us at some point?

 

I plan to use this UI Builder for creating UI for my game SOE2500 here are concepts for the UI https://github.com/orlovskyjavaprofi/SOE2500-UI-Concepts . The game planed to be a spiritual successor of Alpha Centauri game and this means i need to figure out how to display in UI the city from the plain on which i would draw it.
SO basically it would look like a civ game here example

 

I get errors whenever I try to install UIToolkit. I tried it on 2020.0b2 and 2020.0b7, and with empty project too. What can be the issue?

 

@JuliaP_Unity is there any broad release period programmed for a version that works with 2020.2?

Unity is fixing a lot of game-braking and editor-breaking bugs at the moment in 2020.2 and getting stuck on 2020.2.0b1 (as b2 is completely unusable) fells like being constrained a lot.

Thank you!

 

I have reviewed a view posts related to Unity UI Builder and had a few pointed questions I wanted to verify please:
1) Will this be retroactively be available to any LTS version of unity 2019.4.? I do understand there was a testing hidden package, but I am asking about the current one deployed
2) Does this UI Builder support also developers for assets building custom inspectors and game making software (within Unity)

 

I'm curious if the fix made it to b10? I know it's still broken with current ui toolkit 1.0.0-preview.9 so I'm assuming either fix didn't land on b10 or it additionally needs new package with implementation for the new API?

Right now I'm seeing same behavior (error spam, editor starts on safe mode) with both 2020.2.0b10 and 2021.1.0a4 (both of these were released today) when testing with 1.0.0-preview.9.

 

I would like to ask again. Does the DOTS support preview version coming soon? Does it bundle into same UI Toolkit package or it's another new package?

 

Is there a RawImage equivalent in the UIBuilder? I found the Texture and Vector option on the VisualElement but nothing for a RenderTexture.

 

You can manually add a <Image> visual element to your uxml and assign the rendertexture by code

 

Awesome! Thanks.

How about a method to rotate a VisualElement to create a loading spinner?

 

I suggest creating a thread with the help wanted tag.
To answer your question, you can:
- Rotate the transform (results may vary AND they are going to publish a much better way to rotate thing)
- Use a <Image> visual element, pass a flipbook texture to it and change the SourceRect of the Image with a C# script (I suggest using a coroutine)

 

2020.2 is on beta 10 now, 2021 has its first alpha. Is this still relevant? Can it run in the latest 2020.2 beta?

 

UI Toolkit is still broken on both latest 2020.2 beta and 2021.1 alpha apparently due to still missing update for the ui toolkit package itself (to make it compatible). All we can do is wait or use 2020.1

 

1.0.0-preview.11 is out now

 

unfortunately it appears the latest packages for inputsystem still has issues with ui toolkit(cyclic references assembly errors)

edit case 1292627- fairly simple to repro make new project with b10/11, add uitoolkit then add inputsystem or vice versa

 

The changes and new features introduced by 1.0.0-preview.11 look extremely promising, but unfortunately the cyclic references (as mentioned by @thelebaron ) are a show stopper I really hope this gets sorted out quickly...

//Edit: The cyclic reference error is apparently fixed with 1.0.0-preview.12, thanks for the fast update

 

I'm really looking forward to jumping 9 versions from 2020.2.0b2 to 2020.2.0b11 (or more by the time we can)... maybe the beta cycle will be over?

Well I really hope it's a priority to get past b2...

 

We literally have to use a19 because animation rigging has been broken on b1 and b2, so we are waiting to get 13 versions of fixes and improvements!

 

Yeah it is quite unfortunate, I had to pause the project I work on for awhile, because b2 is just too broken, I had to sometimes restart and even reimport the project multiple times a day. And I must say it is quite frustrating that it has been almost two months without a working release for newer versions. Hope the fix for cyclic dependency comes this week.

EDIT: sooo the preview 12 came out which has it fixed, neat.