I continue to use UGUI, I know it and it is very flexible. Curious what the divide is between UGUI and UI Toolkit? Is UGUI to be supported long into the future? Because just in v6 we have new shader graph support for UGUI which is great but hugely lacking samples for procedural shapes currently! …

Personally I’m still using UGUI a lot… I use a lot of advanced shaders and filters with it, which sadly UI toolkit can’t yet do… I use UI Toolkit sometimes when I have build a UI that a designer wants to use CSS (USS) with… I hope that UGUI will still continue to be supported as it’s a lot easi…

Hi @andyz and thanks for the question. We’re continuing to invest in UI Toolkit so it can achieve all the things you can do using UGUI, while being more productive and performant. As you and @ChocDino pointed out, lack of custom shaders is something missing from UI Toolkit, which is currently unde…

I thought I read that UGUI would be deprecated in Unity 7000.X. Is this no longer the case? This new forum still confuses me.

That was our goal, but we never announced it, and we’re continuously re-assessing. [image] TheOtherMonarch: This new forum still confuses me. We’re all adapting :smile:

Should in the future that UGUI is deprecated, would Unity consider donating it to the community via open source, so that projects that choose to keep using it could maintain and expand it on their own, assuming there is no technical hurdles e.g. UGUI depends on any core C++ code that we cannot modif…

Certainly I think too many people use it to consider deprecation currently, even if UI Toolkit gets to feature parity. We will see, but for long term projects it would be difficult to replace

[image] Neonlyte: Should in the future that UGUI is deprecated, would Unity consider donating it to the community via open source, We’re considering it.

[image] Neonlyte: Should in the future that UGUI is deprecated, would Unity consider donating it to the community via open source, so that projects that choose to keep using it could maintain and expand it on their own, assuming there is no technical hurdles e.g. UGUI depends on any core C++ cod…

There’s also all the very black magic going on around RectTransform being a subclass of Transform. Users can’t introduce subclasses of Transform, so in order to support a community version when ugui’s gone, you’d either have to let the RectTransform vestige stay in the engine, or reimplement RectTra…

Considering the Unity 6 docs still recommend uGUI for runtime use, lets not talk deprecation yet…

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karl_jones November 22, 2024, 12:14pm 10

UGUI does have C++ code for its rendering side - Unity - Scripting API: CanvasRenderer
So that will introduce some technical issues if we want to continue to support a community version.
We are working on improving the tooling for UI Toolkit so that it should feel as comfortable to use as UGUI and GameObjects.

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