Vertical/Horizontal Layout Group

Unity Engine
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I have encountered a couple of issues in 5.5.0f3 with the vertical and horizontal layout groups.

  • It appears that a new feature has been added to these elements - Child Control Size - this appears to be undocumented and I am unclear as to what the feature is meant to do and how to use it.
  • Nested layout groups no longer inherit/adjust to the child sizes. Currently I have a panel with a vertical layout group and content size fitter. If I add child vertical layout groups to this, their children sizes do not change the parent object as previously possible in 5.4. I also can’t nest content size fitters onto these objects. So I am unclear as to how I can have a dynamic UI update based upon nested layout groups.

Thanks

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I’ve seen this too, looks like bug reported here (UI.VerticalLayoutGroup changes broke my game UI? - Unity Engine - Unity Discussions) that’s still not fixed. But in any case I’ve still not seen any documentation on these new features.

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My layouts are completely disorganized when I hit Play / Stop on Unity Editor.
The values of alignment are no more respected.

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Bumping this because this has broken UI prefabs that have been stable through several releases of unity. No dox + no info is pretty frustrating.

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Seems like it’s not fixed yet. I hope something happens here? The documentation is still not up2date btw.

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It seems that unchecking ‘Align by Geometry’ solves the issue for us, but we’re having to change all of our UI components to fix this issue.

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where do you find this option ‘Align by Geometry’?

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This issue is STILL not fixed. How did this get passed QA? It completely broken my project.

No doc! No release note references!

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the nested layout groups look broken :frowning:

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I hear you. I’m putting together a full bug report and sample project showing the issue.
Basically as soon as you have any nested layout groups with content size fitters the issue is shown pretty easy.

I would recommend to all to create a bug report and and up vote existing bug reports for the related issues like this one:
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/layout-groups-with-contentsizefitters-are-not-resizing-if-input-field-component-is-located-in-a-parent-object

And this one:
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/canvas-with-content-size-fitter-not-resizing-if-ui-elements-are-instantiated-to-its-child-canvas-when-using-waitforseconds

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thanks for your attention and your efforts to fix this issue.
but the problem goes even deeper. somehow all dynamic content system appeares to be broken.
for example, create a panel, add a child text there and try to make panel to fit text content (follow https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/HOWTO-UIFitContentSize.html)