Unity UI Toolkit
Extend the Editor with custom interfaces for intuitive authoring. Enable cross-team collaboration and create stunning UI for games and applications.
Access the UI Toolkit in Unity 2022 LTS from the Unity Hub or LTS download page.
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What’s new in UI Toolkit
UI Toolkit is a collection of features, resources, and tools for developing user interfaces and Editor extensions. Since 2021 LTS, it supports creating and debugging runtime UI for games and applications with an intuitive workflow that helps artists and designers get started faster.
Key features
Discover the features and learn what you can achieve with UI Toolkit.
Get started with dedicated authoring tools
UI Toolkit’s dedicated authoring tools include the UI Builder and UI Debugger, inspired by web technologies to offer a familiar experience. Use the UI Builder to visually create and edit UI for games and applications directly in Unity, while the UI Debugger helps you resolve issues quickly.
Render dynamic text
The font rendering technology of TextMesh Pro has been integrated into UI Toolkit to help you get started without additional plug-ins or packages. You can now use advanced styling capabilities to cleanly render beautiful text at any point size and resolution.
Animate UI with lightweight transitions
UI Toolkit comes with a dedicated UI animation system that simplifies the production of UI transitions in your projects. This new system even allows the efficient authoring of reusable transitions, the majority of animation in most UI projects, to save you valuable design time.
Harness crisp, textureless UI rendering capabilities
Set border radius, color, size, and text to create textureless UI elements directly in the UI Toolkit. Stop creating and importing images from Photoshop to significantly reduce the time wasted transitioning between tools, while also lowering the overall memory footprint and build size to scale more efficiently.
Develop custom UI and extensions for the Unity Editor
UI Toolkit includes a retained mode UI framework that simplifies the development of custom UI for Unity Editor extensions, so you can build unique windows and inspectors to power streamlined workflows for artists, designers, and programmers.
Other features
Iterate faster
Work and iterate more quickly with global style management and live authoring capabilities.
Familiar experience
UI authoring tools and workflows are inspired by standard web technologies for faster onboarding.
Better collaboration
Logic in C# code, UI structure in UXML documents, and styling in style sheets make it easier to work on different parts of the UI without collisions.
Rendering performance
Get greater control over the performance of your game using Render Hints and dynamic texture atlas.
Plays nice with others
UI Toolkit can be used alongside IMGUI for the Editor and UGUI for runtime. It’s also compatible with Unity’s new Input System.
Reusability
Share styles and widgets within or across projects, as well as between the Editor and runtime.
Compare Unity UI systems
Although Unity recommends using UI Toolkit for new UI development projects, there are still cases where it makes sense to use older systems due to features found in Unity UI (uGUI) and IMGUI. Compare UI systems in Unity to evaluate what works best for you.
Get started with UI Toolkit today
Access the UI Toolkit in 2022 LTS from the Unity Hub or LTS download page to harness intuitive authoring tools and collaborative workflows in your projects.
Resources
User interface design and implementation in Unity
This 130+ page guide will show you how to build sophisticated interfaces with Unity’s two UI systems, Unity UI and UI Toolkit. We introduce UI Toolkit concepts like responsive UI and UI Builder using UI Toolkit Sample–Dragon Crashers.
QuizU
QuizU is an official Unity sample demonstrating various design patterns and project architecture including MVP, state pattern, managing menu screens, and much more using UI Toolkit.
Documentation
Read the Unity manual to learn more about UI Toolkit in Unity.
Community
Access the forums to get help from the community and hear the latest about the UI Toolkit in Unity.
Frequently asked questions
When should I use UI Toolkit vs Unity UI?
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Can I use the UI Toolkit with Unity UI?
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Can I use UI Toolkit to produce world space UI?
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Can I use UI Toolkit with DOTS?
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Does UI Toolkit provide data binding?
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Is UI Toolkit compatible with the Unity Vector Graphics experimental package?
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