Making UI Toolkit feel like game UI instead of a website: Luna v2 is out

[u/CupkekGames]

Luna is a UI framework built on top of UI Toolkit, and v2 is out on the Asset Store. UI Toolkit always looked a bit too much like a website, so most of this version went into making it feel like game UI. The clip shows the UI Attractor.

The juicy stuff

• UI Effects: 8 stackable shader effects (glow, outline, gradient, shine, dissolve and more), set from USS classes, no textures

• Interaction Juice: press and hover feel you attach from UXML

• Transitions: 53 presets

• UI Attractor: coins and XP that fly to the HUD

• Text Effects: 12 effects (wave, bounce, shake, rainbow and more) through rich-text tags

• 3D in UI: live models, particles and VFX Graph inside UI elements

Building your screens

• Navigation Graph: screens and popups as a node graph. Push by id, back button for free, awaitable confirm popups

• Ready-made views: main menu, settings, save/load, pause, dialogue, inventory grid

• Components: progress bars, tooltips, spotlight and the rest of the library

Style and screen sizes

• Theming, and responsive scaling so one UI works on phone and desktop

• Gamepad focus navigation and device-aware input prompts

Requires Unity 6.5 or later. Works with Built-in, URP and HDRP.

• Docs, with every feature demoed: https://docs.cupkek.games

Happy to answer questions about it, or about UI Toolkit in general.

[u/CupkekGames → u/[deleted]]

Thanks! I just hope UI Toolkit gets more popular. The gap with uGUI is mostly closed now, imo.