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Release Notes
18 July 2024 - Version 1.7.5
Improved
- Filter Stack TextMeshPro has many quality of life improvements.
- All UIFX filters now have helpful warning messages and solution buttons when used with
TextMeshPro
but without aFilterStackTextMeshPro
component. - Added new
UpdateOnTransform
property toFilterStackTextMeshPro
to prevent re-rendering caused by transforms which improves performance if you don't require re-rendering.
Changed
- Changed
TextMeshPro
support to now read in vertices from the meshInfo.mesh instead of meshInfo.vertices which seems to work better with many other plugins that transform vertex positions.
Fixed
- Fixed bug with in-context
Prefab Mode
where UIFX filters wouldn't render.
1 July 2024 - Version 1.7.4
Breaking Changes
- The blur algorithm has changed slightly so any existing blurs in your project will be roughly half the size. To fix this your existing
Blur
property values forBlur Filter
,Drop Shadow Filter
,Outline Filter
andGooey Filter
should be doubled.
Added
- Blur Filter now has multiple blur modes - added
Box
andGaussian
blur algorithms. The default algorithm remains unchanged and is now exposed asMultiBox
. See updated documentation for details.
Improved
- Major performance improvements to
Blur Filter
for large blur radius.
Changed
MultiBox
blur changed from 3 to 2 passes resulting in a performance increase. This affects all filter components that use blurs internally.- Filter Stack TextMeshPro now renders to a non-floating point texture format on Mobile devices resulting in a performance increase.
- Demo scenes refactored and now use Prefabs.
- Some refactoring and general code improvements
Fixed
- Fixed bug in Filter Stack TextMeshPro where it didn't render correctly when vertex alpha was used in
Blur Filter
.
16 June 2024 - Version 1.7.3
Improved
- Added optimisation to call
GenerateScreenRect()
less often. - Removed some unnecessary
GetComponent()
calls. - Changed to more correct method to get parent
Canvas
.
Fixed
- Fixed Filter Stack TextMeshPro component support for submeshes and fallback fonts.
6 June 2024 - Version 1.7.2
Fixed
- Fixed Filter Stack TextMeshPro component support for submeshes and fallback fonts.
31 May 2024 - Version 1.7.1
Added
- Added new
Downsample
option to UIFX - Blur Filter. - Added scaling based on transform and font size to Filter Stack TextMeshPro.
24 May 2024 - Version 1.7.0
Added
- Added "Convert To Image" button to automatically bake all the filters into a texture and replace them with a
RawImage
component. This is a beta feature and must be enabled in UIFX preferences.
Fixed
- Fixed some compiler warnings.
10 May 2024 - Version 1.6.9
Added
- Added support for
Canvas.vertexColorAlwaysGammaSpace
forTextMeshPro
rendering - Added support for
TextMeshPro.tintAllSprites
forTextMeshPro
rendering
Fixed
- FilterStackTextMeshPro now renders
TextMeshPro
vertex colors correctly - Fixed regression that would cause FilterStackTextMeshPro to perform extra redundant image processing
3 May 2024 - Version 1.6.8
Fixed
- Fixed incorrect rendering of filters when
Graphic
has user defined material - Fixed bug where Prefab view wouldn't render filters due to null
Canvas
- Fixed bug where changing hierarchy could use incorrect
Canvas
in filters - Fixed bug where undo could cause null exception in filters
30 April 2024 - Version 1.6.6
Improved
- Several optimisations for memory usage, code performance and garbage reduction
Fixed
- Fixed rare bug in filter rendering logic, where mid-frame dynamic font texture update would cause mesh regeneration, which would cause incorrect rendering due to optimisation that prevented multiple renders per-frame
24 April 2024 - Version 1.6.4
Improved
- UIFX - Blur Filter
Global Strength
property now updates in edit-mode and has a new public method for access via Unity's event system "dynamic float" Text Mesh Pro
text rendering is now pixel perfect in orthographic camera mode- Some minor script optimisations
Fixed
- Fixed
Blur Filter
radius being too small in some cases - Fixed
Text Mesh Pro
sprite rendering blend mode
20 April 2024 - Version 1.6.2
Improved
- Clearer
TextMeshPro
filter rendering - All
Strength
property sliders improved to change color when activated - Shader code cleaned up
- Tested with
SoftMaskForUGUI
Fixed
- Fixed support for
Mask/RectMask
in all filters - Fixed null exception when adding filter to GameObject without Graphic component
16 April 2024 - Version 1.6.0
Highlights
- Massive performance improvements across all filters
- Many
TextMeshPro
issues fixed and improvements
Performance
- Eliminated redundant per-frame filter rendering
- Added per-platform performance settings to allow lower pecision and downsampling to be used on some platforms
Blur Filter
performance improved due to smaller area processed- All property changes are now checked for changes and only trigger minimal rendering
- Editor preview no longer renders every frame, now only when rendering changes
Improved
FilterStackTextMeshPro
now ignores empty placeholder vertices and updates whenever camera/transform changes and has a handy dropdown of the filter list to make adding filters easier- More accurate projection matrix region calculations
- World-space canvas support improved
- Added support for
SVGImage
(part of com.unity.vectorgraphics) component and other UI components that haveGraphic.useLegacyMeshGeneration
enabled
Changes
- Renamed component TextMeshProFilters to FilterStackTextMeshPro
Fixed
- Fixed TMP sprite rendering material
- Fixed TMP rendering blurry due to not setting the ScreenParams
- Fixed issue when no World Space camera was assigned, no defaults to Camera.main
- ZTest shader mode now set via variable so Unity rendering can control it - previously was forcing ALWAYS
4 April 2024 - Version 1.5.6
New
TextMeshPro
is now supported by all filter effects!!- Filters (Blur, Outline, Drop Shadow etc) now support
TextMeshPro
through the new component UIFX - TextMeshPro Filters. This component also alows easy filter reordering and supports TMP sprites and underlines. - New project preferences menu exposes plugin options
30 March 2024 - Version 1.5.4
Improved
- Some minor general code improvements
Fixed
- Fixed issue where filter wouldn't run when textures were too large, maximum texture size is now limited
- Fixed bug where resolution-indepdenent scale would be calculated incorrectly sometimes
- Fixed bug where enum property sometimes wouldn't be saved correctly
- Fixed bug where changing the transform wouldn't cause the filter to re-render
19 March 2024 - Version 1.0.8
New
- Added stereo render (VR) support thanks to PedroB.
- Added new feature to preview filter in the Inspector and option to export to PNG image
- Added new API method
FilterBase.SaveToPNG()
in to write filter output to PNG - Added new API method
FilterBase.ResolveToTexture()
to resolve filter output to RenderTexture
24 February 2024 - Version 1.0.6
Breaking Changes
- The scale of the blur radius has changed so all blur radius values will need to be adjusted to pixels. This is because we have improved the resolution-independent calculation and made the blur radius scale more intuitive. The radius is now in pixels relative to 1080p resolution.
Changes
- Major refactoring to clean up the code
6 January 2024 - Version 1.0.5
Fixed
- Fixed support for
Overlay
andWorldspace
Canvas
modes - Fixed support for perspective
Camera
3 January 2024 - Version 1.0.4
New
- Added support for
Animation Clips
so the blur properties can now be keyframed in Unity - Added support for
Camera
rotation - Added support for
Canvas
inOverlay
rendering mode - Added new
ApplyAlphaCurve
property to more easily toggle using the alpha curve or not
Improved
- Changing
Canvas
now handled gracefully - Optimized Compositor
29 December 2023 - Version 1.0.2
New
- Added new
GlobalStrength
property to globally scale theStrength
of all blur filters. - Added code documentation
Improved
- Better performance for Unity 2020.1 and above due to already being pre-multiplied
Fixed
- Fixed vertex colors in Gamma color space
- Fixed issue where saving caused the blur to not be visible
- Fixed issue where deleting the component caused null exception
- Fixed issue where shaders couldn't be found on build
- Fixed issue where texture didn't resize when resolution changed
22 December 2023 - Version 1.0.0
- First release