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Release Notes
3 September 2024 - Version 1.7.9
Highlight: 🚀 New GLOW Filter!
Added
- Glow Filter is a new component to easily add beautiful glow effects to your UI.
- Mipmap Filter is a new filter used to improve the rendering quality and reduce aliasing flickering of UI elements that are scaled down or rendered at steep angles.
- Added a handy new "Upgrade" button if the
UIFX Bundle
is not detected.
Improved
- Frame Filter now has new absolute pixel modes
Pixels
andCustomPixels
for rounded corner size allowing for consistently sized corners. - Trail Effect and Motion Blur components for
TextMeshPro
now have a new enumTargetMesh
that can give better support for rendering when another plugin is modifying theTextMeshPro
geometry. - Various minor code improvements.
14 August 2024 - Version 1.7.8
Highlight: 🚀 Lots of Improvements for TextMeshPro Support!
Added
- Added
TextMeshPro
andVertexSkew
demo scenes.
Improved
- Optimised FilterStackTextMeshPro to no longer render invisible filters to
TextMeshPro
(eg ifStrength
<= 0.0 or other parameters result in no rendering). - Optimised
FilterStackTextMeshPro
to reduce the number ofRenderTextures
in some cases. FilterStackTextMeshPro
editor on newer Unity versions now shows our customReorderablelist
.FilterStackTextMeshPro
editor+
button now shows list of filters.
Fixed
- Fixed bug where disabling
TextmeshPro
didn't stopFilterStackTextMeshPro
rendering. - Fixed bug in
FilterStackTextMeshPro
when using "in-context" prefab editor and nothing would render. - Fixed
FilterStackTextMeshPro
editor where in older Unity versions empty filter slots woudln't be cleared cleanly. - Fixed a regression in
FilterStackTextMeshPro
editor where the filter list item selection was broken. - Fixed bug where scaling the font too small would cause error due to texture size of 0.0 in the Blur Filter, Outline Filter, Long Shadow Filter and Drop Shadow Filter.
4 August 2024 - Version 1.7.7
Highlight: 🚀 New Outline & Drop Shadow Properties!
Improved
- Added new
Softness
property to Outline Filter inDistance
mode. - Added new
Cutout
compositing mode to Drop Shadow Filter. FilterStackTextMeshPro
now has toggle for quickly enabling/disabling filters and delayed attribute for font relative size.FilterStackTextMeshPro
has reduced memory usage in cases where secondRenderTexture
is not needed.
Fixed
- Fixed bug in Trail Effect where it wouldn't render with newer versions of
TextMeshPro
. - Fixed
Reset()
andOnValidate()
sometimes not updating the rendering due frame caching optimisation.
28 July 2024 - Version 1.7.6
Highlight: 🚀 Frame Borders & More!
Added
- Frame Filter now has border options.
Improved
Frame Filter
padding can now be negative. ForCircle
shapes padding can become zero and forSquare
the value will allow as tight as possible.
Changed
- Changed
Frame Filter
round corner values are now relative instead of absolute pixels. - Changed
Frame Filter
to have enum of preset round corner modes.
Fixed
- Fixed
Frame Filter
cropping render bug. - Fixed
Trail Effect
logging errors whenCanvas
was disabled. - Fixed all effects and filters not restoring rendering when
Canvas
was disabled initially and then enabled.
18 July 2024 - Version 1.7.5
Highlight: 🚀 2 New Components!
Added
- Frame Filter is a new filter component for easily adding a framed outline to UI components. It supports automatic resizing to fit content, padding, different shapes, anti-aliased rendering, and rounded corners.
- Text Letter Spacing is a new component that allows letter spacing of the
Text
component. It supports multiple lines, rich-text and spaces.
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
Highlight: 🚀 Major Blur Filter Update!
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. - Added new
AllDemos
scene so all demo scenes can be easily browsed.
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.- Gooey Filter now runs at half resolution resulting in a performance increase.
- 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 Vertex Skew component where removing the component wouldn't update the vertices.
- 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
- Optimised shader
ErodeDilate
andDistanceMap
shaders to have fewer variations (less memory, faster compile). - 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.
- Fixed compiler errors in Trail Effect and Motion Blur components when using "preview" versions of
TextMeshPro
which changed uvs0 fromVector2
toVector4
.
6 June 2024 - Version 1.7.2
Fixed
- Fixed Filter Stack TextMeshPro component support for submeshes and fallback fonts.
- Fixed Android GLES2.0 shader compatibility bug in UIFX - Outline Filter and UIFX - Long Shadow Filter.
31 May 2024 - Version 1.7.1
New
- New UIFX - Pixelate Filter added to the UIFX bundle.
- New UIFX - Doom Melt Filter added to the UIFX bundle. This is a beta feature and must be enabled in UIFX preferences.
Added
- Added new
Downsample
option to UIFX - Blur Filter and UIFX - Drop Shadow Filter. - Added scaling based on transform and font size to Filter Stack TextMeshPro.
Fixed
- Fixed rendering artifact issue on some low-end mobile devices with UIFX - Outline Filter and UIFX - Long Shadow Filter.
- Fixed rendering bug with
Inset Mode
with UIFX - Drop Shadow Filter.
24 May 2024 - Version 1.7.0
New
- New UIFX - Dissolve Filter added to the UIFX bundle. This is a beta feature and must be enabled in UIFX preferences.
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
New
- New UIFX - Color Adjust Filter added to the UIFX bundle
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
- Fixed
Long Shadow
andOutline Filter
rendering artefacts when theGraphic
had pixels on the edge of theRectTransform
30 April 2024 - Version 1.6.6
Improved
- UIFX - Long Shadow Filter has new rendering mode
DistanceMap
which is significatly faster for very long shadows - UIFX - Long Shadow Filter
Distance
property can now be negative - UIFX - Outline Filter
DistanceMap
rendering method optimisations - 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
- Added missing UIFX - Vertex Skew effect to the package
- 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" - UIFX - Long Shadow Filter has new
Step Size
property - UIFX - Gooey Filter improved rendering for images
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
TextMeshPro
Drop Shadow edge artifact - 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
- High performance of Outline Filter even at large sizes
- 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
Outline Filter
has a new rendering methodDistanceMap
which is much faster than the old method, especially for large outline sizesBlur, Drop Shadow, Outline
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 easierOutline Filter
has newDistanceShape
modeDiamond
- 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
- Renamed enum
ErodeDilateShape
toDistanceShape
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
- New component UIFX - TextMeshPro Mesh Modifier allows standard
IMeshModifier
effects to be applied toTextMeshPro
- including the UIFX - Vertex Skew effect
30 March 2024 - Version 1.5.4
Improved
- Optimised Drop Shadow and Long Shadow filters to use less GPU memory and bandwidth
- 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 1.5.2
Bundle Changes
- A new component
UIFX - Vertex Skew
has been added to the bundle
Added
- 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
5 March 2024 - Version 1.5.0
Bundle Changes
- A new asset
UIFX - Outline Filter
version 1.0.0 has been added to the bundle - A new asset
UIFX - Gooey Filter
version 1.0.0 has been added to the bundle
28 February 2024 - Version 1.4.0
Bundle Changes
- A new asset
UIFX - Long Shadow Filter
version 1.0.0 has been added to the bundle
24 February 2024 - Version 1.3.0
Bundle Changes
- A new asset
UIFX - Drop Shadow Filter
version 1.0.0 has been added to the bundle UIFX - Blur Filter
updated to version 1.0.6
Breaking Changes
UIFX - Blur Filter
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
UIFX - Blur Filter
Major refactoring to clean up thes code
17 January 2024 - Version 1.2.0
- All UIFX components now included in this asset package. This makes it easier to use all of the UIFX components, however the individual components can still be downloaded separately if required.
17 January 2024 - Version 1.1.9
UIFX - Motion Blur
updated to version 1.2.3
9 January 2024 - Version 1.1.8
UIFX - Motion Blur
updated to version 1.2.2
6 January 2024 - Version 1.1.7
UIFX - Blur Filter
updated to version 1.0.5
4 January 2024 - Version 1.1.6
UIFX - Trail Effect
updated to version 1.1.2UIFX - Motion Blur
updated to version 1.2.1
3 January 2024 - Version 1.1.5
UIFX - Blur Filter
updated to version 1.0.4
29 December 2023 - Version 1.1.4
UIFX - Blur Filter
updated to version 1.0.2
22 December 2023 - Version 1.1.3
- The new asset
UIFX - Blur Filter
version 1.0.0 has been added to the bundle
16 December 2023 - Version 1.1.2
UIFX - Motion Blur
updated to version 1.2.0
6 December 2023 - Version 1.1.1
UIFX - Motion Blur
updated to version 1.1.1UIFX - Trail Effect
updated to version 1.1.1
24 November 2023 - Version 1.0.0
- First release