Your team’s needs are unique, and we want to give you an extensible Editor that can flex to your workflows, so everyone can work faster together.

UI Toolkit is a unified solution for both authoring runtime UI and extending the Editor with custom tools. In 2022.1, we’ve added even more features for tool developers looking to customize the Editor for their teams with UI widgets and custom shapes. We’ve also added the TreeView with multi-column support, new vector drawing APIs to customize the UI element appearance, and we’re progressively making Property Drawers and Property Attributes available, starting with the most commonly used. Connect with us in the forums and let us know how we can help make UI Toolkit even better for you.  

We’ve heard you tell us how important Splines are in our forums, and it’s one of the most requested features on our public roadmap. 

“I have been researching spline tools… but I don’t know if any of them will provide exactly the functionality that I need and it would become quite costly to buy a bunch just to experiment. So a good built-in spline tool is incredibly important to my project.”

In this release, a new Spline authoring framework is available as a package. It’s designed to create and manipulate Splines in-engine, above all by letting programmers extend functionality with tools and custom components such as instantiating geometry and moving along a Spline. It can also work alongside the new Edit modes, and edit Spline points and tangents using the standard editing tools and shortcuts. Keep letting us know what you think in our forums, and see what’s next on the roadmap.

We’ve also improved the procedural creation of materials. For creators using code to generate materials, we extended the Material API to all material properties, now supporting keyword states, HDRP’s diffusion profiles and IES lights, enhancing procedural material usage in-Editor or at runtime.

Finally, we’ve added a new API for Unity File System, enabling you to create tools for Asset Bundle visualization and analysis that help your team optimize performance.