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Latest version: UIFX - Glow Filter v1.8.3 (released 17 January 2025). << Release Notes >>

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Transform Your UI to AAA Quality with This Game-Changing Asset! This asset is an absolute game-changer! It took my Canvas/uGUI-based UI to AAA quality in no time, and the best part—it works with all render pipelines! It’s also super smooth with both TextMeshPro and Image controls, which is a big win. The customization options are endless, allowing me to tweak every detail, and the fact that everything is animatable? Mind-blowing! Performance-wise, it’s rock solid. And let me tell you, the support is incredible—super kind and always helpful! I’m honestly so excited because the project I’m working on is going to rely entirely on these fantastic plugins

Release Notes​

17 January 2025 - Version 1.8.3

Fixed

  • Fixed bug in FilterStackTextMeshPro that created rendering artifacts when switching Strength to zero via scripting.
  • Fixed multiple selection logic for displaying of button to create FilterStackTextMeshPro component.
15 January 2025 - Version 1.8.2

Fixed

  • Fixed bug where having multiple canvases would use the incorrect Canvas for the canvasLocalScale and thus render TextMeshPro incorrectly with FilterRenderSpace.Canvas.
14 January 2025 - Version 1.8.1

Added

  • Added missing DiagonalFlip property to FillGradientFilter.
  • Glow Filter has new optimisation option ReuseDistanceMap which reuses a cached distance map so that no longer has to be recalculated when adjusting the Strength property. This requires Blur is zero and assumes that the source graphics do not change. The cache will be rebuilt when the size of the source graphics changes.

Fixed

  • Fixed various bugs with FilterStackTextMeshPro when working with multiple selected objects.
  • Fixed size of the expansion in Glow Filter that was causing the glow to be cropped.
  • Fixed issue with blurry TextMeshPro when using Canvas with a Camera with a small orthographic size and FilterRenderSpace.Canvas.

Other

  • Copyright messages updated to 2025.
  • DisallowMultipleComponent attribute added to FilterStackTextMeshPro.
22 December 2024 - Version 1.8.0

Highlight: 🚀 Two new FILL Filters!​

Breaking Changes

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  • This version changed code that calculates the resolution independent scaling factor. This change is from previously using the monitor resolution or camera resolution to now using Canvas.scaleFactor - this fixes issues with the prefab mode having the wrong scaling, and also incorrect scaling when using the Canvas Scaler without having it set to 1920x1080. This is a breaking change if you are using Canvas Scaler in Scale With Screen Size mode without the reference resolution set to 1920x1080 and would mean that all filters that specify pixel values (eg Outline.Size) for properties will display differently and will need to be adjusted to achieve the original look. If you need to delay this improvement in your project, you can add the scripting define symbol UIFX_OLD178_RESOLUTION_SCALING to your project to revert back to old way of calculating resolution scaling.

  • This version has a new feature that allows you to change whether the filters are rendered in canvas-space or screen-Space. Previous versions always rendered in screen-space, however rendering in canvas-space is much more optimal in most cases, so now this is the new default. This is a big change and could have consequences to your project, however you should be able to switch back to screen-space in your filter components to get back to the old behaviour if there are any issues.

Changed

Improved

  • All filters when using the new FilterRenderSpace.Canvas mode will no longer re-render the filters when the transform are changed (as long as Canvas pixel-perfect setting is disabled).
  • Editor inspector enum elements now resize better, switching between dropdown and expanded mode depending on the size of the window.

Fixed

  • Fixed issues with the prefab mode having the wrong scaling, and also incorrect scaling when using the Canvas Scaler without having it set to 1920x1080 (see Breaking Changes above).
  • Fixed issue where the filter wouldn't render when the Canvas.planeDistance was too near the camera near/far clipping plane. Also added a warning when this value is beyond a sensible range.
  • Fixed Glow filter so it doesn't render behind the source Graphic when Direction is Outside.
  • Fixed Android issue with Glow filter where it would not render due to unsupported texture format.
  • Fixed some inspector window issues where some enums/sliders wouldn't show the correct state in prefab view.
5 November 2024 - Version 1.7.11

Added

Improved

  • Many filters use less GPU memory by freeing intermediate textures.
  • All filters produce less garbage and do less work when being enabled/disabled by instead only destroying some resources in OnDestroy().
  • All filters have improved support for rendering in RenderMode.WorldSpace.
  • Editor preferences now have the options per-platform, making it easier to enable features like TextMeshPro support on multiple platforms.

Fixed

  • Fixed a rare bug where a stack of filters with the same shader (like UIFX/Blend) wouldn't detect a parent shader change in GetModifiedMaterial() due to them having the same shader.
11 September 2024 - Version 1.7.10

Improved

  • The feature to bake filters into an Image component has been improved and released out of beta.
  • The feature to save filters to PNG image file has been improved and released out of beta.
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.
  • Added a handy new "Upgrade" button if the UIFX Bundle is not detected.

Improved

  • Various minor code improvements.