DOTS is Unity’s new high-performance, multithreaded Data-Oriented Technology Stack. Our goals for the next 10+ years of anim...

Many believe that controlling animation setups are best done through a graph. It does not require coding and is easily trans...

Clips are read only on import, in order to support a smoother update workflow, but this also poses challenges. What is the ...

While DOTS and Entities offer a very powerful set of workflows to build games, we believe that there should be a way to acco...

We have a number of ways we can approach adding and controlling animation markup in the Unity Editor. Are there some urgent ...

How important is delivering new features to the State Machine? Would you like the ability to add layers within layers insid...

We are making steady progress on a number of animation fronts, from the new DOTS architecture, to working prototypes as well...

Without pressing play, what are the most pressing needs of a 3D previewer?

We are continually working on doing our best to fix existing animation issues, and back porting ( whenever possible) many bu...

While Humanoid fills the frequent need to retarget animation, it is limited to the Humanoid structure. Is it more important...

Do you like to control how your sockets are setup? Maybe where you author your rig and animation is where you are comfortabl...

Debugging code is vital, but how vital is a visual debugger? If you could see the flow, and transitions in a State Machine o...

If we could simplify the “intelligence” given to characters, as well as to things like path finding, would this investment c...

Alembic can address a number of character workflows, including hair and cloth. We would love to hear from you which might be...

Animation Authoring and key framing are a big deal, especially for 2D workflows. But for 3D, are there some specific areas w...

We have a few Unity made character controllers available, should we ship them as is, or do you prefer to choose/build your o...

Sometimes more is indeed better. With hardware getting faster, how many of you see adding 100s of characters as critical to ...

Should we have a simple way for you to do, say just basic facial animation with easy lip-syncing? Or a more comprehensive sy...

Kinematica introduced motion matching capabilities, but it was never a truly focused solution. We could look at bringing it...

The Legacy Animation system offers some specific performance workflows, but also the ability to have animation without using...

Timeline offers so many possibilities, it is hard to know where to start. Please tell us your goals. Better cut scene editi...

While not traditionally associated with 3D animation, it is not something we want to overlook.

The UnityEditor.Media.MediaEncoder class now supports more fine-grained control over the video encoding. It is now possible ...

Improving the current audio device management: Multiple audio input/outputs Any number of output speaker configuration Co...

During playback, the VideoPlayer currently follows the system clock. While adequate for many situations, this does not alway...

The media framework will allow for network and file sources, for playback, and “sinks”, for recording/broadcasting. Generic ...

With the media framework making it possible for users to extend codec and file format support, we could add some of the more...

Consuming audio and/or video streams using formats such as HLS or DASH is useful in many scenarios such as live events or ad...

An aspect of media workflows that opens lots of possibilities for a more diverse audience is language, both written and hear...

The Unity media framework exposes all the building blocks needed to make various workflows such as low-level decoding, encod...

So far, encoding for audio video has been reserved to editor workflows only, such as with the Unity Recorder. The encoding t...

Adding support for custom actions to Timeline. This lets you create your own shortcuts that affect clips, tracks, or the who...

We have added two samples to the Timeline package: Gameplay Sequence and Customization. The Gameplay Sequence details how to...

Being able to preview only the frames that will end up in the final cinematic is an important tool for cinematic workflows, ...

We are replacing the IMGUI core of Timeline with UI Toolkit. This foundational work will improve the general performance of ...

Make it easy to author and connect Timelines where the object may not exist in the scene and must be provided dynamically.

Add built-in support for the caching and baking of simulated content, like physics, particles, etc..

Leveraging UI Toolkit, we could embed Animation Clip editing in the Timeline Window, keeping your work in context.

Leveraging UI Toolkit, we could embed dopesheet Animation Clip edition in Timeline

Implement a high-level Visual Scripting node to interact with Timelines in your scene.

Make it easy to edit transform offsets of Animation Tracks and Clips by using manipulators in the scene

Find content instantly, even in feature-film-size Timelines by leveraging the power of Unity’s Searcher API

Expose the Timeline workflows as a separate tool that you can repurpose with your own data and playback engine.

Along with the new visual scripting workflow in 2021, Gameplay designers now have a generic state machine available to build...

Visual scripting is available as a regular package in Unity 2021, visible in the Package Manager, and available by default w...

Unity has acquired Bolt in 2020 and it has been made available to all Unity users. This helps productions based on current L...

Making visual scripting even more accessible by providing nodes that are simpler to use. Behavior nodes are rich nodes desig...

We are preparing an interpreted runtime that would significantly improve graph execution performance, cut down on memory all...

When importing packages, it is not always clear to visual scripting users how to get access to those new API nodes. We are w...

Quality push in stability and usability

We are evaluating the role of code generation out of visual scripts. This has been requested for programming learning purpos...

We are preparing the convergence with Graph Tools Foundation, an independent UX layer that we will leverage to align most of...

Our current migration to a common UX and data model for graph tools across the Unity editor, creates an opportunity to addre...

Event support will be improved, including solutions for callbacks and events data payloads, making it easier to design event...

We are aiming at improving the search capabilities to make it "context-aware", and find a synergy with the global Search fea...

Our new runtime interpreter in development brings us closer to DOTS compatible runtime. Coupled with high level nodes and ge...

When visual scripts are getting large with a lot of nodes, the general performance and responsiveness of the editor can be i...

The current serialization mechanism in visual scripting depends on a third party technology not supported anymore. We are lo...

Provide the UX and controls to update an application graphs by simply updating the runtime without having to rebuild it. Th...

We aim at enhancing variable management in visual scripting to enable complex use cases and increase productivity. Visual s...

Allow developers to create and alter graphs procedurally via scripts. This would allow to product graphs automatically based...

Game code based on an ECS architecture pattern can avoid the drawbacks of object-oriented programming with GameObjects. Deve...

ECS for Unity preserves the standard Unity authoring workflow of creating, previewing, inspecting, and debugging gameplay in...

ECS for Unity is a coordinated release of Entities 1.0 and other ECS-based packages that are: Compatible with 2022 LTS and ...

Creating FPS titles that can handle massive scenes, large-scale simulations, and support hundreds of players concurrently re...

ECS for Unity provides usability features that make data-oriented gameplay code as accessible as MonoBehaviours, while ensur...

Simulation code based on an ECS architecture pattern can scale to an unprecedented amount of entities, and ensure determinis...

ECS for Unity provides a stable foundation on which to provide a suite of user onboarding and learning resources to help use...

ECS for Unity provides various systems to support spikeless streaming and large-scale rendering: Scene streaming: The relea...

ECS for Unity includes many new windows and workflows aimed at making the authoring experience easier for creators when work...

Consolidation of ECS architecture and tooling so that users can easily leverage DOTS throughout the development of game arch...

Improved debug and profiling tools help creators assess the health of their games and improve their projects more quickly an...

The ECS Character Controller package provides mechanisms for creating character controllers with Unity's Entity Component Sy...

We're bringing GameObjects and Entities closer together to make ECS power available to you in the context of the editor, and...

A robust vehicle controller that will enable creators to easily build low-to-medium realism vehicles in games built with ECS...

Leveraging the performance and scale of ECS, a highly performant, customizable 3D animation system that evolves Unity's anim...

We're working on improvements to the user experience of Unity Physics, including: A new Collider.BakeTransform function tha...

In the current version of DOTS, all systems run on the main thread and rely on those systems to schedule jobs to enable para...

With this update, you'll be able to change the physics broadphase to operate incrementally using the PhysicsStepAuthoring co...

We’re developing a unified authoring workflow that will allow you to select your preferred physics backend via the Project S...

Cross-architecture determinism support with the Burst Compiler solves a critical requirement for many multiplayer genres. De...

In the past Unite demonstrations, we have showcased early work on ECS-based audio systems. This development has been paused....

Mesh deformations is the mesh processing system used for skinning and blending shapes within ECS-based project. This enables...

In the past Unite demonstrations, we have showcased early work on ECS-based navigation systems. This development has been pa...

In the past, we have shared early work on ECS-based visual scripting solutions. This development has been paused. We will ne...

Another initiative we are looking at is the support of DOTS deformation that provides a mesh deformation pipeline that is pe...

With Entities 1.0, users have access to a suite of content manager and delivery systems. Beyond APIs, having an accessible a...

Control how background images should repeat along vertical and horizontal axes.

Update the opacity calculation method of the root element to align with the CSS standard.

QuizU is an official Unity sample demonstrating various design patterns and project architecture including MVP, state patter...

New system which allows binding any type of data source to UI element attributes and style properties, for both Runtime and ...

Formerly known as UI Elements, UI Toolkit is a new asset-based, retained-mode GUI framework. It released in Unity 2019, for ...

Official sample project showcasing Unity’s UI Toolkit for runtime games and UI Builder workflows with examples of typical ga...

A UI Toolkit version of the Tree View control is available to use, with support for multi-columns.

Draw custom shapes programmatically using a simplified API built on top of the existing Mesh API.

Allow developers creating UI controls to provide custom inspectors and drawers to display properties in the UI Builder inspe...

UI Toolkit can now be used as an alternative for creating screen overlay UI running on supported Unity platforms, with the a...

Use the new UI Builder to visually author UI Toolkit assets aimed at extending the Unity editor. It supports editing in Play...

Add visual enhancements to UI elements without relying on textures or custom shaders, such as: Gradients Drop shadows Glo...

UI Toolkit assets can be packaged as an addressable asset, and can contain addressable references, which is currently not th...

Implement motion design in UI using keyframe animation and sequencing.

Attach UI elements to Scene objects so they automatically follow them, commonly used for displayer health bars over characte...

Use UI Toolkit to create user interfaces positioned in the 3D world among other scene objects.

Systems improvements, profiling tools and documentation for achieving high performance with UI.

Build large and complexe user interfaces without worrying about performance issues during initalization.

Support having sections of a 9-sliced image to either stretch or tile, depending on which section, like the Unity 9-slice Sp...

Use SVG assets for displaying icons or 2D artwork when making lightweight user interfaces that scales gracefully across diff...

Specify how UI elements should blend between each other by setting different blend modes such as Multiply, Overlay and other...

Avoid the requirement of manually setting up a Unity Scene for quickly displaying UI in the Player.

Easily add rendering effects to UI by creating custom shaders using the Shader Graph tool.

For a given UI element, specify a different stack order from its position in the hierarchy, similarly to the z-index CSS pro...

Add 3D and 2D objects or Particle systems to user interfaces that will respond to layout changes, like any regular UI elemen...

Position UI elements with a grid-based system, using rows and columns, to quickly achieve complex and adaptive layouts.

Quickly assign a sound to be played on a given UI event.

Enable having multiple local players share a single screen with different controllers.

Use rectangle or arbirtrary shapes to mask areas of the UI. Masks can be generated from images, vector graphics or programma...

Background: Unity’s Skinned Mesh Renderer component utilize compute dispatches for parallelizing vertex transformations on ...

Summary High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays are now becoming widely available, and are capable of reproducing images with hig...

Summary Modern graphics APIs such as DX12 provide improved CPU utilization via multi-threaded recording and submission of c...

Summary DXR 1.0 traditionally works by dynamically executing shaders on hit/miss, via indexing into shader tables. DXR 1.1 ...

Summary Runtime Pipeline State Object (PSO) creation and shader compilation is a lengthy process, which can lead to noticea...

Instancing support for the Raytracing API is now available, allowing to efficiently add large amounts of mesh instances to t...

Summary Unity's Raytracing API was introduced in Unity 2019.3, and is utilized in the High Definition Render Pipeline's for...

Summary It is now possible to set the Ray Tracing Acceleration Structure Build mode using the following flags: These flags...

The introduction of a custom GPU memory allocator for small BLASes serves to further reduce the memory footprint of the Ray ...

Summary The following commands are used in order to build the Ray Tracing Acceleration Structure on the GPU, after adding a...

As of Unity 2023.3, you can track the Acceleration Structure’s GPU memory usage in the Frame Debugger, when inspecting Ray T...

We have delivered a series of improvements to coexistence in Unity 22LTS and Unity 6, and though it can ease and accelerate ...

Angle-based culling provides a fast and efficient way to remove small and distance instances from the Acceleration Structure...

Summary Modern graphics APs such as DirectX12, Vulkan and Metal allow for better CPU utilization via multi-threaded recordi...

Summary Modern graphics APs such as DirectX12, Vulkan and Metal allow for better CPU utilization via multi-threaded recordi...

The SRP Batcher is supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API: This optimizes the render pipeline's batching of draw ...

Summary We will further optimize The Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) Volume system for better memory efficiency and CPU pe...

Foveated Rendering is supported by the Universal Render Pipeline, and can be enabled when targeting compatible OpenXR platfo...

Foveated Rendering is supported by the Universal Render Pipeline, and can be enabled when targeting Quest 2 using the Oculus...

VFX Graph is supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API:

As of 2023.3, the Unity Web Player provides experimental support for the new WebGPU graphics API: The new capabilities expo...

Summary: Foveated Rendering support is being introduced, in order to improve the GPU performance of stereo-rendering for su...

Summary Shader variant compilation is a form of static branching which provides authoring and runtime control of conditiona...

Light Probes are supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API:

Summary Maximum LOD level is a feature that lets you define a Maximum LOD Level for a given LOD group. LOD Groups are used ...

MeshLOD is a new lightweight LOD system that can be used on its own or in combination with LODGroups. The goal is to have a ...

Summary We will improve the underlying Scriptable Render Pipeline(SRP) API to enable you to achieve the same use cases you ...

Summary Modern graphics APs such as DirectX12, Vulkan and Metal allow for better CPU utilization via multi-threaded recordi...

Summary Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) is a feature that reduces GPU memory usage and texture loading times when you hav...

Summary Block Shaders introduce a streamlined and modular text-based shader authoring workflow, and allow to override and e...

Summary 3D Imposter is part of the Hierarchical Level Of Details Generation feature. It allows you to dynamically create si...

Summary This feature enables vertex channel compression to be used alongside Mesh compression option in Unity projects. Us...

Summary Automated Level of Detail (LOD) Generation is a feature that will help you improve your workflow to create and defi...

The experimental DXC shader compiler backend has been available since 2021.2, albeit with various limitations, most noticeab...

Dynamic Resolution supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API:

The Raytracing API is currently supported when targeting Windows/DirectX12, Xbox Series and PS5 - in order to enable a range...

Summary Hierarchical Level Of Details Generation (HLOD) is a feature that allows you to combine existing static meshes and ...

Currently, Material Property Blocks break the SRP Batcher. This would either make MPB work nicely with SRP Batcher, or deli...

Summary Mesh Shaders enable efficient processing of highly complex geometry (such as finely detailed models) as well as pro...

Description: Shader uniform/constant inputs can be set on a per-frame basis, using the Shader and Material APIs. Introduce...

Summary This feature adds the option for recalculation of normals after the deformation of a SkinnedMeshRenderer at runtime...

Summary The amount of produced shader variants grow exponentially based on keywords usage, and can lead to: Increased buil...

Summary Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) will support baked lightmap textures. Intended Outcome/Use Case Depending on th...

Summary Variable rate shading allows to vary the fragment/pixel shading rate on a per-draw call, primitive or pixel basis. ...

Summary Fragment shading rate allows to vary the fragment/pixel shading rate on a per-draw call, primitive or pixel basis. ...

Summary DXR 1.0 traditionally works by dynamically executing shaders on hit/miss, via indexing into shader tables. DXR 1.1 ...

Summary DXR 1.0 traditionally works by dynamically executing shaders on hit/miss, via indexing into shader tables. DXR 1.1 ...

With the 2023.1 release, the core functionality and user experience of Adaptive Probe Volumes in HDRP are improved and offic...

Summary Light probe data doesn't always fit in runtime memory, especially in large environments - this prevents creators fr...

Available in 2023.3.0a16. When using dynamic resolution of fixed upscale, adds the possibility to use AMD FidelityFX Super ...

Improve visual fidelity of clouds integrating beer shadow maps for improved self shadowing.

Available in 2023.3.0a4. See decals in raytraced reflections (eg: stickers). Make decals participate in raytraced global i...

Available in Unity 2023.1.a24 and above. Add Volumetric Output to VFX Graph for HDRP. This allows to create dynamic and pr...

Summary The GPU Resident Drawer is a GPU Driven rendering system which is designed to be a CPU time optimisation. It enabl...

Multiple improvements based on various users and productions feedback: Add line light support to the Stacklit, Water, Hair,...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.a15 and above. Allow the use of decal projectors with the HDRP Path Trac...

Extend the HDRP Physical Sky to manage night skies. Night skies are actually very hard to photograph in real-life, and we m...

Allows VFX Graph to be rendered in raytraced features.

Use Rendering Layers (similarly as URP - except that only the first 16 rendering layers can be used in HDRP) for Light Layer...

Very quickly and easily add lens flares and light streaks effects automatically generated from the frame buffer. SRP data d...

We have delivered a series of improvements to coexistence in Unity 22LTS and Unity 6, and though it can ease and accelerate ...

Exposes HDRP Material Type property (eg: Standard, Translucent or Sub Surface Scattering) of the Lit Shader Graph to the mat...

Improved high fidelity skin rendering adding dual lobe and diffuse power on Diffusion Profiles for materials using Subsurfac...

Available in 2023.3.0a13. When rendering volumetric clouds far in the distance, one needs to set a high distance for the vo...

Summary The number of competing super resolution techniques is growing, and many of them are specific to a single hardware ...

Strand based hair rendering using a software rasterizer to improve performance, visual quality and anti-aliasing when render...

Improve SpeedTree trees visual quality in HDRP using a Transmission Mask to apply subsurface scattering only on leaves. HDR...

Improve the rendering of transparent and translucent objects.

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.a12 and above. Allow to decals created with Shader Graph to affect trans...

Available in 2023.3.0a6. Mixed tracing mode for transparent screen space reflections now mixes both tracing modes as expect...

Unified rendering means that we are not creating yet another solution, but refactoring the URP and HDRP backends, separating...

When unifying we are also standardizing. The new unified Lit shader is based on the OpenPBR standard hosted by the Academy S...

Summary SRP Surface Shaders are a similar concept to Built-in surface shaders. You can define a surface function that descr...

Add support of volumetrics for area lights. Note: Current imperfect workaround is to create on top of the area light a spot...

Problems Soft shadows on characters or small props require high resolution shadow maps which are expensive. World shadows ...

A camera post processing effect to adjust exposure locally in a frame where highly exposed areas (eg: clear noon outdoor sce...

Allow to use or author separated material maps while still having an efficient texture packing at runtime (Forum thread).

Offer a mode with better quality motion blur at the cost of performance. Typical usage is high-end cinematics. Note: For ci...

Problem The Influence Volume defines the area around the Probe in which reflective Materials use the results that the Probe...

Offer a new mode to update reflection probes lighting in real-time, much cheaper than entirely recapturing a full reflection...

Add support for HDRP to the Render Pipeline Converter window.

Summary Adaptive Probe Volume (APV) is an improved workflow for pre-computed probe-based global illumination for 3D objects...

Summary With Unity 6 we introduce a new API for baking Light Probes. Baking no longer relies on the Lightmapping delegates,...

Summary Creators often build modular content for their projects in Scenes. These scenes are then repositioned at runtime in...

APV is now supported with AssetBundles/Addressables Previously, APV has not been compatible with AssetBundles / Addressable...

Summary Baking lighting data can take a long time, especially when including lightmap data in the build process Intended O...

APV Sky Occlusion With this feature, we enable creators to apply a dynamic time of day lighting scenario to their virtual e...

HDRP Streaming Data from Disk for Static APV Light probe data doesn't always fit in runtime memory, especially in large env...

These improvements have been included in the 2023.3 / Unity 6 Beta release Virtual Offset now uses Unity’s new internal Ray...

Summary The GPU Lightmapper is a backend for Unity’s Lightmapper which uses your GPU and Dedicated Video RAM (VRAM) to gener...

Summary Iteratively authoring and troubleshooting baked lighting data is an important use case for creators using Static Gl...

Summary Since the 2019 release, Unity has provided a system for automatically generating baked environment lighting in scen...

New light baking architecture “LightBaker v1.0” Baked Global Illumination now uses our new LightBaker v1.0 architecture for...

Summary Baking lighting data is currently tied to the concept of GameObjects in scenes, which limits the Editor’s capabilit...

Summary Unity already provides creators with realtime global illumination solutions through HDRP, like ray traced global il...

Summary When working with baked global illumination, the lighting data in the scene of the Unity Editor becomes invalidated...

Summary This feature intends to solve two problems: Currently novice users are exposed to technical jargon like sample cou...

Summary Generating lightmap UVs for models at import means padding cannot be adjusted per-instance. Consequently we cannot ...

Summary Using lightmaps on skinned meshes can be a viable alternative where using light probes does not provide satisfactor...

Summary In some scenarios you may want to author lights that affect only indirect lighting of an area of your scene. Use C...

Summary Iterating on lighting data requires the entire scene to be rebaked to see changes. This is potentially very time co...

Summary It is hard to light realistic outdoor scenes containing dense foliage using dynamic time of day. The contribution o...

Summary Updating light probe coefficients presently requires a complete scene rebake, including all lightmaps and reflectio...

Summary With Tiled Baking, the process of denoising a lightmap is broken down into smaller ‘tiles’ with each tile being den...

Summary Presently there is no built-in functionality within Unity to support the queuing of bake jobs. Baking scenes is don...

Summary The Scene is often used as a hub for collaboration, or as a method for managing the loading and unloading of data w...

Summary Debug data, such as texel validity, light overlap etc is currently not serialized to the Unity project. This means ...

This has landed in 2023.2.0a10 We'll add custom motion vectors, so you can create dynamic scenes with good workflows. Motio...

Improvements on Undo/Redo landed in 2023.3.0a10 and were backported into 2022 LTS. We're working on speeding up undo/redo t...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a10 and above. With this feature you will be able to quickly identify t...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a7 and above. Keyboard shortcuts are to be added to Shader Graphs to in...

Exposes HDRP Material Type property (eg: Standard, Translucent or Sub Surface Scattering) of the Lit Shader Graph to the mat...

Shader assets helping users understand how to set up and use popular techniques in Shader Graph, including parallax occlusio...

This sample has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a6 and above, and will be back-ported to 2022 LTS and 2021 LTS. A set of...

A set of shaders ready to be used directly in a project. Including shaders for decals, rocks, foliage, terrain details, ice,...

New Shader Subgraphs were released with the latest Production Ready Assets Sample.

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a11 and above. The Scope and Visibility of Properties are to be redesig...

Available as part of UGUI Shaders in Unity 6 (6000.0.39f1, 6000.1.0b7, 6000.2.0a4).

Beginning in 2023.2 alpha 16, you can now select Canvas as a new Material Type in the Graph Inspector for HDRP, URP, and Bui...

UGUI Shaders - available to import now in Unity 6 (6000.0.39f1, 6000.1.0b7, 6000.2.0a4). This set of samples contains over a...

With those ShaderLab Attributes exposed to ShaderGraph, users could make their properties take advantage of built-in Materia...

Release in Unity 6000.2.0a9 Add a new Append node to Shader Graph that can combine two float or vector inputs of different ...

Full support for up to 8 texture coordinates.

With adding nodes "Get Main Light" and "Get Additional Light”, you would be able to more easily create custom lighting in Un...

This would allow to use Keywords for dynamic branching, and reduce the number of variants when performance impact is low.

With Shader Graph Templates, you will be able to create new Shader Graphs from fully setup premade templates, such as Canvas...

Adding a new Universal Target for URP Simple Lit Shader.

Please let us know how we can improve your workflows with Shader Graph when using GPU Instancing with Graphics features like...

This would give control over Source and Destination Blend Modes.

With the Blit Target, users would able to author a SRP blit shader graph.

Console warnings and errors shall point to the problem in a Graph, just like it takes a programmer to a source code line.

This would let adding custom #pragma and #define to Shader Graphs

This would provide Shader Graph users the ability to customize how the SSAO texture sampling is being used in a URP Lit Mate...

You will be able to define custom collections of data and operate on them in your graph.

You would be able to disable Fog on a per graph, or per material instance basis.

With this feature, you will be able to set "nointerpolation" on Vertex Colors, UVs and other custom interpolators.

Thanks to the success of the previous 2021.2 release, you'll eventually be able to put controls (like check boxes, and slide...

Also known as portals, this will allow setting and getting a local variable for graph organization and performance purposes.

Similar to Animator Controller API, this shall allow tech. artists and programmers to create and populate new graphs from C#...

This would let Shader Graph users set Light Mode Tag.

This would allow Shader Graph users to edit their graphs' instance UI, to add tooltips, conditional visibility, customize th...

We're going to provide Technical Artists with means to prototype and author systems that rely on Shader Global Properties. ...

See customize stencil operations in Shader Graph

We'll create a place for you to easily see performance information for your graphs, such as: estimated instruction count, sa...

This feature would allow Shader Graph users to author Material graphs from a higher level with no specific distinction betwe...

With this feature, you will be able to organize static branching in Shader Graphs, Sub Graphs and Custom Function Nodes.

This would allow setting the stage a Sub Graph can be used in, Vertex, Fragment or Both.

You would be able to modify the ShaderGraph's vertex shader to support custom vertex behavior for use with DrawIndirect or D...

You would be able to author shaders that use Tessellation for Universal Render Pipeline. This will allow you to dynamically ...

We would add inputs to the Vertex Stage for UV and COLOR.

This would enable ZTest and ZWrite customization in Shader Graphs.

This would allow Shader Graph users to: expose a Gradient Property to the Material Inspector expose a Gradient Property to...

With the 2023.1 release, we have enabled the core functionality and user experience of Adaptive Probe Volumes in URP. What ...

Summary Previously, APV supported only per-pixel quality indirect lighting. This may be unsuitable for a range of mobile de...

Summary In Unity 6 Preview, URP now has a setting for Alpha Processing (URP Asset > Post-processing > Alpha Processin...

Summary The GPU Resident Drawer is a GPU Driven rendering system which is designed to be a CPU time optimization. It enabl...

Summary The GPU Resident Drawer is a GPU Driven rendering system which is designed to be a CPU time optimization. It enabl...

Summary High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays are display devices capable of reproducing images in the higher range of differen...

You can use render passes to achieve some custom effects with Universal Render Pipeline's post-processing. Currently, with 2...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.a8 and above. The Motion Blur effect blurs an image when GameObjects are...

Summary Render Graph is a high-level representation of a pipeline's frame and render passes, explicitly stating how the ren...

Very quickly and easily add lens flares and light streaks effects automatically generated from the frame buffer. SRP data d...

We have delivered a series of improvements to coexistence in Unity 22LTS and Unity 6, and though it can ease and accelerate ...

Summary The number of competing super resolution techniques is growing, and many of them are specific to a single hardware ...

Expose 6-way lighting as a Shader Graph shader compatible with both HDRP and URP. 6-way lighting allows to create more real...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.0a18 and above. Allow to spawn URP decals with VFX Graph, as well as usi...

Application SpaceWarp is an advanced XR rendering technique that reduces the rendering frequency while maintaining the displ...

Summary: Foveated Rendering support is being introduced, in order to improve the performance of stereo-rendering for suppor...

Summary Exposure is a linear scaling operation performed on a scene-referred image before tone mapping to fine-tune the bri...

Unified rendering means that we are not creating yet another solution, but refactoring the URP and HDRP backends, separating...

Deferred+ A new Deferred+ renderer in URP that supports GPU Resident Drawer with Deferred rendering, and Forward+ fallback ...

Summary We are removing the need to manage separate Universal Render Pipeline (URP) and Universal Renderer Data (including ...

Better documentation for Universal's Shader Library, Shader API, and Shader built-in variables.

Shader Quality settings allow you to tweak the quality of shading by enabling or disabling certain shader features. This opt...

Summary Shadow Maps Caching provides performance improvement by allowing the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) to update the ...

When unifying we are also standardizing. The new unified Lit shader is based on the OpenPBR standard hosted by the Academy S...

Summary SRP Surface Shaders are a similar concept to Built-in surface shaders. You can define a surface function that descr...

Blob Shadows are "fake" shadows created by drawing a 2d shape and projecting it on the ground below the object you'd like to...

Camera-relative rendering would allow the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) to render distant GameObjects (with large world sp...

Summary Screen Space Reflection (SSR) is a rendering technique that uses the depth and color buffer of the screen to calcul...

Summary Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) is a feature that reduces GPU memory usage and texture loading times when you hav...

Unity currently supports advanced ray tracing in the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). We are exploring the possibilit...

With volumetric fog, you can add realistic fog to a scene and manipulate its color, density, and how it interacts with light...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a16 and above. Allows access to the URP Camera buffers (Depth and Color...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a7 and above. Accelerates the access and usage of built-in attributes (...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a18 and above. Collision attributes to perform custom process upon coll...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.0a19 and above. Create a block by directly typing some HLSL snippets.

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.1.0b4 and above. Add Volumetric Output to VFX Graph for HDRP. This allows...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a19 and above. Keyboard shortcuts are to be added to Shader Graphs to i...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a15 and above. We're improving the UI/UX of the node search window to e...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a15 and above. Provide profiling tools that will allow you to get feedb...

Add the ability of VFX to be rendered in ray tracing passes. To allow things like VFX being taken into account in ray-traced...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a17 and above. With this feature, you will be able to create an Uber Sh...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.0a19 and above. Expose 6-way lighting as a Shader Graph shader compatibl...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.0a18 and above. Allow to spawn URP decals with VFX Graph, as well as usi...

This version of the Visual Effect Graph brings a number of fixes and stability improvements to allow effects to be deployed ...

Allow VFX Graph particles to generate motion vectors with URP, for example to be considered by effects like TAA or Motion Bl...

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.0a18 and above. A dedicated Wizard Creation Window similar to the Scene ...

This has landed in Unity 6000.1.0a9. You can now use GPU Events and yet benefit from Instancing.

Add a new lit output compatible with both HDRP and URP, and allowing to use a custom shader created with ShaderGraph. This ...

Add support for point caches storing several frames of data.

The support of array of types will allow to handle arrays as port types and iterate on them.

This will allow you to simulate particles and trails on CPU.

We're considering exposing VFXSRPBinder and other APIs to allow support of Custom Render Pipelines. Please share your feedb...

We’re decoupling our lighting resolution from our rendering resolution - this will make your effects more performant applyin...

Port most of the VFX C++ runtime to DOTS C#. This would allow VFX to be more easily integrated into the DOTS based code base...

Add an internal visual sequencer to VFX graph to trigger events and update properties from within the asset.

Add an update context that performs fluid simulation with particles.

This will allow to read and write attributes that are shared within an entire graph.

Ability to specify and control individual lights directly within the graph. You can currently use Output Events to control ...

Allows to query and get a list of neighboring particles from a given particle. This could be used to create advanced simulat...

Enables particles to access other particle's attributes, for example to find their position and avoid colliding with them.

This will allow reading particle attributes (e.g. position, color, etc.) asynchronously from CPU or from other GPU passes.

A new particle output to render particles as lights.

Point caches rewritten as buffers and implementing them as a first-class citizens in Unity. Adds also the ability to expose ...

Expose and document the API to be able to create new node types in C#.

Optional render texture in an output to render on texture instead of on screen.

This would display Shader Graph Property Categories as Collapsible Foldouts in the SG Output Block, to help unclutter Uber S...

With this API, you would be able to warm up Shaders used by Visual Effects and avoid runtime stutter.

This feature would allow VFX Graph users to author Visual Effect assets in a similar fashion as Shuriken, with behavior bloc...

Enables spawning and updating particles with greater fidelity when it comes to fast moving simulations removing typical stai...

We are looking at optimizing Subgraphs compilation (auto-compile and compilation) when nested in Graphs. Please share your ...

We're looking at allowing sorting Subgraphs order. Please share your feedback on the topic.

Improve discoverability, small daily user pains, as well as blockers when creating VFX with Unity. Tell us what you would l...

Access Unity splines from VFX Graph to spawn, control, and animate particles along the paths. This allows to create effects...

This would add VFX Graph support to HDRP Decal Target.

This would add VFX Graph support to URP Decal Target.

In addition to particle, this brings support to volume data. It will allow things like dynamic vector fields generation.

The ability to export assets in various common formats, such as FBX, USD, GLB, .PREFAB with the capability to clean and repa...

Allow users to delete unfrozen asset versions.

Allow a user to move an asset from one project or collection to another.

Use our web viewer to annotate your asset previews to do collaborative reviews with your pears. The annotations are version...

Asset Manager handles now several types of Asset References, with built-in ones: Dependency Transformation

Consolidate our asset types with the Unity Editor and allow customers to create custom asset types.

Allow user to edit asset metadata in bulk.

Automatically create a JIRA task from a written comment thread while collaborating around asset creation. Connect the ticket...

Enable the creation of a new asset with an asset reference typed: Transformed from a pipeline trigger (Optimize and Convert ...

Use your custom Pixyz script (.py) to create a pipeline and run it on any asset.

Connect your Asset Manager with your PlasticSCM server and index all your assets from your repositories on Asset Manager to ...

Updating metadata no longer upversion your asset, but is still tracked in its own history stream per version.

Adding, generating or updating previews don't upversion your asset anymore. Same behaviour with converted files.

A simple function to duplicate any asset.

For any multiple files asset (or nested assets), Asset Manager is suggesting the main file to enable several use-cases: bul...

Enable Optimize and Convert for consumers, making the feature easier to access.

Through a hierarchy menu of all the files within an asset, quickly browse and select the file on which you want to view and ...

Trashcan feature will allow users to delete assets, datasets and their files but retrieve and restore them within 30 days.

Introducing the concept of Asset Template, driving convention of your assets' structures. Defines which datasets and which ...

Create and Manage asset variants within Asset Manager

Allow users to create asset references, including dependencies that can upversion upstream source assets if the target asset...

Users require sensitive data to stay on their servers The storage service can act as an abstraction for those 3rd party sto...

Contextual Search enables you to find and manage assets more efficiently within the Asset Manager system by leveraging natur...

Add your custom status in the built-in flow or create total new ones for your asset.

Allow the deletion or reverting the deletion of a metadata field from your organization's library

Provide a desktop client to simply upload in bulk your directory of assets

Surface Unity Editor metadata in Asset Manager

Generat a lightweight turntable preview of a 3D model that can be used as the primary preview image.

Ability to nest assets together

Generate previews for your point clouds Assets. Supporting: e57 .pts .ply .glb

Asset Manager can generate previews (thumbnail and 3d viewer) to visualize your prefab or your material within Asset Manager...

Allow to CRUD metadata on projects. System or custom metadata are available to better identify or analyze your project.

Enable Asset Manager users to sync their asset's file locally (VFS) to work on their local machine with the DCCs they love.

Create tag assignment rules for your texture files in order to convert them on the fly while using then in Unity Editor or e...

Automatic tag recommendation, based on existing tags or generated thumbnails and images

Upload your unity packages (old or new ones) and let Asset Manager scan, identify and itemize each asset while keeping the d...

Share publicly an asset and let guests vizualise your assets in their own browser.

A cloud-based Asset Management system featuring rich discovery, transformation and viewing capabilities. Apply to the Beta ...

Everything you can do in the Asset Manager is also exposed as a RESTful API. For more information, see our documentation

The Unity Asset Manager SDK makes it easy for developers discover, create, update, delete, and manage Unity Asset Manager as...

Use our AI feature to generate your asset's tags.

Any images uploaded as previews or thumbnails are automatically optimized for web consumption and fast browsing

You can copy and paste an images from your clipboard to the previews of your asset

The ability to easily create, edit and delete collections and assets and navigate through them once populated. Collections ...

Datasets are logical groupings of files within an asset, allowing users to partition it into payloads that makes sense. Exa...

The ability to filter through assets by asset type, uploader, date, etc.

Enable the generation of a 3D Data stream of your asset, and leverage it through the 3DDS SDK or the reference project. Tai...

Give access to projects to your organization's members and grant them a role: Project Admin Ability to add/remove and e...

Search your assets by Name and Tags

Upload Blender content to the Asset Manager. If you are a developer that wants to build a plugin with the Unity Cloud Asset...

Lots of improvements Understand when an asset is out of sync with the Cloud by a quick glance on the gallery view Bulk imp...

Extract useful information from 3D model automatically: Triangle count Vertex count Material count Number of textures T...

Access to a free asset library directly from Asset Manager containing materials at first. The library is updated regularly ...

Support dependencies between assets to be more productive in your asset creation workflows. From Material with its textures...

Access your Asset Manager's contents directly from Unity Editor through the Asset Explorer. Search, browse, view, and acces...

Move out of experimental to V1.

Add Files from Unity Version Control To the Asset Manager Connecting your Unity Version Control Account to Asset Manager al...

Assets can be set to Draft, In Review, Accepted, Rejected so users can immediately understand which Assets can be used, and ...

Enable Unity Asset Manager Admins and Contributors to easily add, update and delete files within assets they create on UAM s...

Upload the version that you want with the ability to upload roll back

Audio file can be previewed with a new audio player directly from asset manager. For this, you need to set as preview your a...

Asset Manager will generate automatically some previews of your asset made of a single file.

Additional samples to make it easier to bulk create assets, upload files and update files using the Unity Cloud Python SDK

The Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a cross-platform command-line tool to connect to Asset Manager and execute administrativ...

Allow users to embed dependencies. Support for sub folders using Group by folder strategy & more

The Unity Cloud Reference Project is a fully functional collaborative design review application for 3D assets, powered by Un...

Group of quality of life features to consolidate the experience between the Web and the Editor integration Discover all ass...

Use a CSV file as input using the CLI tool to upload and re upload assets with their dependencies to Asset Manager

Help users understand better the errors and make the experience more cohesive

These improvements include enable users to deselect files even if they are dependencies covers better progress reporting f...

New modal to provide users with insights on which files will be impacted and whether they want to replace, skip, duplicate o...

This includes Offline support Ability to browse the in project assets while being offline Ability to retry the connection...

You can create multiple UVCS datasets into a same asset to surface different UVCS repository in one place

Epic As an Asset Manager user I want to be able to create favourited views so i can quickly access the content i am most in...

You can now filter your asset by their file type. It allows you to find back asset made of prefab, images, sound file, etc.....

Ability to filter assets by custom metadata

From the Asset Manager for Unity window in Editor, you can filter Cloud assets by types (including Unity proprietary formats...

See your assets as if you were browsing a folder directory. It's easier to navigate and looks more familiar. The Folder hie...

Retrieve your assets bought from the Asset Store in Asset Manager and add them to the project you like. While adding them, ...

Users can now include all dependencies if they need to by right clicking on the asset and selecting the option.

Preview images at their right resolution when expanding your sidepanel. It’s automatic, just give it a try!

In addition to all the features, we have improved a lot in terms of UX: Asset selection improvements. We've made the select...

A simple function to replace a file within a dataset, keeping all logic and dependencies associated with it.

The search returns all results which contain in the name or the tags the characters you're searching for.

Sidepanel is getting a lift to get you more productive: You can expand / collapse the sidepanel to preserve a bigger view o...

Create and share Smart views with your peers to get a focused views of your assets. Smart views keep in memory: All filter...

We're boosting our core to support a wider range of image formats to preview on Asset Manager. Among the full list of new f...

From Pixyz Studio interface, you can upload any scene to the Unity Asset Manager to share, manage, transform and stream it. ...

Quickly create and upload assets from the Unity Editor to Asset Manager while preserving all the integrity of the data.

Large CAD assets can be viewable in detail in the Asset Manager, directly in the web browser, using our 3D Data Streaming ca...

Today we support 3 “commands” with /ask, /code, and /run that you may need to declare in order to get the best results. We w...

Ability to use a scene screenshot, camera input, or other image assets to prompt the Assistant.

The Assistant has a system that dynamically utilizes various LLMs, so its query speed is primarily influenced by the extensi...

Ability for the assistant to perform multiple actions in one request, beyond the more simple actions it can accomplish today...

Ability to use lassos, annotations, and other simple visual markings to prompt the Assistant.

Add direct access to the Assistant from existing tools like the console, profiler, and many other Unity systems.

Add new FLUX and GPT-Image pre-trained models in the sprite model picker for more quality and style options.

Update documentation to have foundation-model specific prompts and best practices to get the most of various models.

Add additional texture generation models with improved quality.

Add additional SFX generation models with improved quality.

Similar to how the Assistant has an in-product feedback system using 👍👎 and text feedback to rate quality, we will add a m...

Generate 3D mesh from text and image inputs, then generate a 3D texture and all requisite maps. The mesh will have discrete ...

Generate cubemap from text and image inputs, which can be used as a background skybox, or reflection map, with a far ground,...

Custom model training that can replicate the style of your game with a model that you can train with your own image assets. ...

Generate voice from text with various output settings, such as character context, varied languages, emotion, etc.

Improve the image reference interface to help you better understand how image references work.

Generate long form music (>10s) from text and audio inputs. This would likely be integrated in the existing Sound generator ...

Generate video from text, image, video references, which can be used for game cinematics and cutscenes.

Generate sprite sheets in a grid-like format, which contain multiple smaller images to create 2D animations.

Generate UI-toolkit-based UI for screen and worldspace interactions. Consider prompt references to existing designs from Fig...

Generate heightmap from text and image inputs, which can be used as an initial shape for a Unity Terrain mesh.

Add post-process editing tools to the animation generator. This would include features like animation keyframe editing, star...

Transcribe real-time player speech into text strings in the Unity runtime. This would be very simple to hook up to your exis...

Enable viewing visual AI model graphs to make them easier to understand, debug, optimize, and deploy.

Planned new architecture will support Hugging Face tokenizer configs, allowing automatic import and conversion into a Unity-...

An expansion on model support, now importing Torch and TF models to avoid needing ONNX as an intermediary format.

Ability for Unity runtime to “broker” AI model inference between local vs. cloud resources. This would be based on a real-ti...

Add real-time pose detection (body, head, hand) on camera frame inputs in the Unity runtime. This would be very simple to ho...

Solve the “last mile” problem with AI model discovery, where today, models can be hard to find, integrate, and optimize. The...

Support for self-serving build job location preferences is now available. From the Dashboard, you can now choose where your ...

We've introduced higher degrees of caching and compression functionality that will help improve build speeds and overall per...

We want to ensure our clients can accurately diagnose their failed builds. The goal is to expose and indicate which category...

Maintaining our promise to deliver users greater platform reach, we are planning to enable builders for all modern consoles,...

We understand that managing your growing number of build artifacts is cumbersome. You have no way to easily and systematical...

Soon, users will be able to select, and kick-off cloud hosted builds leveraging Unity Build Automation directly from the Edi...

Caching solution using Azure Premium SSD SAN disks that can be initialized, attached, used, de-attached, and used for a futu...

Pre-Booted Pooled VM’s ready to accept your workload! This solves one our leading customer concerns; build queue times, and ...

We are continuously evolving our target platform support (Playstation, Xbox …) based on user priority and requirements. Curr...

Visualize 3D previews of assets in the new Plastic SCM web experience on the Unity Dashboard: Preview the 3d models stored ...

Adding support in the Unreal Plugin for Shelves and more polish to the associated View Changelist UX. The official Plastic S...

1.6.2 release for UE 4.27 and UE 5.0 with more bugfixes and polish for Changelists and upcoming UE 5.1 , download now. This...

1.8.0 release for UE 4.27, UE 5.0 and UE 5.1 with support for upcoming UE 5.2 Added support for Shelves in the View Changel...

We are pleased to announce the first release of the Plastic SCM Plugin for Wwise compatible with version 2022. This new plu...

Stay up-to-date with new releases Always stay up-to-date with the latest news and improvements brought to the client using ...

Mergebots make merging faster, more transparent, and more secure. They also remove repetitive and manual tasks that may slow...

The desktop app received several improvements to its Code Review feature. In order to have stronger and safer Code Reviews,...

You can now enable Unity Version Control for your projects through the Unity Hub: Create a new project and select the check...

Simple notification system via email, that notifies developers when they are assigned to a code review. Or when they have re...

View file history in a new improved layout The new history view introduces a new layout with simplified navigation allowing...

Available in version 11.0.16.9116 (Jan. 16, 2025), you can now hide branches in the desktop app. This is server-level featur...

We brought some usability improvements to Shelves, quick action buttons, a new Shelve list, and new Shelve previews.

Following user feedback, we are pleased to announce that we removed the limit of 1 mergebot in an Organization (increasing f...

Validate the work submitted by a team member with the intent to merge. We had multiple requests from users to improve our c...

Collaborate with your team from anywhere and any device through the new and improved Plastic Web experience in the Unity Das...

This problem was solved by releasing the new Smart Locks. We are exploring innovative ways to help teams prevent loss of wo...

We released a trimming tool for Plastic SCM Cloud Edition called "Purge" and managed via the CLI, so that you can manage you...

We released Quick branch switching on 2024-04-25, in version 11.0.16.8577 of the GUI. It comes with 4 quality of life impro...

Seamlessly navigate between accounts and repositories You can now quickly switch between accounts, organizations, repositor...

​Smart Locks simplifies the version control process, making it easier to collaborate on projects. Smart Locks lets you lock ...

Now Semantic Merge is supported on all platforms. It can make multiple merge scenarios easy. Developers working in paralle...

Switch between light and dark themes Whether for accessibility reasons or a visual preference, you can now choose between '...

We plan a new way to display the way branches and child branches in the 'Branches' tab of the UVCS desktop application. Thi...

On top of the normal way of listing files (changed, added, deleted), we are planning to add another view that lists the file...

Several new tutorials were published as part of a full "Get Started with Unity DevOps" course, to help you get started: Wha...

Unity Version Control was added to the Unreal Engine Marketplace, under the Code Plugin category. This allows projects devel...

When browsing the Unity Cloud web dashboard, you can see the individual cloud storage of each of your repositories, inside t...

A new Visual Studio plugin was published on the VS market place For Visual Studio 17.0 or higher, this UVCS extension enhan...

Upgrade the Wwise plugin, so that it is compatible with Audiokinetic's SDK 2023

More improvements are coming to the Unity Version Control package in 2025.

More improvements are coming to the Unity Version Control Unreal Plugin in 2025.

We are improving our CLI, refactoring many commands to support default JSON outputs so they can be used to build powerful cu...

Artists have a different set of needs than developers, while we have introduced a new Code Review workflow to improve the de...

Considering having an official Unity solution (Unity DevOps) supporting docker containers for images.

We have received feedback from universities, computer science teachers and game development students, asking for more seats ...

We are looking to bring some integrations to popular digital content creation tools. Please let us know through this portal...

Customers have reached out and asked for the UVCS Cloud support of Jenkins multibranch pipeline. Setting it all up is doabl...

We are exploring ways of enabling public sharing of repositories.

Add macOS support for the Unreal Editor plugin of Unity Version Control.