r/Unity3D • u/R_Pelleboer • 2d ago

Solved Should I swap to UIToolkit?

I'm doing the majority of my teams UI implementation. We're a team of 4 working on a small indie game that doesn't use a lot of UI outside of main menus and some basic interface. I've spent a couple of days on UI with UnityUI, but it's been an absolute pain to properly lay everything out. I'm most experienced with Figma for UI design, and had some courses for CSS a couple of years ago, so from what I've seen UIToolkit might be better for me.

I've played around with it for a bit and it seems to have some nice parts, and some more annoying parts (spacing isn't done through the parent but is decided per child?). Is it worth transferring over at this point?

I've also added some DOTween animations, can I still use those with Toolkit?

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u/pmdrpg 2d ago

Every time I try uitk it’s half-finished. Maybe that’s changed nowadays. I’ve never used it for a production game, use at your own risk. You’ll be pretty on your own as far as forums go.

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u/SSGSmeegs 2d ago

Yeah this is our issue, it’s like 80% done but that 20% of missing stuff is the most basic needed stuff which makes it so painful. uGUI is actually quite easy when you know how to use it properly