UI Toolkit VS Canvas - Performance & Comparison
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- UI Toolkit is Unity's new solution for building UIs. I will compare the performance of UI Toolkit and Canvas, to see which solution is better. I will also discuss the pros and cons of using UI Toolkit, so you know if you should use UI Toolkit for your Unity games.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Static UI Performance Comparison
02:19 Dynamic UI Performance Comparison
04:18 Conclusion - Performance
04:48 Pros Of UI Toolkit
05:41 Cons Of UI Toolkit
06:47 Conclusion
I'm converting my old UI components to the new UIElements and it's pretty smooth. And since it based on the widely used html/css structure (uxml/uss in Unity), it's easy to look up formatting tricks or get AI to help you on styling rules. UIElements does have a more complex layout engine so it's no surprise it does hiccup under any kind of styling/structure change but ultimately its been very precise and stable for me. Likely because Unity themselves rely on it for the actual UI of their Engine whereas the old UI components basically feel legacy and have log of odd bugs just due to code rot or the complex Jenga stack of components you need to mix up.
But like you said the key seller for me was styling sheets that make consistent UIs or changing themes much easier.
That is true. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Many,complicated animation is possible from a package called UITTimeline. Also for referencing u use strings I would recommend copy paste, though that might be quite irritating if it has to be done for lot of things. Unity should go something so that the styles or visual elements can be suggested by intellisens. But for ur age ur doing great. I only would say enjoy more at this age as this age will not come back
Thanks for noting that. I will try it if I get back to UI toolkit. Yes I hope Unity will improve on that. Thanks!
I really need to learn the UI toolkit. But I'm afraid I'll be stuck looking for documentation and example use cases on some intermediate to advanced topics on it. And then there's the string issue. I hate strings and only use them when absolutely necessary.
Yeah there is not much documentation on it right now. But if you decide to code your UI, it is similiar to html and css.
@@freedomcoding that sucks. I'll put a pin on that for now until the tasks I have at hand are completed or I see it get to a "good enough" state. It has some potential though.
I have tried UI Tookit before. I personally don't think it's easy to use. It is neither as flexible as HTML and CSS, nor as user-friendly as Cavas. Especially in terms of documentation, it is very unclear, and sometimes you may find several methods but none that are suitable for your situation.
You are right. There are a lot of features missing compared to HTML, CSS or canvas. We will see what Unity does with it in the future.
Keep in mind that it's a huge difference if you're animating by changing position (margin, left, top etc) or by translating.
Changing position will cause the entire UI to recalculate positions and re-render.
While changing translate won't affect anything else.
Thanks for noting that. I certainly wasnt changing the margin and padding, but I am not sure if I changed position or used translate. I will keep that in mind.
I'm working with UI Toolkit at the moment, and one thing I don't like is that we cannot send parameters with buttons.We can subscribe to the click event but since there is no option for parameters you end up needing one function per button...
That is true. There is still quite a lot of functionality missing...
You seem like a bright young promising kid. I can tell you'll cringe in 10 years when you get sone real experience and deeper knowledge.
Also, you can 100% make your own custom components to UI toolkit and add variables, custom behaviors, etc., as well as search by classes, not only strings.
Takes a while to get used to, but it's much higher potential, both in performance and usability, than the old gui solutions.
Thanks, I know there is still a ton of stuff to learn. Thanks for pointing that out!