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2D

2D

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2D Graphics Performance improvements

Improvements for 2D Renderer in Universal RP Light textures are now pre-rendered ahead of draw renderers to reduce context ...
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2D Aseprite Importer

The Aseprite Importer is an Asset importer that imports Aseprite's .ase and .aseprite files into Unity. The Aseprite Import...
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2D Renderers as Mask Sources for SpriteMask.

Sprite Renderer, SpriteShape Renderer & TilemapRenderer can now be used as mask sources for SpriteMasks, unlocking many crea...
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SRP Batcher for 2D Renderers

Tasks that previously loaded the CPU can be moved to the GPU freeing up CPU load for gameplay. Important Note: For sprites...
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2D Physics Sub-stepping

Sub-stepping is available for per-frame or manual simulation steps and will perform smaller time-interval sub-steps when a l...
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Sprite Swap Overlay

Supports Sprite Swap animation workflow in the Scene View. Reveals all the relevant labels that a selected sprite can swap ...
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Tilemap Authoring Improvements

Tilemap authoring improvements to make Tilemap creation and editing workflows more efficient. Overlay support to the Tile P...
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Render as 2D

Developers need to incorporate 3D elements in their 2D games while using the 2D Renderer in Unity’s Universal Render Pipelin...
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Planned

2D Animation performance improvements

Bone-based animation plays a crucial role in the 2D animation of many mobile games, significantly contributing to the effici...
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Planned

2D Physics Low-Level API

Why Developers need consistent behaviour across devices, in Editor and Runtime Developers need visual debugging support, i...
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Planned

Sprite Atlas analysis

To address the need for more efficient texture memory management in mobile games development, we are developing tooling to a...

3D Characters & Animation

Animation

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New Animation System Foundation

Unity’s brand new animation system is a scalable and flexible production pipeline for Technical Animators and Gameplay Devel...
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Under Consideration

Animation Window Improvements

The animation window will still be utilized in both the existing and new animation systems and could use updates to improve ...
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Under Consideration

New Animation System: Entities Workflows

The New Animation System is already powered by ECS under the hood and takes advantage of jobs and burst to give great perfor...
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Under Consideration

New Animation System: Motion Matching

Kinematica introduced motion matching capabilities in Unity, but it was never a truly focused solution. We are considering m...
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Under Consideration

Timeline - UI Toolkit refactor

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

New Animation System: 2D Workflows

2D Animations are critical for so many Unity users and we acknowledge that for the initial experimental package release, the...
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Under Consideration

New Animation System: Timeline Integration

Seamless integration between cinematics and animation orchestration is essential for creating rich, immersive games. While o...
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New Animation System: Visual Troubleshooting

Save even more time during production by empowering anyone to debug your animation system by recording gameplay and scrubbin...

AR/VR

XR Platform Support

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3D Bounding Box for iOS

A 3D bounding box provides the dimensional bounds of a real world object detected by a device. Bounding box use cases includ...
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Persistent Spatial Anchors for ARCore

Persistent Anchors allow objects to remain in a set location as you move and shift your gaze around your physical environmen...
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Build Profiles for XR

Help developers create multiple build profiles for Quest and Android XR platforms, saving different configurations for relea...
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Improvements to AR Foundation

The latest release of AR Foundation (v6.2) introduces new constructors for anchor structs, a parentId field for trackable st...
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Colocation on Meta Quest

Enable multiple headsets to share a virtual space or local multiplayer experience together while in the same physical space.
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Improvements to OpenXR Support for Meta Quest

The latest release of Unity's OpenXR package for Meta (v2.2) introduces more customization options for how Passthrough image...
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Visibility Mesh

Apply Visibility Mesh occlusion to improve the GPU performance of post processing effects.
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Verified Support for Android XR

Android XR support is fully verified in Unity, marking a milestone for stability, platform maturity, and long-term support. ...
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CPU Image Capture on Meta Quest

Expand support of CPU image capture in AR Foundation to Meta Quest, giving developers a consistent way to access the camera ...
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Environment Raycast on Meta Quest

Enable developers to perform raycast-based operations against any point in a user's physical environment (not just planes).
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Automated Dynamic Resolution on Android XR

Simplifies the workflow by providing a more effective way of applying dynamic resolution scaling for Android XR projects. Th...
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3D Surface Reconstruction on Android XR

Enables real-time 3D surface reconstruction for the Android XR platform, generating real-time, accurate, stable 3D environme...
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Under Consideration

Headless Mode for Automatic Testing

Add support to allow you to interact with XR devices without the need to activate the display or physically wear the device ...
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Under Consideration

OpenXR Vulkan Windows Support

Add support for Vulkan, a 3D graphics API, in OpenXR on Windows (currently available on Android).
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Under Consideration

Quest Passthrough Image Processing Effects

AR Foundation supports passthrough on Quest. This ticket represents additional passthrough image processing effects such as ...
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Under Consideration

Splash Screen support for Quest Passthrough

Add the ability to integrate passthrough into your application’s splash screen so you can create a complete end to end passt...

XR Interaction and Input

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Improvements to XR Hands

The latest release of XR Hands (v1.6) features a new XRHandShape Inspector for easier customization of hand and finger shape...
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Improvements to XR Interaction Toolkit

The latest release of XRI (v3.2) includes initial support for world-space UI with UI Toolkit, and support for reduced visual...
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UI Toolkit Integration

Developers can use the XR Interaction Toolkit (XRI) & UI Toolkit to render UI directly in world space for immersive games & ...
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Common Cross-Platform Gestures

Help creators create with a common set of prebuilt gestures that are supported across OpenXR-compatible or non-compatible de...
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Playback and Recording of Hand Poses and Gestures

Help developers record and playback hand poses and gestures which could be used for testing, to simulate hands while using c...
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Common Hand Gesture Fallback

Create a “fallback” provider that can help fill help developer get gesture data without having to go through the XR input sy...
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Under Consideration

Dynamic Hand Gestures

Help developers detect gestures that include multiple poses in the same space, including single poses or multiple poses that...
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Under Consideration

Hand-based Teleportation

Help developers leverage custom hand pose detection and hand tracking to enable teleportation.

XR Content

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Multiplayer MR Template

This template is a starting point for multiplayer mixed reality development. It configures project settings, pre-installs ne...
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Under Consideration

Animated Controller Models

Visualize and use animated VR controller models.
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Hand Model Animation Based on Controller Input

Tooling for visualizing controllers with animated hand models. Use cases include wrapping fingers around a sword hilt, gun, ...

3D World Building

3D World Building

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ProBuilder 6.0 [Unity 6]

ProBuilder 5 has many windows and creation options that aren't integrated with the rest of Unity's standard workflows and de...
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Splines 2.0 [2022 LTS]

Build better paths in Unity with Splines. If you are building intricate rivers, roads, fences, or camera paths, splines can ...
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Terrain Tools [2023.1]

Terrain Tools 5.1 [2023.1] Overlays support for more screen real estate Terrain Tools 5.0 [2022.2] Scattering improvement...
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Shader Graph Integration

Utilize Shader Graph to adjust and blend materials on the Terrain surface. Extend the terrain shader with all the additional...

Audio/Video

Authoring Workflows

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Audio Random Containers [2023.2]

Empowering game designers and sound engineers to easily add variation to their sounds avoiding audio repetition. An Audio R...
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Scriptable Audio Processors

The ability for users to extend unity’s audio signal chain by creating their own Scriptable Audio Processors. This is a bett...
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Planned

Create sample video player playback controls

We're currently working on a sample to illustrate common usecases around video and video playback controls.
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Under Consideration

Spatial Audio

The ability to create true surround sound experiences: Workflows to use, preview & visualize, mix and enhance 3D spatial au...
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Under Consideration

Voice

With an enhanced integration with Unity’s Vivox technology we would add the ability to use the player’s voice stream in the ...

Media Framework

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Advanced Encoding Options

The UnityEditor.Media.MediaEncoder class now supports more fine-grained control over the video encoding. It is now possible ...
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Audio: Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

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

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

Enhanced Webcam Support

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

Extensible Codec Framework

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

Live Streaming

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

Localization & Subtitles

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

Runtime Decoding

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

Runtime Encoding

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

Editor

Customizability & Extensibility

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Graph Toolkit [Experimental Package - Unity 6.2]

Graph Toolkit is a public API, internal to the Editor, for creating common front end UI/UX for custom node-based editor tool...
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Shortcut Manager Improvements [2022 LTS]

Various improvements to shortcut/hotkey manager: Shareable, customizable shortcut profiles Easy and intuitive shortcuts fi...
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Overlays Framework

Overlays, introduced in Unity 2022 LTS, are customizable and persistent UI panels for exposing actions and tools in the Scen...
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Planned

Editor Tools Framework

The EditorTools API, introduced in 2021 LTS, provides a foundation for building contextual, non-intrusive tools that integra...
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Planned

Grids Improvements

The Grid system now supports adjustable position and rotation, configurable via the UI or API. A new "Grid" handle maintains...
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Main Toolbar Customization

Introducing support for customizing the main toolbar, allowing developers to extend it with custom UI elements and tailor it...
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Graph Toolkit: Node Customization

Open APIs that allow users to change the UI of their nodes. They will be able to change things like: Node icon Node Defaul...
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Graph Toolkit: API for Graph Creation

Open an API that allows users to programmatically create graphs by code. The API should allow actions to: Create/Delete gra...
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Graph Toolkit: Vertical Ports

Changing the port orientation allows users to create horizontal or vertical flows for their graph tools.
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Under Consideration

Asset Collections

Organize frequently used assets together for quick retrieval during content creation.
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Under Consideration

Context specific Inspector

Have an inspector panel only respond to selection changes occuring in a specific window.
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Under Consideration

Customizable Workspaces

We want to streamline task-oriented workflows by providing a simplified and focused user experience when working in the edit...
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Under Consideration

Portable user preferences

Make it easier for carrying user preferences between different projects or computers.

Usability

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Quality of Life Improvements [2021 LTS]

Revert to Prefab supports multi-select: Inspector property context menu 'Revert to Prefab' now works with multiple selected...
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Released

Quick and powerful search capabilities [2021 LTS]

The Quick Search package has been added directly into the Editor with updated UI for better integration. It can be used to e...
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Scene piercing selection

Right-clicking in the scene view displays a list of objects under your cursor, which makes the selection of specific objects...
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Released

Selection Logger

Navigate through the history of the last selected item through keyboard shortcuts or the dedicated window
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Visual Search Queries

Improved user interface for assisting when building simple to complex search queries.
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[Removed] Improved, Searchable Context Menus [2023.2]

We’re improving and standardizing our context menus that pop up when right-clicking across items and workflows. Improvements...
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Hierarchy Modernization

The Hierarchy Window has been completely rewritten for improved performance, especially when handling large volumes of objec...
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Planned

Improve Editor UI readability

The process of evolving the Unity Editor UX in 2019 included moving away from texture-based UI controls in favor of a more m...
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Planned

Optimize Enter/Exit Play Mode

Improve performance for Enter/Exit Play Mode To allow frequent iterations minimise the overheads of entering and exiting Pl...
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Planned

Search Optimization

Search performance has been significantly improved, with up to 125% faster updates when importing changes, ensuring timely a...
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Under Consideration

Asset dependency tracking

Quickly visualize what are the dependencies for a given asset, and which assets it's depending on.
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Under Consideration

Bulk edit properties

Edit properties on a large amount of items in a single operation.
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Under Consideration

Concurrent asset editing

Compare or make changes to multiple scenes, prefabs, or any other type of assests, by opening them side-by-side in the edito...
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Under Consideration

Console window improvements

Increase the efficiency of the Console window by displaying text using a monospace font type, and being able to exclude cust...
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Under Consideration

Project Window Search Integration

The project window is one of the core building blocks of editor workflows. We believe this window would benefit from advance...
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Under Consideration

Save Play Mode Changes

Make it possible to selectively persist changes made during Play Mode so they are not lost.

Gameplay

Visual scripting

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Visual scripting as package in Unity 2021

Visual scripting is available as a regular package in Unity 2021, visible in the Package Manager, and available by default w...
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Visual scripting for Unity 2019 LTS & 2020 LTS with Bolt

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

Quality push in stability and usability

DOTS

DOTS

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Best Leverage Hardware Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ECS for Unity provides a stable foundation on which to provide a suite of user onboarding and learning resources to help use...
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Spikeless Streaming and Large-scale Rendering

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

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

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

Consolidation of ECS Architecture and Tooling

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

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

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

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

ECS Vehicle Controller

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

General Improvements to Unity Physics

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

Parallel Scheduling and Configuration Improvements

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

Unified Physics Authoring Workflow

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

ECS-based Mesh Deformations

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

Entities Graphics Performance Improvements

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

Improvements to ECS Content Management

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

Multiplayer

Multiplayer

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Build, Launch and Scale Playtests

We're working to consolidate our dedicated game server workflow within the editor to enable creators to more easily build, t...
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Distributed Authority

We are working on a new Distributed Authority mode in Netcode for GameObjects when paired with the new Multiplayer Services ...
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Further Integrations

We'll be building some multiplayer friendly templates that set up best practices for your project to be easily built into a ...
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Megacity Mobile Sample

We released our new exciting Megacity Metro sample focusing on creating multi-platform multiplayer games with support for mo...
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Multiplayer Tools & Services

We're creating a central location in the editor providing guidance on the recommended tools, services or education material ...
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Multiplayer Workflow

We're working to enable multiples editor instances to be opened simultaneously on the same device to test a working gameplay...
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Samples, Onboarding & Learning

Building multiplayer games can be complicated, so we’ve built and documented many of the common networked gameplay scenarios...
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Planned

Host Migration

We are working on the host migration feature in Netcode for Entities to add session stability. If the host of a game is lost...
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Planned

Netcode Unification

We are simplifying the tech stack to offer a Netcode solution delivering all the features you need regardless of your gamepl...
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Under Consideration

Comprehensive Snapshot System

Capture all state change as part of a Snapshot, which periodically gets transmitted for network throughput and synchronizati...
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Under Consideration

NAT Punchthrough

Extending the capability of UTP to be able to communicate with networking hardware and firewalls in order to negotiate conne...
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Under Consideration

Network Nav Mesh

Have navigation mesh work in multiplayer scenarios which can support underlying dynamic terrain.
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Under Consideration

Snapshot Delta Change Support

Having to send an entire snapshot each tick can be unnecessary, potentially affecting egress and network overhead. We'll imp...

Engineering

Programming

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Assembly Definition Files - Unity Version Defines

Unity Version Defines is an improvement for the existing Assembly Definition File Version Defines feature, which allows C# d...
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Burst - Platform Support & Iteration Improvements

Add support for ARM FP16/Half Add native support for Apple Silicon Improve compilation time Improve support for static re...
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C# 9 and Source Generator Support

Upgrade Roslyn C# compiler to support C# 9 and add support for C# Source Generators, in a fashion similar to how Roslyn Anal...
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Editor .NET Runtime (Mono) Upgrade

Upgrade the Unity bundled Mono version from 2018 to a recent version. Benefits Improved C#8 support in both Mono and IL2CP...
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Moved Visual Studio Integration to a Package

Visual Studio integration support in the editor was first moved to an optional package in 2019.2 and since then, all new fea...
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Optimized UnityEngine.Math APIs

Optimize the Unity Math C# scripting functions to be higher performance on IL2CPP Initial focus is on inlining across Vecto...
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SerializeReference - Missing Type Handling

When using [SerializeReference] attribute for serialization and a previously serialized type is missing, then deserializatio...
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C# Serialized Data Migration

Over the lifetime of a serialized C# type (MonoBehaviour, ScriptableObject, etc.), data often undergoes schema changes. Thes...

Profiling

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Basic memory profiling tooling with compare snapshot functionality

Memory Profiler 1.0.0 package is available now: https://forum.unity.com/threads/memory-profiler-1-0-0-pre-3-released.1312005...
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Profiler Window Extensibility

The ability to add custom data to the profiler and visualize it as a custom profiler module from a package.
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Add CPU/GPU bottlenecks view on the Unity Profiler

We are working on adding CPU and GPU frame time information to Profiler so that you can see quickly whether you are CPU boun...
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Improve resident memory insights on the Memory Profiler package

We are working on improving insights related to resident memory and committed memory so that you can see easier what is cont...
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Under Consideration

Add native and managed memory blocks utilization insights in the Memory Profiler package

Our goal is to give you insights into memory manager utilization to help you make informed decisions and more effectively ad...

Performance

Performance

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Optimize Unity Editor Startup time

We are working on making the Unity Editor to open quickly so you can start working on your project.
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Under Consideration

Continue improving Editor start-up time

Continue working on improving the Editor startup time so your projects open quickly.
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Under Consideration

Improve time taken to test changes on non-desktop platforms

Improve iteration time on platforms where you can't enter play mode in the Editor to test your changes.
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Under Consideration

Improve usability when editing larger projects

Improve Editor usability when working on larger scenes and projects.
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Under Consideration

Optimize code editing workflows

Speed up the workflows around switching out of Unity to edit code and returning to the Editor to test your changes.
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Optimize Non-Code Editing workflows

Speed up the workflows around switching out of Unity to edit models, textures, etc and returning to the Editor to test your ...
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Under Consideration

Optimize time taken to build your project

Optimize the length of time taken to make a full build of your project.
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Under Consideration

Reduce incremental import times

Make it faster when you update a project from version control and have to wait for Unity to import changes.
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Reduce initial project import time

Reduce how long it takes when you first open a large project and the project imports your assets.
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Reduce time taken to create a New Project

Speed up how long it takes to create a new project from a template and get working on it.

Navigation & Game AI

Navigation

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Progressive Rearchitecture: Queryable navigation model

An enhanced set of API methods for querying the navigation data in greater detail than before, compatible with Unity’s Job S...
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2D Navigation

Add to NavMeshSurface the ability to generate a NavMesh for 2D games based on sprites or on Unity’s 2D Physics colliders. Th...

User Interface

Accessibility & Localization

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Improved Arabic Text Editing

Improved Editor tools for Arabic/Farsi characters including right-to left joined characters and diacritics and unicode bi-di...
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Support for Desktop Screen Readers (Unity 6.3 alpha)

Expand native screen reader support to include desktop operating systems, such as VoiceOver on macOS and Narrator on Windows...
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Released

UI Toolkit compatibility with the Localization package

Localize the content of UI Toolkit user interfaces in different languages using the Unity Localization package.
Mobile native screen reader exposed to C# image
Released

Mobile native screen reader exposed to C#

Expose native screen reader capabilities available on Android (TalkBack) and iOS (VoiceOver) devices to C# so they can be in...
Accessibility OS Settings Integration (Mobile) image
Released

Accessibility OS Settings Integration (Mobile)

Creators will be able to configure UI to interact with native (Android, iOS) font scaling, bold text and closed caption.
Screen Reader Integration with UITK image
Planned

Screen Reader Integration with UITK

Creators will be able to develop their GUI using UI Toolkit in an easy way to integrate screen reader technology, so that ma...
Accessibility Checkers image
Under Consideration

Accessibility Checkers

A simple UI checker automation for accessibility for developers. Quick, automated and easily measured accessibility checkers...
Improved Remapping Controls image
Under Consideration

Improved Remapping Controls

Creators will be able to easily design remapping for players with disabilities. Such a easily remap game functions to specif...
Simple Captioning Creation image
Under Consideration

Simple Captioning Creation

Creators will be able to have a more simple and easy approach to closed captioning, custom styling, and localization support...
Web Screen Reader Support image
Under Consideration

Web Screen Reader Support

Support for screen readers on the Web platform.

UI Systems

Background image repeat image
Released

Background image repeat

Control how background images should repeat along vertical and horizontal axes.
Calculate opacity at the root element image
Released

Calculate opacity at the root element

Update the opacity calculation method of the root element to align with the CSS standard.
Runtime bindings image
Released

Runtime bindings

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

Additional UI style properties

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

Advanced UI Animation

Implement motion design in UI using keyframe animation and sequencing.
Custom UI Shading image
Planned

Custom UI Shading

Easily add rendering effects to UI by creating custom shaders using the Shader Graph tool.
Display UI in world space image
Planned

Display UI in world space

Use UI Toolkit to create user interfaces positioned in the 3D world among other scene objects.
High runtime performance image
Planned

High runtime performance

Systems improvements, profiling tools and documentation for achieving high performance with UI.
Improve UI initialization performance image
Planned

Improve UI initialization performance

Build large and complexe user interfaces without worrying about performance issues during initalization.
Repeatable sections of 9-sliced images image
Planned

Repeatable sections of 9-sliced images

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

Vector Graphics support

Use SVG assets for displaying icons or 2D artwork when making lightweight user interfaces that scales gracefully across diff...
Addressable Asset System support image
Under Consideration

Addressable Asset System support

UI Toolkit assets can be packaged as an addressable asset, and can contain addressable references, which is currently not th...
Anchor UI elements to scene objects image
Under Consideration

Anchor UI elements to scene objects

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

Blend Modes

Specify how UI elements should blend between each other by setting different blend modes such as Multiply, Overlay and other...
Code-only runtime setup image
Under Consideration

Code-only runtime setup

Avoid the requirement of manually setting up a Unity Scene for quickly displaying UI in the Player.
Depth ordering image
Under Consideration

Depth ordering

For a given UI element, specify a different stack order from its position in the hierarchy, similarly to the z-index CSS pro...
Display Objects & Particles in UI image
Under Consideration

Display Objects & Particles in UI

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

Grid Layout

Position UI elements with a grid-based system, using rows and columns, to quickly achieve complex and adaptive layouts.
Play sounds on UI events image
Under Consideration

Play sounds on UI events

Quickly assign a sound to be played on a given UI event.
Support for multiplayer UI image
Under Consideration

Support for multiplayer UI

Enable having multiple local players share a single screen with different controllers.
UI Masking image
Under Consideration

UI Masking

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

Platforms

AR/VR

OpenXR Plug-in 1.0 image
Released

OpenXR Plug-in 1.0

Unity's OpenXR plug-in should work with any device that supports conformant PC-based OpenXR runtimes. See our documentation...
DirectX 12 improvements on HoloLens 2 image
Planned

DirectX 12 improvements on HoloLens 2

DirectX 12 performance parity with DirectX 11 on HoloLens 2
Graphics optimizations for Oculus Quest image
Planned

Graphics optimizations for Oculus Quest

We are working on several graphics optimizations for the Quest platform to enable high-performance VR apps on the Quest. The...
Improved render pipeline setup for XR image
Planned

Improved render pipeline setup for XR

Unified SRP XR Management for improved project setup based on target platform
Mock HMD improvements image
Planned

Mock HMD improvements

Mock HMD support for additional configurations / graphics APIs
OpenXR support for Oculus Quest image
Planned

OpenXR support for Oculus Quest

Expanded device support with Unity's OpenXR Plug-in
Improved visual scripting for XR image
Under Consideration

Improved visual scripting for XR

Improve visual scripting workflows for AR/VR development
Improved XR shader operation image
Under Consideration

Improved XR shader operation

Explore a better way to verify compilation correctness for new XR shaders
Multi-GPU support image
Under Consideration

Multi-GPU support

Enable high-end XR experiences via support of multiple GPUs
Raytracing support image
Under Consideration

Raytracing support

Support of raytracing to enable photorealistic rendering on PC VR compatible platforms.
Support for remote rendering image
Under Consideration

Support for remote rendering

Support for remote rendering services including well-integrated workflows
WebXR support image
Under Consideration

WebXR support

Support of WebXR to enable reaching a wider audience in a more frictionless way (no app download). This work would also addr...

Consoles

Incremental build for Nintendo Switch™ image
Released

Incremental build for Nintendo Switch™

Support for the latest incremental player build process, providing improved iteration times for these platforms.
Incremental build for PlayStation 5 image
Released

Incremental build for PlayStation 5

Support for the latest incremental player build process, providing improved iteration times for these platforms.
Streaming Virtual Texturing image
Released

Streaming Virtual Texturing

Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) is a feature that reduces GPU memory usage and texture loading times when you have many hi...
Raytracing on PS5 and Xbox Series Consoles image
Planned

Raytracing on PS5 and Xbox Series Consoles

Raytracing realistically simulates how light behaves and interacts with physical materials, bringing true global illuminatio...
New Nintendo Features image
Under Consideration

New Nintendo Features

Do you have ideas for new features? Let us know what it is, and how important they are to you and your projects. This will g...
New Playstation Features image
Under Consideration

New Playstation Features

Do you have ideas for new features? Let us know what it is, and how important they are to you and your projects. This will g...
New Xbox Features image
Under Consideration

New Xbox Features

Do you have ideas for new features? Let us know what it is, and how important they are to you and your projects. This will g...

Cross Platform

HDRP Raytracing Effects on Vulkan image
Under Consideration

HDRP Raytracing Effects on Vulkan

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

Desktop

DirectX12 out of preview image
Released

DirectX12 out of preview

Significant improvements have been made to the graphics backend, in order to increase performance and stability of editors a...
Multiple Display Support image
Released

Multiple Display Support

Support for multiple displays for both the player and the Editor.
Display Resolution Dialog image
Planned

Display Resolution Dialog

Reintroducing the Display Resolution Dialog window to allow developers to change their display and resolution. We are lookin...
Docker/Container Support image
Under Consideration

Docker/Container Support

Official support for using Unity inside of a Docker container for CI use cases.
Improved Desktop Store and Store SDK Integrations image
Under Consideration

Improved Desktop Store and Store SDK Integrations

Improved support for integrating with various desktop game and application stores and their associated SDKs. We are looking ...
Improved Multiple GPU Support image
Under Consideration

Improved Multiple GPU Support

Improved support for leveraging multiple GPUs in games and applications.
Improved UaaL for Desktop Platforms image
Under Consideration

Improved UaaL for Desktop Platforms

Improved support and features for Unity as a Library for desktop platform use.
Linux Player on ARM Processors image
Under Consideration

Linux Player on ARM Processors

Support for ARM CPUs for the Linux desktop runtime. (It is already supported for the Embedded Linux build).
New Linux Features image
Under Consideration

New Linux Features

Do you have ideas for a new Linux feature? Let us know what it is, and how important it is to you and your projects. This wi...
New macOS Features image
Under Consideration

New macOS Features

Do you have ideas for a new macOS feature? Let us know what it is, and how important it is to you and your projects. This wi...
New UWP Features image
Under Consideration

New UWP Features

Do you have ideas for a new UWP feature? Let us know what it is, and how important it is to you and your projects. This will...
New Windows Features image
Under Consideration

New Windows Features

Do you have ideas for a new Windows feature? Let us know what it is, and how important it is to you and your projects. This ...

Web

Web: C/C++ (native only) Multithreading image
Released

Web: C/C++ (native only) Multithreading

Enable support for C/C++ (native-only) code to run in separate threads on the WebGL build target.
Web: Faster Builds image
Released

Web: Faster Builds

We are planning a set of improvements to reduce the build time for WebGL projects.
Web: Mobile Browser Support image
Released

Web: Mobile Browser Support

Support WebGL builds for modern mobile web browsers on high-end iOS and Android devices. In addition to the mobile features...
Facebook Instant Games Support image
Released

Facebook Instant Games Support

Create Web builds that are compatible with and optimized for Facebook Instant Games and upload them directly to Facebook Ins...
Web Stripping Tool image
Released

Web Stripping Tool

Unity’s Web Stripping Tool package allows you to optimize your Web application by reducing its build size. This package hel...
WebGPU Support image
Planned

WebGPU Support

WebGPU is currently being implemented by all the major browser vendors as the next-generation standard for high-performance ...
Multithreaded Job Systems image
Planned

Multithreaded Job Systems

Use the existing Unity Job system in combination with the Native Multithreading in C/C++ code option to run multithreaded C#...
Web Platform Default Settings image
Planned

Web Platform Default Settings

Introduce default setting for the web platform that are more conducive towards developmental builds and faster load times.
WebGL Basis Universal Texture Support image
Under Consideration

WebGL Basis Universal Texture Support

Basis Universal Textures are a solution to provide compressed textures suitable for use on either desktop or mobile devices ...
WebXR Support image
Under Consideration

WebXR Support

Combine Unity's XR interaction module with the WebGL build target to create WebXR experiences.
WebGL C# Multi-threading Support image
Under Consideration

WebGL C# Multi-threading Support

This feature is to add full C# mutli-threading support to the Web Platform. Current limitations with the Garbage Collector a...

Mobile

Addressables PAD/TCFT support image
Released

Addressables PAD/TCFT support

We are bringing support for Play Asset Delivery asset packs within the Addressable system. You will be able to use your exis...
Android Game Activity image
Released

Android Game Activity

We’re introducing a new application model to Unity- GameActivity. Powered by Android’s GDK you will have access to a code la...
Android Predictive Back Gesture support image
Released

Android Predictive Back Gesture support

We are bringing support for the Android Predictive Back Gesture to Unity. You will be able to enable the Predictive Back Ge...
Android: Automatically include debugging symbols in App Bundle image
Released

Android: Automatically include debugging symbols in App Bundle

We are adding the inclusion of debugging symbols when choosing to build an Android App Bundle (AAB). When targetting the Goo...
Android: Improved support for large screens and foldables image
Released

Android: Improved support for large screens and foldables

We are bringing improvements to large screen support with a series of API updates and modernisations.
Apple Privacy Manifest & Required Reasons image
Released

Apple Privacy Manifest & Required Reasons

We have released support for privacy manifest and Required Reasons APIs for Unity 6/ 2021LTS and 2022 LTS.
ApplicationExitInfo API support image
Released

ApplicationExitInfo API support

We are bringing support for ApplicationExitInfo APIs directly into Unity Android by exposing a number of its APIs. For examp...
Support for 16 KB page sizes image
Released

Support for 16 KB page sizes

Historically, Android has only supported 4 KB memory page sizes. However, beginning with Android 15, Android supports device...
Android networking improvements image
Planned

Android networking improvements

We are currently investigating how to improve networking on Android. We are initially focusing on options for HTTP/2 support...
Apple Architecture modernisation & Swift migration image
Planned

Apple Architecture modernisation & Swift migration

We are heavily investing in the modernisation of the connective architectural layer between Unity and the Apple platform. On...
Support Android 16 image
Planned

Support Android 16

We are exploring changes coming with Android 16 and how we will support our Creators. Key areas we are investigating are cha...
Improvements to Android Logcat image
Under Consideration

Improvements to Android Logcat

Are you using the Android Logcat package for your debugging needs? Please send us your feedback and suggestions.
Improvements to debugging ANRs and Crashes on Android image
Under Consideration

Improvements to debugging ANRs and Crashes on Android

We deeply understand that app technical quality is instrumental to a good user experience and can in negative cases impact d...
New Android Features image
Under Consideration

New Android Features

Do you have ideas for a new Android feature? Let us know what it is, and how important it is to you and your projects. This ...
New iOS features image
Under Consideration

New iOS features

Do you have ideas for a new iOS feature? Let us know what it is, and how important it is to you and your projects. This will...
Updates to Mobile Notifications Package image
Under Consideration

Updates to Mobile Notifications Package

We’re bringing lots of improvements and fixes to the package, keep you feedback coming! Android Support for Android 13 noti...
Android & iOS Themed Icons image
Under Consideration

Android & iOS Themed Icons

We are exploring Android and iOS themed icons. If you are already using, or plan to use, those icons, please let us know in...

Pipeline & Integrations

Package Management

Asset Store .unitypackage Package Consumption Experience Improvements image
Released

Asset Store .unitypackage Package Consumption Experience Improvements

Ability to view installed packages from the list of Asset Store packages under My Assets – Green Check Mark to indicate asse...
Configure Package Manager Cache Settings image
Released

Configure Package Manager Cache Settings

Choose with flexibility which cache settings that fit your project setup for UPM & asset store packages. Release Informatio...
Multi-Select Actions image
Released

Multi-Select Actions

Ability to action multiple packages in one operation – that will greatly reduce wait time when managing packages which ultim...
New Package Manager Sidebar image
Released

New Package Manager Sidebar

The new sidebar improves navigation and makes it easier to browse through all your packages. Transforming dropdown to a tab...
Show Package Download Progress at Project Load image
Released

Show Package Download Progress at Project Load

Ability to view download progression to users at the project load , it will allow more transparency when downloading package...
Visualize Deprecated Packages image
Released

Visualize Deprecated Packages

We wanted to increase your visibility on the packages that may be completely or partially deprecated. Whether to keep using ...
Download Multiple Samples with 1 Click image
Under Consideration

Download Multiple Samples with 1 Click

Samples are crucial to understand the value proposition and use of packages. Currently, our users have to download sample 1 ...
Improve Dependency Toggle visibility & by Default image
Under Consideration

Improve Dependency Toggle visibility & by Default

Improve Dependency Toggle Visibility and have it on by default
Quick Access to Manifest File from Editor UI image
Under Consideration

Quick Access to Manifest File from Editor UI

Now, users must go through the file directory to access the manifest. The ability to quickly access the manifest file will a...
Show/Hide Experimental Packages image
Under Consideration

Show/Hide Experimental Packages

Want to explore Unity's experimental features hassle-free? Easily toggle the visibility of experimental packages to stay up...

Player Build Pipeline

Code Stripping Tool (UnityLinker) Upgrade image
Released

Code Stripping Tool (UnityLinker) Upgrade

UnityLinker is used for removing (stripping) Intermediate Language (IL) code from compiled C# assemblies during player build...
IL2CPP Incremental Conversion Improvements image
Released

IL2CPP Incremental Conversion Improvements

IL2CPP incremental builds improvements reduce the IL2CPP conversion time for incremental changes across player builds and th...
Incremental C# Script Compilation image
Released

Incremental C# Script Compilation

Replaces part for the existing editor C# script compilation pipeline with a solution that supports incremental C# script com...
IL2CPP - Full Generic Sharing image
Planned

IL2CPP - Full Generic Sharing

Allow users to control code generation for generic types. Users can choose between longer iteration times with large code si...
Incremental Compilation, Packaging & Deployment - Phase 1 image
Planned

Incremental Compilation, Packaging & Deployment - Phase 1

Incremental player code compilation, packaging and deployment. Make incremental code changes scale with the size of the chan...

Runtime Asset Management

Addressables Profiler Module image
Released

Addressables Profiler Module

It can be difficult for users to investigate runtime issues and optimize runtime performance when loading content with Addre...
Build Report Summary & Review Tools image
Released

Build Report Summary & Review Tools

While Addressables simplifies building & loading of AssetBundles, it can be difficult for developers to see how Addressables...
Addressables: Allow custom menu actions for Analyze Rules image
Under Consideration

Addressables: Allow custom menu actions for Analyze Rules

Allow for the ability to add custom actions to user generated analyze rules. This would entail making the following public: ...

Asset Import Pipeline

Editor Window for Inspecting Asset Imports and Dependencies image
Released

Editor Window for Inspecting Asset Imports and Dependencies

Editor window for inspecting why an asset was re-imported, it's dependencies and import statistics.
FBX SDK Upgrade to 2020.2 image
Released

FBX SDK Upgrade to 2020.2

FBX SDK 2020.2 includes Bug fixes Performance Improvements Apple Silicon Support
Parallel Importing for Common Asset Types image
Released

Parallel Importing for Common Asset Types

Reduce asset import time by utilizing multi-core computers to import common asset types in parallel. Thereby enabling users ...
Sketchup SDK Upgrade image
Released

Sketchup SDK Upgrade

Upgrade adds support for Sketchup 2019 and 2020 file formats
Texture Compression Optimizations image
Released

Texture Compression Optimizations

Ability to globally override texture compression and maximum imported size behavior for faster local development, ASTC comp...
USD Import image
Released

USD Import

Unity Imports Built-in USD Prims as flattened stage Universal Scene Description (USD) is an industry standard format for ex...
Async Accelerator Client Upload & Download image
Planned

Async Accelerator Client Upload & Download

Do not block the editor and wait for uploads to the Accelerator to complete.
Modular Importer image
Planned

Modular Importer

The asset needs of Unity projects today are more diverse than ever. Yet, every Unity asset importer is monolithic, to modify...
Native OpenUSD Support image
Under Consideration

Native OpenUSD Support

Native implementation of OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description) in the Unity Editor to enable full authoring and editing of U...
OpenUSD Hierarchy image
Under Consideration

OpenUSD Hierarchy

Support for USD Hierarchy preview at Import time Improving the USD Import functionalities to view the content of the USD as...
Runtime OpenUSD workflows image
Under Consideration

Runtime OpenUSD workflows

Enable Runtime OpenUSD Import / Export workflows Dynamic Scene Composition: Compose scenes dynamically during gameplay. Ef...

Rendering & Visual Effects

Foundation and Shaders

Batched Compute Skinning image
Released

Batched Compute Skinning

Background: Unity’s Skinned Mesh Renderer component utilize compute dispatches for parallelizing vertex transformations on ...
Cross Platform HDR Output image
Released

Cross Platform HDR Output

Summary High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays are now becoming widely available, and are capable of reproducing images with hig...
DX12 Graphics Jobs Editor Support image
Released

DX12 Graphics Jobs Editor Support

Summary Modern graphics APIs such as DX12 provide improved CPU utilization via multi-threaded recording and submission of c...
Inline Raytracing in Shaders (Desktop and Consoles) image
Released

Inline Raytracing in Shaders (Desktop and Consoles)

Summary DXR 1.0 traditionally works by dynamically executing shaders on hit/miss, via indexing into shader tables. DXR 1.1 ...
PSO Tracing and Precooking image
Released

PSO Tracing and Precooking

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

Ray Traced Instancing

Instancing support for the Raytracing API is now available, allowing to efficiently add large amounts of mesh instances to t...
Ray Tracing Production Readiness image
Released

Ray Tracing Production Readiness

Summary Unity's Raytracing API was introduced in Unity 2019.3, and is utilized in the High Definition Render Pipeline's for...
Raytracing Acceleration Structure Build Flags image
Released

Raytracing Acceleration Structure Build Flags

Summary It is now possible to set the Ray Tracing Acceleration Structure Build mode using the following flags: These flags...
Raytracing Memory Usage Reduction image
Released

Raytracing Memory Usage Reduction

The introduction of a custom GPU memory allocator for small BLASes serves to further reduce the memory footprint of the Ray ...
RTAS Build Commands in Async Compute image
Released

RTAS Build Commands in Async Compute

Summary The following commands are used in order to build the Ray Tracing Acceleration Structure on the GPU, after adding a...
RTAS Memory Usage in Frame Debugger image
Released

RTAS Memory Usage in Frame Debugger

As of Unity 2023.3, you can track the Acceleration Structure’s GPU memory usage in the Frame Debugger, when inspecting Ray T...
Scriptable Render Pipeline Coexistence (experimental) image
Released

Scriptable Render Pipeline Coexistence (experimental)

We have delivered a series of improvements to coexistence in Unity 22LTS and Unity 6, and though it can ease and accelerate ...
Solid Angle Culling for Ray Tracing image
Released

Solid Angle Culling for Ray Tracing

Angle-based culling provides a fast and efficient way to remove small and distance instances from the Acceleration Structure...
Split Graphics Jobs (DX12) image
Released

Split Graphics Jobs (DX12)

Summary Modern graphics APs such as DirectX12, Vulkan and Metal allow for better CPU utilization via multi-threaded recordi...
Split Graphics Jobs (Vulkan) image
Released

Split Graphics Jobs (Vulkan)

Summary Modern graphics APs such as DirectX12, Vulkan and Metal allow for better CPU utilization via multi-threaded recordi...
SRP Batcher compatibility for WebGPU image
Released

SRP Batcher compatibility for WebGPU

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

SRP Volume System Optimizations

Summary We will further optimize The Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) Volume system for better memory efficiency and CPU pe...
URP Foveated Rendering (OpenXR Support) image
Released

URP Foveated Rendering (OpenXR Support)

Foveated Rendering is supported by the Universal Render Pipeline, and can be enabled when targeting compatible OpenXR platfo...
URP Foveated Rendering (Quest 2 Support) image
Released

URP Foveated Rendering (Quest 2 Support)

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

Variable Rate Shading

Summary Variable rate shading allows to vary the fragment/pixel shading rate on a per-draw call, primitive or pixel basis. ...
VFX Graph compatibility for WebGPU image
Released

VFX Graph compatibility for WebGPU

VFX Graph is supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API:
WebGPU Graphics API (Early Access) image
Released

WebGPU Graphics API (Early Access)

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

HDRP Foveated Rendering

Summary: Foveated Rendering support is being introduced, in order to improve the GPU performance of stereo-rendering for su...
Improved Shader Variants Management image
Planned

Improved Shader Variants Management

Summary Shader variant compilation is a form of static branching which provides authoring and runtime control of conditiona...
Light Probes compatibility for WebGPU image
Planned

Light Probes compatibility for WebGPU

Light Probes are supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API:
Maximum Level of Details (LOD) Level Per Group image
Planned

Maximum Level of Details (LOD) Level Per Group

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 image
Planned

MeshLOD

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 ...
Scriptable Render Pipeline API Improvements image
Planned

Scriptable Render Pipeline API Improvements

Summary We will improve the underlying Scriptable Render Pipeline(SRP) API to enable you to achieve the same use cases you ...
Split Graphics Jobs (Metal) image
Planned

Split Graphics Jobs (Metal)

Summary Modern graphics APs such as DirectX12, Vulkan and Metal allow for better CPU utilization via multi-threaded recordi...
Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) image
Planned

Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT)

Summary Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) is a feature that reduces GPU memory usage and texture loading times when you hav...
Block Shaders (Surface Shaders Replacement) image
Planned

Block Shaders (Surface Shaders Replacement)

Summary Block Shaders introduce a streamlined and modular text-based shader authoring workflow, and allow to override and e...
3D Imposters image
Under Consideration

3D Imposters

Summary 3D Imposter is part of the Hierarchical Level Of Details Generation feature. It allows you to dynamically create si...
Ability To Use Vertex Channel Compression Alongside Mesh Compression image
Under Consideration

Ability To Use Vertex Channel Compression Alongside Mesh Compression

Summary This feature enables vertex channel compression to be used alongside Mesh compression option in Unity projects. Us...
Automated LOD Generation image
Under Consideration

Automated LOD Generation

Summary Automated Level of Detail (LOD) Generation is a feature that will help you improve your workflow to create and defi...
DXC Shader Compilation and Shader Model 6 Support image
Under Consideration

DXC Shader Compilation and Shader Model 6 Support

The experimental DXC shader compiler backend has been available since 2021.2, albeit with various limitations, most noticeab...
Dynamic Resolution compatibility for WebGPU image
Under Consideration

Dynamic Resolution compatibility for WebGPU

Dynamic Resolution supported when targeting the WebGPU graphics API:
HDRP Raytracing Effects on Metal image
Under Consideration

HDRP Raytracing Effects on Metal

The Raytracing API is currently supported when targeting Windows/DirectX12, Xbox Series and PS5 - in order to enable a range...
Hierarchical Level Of Details Generation image
Under Consideration

Hierarchical Level Of Details Generation

Summary Hierarchical Level Of Details Generation (HLOD) is a feature that allows you to combine existing static meshes and ...
Material Property Block SRP Batcher Compatibility image
Under Consideration

Material Property Block SRP Batcher Compatibility

Currently, Material Property Blocks break the SRP Batcher. This would either make MPB work nicely with SRP Batcher, or deli...
Mesh Shader Support image
Under Consideration

Mesh Shader Support

Summary Mesh Shaders enable efficient processing of highly complex geometry (such as finely detailed models) as well as pro...
Native Array Overloads for Shader Uniform Setters image
Under Consideration

Native Array Overloads for Shader Uniform Setters

Description: Shader uniform/constant inputs can be set on a per-frame basis, using the Shader and Material APIs. Introduce...
Post Deformation Normal Recalculation image
Under Consideration

Post Deformation Normal Recalculation

Summary This feature adds the option for recalculation of normals after the deformation of a SkinnedMeshRenderer at runtime...
Stage specific shader keywords (GLES, Vulkan) image
Under Consideration

Stage specific shader keywords (GLES, Vulkan)

Summary The amount of produced shader variants grow exponentially based on keywords usage, and can lead to: Increased buil...
Streaming Virtual Texturing(SVT) Lightmap Support image
Under Consideration

Streaming Virtual Texturing(SVT) Lightmap Support

Summary Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) will support baked lightmap textures. Intended Outcome/Use Case Depending on th...
Vulkan Fragment Shading Rate Support image
Under Consideration

Vulkan Fragment Shading Rate Support

Summary Fragment shading rate allows to vary the fragment/pixel shading rate on a per-draw call, primitive or pixel basis. ...
Inline Raytracing (Vulkan Support) image
Under Consideration

Inline Raytracing (Vulkan Support)

Summary DXR 1.0 traditionally works by dynamically executing shaders on hit/miss, via indexing into shader tables. DXR 1.1 ...
Inline Raytracing (Metal Support) image
Under Consideration

Inline Raytracing (Metal Support)

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

High Definition Pipeline

Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV) out of experimental image
Released

Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV) out of experimental

With the 2023.1 release, the core functionality and user experience of Adaptive Probe Volumes in HDRP are improved and offic...
Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV): Stream Lighting Data from Disk image
Released

Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV): Stream Lighting Data from Disk

Summary Light probe data doesn't always fit in runtime memory, especially in large environments - this prevents creators fr...
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 image
Released

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0

Available in 2023.3.0a16. When using dynamic resolution of fixed upscale, adds the possibility to use AMD FidelityFX Super ...
Clouds self shadowing improvements image
Released

Clouds self shadowing improvements

Improve visual fidelity of clouds integrating beer shadow maps for improved self shadowing.
Decals in raytraced reflections and GI image
Released

Decals in raytraced reflections and GI

Available in 2023.3.0a4. See decals in raytraced reflections (eg: stickers). Make decals participate in raytraced global i...
Generate Volumetric fog with VFX Graph particles image
Released

Generate Volumetric fog with VFX Graph particles

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

GPU Resident Drawer

Summary The GPU Resident Drawer is a GPU Driven rendering system which is designed to be a CPU time optimisation. It enabl...
Improve Area, Disc, Line and Box lights for raster and path tracing image
Released

Improve Area, Disc, Line and Box lights for raster and path tracing

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

Path Tracing Decals

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

Physical Night Sky

Extend the HDRP Physical Sky to manage night skies. Night skies are actually very hard to photograph in real-life, and we m...
Raytracing support of VFX Graph image
Released

Raytracing support of VFX Graph

Allows VFX Graph to be rendered in raytraced features.
Rendering Layers image
Released

Rendering Layers

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

Screen Space Lens Flares

Very quickly and easily add lens flares and light streaks effects automatically generated from the frame buffer. SRP data d...
Scriptable Render Pipeline Coexistence (Experimental) image
Released

Scriptable Render Pipeline Coexistence (Experimental)

We have delivered a series of improvements to coexistence in Unity 22LTS and Unity 6, and though it can ease and accelerate ...
Shader Graph Material Types image
Released

Shader Graph Material Types

Exposes HDRP Material Type property (eg: Standard, Translucent or Sub Surface Scattering) of the Lit Shader Graph to the mat...
Skin dual Lobe and diffuse power image
Released

Skin dual Lobe and diffuse power

Improved high fidelity skin rendering adding dual lobe and diffuse power on Diffusion Profiles for materials using Subsurfac...
Sky Atmospheric Scattering and ozone simulation image
Released

Sky Atmospheric Scattering and ozone simulation

Available in 2023.3.0a13. When rendering volumetric clouds far in the distance, one needs to set a high distance for the vo...
Spatial-Temporal Upscaling (STP) image
Released

Spatial-Temporal Upscaling (STP)

Summary The number of competing super resolution techniques is growing, and many of them are specific to a single hardware ...
Strand-based Hair and Fur Rendering image
Released

Strand-based Hair and Fur Rendering

Strand based hair rendering using a software rasterizer to improve performance, visual quality and anti-aliasing when render...
Transmission Mask for SpeedTree trees image
Released

Transmission Mask for SpeedTree trees

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

Transparency improvements

Improve the rendering of transparent and translucent objects.
Transparent Decals with Shader Graph image
Released

Transparent Decals with Shader Graph

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

Transparent with mixed tracing

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

Data Unification

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

SRP Lit shader

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

Surface Shaders

Summary SRP Surface Shaders are a similar concept to Built-in surface shaders. You can define a surface function that descr...
Area light support of volumetric fog image
Under Consideration

Area light support of volumetric fog

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

Capsule Shadows

Problems Soft shadows on characters or small props require high resolution shadow maps which are expensive. World shadows ...
Local Exposure image
Under Consideration

Local Exposure

A camera post processing effect to adjust exposure locally in a frame where highly exposed areas (eg: clear noon outdoor sce...
Mask map and Custom Texture Channel Packing image
Under Consideration

Mask map and Custom Texture Channel Packing

Allow to use or author separated material maps while still having an efficient texture packing at runtime (Forum thread).
Real-time Cinematic Motion Blur image
Under Consideration

Real-time Cinematic Motion Blur

Offer a mode with better quality motion blur at the cost of performance. Typical usage is high-end cinematics. Note: For ci...
Reflection Probe Convex Influence Volume image
Under Consideration

Reflection Probe Convex Influence Volume

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

Reflection Probes Relighting

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

Render pipeline converter

Add support for HDRP to the Render Pipeline Converter window.

Global Illumination

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Released

Adaptive Probe Volumes Release HDRP/URP

Summary Adaptive Probe Volume (APV) is an improved workflow for pre-computed probe-based global illumination for 3D objects...
API for baking Light Probes image
Released

API for baking Light Probes

Summary With Unity 6 we introduce a new API for baking Light Probes. Baking no longer relies on the Lightmapping delegates,...
API to move positions of Light Probes at runtime image
Released

API to move positions of Light Probes at runtime

Summary Creators often build modular content for their projects in Scenes. These scenes are then repositioned at runtime in...
APV - AssetBundles / Addressables Support image
Released

APV - AssetBundles / Addressables Support

APV is now supported with AssetBundles/Addressables Previously, APV has not been compatible with AssetBundles / Addressable...
APV - Bake only Probe Volumes image
Released

APV - Bake only Probe Volumes

Summary Baking lighting data can take a long time, especially when including lightmap data in the build process Intended O...
APV - Bake Sky Occlusion image
Released

APV - Bake Sky Occlusion

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

APV - Improvements and Changes

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

APV - Improvements and Changes

These improvements have been included in the 2023.3 / Unity 6 Beta release Virtual Offset now uses Unity’s new internal Ray...
GPU Lightmapper "Out of Preview" image
Released

GPU Lightmapper "Out of Preview"

Summary The GPU Lightmapper is a backend for Unity’s Lightmapper which uses your GPU and Dedicated Video RAM (VRAM) to gener...
Interactive preview for GI-related Scene View Draw Modes image
Released

Interactive preview for GI-related Scene View Draw Modes

Summary Iteratively authoring and troubleshooting baked lighting data is an important use case for creators using Static Gl...
New default Lighting Data Asset for newly created Scenes (replacing Sky Manager) image
Released

New default Lighting Data Asset for newly created Scenes (replacing Sky Manager)

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” image
Released

New light baking architecture “LightBaker v1.0”

New light baking architecture “LightBaker v1.0” Baked Global Illumination now uses our new LightBaker v1.0 architecture for...
Light Baking Public C# API image
Planned

Light Baking Public C# API

Summary Baking lighting data is currently tied to the concept of GameObjects in scenes, which limits the Editor’s capabilit...
Realtime Preview of Baked GI in Editor Using Path Tracing image
Planned

Realtime Preview of Baked GI in Editor Using Path Tracing

Summary When working with baked global illumination, the lighting data in the scene of the Unity Editor becomes invalidated...
Adaptive Sampling of Lightmap Texels image
Under Consideration

Adaptive Sampling of Lightmap Texels

Summary This feature intends to solve two problems: Currently novice users are exposed to technical jargon like sample cou...
Automatic, Overlap Free UV Packing image
Under Consideration

Automatic, Overlap Free UV Packing

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

Bake Lighting Data for Skinned Meshes

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

Bake Lighting Data with GI (Indirect) Only Lights

Summary In some scenarios you may want to author lights that affect only indirect lighting of an area of your scene. Use C...
Bake Only Selected Sets of Objects image
Under Consideration

Bake Only Selected Sets of Objects

Summary Iterating on lighting data requires the entire scene to be rebaked to see changes. This is potentially very time co...
Bake Sky Occlusion image
Under Consideration

Bake Sky Occlusion

Summary It is hard to light realistic outdoor scenes containing dense foliage using dynamic time of day. The contribution o...
Baking Only Selected Bake Stage(s) image
Under Consideration

Baking Only Selected Bake Stage(s)

Summary Updating light probe coefficients presently requires a complete scene rebake, including all lightmaps and reflectio...
GPU Lightmapper - Tiled Denoising - OIDN image
Under Consideration

GPU Lightmapper - Tiled Denoising - OIDN

Summary With Tiled Baking, the process of denoising a lightmap is broken down into smaller ‘tiles’ with each tile being den...
Light Baking Management (Batch Baking) image
Under Consideration

Light Baking Management (Batch Baking)

Summary Presently there is no built-in functionality within Unity to support the queuing of bake jobs. Baking scenes is don...
Scene Independent Lighting Data (Bake Prefabs) image
Under Consideration

Scene Independent Lighting Data (Bake Prefabs)

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

Serialize Debug Data to Disk

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

Shader Graph

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Released

8 Texture Coordinates

Full support for up to 8 texture coordinates.
Custom Motion Vectors image
Released

Custom Motion Vectors

This has landed in 2023.2.0a10 We'll add custom motion vectors, so you can create dynamic scenes with good workflows. Motio...
Custom SSAO (URP) image
Released

Custom SSAO (URP)

This has landed in 6000.3.0a5 This would provide Shader Graph users the ability to customize how the SSAO texture sampling ...
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Released

Disable Interpolation

This has landed in 6000.3.0a1 With this feature, you will be able to set "nointerpolation" on Vertex Colors, UVs and other ...
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Released

Dynamic Branching with Keywords

This would allow to use Keywords for dynamic branching, and reduce the number of variants when performance impact is low.
Faster Undo/Redo image
Released

Faster Undo/Redo

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

Graph Templates

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

Heatmap Color Mode

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

Keyboard Shortcuts

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a7 and above. Keyboard shortcuts are to be added to Shader Graphs to in...
Material Types for HDRP image
Released

Material Types for HDRP

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

New Samples : Feature Examples

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

New Samples : Node Reference

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...
New Samples : Production Ready Assets image
Released

New Samples : Production Ready Assets

A set of shaders ready to be used directly in a project. Including shaders for decals, rocks, foliage, terrain details, ice,...
New Samples : Sub Graphs Library image
Released

New Samples : Sub Graphs Library

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

Property Scope & Visibility

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.3.0a11 and above. The Scope and Visibility of Properties are to be redesig...
Signed Distance Field (SDF) image
Released

Signed Distance Field (SDF)

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

UI Integration with Shader Graph

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...
UI Samples image
Released

UI Samples

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...
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Released

URP Simple Lit Target

This has landed in 6000.3.0a5 Adding a new Universal Target for URP Simple Lit Shader.
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Released

ShaderLab Attributes for Material Property Drawers

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

Append Node

Release in Unity 6000.2.0a9 Add a new Append node to Shader Graph that can combine two float or vector inputs of different ...
Custom Lighting Nodes for Universal Render Pipeline image
Planned

Custom Lighting Nodes for Universal Render Pipeline

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

Shader Graph Stencil Operations

See customize stencil operations in Shader Graph
Blending Modes image
Under Consideration

Blending Modes

This would give control over Source and Destination Blend Modes.
Blit Target image
Under Consideration

Blit Target

With the Blit Target, users would able to author a SRP blit shader graph.
Console Interop image
Under Consideration

Console Interop

Console warnings and errors shall point to the problem in a Graph, just like it takes a programmer to a source code line.
Custom Pragma and Define image
Under Consideration

Custom Pragma and Define

This would let adding custom #pragma and #define to Shader Graphs
Custom Struct Types image
Under Consideration

Custom Struct Types

You will be able to define custom collections of data and operate on them in your graph.
Disable Fog from Lit Sub-Targets image
Under Consideration

Disable Fog from Lit Sub-Targets

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

Further node controls for subgraphs

Thanks to the success of the previous 2021.2 release, you'll eventually be able to put controls (like check boxes, and slide...
Get/Set Node image
Under Consideration

Get/Set Node

Also known as portals, this will allow setting and getting a local variable for graph organization and performance purposes.
Graph Creation API image
Under Consideration

Graph Creation API

Similar to Animator Controller API, this shall allow tech. artists and programmers to create and populate new graphs from C#...
Light Mode Tag image
Under Consideration

Light Mode Tag

This would let Shader Graph users set Light Mode Tag.
Material UI (ShaderGUI) image
Under Consideration

Material UI (ShaderGUI)

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

Shader Globals

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

Shader Performance Feedback

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

Simplified Material Authoring

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

Static Branching

With this feature, you will be able to organize static branching in Shader Graphs, Sub Graphs and Custom Function Nodes.
Sub Graph Stage Setting image
Under Consideration

Sub Graph Stage Setting

This would allow setting the stage a Sub Graph can be used in, Vertex, Fragment or Both.
Tessellation for Universal Render Pipeline image
Under Consideration

Tessellation for Universal Render Pipeline

You would be able to author shaders that use Tessellation for Universal Render Pipeline. This will allow you to dynamically ...
Vertex Stage Inputs image
Under Consideration

Vertex Stage Inputs

We would add inputs to the Vertex Stage for UV and COLOR.
ZTest and ZWrite Support image
Under Consideration

ZTest and ZWrite Support

This would enable ZTest and ZWrite customization in Shader Graphs.
Exposable Gradient Property image
Under Consideration

Exposable Gradient Property

This would allow Shader Graph users to: expose a Gradient Property to the Material Inspector expose a Gradient Property to...
Shuriken Particle Instancing image
Under Consideration

Shuriken Particle Instancing

This would add support for automatic particle instancing with Lit and Unlit materials used with Particle Systems (Shuriken)....

Universal Pipeline

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Released

Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV)

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

Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV): Per-Vertex Quality

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

Alpha Processing for Post Processing

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

GPU Resident Drawer

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

GPU Resident Drawer

Summary The GPU Resident Drawer is a GPU Driven rendering system which is designed to be a CPU time optimization. It enabl...
High Dynamic Range Display Output image
Released

High Dynamic Range Display Output

Summary High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays are display devices capable of reproducing images in the higher range of differen...
Post Processing Custom Effects image
Released

Post Processing Custom Effects

You can use render passes to achieve some custom effects with Universal Render Pipeline's post-processing. Currently, with 2...
Post Processing: Object Motion Blur image
Released

Post Processing: Object Motion Blur

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

Render Graph Integration

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

Screen Space Lens Flare

Very quickly and easily add lens flares and light streaks effects automatically generated from the frame buffer. SRP data d...
Scriptable Render Pipeline Coexistence (Experimental) image
Released

Scriptable Render Pipeline Coexistence (Experimental)

We have delivered a series of improvements to coexistence in Unity 22LTS and Unity 6, and though it can ease and accelerate ...
Spatial-Temporal Upscaling (STP) image
Released

Spatial-Temporal Upscaling (STP)

Summary The number of competing super resolution techniques is growing, and many of them are specific to a single hardware ...
VFX Graph Smoke Lighting For URP image
Released

VFX Graph Smoke Lighting For URP

Expose 6-way lighting as a Shader Graph shader compatible with both HDRP and URP. 6-way lighting allows to create more real...
VFX Graph Support of URP Decals image
Released

VFX Graph Support of URP Decals

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...
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Released

XR: Application Spacewarp

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

XR: Foveated Rendering

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

Automatic Exposure

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

Data Unification

Unified rendering means that we are not creating yet another solution, but refactoring the URP and HDRP backends, separating...
Deferred: Optimisations & GPU Resident Drawer image
Planned

Deferred: Optimisations & GPU Resident Drawer

Deferred+ A new Deferred+ renderer in URP that supports GPU Resident Drawer with Deferred rendering, and Forward+ fallback ...
Render Pipeline and Renderer Data Asset Consolidation image
Planned

Render Pipeline and Renderer Data Asset Consolidation

Summary We are removing the need to manage separate Universal Render Pipeline (URP) and Universal Renderer Data (including ...
Shader Library Documentation Improvements image
Planned

Shader Library Documentation Improvements

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

Shader Quality Settings

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

Shadow Maps Caching

Summary Shadow Maps Caching provides performance improvement by allowing the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) to update the ...
SRP Lit shader image
Planned

SRP Lit shader

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

Surface Shaders

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

Blob Shadows

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 image
Under Consideration

Camera-relative Rendering

Camera-relative rendering would allow the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) to render distant GameObjects (with large world sp...
Screen Space Reflection (SSR) image
Under Consideration

Screen Space Reflection (SSR)

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

Streaming Virtual Textures Support

Summary Streaming Virtual Texturing (SVT) is a feature that reduces GPU memory usage and texture loading times when you hav...
URP Ray-Tracing Support image
Under Consideration

URP Ray-Tracing Support

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

Volumetric Fog

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

VFX Graph

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Access to URP Camera Depth and color buffers

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

Attributes Blackboard

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

Collisions Improvements

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

Custom HLSL Block

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

Generate Volumetric fog with particles

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

Keyboard Shortcuts

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

Node Search Improvements

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...
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Released

Profiling tooling

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

Raytracing Support

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

Shader Graph Keyword Support

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...
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Released

Shader Graph Smoke Lighting for URP an HDRP

This feature has landed and is available in 2023.2.0a19 and above. Expose 6-way lighting as a Shader Graph shader compatibl...
URP Decals with VFX Graph image
Released

URP Decals with VFX Graph

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...
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Released

URP Support (Compute Capable Devices only): High End Mobile Support (Preview)

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

VFX Graph Motion Vectors for URP

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

VFX Templates and Wizard

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

Instancing support with GPU Events

This has landed in Unity 6000.1.0a9. You can now use GPU Events and yet benefit from Instancing.
Cross pipeline Lit image
Planned

Cross pipeline Lit

Add a new lit output compatible with both HDRP and URP, and allowing to use a custom shader created with ShaderGraph. This ...
Animated Point Cache image
Under Consideration

Animated Point Cache

Add support for point caches storing several frames of data.
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Under Consideration

Arrays Support

The support of array of types will allow to handle arrays as port types and iterate on them.
CPU simulation image
Under Consideration

CPU simulation

This will allow you to simulate particles and trails on CPU.
Custom SRP Support image
Under Consideration

Custom SRP Support

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

Decoupled lighting

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

DOTS Runtime

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...
Event Sequencer image
Under Consideration

Event Sequencer

Add an internal visual sequencer to VFX graph to trigger events and update properties from within the asset.
Fluid Simulation image
Under Consideration

Fluid Simulation

Add an update context that performs fluid simulation with particles.
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Under Consideration

Graph Attributes

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

Light Support in Graph

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

Nearest Neighbor Search

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

Other Particles' Attributes Read

Enables particles to access other particle's attributes, for example to find their position and avoid colliding with them.
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Particle Attribute Buffer Read Access From Outside Graph

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

A new particle output to render particles as lights.
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Point Cache Overhaul

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

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

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

Shader Graph Property Categories Foldout

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

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

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

Sub Frame Interpolation

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

Subgraphs Compilation

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

We're looking at allowing sorting Subgraphs order. Please share your feedback on the topic.
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Unity Splines for VFX Graph

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

VFX Support for Shader Graph HDRP Decal Target

This would add VFX Graph support to HDRP Decal Target.
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Under Consideration

VFX Support for Shader Graph URP Decal Target

This would add VFX Graph support to URP Decal Target.
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Volume Simulation and Rendering

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

Explore plans for the evolution of Unity Hub, where you can create and launch all within one app on your desktop, and submit your feedback directly to the teams developing it.

Your all-in-one gateway for creating new projects, accessing resources and learning material, and managing your creations

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Unity Hub

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Improve Hub Startup speed

Optimize the way Hub starts to improve startup speed
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Under Consideration

Access the Editor Archive from the Hub

Rather than navigating to the Editor Archive webpage to install a previous version of the Editor, you’ll be able to install ...
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Under Consideration

Check out what's new

Read through the release notes to learn about the Hub’s latest features and improvements.
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Create a custom template

Save time getting started by turning an existing project into your own custom template.
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Join the discussion

Connect with others creators in the community, ask questions, and get feedback in the Unity Hub forum.
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Notifications

Receive timely and relevant information that is important to your day-to-day work.
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Pause or resume downloads

Pause or resume your downloads from within the Download Manager.
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Project and Asset Library

View and access all of your projects and assets in a unified place. We’re exploring the following capabilities: Search, fi...
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Rename a project

Rename a project directly from the Hub projects list view.
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Unity Asset Store

All sorts of assets are available on the store, we are constantly working to make it easier to find the perfect assets for your game, and ensure compatibility and quality.

The Unity Asset store provides extensions, assets, models and everything you need to build prototypes, and to accelerate your game development.

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Unity Gaming Services

Get insights into the future plans for features and functionality in Unity Gaming Services and let us know what you think.

An end-to-end platform that is designed to help you build, manage, and grow your game

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Cloud Content Delivery

Analytics and Player Engagement

Analytics

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Build Custom Dashboards

Customize your reporting in a strategic way that can provide insights to the entire studio. Use saved reports to build out d...
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Copying events between environments

Create events and their schemas once and promote them across environments. This makes moving through different phases of the...
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Custom Dimensions

This functionality empowers users to effortlessly examine and compare data across various dimensions beyond the event date, ...
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Custom SQL querying

SQL Data Explorer allows users to run SQL queries on their data, plot the results into different types of visualizations, an...
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Data Access

Access to your Analytics data through Snowflake, a data warehouse. Leverage the power of Snowflake to visualize your data th...
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Define Custom User IDs via Analytics SDK

Use a custom user ID on Analytics events sent through the Analytics SDK. Allowing customers to maintain consistent identifie...
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Enhanced Data Analysis and Visualization Features

Explore Tool's upcoming update includes enhanced table view with search & filtering, table row aggregates, pivot tables for ...
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Measure player drop-off

Funnels help you better understand your player progression, identify opportunities to boost your KPIs, and uncover pain poin...
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Porting Legacy custom events to UGS Analytics

Custom event data from Legacy Analytics will be available in UGS Analytics without the need to make changes to your game.
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Simplified event management

Simplified creation and management of custom events in the dashboard.
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Support for WebGL

Fixing errors which are causing issues with running Analytics on WebGL.
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Unity IAP Transactions Automatically in Analytics

Unity IAP purchase transactions will be automatically registered and tracked in Analytics when using the Unity IAP. Find ou...
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User Acquisition Performance Tracking

Analyze your user acquisition data so you can quickly see which ad networks and campaigns are bringing the most valuable use...
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Aggregated Event Parameter Reporting

This feature enables users to easily calculate metrics such as averages and medians on collected event parameter data, provi...
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Under Consideration

Custom Metrics

Perform simple calculations on your events such as to identify mission completion rate.
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Under Consideration

Event Management Admin API

Create events and parameters via an admin API making it easier to set up your event schemas.
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Support for Consoles

Official support for consoles by the Unity Analytics SDK.
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Under Consideration

Unity Ads revenue available in Analytics

Unity Ads data will be automatically available in Analytics for you to be able to correlate ad data with gameplay data to pr...

Game Overrides

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Ad Rules

Test, target and schedule changes to your ads strategy. Available for Unity Ads and Unity Mediation users only.
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Calendar Overview

View and manage Game Overrides on a calendar view.
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Statistical Significance A/B Testing

A guided A/B testing workflow with statistical significance reporting.
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Event-Based Audiences

Define Audiences based on events that players have sent. For example, target all plates that have participated in a given ev...
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Event-Triggered Overrides

Activate Overrides values when players trigger events. For example, update mission difficulty when players fail multiple mis...
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More Reporting Metrics

Make more metrics available in Game Overrides reporting. Including popular session, retention and monetization metrics.
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Seasonal Event Builder

Plan and manage seasonal events using Remote Config keys, Economy resources, CCD buckets and Push Notifications. Define even...
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Under Consideration

Environments Promotion

Move Game Overrides between environments.
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Versioning & Change History

See the version history for Game Overrides. See the changes that were made, when and who made them.

Push Notifications

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Calendar Overview

View and manage Push Notifications on a calendar view.
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Ongoing Push Notifications

Schedule Push Notifications to send automatically to an Audience. For example, engage your players with a “Welcome back!” no...
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Cloud Code: Push Notifications Integration

Schedule Push Notifications programmatically with Cloud Code.
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Environments Promotion

Move Push Notifications between environments.
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Localized Push Notifications

Localize notification content to provide players with different text based on their location and device settings.
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Versioning & Change History

See the version history for Push Notifications. See the changes that were made, when and who made them.

Games Backend

Authentication

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Apple Game Center Support

Add Apple Game Center support so that the developers can authenticate the players through Apple Game Center.
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Bring Your Own ID - Phase 1: OpenID Support

The OpenID Connect support enables the game developer to integrate with their Open ID protocol authentication system such as...
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Bring Your Own ID - Phase 2: Custom ID

The phase 2 release aims to expand the BYOI capabilities to allow developers with game servers to integrate with UAS by crea...
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Code Linking

Enable authenticated players to sign in to another device using a generated code.
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Multiple App ID Support for Steam

Allow developers to configure multiple Steam App Id. Make it easier for developers to release different snapshots of their S...
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Oculus Login

Oculus login support enables the player to sign in directly with their Oculus account.
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Username / Password Login

Enable the game developers to provide username & password signup and sign-in capabilities. The player can use a username an...
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Under Consideration

Email / Password Login

Enable the game developers to provide email & password signup and sign-in capabilities. The player can use email and passwo...

CLOUD CODE

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C# support

C# is the most used language in the Unity Editor. By supporting C# in Cloud Code we make sure code can be moved from client ...
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Cross Player Scripts

Allow Cloud Code to read and write Cloud Save data for multiple players in one script. This unlocks the building blocks for ...
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Editor workflows

Support Cloud Code to be created from within the Unity Editor.
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Opening up

Opening up Cloud Code so you can reach out to any server on the open internet.
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Reusable Code

Developers do not want to repeat themselves, having to have the same piece of code in multiple places. We will allow for one...
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Scheduled Scripts

Allow scripts to be run on a schedule.
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Triggered Scripts

Automate your game logic through Cloud Code by setting scripts to run based on events in other UGS services.
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Secrets Manager

Securely manage your credentials to connect UGS and external services.
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Planned

Cloud Code Local Debugger

Troubleshoot Cloud Code on your local machine.

Cloud Content Delivery

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Addressables + CCD Integration

This feature further simplify the integration between Addressables and CCD. Automatically upload Addressable content to a C...
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Usage Analytics

This feature provides more advanced service monitoring capabilities. This data provides more insights into client API usage ...
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Under Consideration

Delta Patching

This feature allows studios to only require players to download the content that has changed, not all the asset bundles. Wi...
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Under Consideration

Role Based Access Controls

This feature gives game studios control over who within the studio is able to change content within certain environments and...
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Under Consideration

Usage Alerts

This feature allows studios to set usage alerts when they reach certain bandwidth consumption limits.

CLOUD SAVE

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Cloud Save Files

Allow for large pieces of unstructured data to be uploaded by the player so the player can retrieve this again later.
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Server Authoritative hardening

With Server Authoritative hardening we provide an additional option where Cloud Save can only be changed by a trusted server...
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Storing Game State

This feature allows you to store game state that is not attached to an individual player.
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Cloud Save Package

The Cloud Save package is improved so that it is much easier to use in a live game. We are adding a method to delete all key...

Economy

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CLI module for Economy

Enable programmatic interactions with the Economy service and integration of these actions into CI/CD pipelines.
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Configuration Import/Export via CLI

Ability to import/export configuration for Economy through the CLI. The import is particularly important because it allows t...
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Economy Games Override

Introduce the ability to target players with specific overrides for the different resources configured.
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Edit Player Balance

Allows developers to adjust a player's in-game currency balance for customer support, event rewards, or manual corrections.
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Public Economy Admin APIs

Ability to interact with the service configuration using APIs. The APIs will be available after enabling the service in the...
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Server authoritative Economy

Improved security through new restrictions to player read/write access settings and authorization of API requests
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Under Consideration

Filter and Search Configuration Items

Ability to search configuration items. Planned filters: resource type has overrides
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Seed Instance Data for Inventory Items

Currently when creating a purchase, inventory items get assigned to the player with no instance data, requiring additional w...

Player Management

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Ban / Unban Player

Allow developers to ban/unban a player in Player Management and with API.
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Delete Player

Allow the dashboard users to delete a player in Player Management.
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Player Deletion API

Provide an Admin API to delete player accounts.
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Player Detail Overview

A section to show the player's account creation date, last login, and linked identity.
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Create Player

Allow dashboard users to create a new player in Player Management.
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Improved ways to look up users

Streamline support workflows and enhance player management by enabling searches using various identifiers beyond Player ID, ...
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Under Consideration

Player Name

Allow developers to view and update a player's name in Player Management Dashboard and with API/CLI.
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Under Consideration

Sort

Allow the dashboard users to sort players by creation and last login.
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Username and Password

Allow developers to manage a player's username and password in Player Management Dashboard and with API/CLI.

Remote Config

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CLI for Remote Config

Remote Config module in the UGS command line interface. This would allow users to programmatically interact with Remote Conf...
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Remote Config Setup Guide

Guided onboarding flow walking new users through the steps required to setup their application with Remote Config.
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Released

Versioning and Changelog

Allow users to see a list of changes that have been made to the config, as well as rollback to a previous version.
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Under Consideration

JSON Schema Validation

Allow users to create JSON schemas that can be enforced to validate any config changes against, allowing for more secure and...
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Under Consideration

Role Based Access Control

This feature gives game studios control over who within the studio is able to change content within certain environments and...

Multiplayer

Lobby

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Authentication

Integrates with UAS (Unity Authentication Service) to provide users with anonymous and platform-specific authentication solu...
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Integration with Relay Service

Integrates with Relay service so that users can use Relay and Lobby together to create a peer-hosted game with an embedded L...
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Integration with the Vivox service

Facilitates the integration of Vivox-powered voice chat and social interaction features within Lobbies
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Lobby Metrics on Unity Dashboard

Provides key Lobby operational metrics to users on Unity Dashboard.
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Lobby returns user names from Social Profile service

Lobby to return updated player names from Social Profile
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Password-enabled Lobbies

Enables players to define passwords to restrict access to lobbies.
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Real-time Lobby updates

Option to replace the polling and API logic (to send and receive updates to and from Lobby) for a pubsub/websocket that push...
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Unity engine SDK

An SDK to handle authentication and API calls from the game clients to the Lobby service.

Matchmaker

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A/B testing and player segmentation (for MWU)

Allows users to test and optimize their Matchmaker configurations, understanding which have the best impact on retention, en...
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CLI support & config-as-files

Supports command-line interface and exporting/ importing matchmaker configuration as files.

Multiplay

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Custom Build Versions

Set custom version strings/tags on Builds
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External Bucket Upload - GCS

Upload builds from GCS & Steam buckets
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Live Server File Retrieval

Browse & download files from running game servers

Relay

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Authentication

Integrates with UAS (Unity Authentication Service) to provide users with anonymous and platform-specific authentication solu...
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DTLS Encryption

Supports DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) encryption of all UDP (User Datagram Protocol) communication to and from t...
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Integration with Lobby Service

Integrates with Lobby service so that users can use Relay and Lobby together to create a peer-hosted game with an embedded L...
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Mirror Netcode Support

Enable implementation of the Relay service with Mirror, the open-source high level networking library for Unity.
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Multi-region Support

Allows players to select a Relay server from a list of available regions. By selecting the closest Relay server, the player ...
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Quality of Service (QoS)

Allows users to select a region automatically based on quality of service data by starting the NetworkDriver as a host playe...
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Relay Metrics on Unity Dashboard

Provides key Relay performance metrics to users on Unity Dashboard.
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WebGL Support

Enable Relay support for WebGL game clients through our full cross-platform solution. Play together from your phone, your we...

Vivox Chat & Safety

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Automatic Connection Recovery

Makes minor network disruptions invisible to users by ensuring the connection between the game client and the Vivox servers ...
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Player Moderation

Unity’s Moderation solution provides a complete set of moderation tools to make toxicity-management accessible, impactful, a...
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Smart Platform Audio Management

Vivox will automatically configure the audio route for the best voice session experience based on the user's capture and ren...
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Text Chat Enhancements

Upgrading existing Vivox Text by adding persistence and moderation through three new features: Chat History to allow players...
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Unreal Engine 5.x Official Support

While our Unreal SDK is provided as source and can be made to work with Unreal Engine 5.x without issue, this work item inte...
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Voice Toxicity Analysis

An ML-based voice analytics service that records player voice communications and provides users with an analysis of the reco...
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New Unreal SDK

A refresh of the Unreal SDK to match the functionality of the Unity SDK.
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Text Chat Toxicity Analysis

Analyze a text conversation for negative or positive indicators that can guide moderation steps for individual players or gr...
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Planned

Voice Widget in Unity Editor

A new multiplayer widget to quickly get started with joining voice channels
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Under Consideration

3rd Party Audio Engine Plugins Support

An easier external access to audio buffers in a format that can easily be used by 3rd party audio engines.
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New Voice Activity Detection

A new VAD method that will result in improved audio quality by filtering out more audio that is purely noise.
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Unity visual scripting support

Use visual scripting to implement core Vivox functionality.
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Unity Cloud

Explore plans for the evolution of Unity Cloud, from features to functionality, and submit your feedback directly to the teams developing it.

An ecosystem of products and services that makes work on real-time 3D experiences more creator-focused, accessible, and connected

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Dashboard & Admin

Give feedback!

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Important Notice

Roadmaps change! The following roadmap is intended for informational purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any co...

Planned

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Finance Admin add-on role

Introduce an Organization level role for financial administration. Currently only organizsation owners have access to this i...
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Dashboard Search Improvements

Iteratively improve search scope, coverage and results when searching across Unity Cloud dashboard
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Platform Audit Trail Service

Provide core Unity Cloud platform service to collect, correlate and efficiently answer who/when/what with respect to key con...
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Under Consideration

Project level group roles.

Make it possible to create groups for specific types of organization members and assign the right roles and permissions on g...

Released

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Dark Theme Support

Creators will (finally) be able to work in their Dashboard with a native dark theme.
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Dashboard Personalization

This initial phase of personalization capabilities within the Dashboard will allow users to pin their most-used services to ...
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Onboarding

By answering a trio of questions, first-time visitors will have a more personalized experience of the new Dashboard. This wi...

Asset Manager

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Asset Management

Provide feedback on Asset Management
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Developer Experience

Give feedback on our developer services, including APIs, SDKs and documentation

April 2024

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(Unity Editor) Asset tracking, bulk import, collapsable side nav panel

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

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...
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Filter by custom metadata

Ability to filter assets by custom metadata
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Q1 2024 UX Improvements

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

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

Asset Manager for Unity Editor

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Cancel import

Safely cancel ongoing imports and automatically clean up any incomplete data. This ensures that no broken assets or missing ...
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Planned

Create collections based off folders

This feature will allow users to organize and navigate their assets using familiar folder structures. By replicating local p...
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Planned

Edit asset

Using the Editor plugin, users can edit the dependency type (fix version or labels) change log custom metadata fields ta...
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Editor: Drag and drop on scene

Drag and drop prefabs and materials from the Asset Manager window to a scene.
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Editor: Large scale upload

This feature will allow you to create assets from folders with or without their dependencies.It will automatically generated...
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Expose external Unity asset libraries in plugin

A new section in the plugin that allows users to browse and search the Unity Assets Library directly from their navigation s...
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Expose public API to allow for customization

Expose public API to allow for customization of the upload and import from Asset Manager
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File management at import

More detailed override list when re-importing assets using asset manager for unity. Specifically, adding more details on fi...
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Import optimized and converted files

Users can import optimized and converted files using the Editor plugin
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Planned

Local change insight

This new feature will provide clear, detailed information on the nature of changes detected during asset reuploads. This enh...
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Planned

Show cloud icons on Editor project window for Cloud Assets

Users can easily identity cloud imported or uploaded assets from the project window using the cloud icons.
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Planned

Smart asset removal

Users can remove the dependencies alongside the asset they are removing. Removing options are Stop tracking (remove witho...
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Upload retry

Users can visually identify failed uploads and the plugin offers a straightforward option for users to attempt the process a...
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Under Consideration

Use editor inspector for asset detail

Leverage the editor inspector to reduce the real estate taken by the Asset Manager window

Asset Manager

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Asset conversion and optimization

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

Clean unfrozen versions

Allow users to delete unfrozen asset versions.
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Move Asset action

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

Annotate your asset version

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

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

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

Allow user to edit asset metadata in bulk.
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Collaboration: JIRA Integration with Threads

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

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

Custom Pixyz transformation through Asset Manager

Use your custom Pixyz script (.py) to create a pipeline and run it on any asset.
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Data Connector: PlasticSCM on premise

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

Updating metadata no longer upversion your asset, but is still tracked in its own history stream per version.
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Decouple Versioning from previews and converted files updated

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

A simple function to duplicate any asset.
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Identify main file(s) / asset(s)

For any multiple files asset (or nested assets), Asset Manager is suggesting the main file to enable several use-cases: bul...
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Optimize and Convert - Better discoverability and consumer flow

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

Preview asset files through asset viewer

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

Trashcan

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

Asset template

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

Asset Variants

Create and Manage asset variants within Asset Manager
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Under Consideration

Automate Upversion Upstream between asset references

Allow users to create asset references, including dependencies that can upversion upstream source assets if the target asset...
Bring your own storage image
Under Consideration

Bring your own storage

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

Contextual search

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

Custom Status Flows

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

Delete a metadata field from organization library

Allow the deletion or reverting the deletion of a metadata field from your organization's library
Desktop Companion App - Upload bulk assets from local disk image
Under Consideration

Desktop Companion App - Upload bulk assets from local disk

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

Editor Metadata in Asset Manager

Surface Unity Editor metadata in Asset Manager
Generate a turntable preview from 3D model image
Under Consideration

Generate a turntable preview from 3D model

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

Nested Assets

Ability to nest assets together
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Under Consideration

Preview generation for point clouds assets

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

Preview prefab or material in Asset Manager web

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

Project metadata

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

Sync Asset's files Locally

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

Tag assignment rules for texture files

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

Tag recommendations

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

Unpack Unity Package in Asset Manager

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

Public Link Sharing (assets)

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

August 2024

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Asset status

Assets can be set to Draft, In Review, Accepted, Rejected so users can immediately understand which Assets can be used, and ...
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Editor: Modal for reimport

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

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

Sidepanel is getting a lift to get you more productive: You can expand / collapse the sidepanel to preserve a bigger view o...
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Upload a Pixyz Studio scene to the Asset Manager

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

Unity Pipeline Automation

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Planned

Dashboard for pipelines monitoring

A admin dashboard to configurate rules and automation for triggering workflows on assets
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Planned

Node-based pipeline authoring

A web tool to visually create pipelines, using a node-based system, apps, events and actions.
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Under Consideration

Upload your own docker as a workflow operator

Upload a custom docker image as an operator in a custom workflow

December 2024

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Released

Asset Dependencies Viewer

View your asset dependencies through an interactive viewer, looking at the downstream and upstream asset.
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Released

CLI tool improvements based on feedback

Allow users to embed dependencies. Support for sub folders using Group by folder strategy & more
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CSV as input parameter for CLI tool

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

Folder hierarchy View

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

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

Option to include all script dependencies

Users can now include all dependencies if they need to by right clicking on the asset and selecting the option.
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Use Unity Runtime Viewer in Asset Manager

Users will be able to view 3D assets in the Unity Runtime for Web viewer. The initial version will be limited to unlit, lit...

Beta - June 2023

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Released

Asset Manager APIs

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

Asset Manager SDK

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

Auto-tagging

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

Automatic previews optimization (image downsizing)

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

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

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

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

The ability to filter through assets by asset type, uploader, date, etc.
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Prepare asset for 3D Data Streaming

Enable the generation of a 3D Data stream of your asset, and leverage it through the 3DDS SDK or the reference project. Tai...
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Role Based Access Control on Projects

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

Search your assets by Name and Tags
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Unity Asset Manager For Blender-Sample

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

February 2024

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Released

Asset Manager for Unity (Private Beta)

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

Asset Manager for Unity Version Control

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

Audio Player

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

Automated preview generation

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

Filter Cloud Assets by type and status

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

Unity Cloud Python SDK

The Unity Cloud Python SDK is a client-side component to communicate with the Asset Manager API, mainly to allow authenticat...

Integrations

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Planned

Expose Python SDK on artifactory

Expose .whl files in Unity’s public artifactory and deprecate the HTML download page
Extract previews from Unity Project without Unity open image
Planned

Extract previews from Unity Project without Unity open

We want the CLI tool to be able to extract previews from Unity Projects - that is, outside of the context of the Unity Edito...
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Planned

Migrate CLI tool to use DataConnectors

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

Physna Search

Overview Physna Nexus+ is a tool that augments Unity Asset Manager with search capabilities powered by Physna. Unleash the...
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Under Consideration

Data Connector - Perforce

Connect your Asset Manager with your Perforce tenant and index all your assets from your workspace on Asset Manager to bette...
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Under Consideration

Data Connector: Github

Connect your Asset Manager with your Github tenant and index all your assets from your repository on Asset Manager to better...
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Under Consideration

Data Connectors - Google Drive

Connect your Asset Manager with your Google Drive tenant and index all your assets from your drives / folders on Asset Manag...
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Under Consideration

Webhooks

As an Asset Manager developer i want to access webhooks that surface events I am interested in in the Asset Manager so i can...

July 2024

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Released

Editor: Better error communication

Help users understand better the errors and make the experience more cohesive
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Editor: Improvements for the upload flow

These improvements include enable users to deselect files even if they are dependencies covers better progress reporting f...
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Editor: Offline support and improvements for import flow

This includes Offline support Ability to browse the in project assets while being offline Ability to retry the connection...
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Enable multiple UVCS datasets in a same asset

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

March 2024

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3D metadata extraction

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

Bulk create assets, update asset through Python SDK

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

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

Group of quality of life features to consolidate the experience between the Web and the Editor integration Discover all ass...
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Upload assets from Editor to Asset Manager

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

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

May 2024

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Access to the Unity Asset library

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

Asset versioning

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

Asset versioning

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

Preview real resolution of images

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

November 2024

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Support wider range of image previews

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...

October 2024

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Released

Asset dependencies on Asset Manager

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

Asset Manager for Unity release package

Move out of experimental to V1.
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Released

CLI bulk uploader

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

November 2023

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Released

3D viewer

Ability to view 3D assets in a 3D viewer that gives me the ability to accurately pre-validate the response to light and topo...
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Released

Bulk actions bar

New bar to handle your bulk actions.
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Released

Connected App - Cloud Annotations

Creating synchronous collaboration sessions around your 3D data is time consuming, requires setting up and maintaining serve...
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Released

Connected App - Cloud Deep Linking

Unity Cloud Deep Linking SDK makes it easy to create links to just the right view directly inside your asset viewer. The Dee...
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Connected App - Cloud Identity SDK

The Unity Cloud Identity package and services allow developers to control access to their Assets using existing IAM solution...
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Connected App - Cloud Mesh Streaming

The Unity Cloud Data Streaming displays assets by dynamically downloading only the parts which are relevant to the camera’s ...
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Connected App - Cloud Presence

The Unity Cloud Presence provides the packages and services that become the “easy button” for deploying real-time audio and ...
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Cross project search

a new All Assets view has been added where users can search any assets they have access to across their whole Organisation: ...
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glTFast Package

GLTF is often called the JPEG of 3D, and is a pivotal format for cloud applications. Unity glTFast package is the solution ...
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Metadata's types

Assets have rich metadata to help organize and search your content. Define your own asset metadata convention, using our 8 ...
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Multiple assets upload

Ability to add multiple assets from several files from my local disk at once, in order to save time when uploading multiple ...
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Nested collections

Ability to nest collections within each other, resulting in multiple layers of collections
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Released

New asset side panel

The Unity Asset manager allows users to browse, view and edit assets directly in the web browser. This new iteration of Ass...
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Notifications

Implementation of notifications on the Asset Manager for Project Owners: When an asset is created When an asset is linked ...
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Previews generation from 3D

You can set as a preview any 3D files. Unity Asset Manager will generate thumbnails as well as enable 3D viewer of your file...
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Released

Video viewer

Video assets are playable directly in the Asset Manager

Other

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Planned

Private Cloud - AWS

As a client, I want to keep control of all my data and require the Unity Cloud Platform to be fully hosted on my own Private...
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Planned

Private Cloud - Azure

As a client, I want to keep control of all my data and require the Unity Cloud Platform to be fully hosted on my own Private...

September 2024

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Released

Filter asset by file type

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

Create and share Smart views with your peers to get a focused views of your assets. Smart views keep in memory: All filter...
06

AI Tools

Explore plans for the evolution of Unity’s AI tools and submit your feedback directly to the teams developing them.

Unity AI integrates AI capabilities in the Unity Editor with the Assistant, Asset Generators, and Inference Engine.

Quick links

General

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AI terms, policies, and model details

AI specific terms, policies, and model details that you can review to determine your use of Unity AI: AI Terms: There are a...
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Cloud dashboard settings

A web dashboard to manage your Unity AI settings to align with your organization policies. There are 2 settings you can adju...
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Released

Hide AI button

A local Unity Editor setting to hide the AI menu button in Unity 6000.2.0b7+ by going to Window > Unity > Settings > General...
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Planned

Cloud dashboard manage points

Shows your paid subscription details and remaining points balance for all users in your organization.
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Cloud dashboard usage

Shows a graph and transaction history of points usage by all users in your organization.
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Official pricing

Full details on pricing tiers and points per task will be released with an upcoming “Preview” release after the beta (free p...
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Under Consideration

MCP Server

Official Unity MCP server to make it easy to integrate with other MCP compliant tools.
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Under Consideration

Public API

Public API for 3rd party integrations with the Assistant and Asset Generators.
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Under Consideration

Bring your own model

If you already have a subscription and API key to an AI model provider that is compatible with Unity AI, you can bring your ...

Assistant

The Assistant puts AI directly into the Unity Editor, understanding the context of your project and helping you carry out repetitive tasks, debug console error messages and write code. It understands the context of your project, and gives you more relevant answers.

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90% query success/accuracy

The Assistant should maintain a >=90% success rate, based on your feedback and sentiment analysis. This means that 90/100 qu...
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Planned

Automate command modes

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...
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Planned

Faster query speed

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

Multi-step actions

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

Vision input

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

Core tool integration

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

Visual annotation tool

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

Generators

Generators integrate generative AI asset models into the Unity Editor to create materials, textures, animations, sounds, with more asset types coming in the future.

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Prompt guide

Update documentation to have foundation-model specific prompts and best practices to get the most of various models.
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Sprite: Add FLUX & GPT-Image foundation models

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

3D mesh and texture generation

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

Generator in-product feedback

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

Sound upgrade model

Add additional SFX generation models with improved quality.
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Planned

Skybox/cubemap generation

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

Sprite reference image helper

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

Sprite custom model training

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

Texture upgrade model

Add additional texture generation models with improved quality.
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Under Consideration

Animation post-process tools

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

Music generation

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

Sprite sheets and animations

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

Terrain heightmap generation

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

UI generation

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

Video generation

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

Voice generation

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

Inference Engine

Inference engine runs AI models locally in the Unity Editor and Runtime applications to enable Unity-centric tools and player experiences.

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Graph Visualizer

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

PyTorch and Tensor Flow import

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

Speech synthesis and Text to speech

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

Tokenization pipeline

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

Model garden

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

Hybrid/cloud inference

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

Pose detection

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

ML-Agents

ML-Agents turns your game or simulation into a trainable environment where agents learn intelligent and automated behaviors. More information about the roadmap is coming soon.

07

Unity DevOps

Explore the product roadmap for DevOps, and submit your feedback directly to the teams developing Version Control and Build Automation.

Products for streamlining real-time 3D workflows to create with agility and get to market on time, including Version Control and Build Automation

Quick links

Build Automation

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Build Location Preferences

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

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

Build Failure Categorization

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

PS5 Target Platform Support

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

Artifact Retention Schemas

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

Build in the Cloud Directly from the Editor

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

Boost Disks

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

Fast Start Builds

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

Xbox Target Platform Support

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

Version Control

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3D previews in the web

Visualize 3D previews of assets in the new Plastic SCM web experience on the Unity Dashboard: Preview the 3d models stored ...
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[UE Plugin] Support for shelves and changelists

Adding support in the Unreal Plugin for Shelves and more polish to the associated View Changelist UX. The official Plastic S...
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[UE Plugin] Support Unreal 5.1

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...
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[UE Plugin] Support Unreal 5.2

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...
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[Wwise Plugin] Support for Wwise 2022

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

Auto-update

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

Mergebots make merging faster, more transparent, and more secure. They also remove repetitive and manual tasks that may slow...
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Code Review improvements in Desktop app (GUI)

The desktop app received several improvements to its Code Review feature. In order to have stronger and safer Code Reviews,...
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Create and connect to repositories via Unity Hub

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

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

View file history in a new improved layout The new history view introduces a new layout with simplified navigation allowing...
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Hide Branches in the desktop app

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

We brought some usability improvements to Shelves, quick action buttons, a new Shelve list, and new Shelve previews.
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Increase mergebots' quantity to 10 per repository

Following user feedback, we are pleased to announce that we removed the limit of 1 mergebot in an Organization (increasing f...
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New code review experience in the Unity Dashboard

Validate the work submitted by a team member with the intent to merge. We had multiple requests from users to improve our c...
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New web experience in the Unity Dashboard

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

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

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

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...
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Simplified navigation between accounts and repositories

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

​Smart Locks simplifies the version control process, making it easier to collaborate on projects. Smart Locks lets you lock ...
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Solve merge conflicts faster with Semantic merge

Now Semantic Merge is supported on all platforms. It can make multiple merge scenarios easy. Developers working in paralle...
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Switch between light and dark themes

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

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

On top of the normal way of listing files (changed, added, deleted), we are planning to add another view that lists the file...
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Unity Learn tutorials: Get started with Unity DevOps

Several new tutorials were published as part of a full "Get Started with Unity DevOps" course, to help you get started: Wha...
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Unreal Engine Marketplace (Code Plugin)

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

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

A new Visual Studio plugin was published on the VS market place For Visual Studio 17.0 or higher, this UVCS extension enhan...
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Wwise plugin update to SDK 2023

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

Unity Version Control Package improvements

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

Unreal Plugin Improvements

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

CLI JSON support

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

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

Considering having an official Unity solution (Unity DevOps) supporting docker containers for images.
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Education / Student free tier

We have received feedback from universities, computer science teachers and game development students, asking for more seats ...
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Enable easy integrations with DCC tools

We are looking to bring some integrations to popular digital content creation tools. Please let us know through this portal...
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Multibranch support for Jenkins (Cloud)

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

We are exploring ways of enabling public sharing of repositories.
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Unreal Editor plugin (Mac support)

Add macOS support for the Unreal Editor plugin of Unity Version Control.
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HMI & Embedded Systems

Explore plans for features related to HMI & Embedded Systems and share feedback directly with the corresponding teams.

Focused on improving tools and platform reach for design and development of Human Machine Interfaces for automotive embedded systems and other applications

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Data Flow

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Under Consideration

Backend Data Simulation

An easy to use control panel for simulating backend data with built-in record and palyback functionality.
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Under Consideration

Data Builder Tool

Tool for visually managing and creating backend interfaces. Shows at a glance what data is available and metadata like forma...
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Under Consideration

Data Source API

A standard way to create data sources, connecting to arbitrary backend services, that can be used in Unity.
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Under Consideration

Global Data Bindings

Bind data to properties without code. Includes tools for functional "programming" to do simple conversions and create respon...
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Prefab Encapsulation

The ability to, without writing code, expose properties from prefabs that are then connected to properties of children of th...
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Under Consideration

Text File Plugin

Standard data source plugin that reads/writes from a text file on the developer machine's file system. (e.g. JSON)

Platforms & Integration

Android Automotive image
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Android Automotive

Access to APIs Android Automotive APIs from Unity.
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dbus integration

bindings for dbus on Embedded Linux
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Embedded Linux Runtime

Runtime support for embedded Linux systems, including on ARM CPUs.
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Released

QNX 7.0/7.1 Runtime

Runtime support for Blackberry QNX
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Planned

QNX 8

Support for QNX 8
Android Lifecycle Events image
Under Consideration

Android Lifecycle Events

Support for additional Android lifecycle events that are critical for embedded systems.
Android X86 image
Under Consideration

Android X86

Support for Android (+automotive) on X86 architecture.
Embedded Linux DRM/KMS Framebuffer Creation image
Under Consideration

Embedded Linux DRM/KMS Framebuffer Creation

Window initialization directly through DRM/KMS.
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Under Consideration

Flutter Integration

Use Unity as a Flutter widget to embed unity runtime into flutter based applications.
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Under Consideration

Geospatial Abstraction

A framework to integrate 3D geospatial data from different map providers in the same, standardized way.
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Under Consideration

GraphQL Integration

GraphQL integration that allows users to visually configure queries for populating their HMI.
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IoT Entitlements for Mobile

Configure the required entitlements to communicate with IoT devices from your Unity app on iOS and Android.
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Under Consideration

MIDI Input

Support for standard MIDI input devices to easily create ad-hoc control panels for simulation purposes.
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Under Consideration

QNX PPS API

Package for accessing QNX Persistent Publish/Subscribe from Unity via C#
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Under Consideration

Simulink

Send and receive signals in and out of Simulink.
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Use Multiple Different Audio Outputs Simultaneously

Play audio to multiple specified audio devices at the same time.
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Video Decoding Framework

Package for sending/receiving compressed video on embedded platforms.

Importers

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glTF Support

import glTF
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Under Consideration

2D Design Import Window

See the hierarchies of imported files from UI design tools with your Unity HMI project and decide what to import. Import 2D ...
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Under Consideration

Adobe XD importer

Import Designs from Adobe XD
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Under Consideration

Axure importer

Import Prototypes from Axure
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Under Consideration

Figma importer

We are not affiliated with Figma. The goal is to import UI designs from Figma, including: Layouts Style properties (nest...
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Sketch Importer

Import Sketch files into UI Toolkit, including layouts, (nested) symbols and styles.
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Under Consideration

SVG Importer

Import Scalable Vector Graphics

Graphics

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Rendering alpha "holes" into transparent framebuffer.

Rendering the Unity application transparently so some things can be shown behind it. Any area can be transparent. This can a...
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2D or 3D objects as Masks

2D Elements as masks for 3D Elements and 3D elements as masks for 2D UI Elements.
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Animated Vector Graphics Support

Support for live vector graphics that can be animated.
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Animating Material Properties

Create instances of materials where properties can be animated.
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Custom Morph Targets

Using two separate models as Morph Targets as long as their topography is identical. Availability of separate meshes in Shad...
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Custom Render Order

The ability to set the render order for objects, ignoring the depth test.
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Under Consideration

Display Mask Culling

When working with non-rectangular displays, this feature allows the user to provide a display mask. The area outside of the ...
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Under Consideration

Extruded 3D Text

Dynamically generating meshes by extruding text.
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Under Consideration

GLSL Support

Support for writing shaders in GLSL (Vulkan and OpenGL targets)
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Under Consideration

Independent lighting for separate viewports on the same display.

The ability to render multiple viewports on the same display that have independent lighting settings. Can be set up without ...
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Under Consideration

Layer Caching

The ability to render all children of a layer/object into a texture to continuously display until there's a change to the ch...
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Under Consideration

Partial Rendering

The ability to render only a part of the screen when it updates by marking the changing area as "dirty".
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Under Consideration

Per-display refresh rates.

The ability to render to multiple displays at different refresh rates.
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Under Consideration

Precompiled Shaders

The ability to provide a shader compiler binary for an embedded OpenGL target and bundle precompiled shaders with the applic...
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Under Consideration

Progressive Rendering/Staggered Draw Calls

The ability to render a part of the scene at lower frame-rate, alternating between different sets of objects to draw each fr...
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Under Consideration

Support for Autostereoscopic 3D displays.

The ability to author and preview content for autostereoscopic 3D displays for embedded systems right from the editor.
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Under Consideration

Support for Layered 3D Displays

Edit separate 3D overlays to make UIs using Layered 3D displays.
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Under Consideration

Two-channel textures

2-channel textures are used in HMI for greyscale + alpha icons and more. It saves ½ memory compared to RGBA and ⅓ compared t...

Editor

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3D & VR Product Preview

Preview and test your embedded system in 3D and interact with virtual buttons and touch displays, whether in the Editor or V...
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Additive Display Preview

Preview the look of additive displays like HUDs against a background.
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Asset bundles in project view

Create templates for assets to be bundled together. Bundled assets will show as a single asset in the project view, but the ...
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Better Project Filters

The ability to filter the library by asset types or search parameters while leaving the folder structure intact.
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Build content manager

An overview of the content that is exported into the build and breakdown by size.
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Cross-Project References

Create References to assets from other projects without having to create duplicates.
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Custom Color Management and Preview

Import ICC profiles for simulating color spaces and gamma curve of embedded target monitors given the color space of a refer...
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Under Consideration

Custom Display Bezel Preview

Use an image of the display mask of a non-rectangular display to preview how it'll look with a bezel.
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Easy Project Sharing

The ability to share a Unity project like a file without having to strip caches and temp files.
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Exporter for Safety Critical Content

Create safety critical content in the Editor as part of the HMI creation process and then export in a format that can be ing...
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Under Consideration

Full-screen preview in Editor

The ability to use a secondary display as a full-screen game view with no borders.
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Function Button in Inspector

The ability to add a button to an inspector to call a function in a custom script.
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Global Styles

Create and modify styles right from the inspector. Globally manage styles across 3D and 2D. Revert objects to the style. Fin...
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Under Consideration

Icon Manager

A tool for managing custom symbols/icons throughout the project where the same icon ID can have multiple reprensentations/st...
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Under Consideration

Live Remote Editing

The ability to edit a scene on a running live target using a remote editor.
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Under Consideration

Multi-Scene Editing

Editing multiple scenes or prefabs in separate windows.
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Under Consideration

New Idea (Embedded Systems)

Submit a new Idea related to HMI and embedded systems.
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Under Consideration

Pixel Tweaks with Arrow Keys

Moving 2D UI Elements on the screen by using the arrow keys.
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Under Consideration

Pixel-Perfect Camera Creation

Easily create a camera that looks at a 2D plane where one unit corresponds to one pixel while the background and foreground ...
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Under Consideration

Preview in Hierarchy

A small preview of objects in the hierarchy.
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Under Consideration

Private Package Cloud

Create custom packages that contain any Unity asset and make them available throughout your organization.
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Quick Deployment to Embedded Systems

Deploy to an attached development target right from the editor. Target can be configured by providing command line instructi...
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Quicker assignment of references to self

Quickly assign references to the object itself in the inspector. Works via multi-select (then each of the selected objects w...
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Under Consideration

Remove Unused Assets from Project

A way to remove unused assets from project to clean it up.
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Under Consideration

Replacing Prefabs in Slots

The ability to load additional content that functionally replaces existing content. This is different from the existing abil...
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Scene Merging

Compare the contents of two scenes and merge them using a visual tool.
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Under Consideration

Screen/Page Transitions

A code-free way to set up transitions between "pages" or "screens" in the application.
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System Architecture Editor

Visually configure your embedded system architecture to adapt the Editor to the unique characteristics like displays, SoCs, ...
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Under Consideration

Trackpad Navigation

Navigate with a 2-finger gesture in graph editors and other 2-axis scrollable views. Multi-touch zoom. Drag contents while s...
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Universal Animations

Create universal animation timelines that affect both 2D and 3D objects.
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Universal Hierarchy

Hierarchy that combines UI Toolkit elements and GameObjects and works consistently.
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Under Consideration

Variant Management

Managing variants for: Switching during runtime Loading different assets on startup Making different assets part of the b...
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Under Consideration

Virtual Display Post Processing

Applying a post-processing effect to the image that's only visible in the Editor/Preview, to simulate the behavior of the ta...

Runtime

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Multi-Touch on Multiple Displays

An API to get multiple touches from multiple displays simultaneously.
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Under Consideration

Direct, Channel-Specific Audio

Play audio directly at a specified channel, without placing an audio source relative to an audio listener.
Hardware video decoding on Embedded Linux image
Under Consideration

Hardware video decoding on Embedded Linux

Hardware video decoding for vp8 content on Embedded Linux (if supported by hardware).
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Under Consideration

Multi-Display UITK UIs

Creating User interfaces on multiple displays that are driven by the same runtime and that may have different display resolu...
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Under Consideration

Runtime Data Synchronization

Synchronize properties between independent Unity runtimes via network.

Templates

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Automotive HMI Editor Template

A template that demonstrates an interactive, multi-screen HMI built in Unity.
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Under Consideration

Android Launcher Template

A template demonstrating how to build an Android launcher with Unity.
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Under Consideration

Embedded Unity Runtime Template (Android)

A project template that shows how to integrate a Unity runtime view in an Android App.
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Under Consideration

Embedded Unity Runtime Template (iOS)

A project template that shows how to integrate a Unity runtime view in a SwiftUI iOS App.
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Under Consideration

Software Keyboard

A pre-built software keyboard to get started with text input on embedded systems that don't have a default software keyboard...
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Standard UI Controls Library

A library of common UI elements to be used in runtime applications.
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Under Consideration

Template for integrating Android App in Unity

A template that shows how to capture Android apps and display them on a texture within Unity, routing the touch input back t...
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UI Toolkit Automotive Reference Design

A reference project for building embedded HMI with the HMI Editor involving UIToolkit.

UI

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3D Layouts

The ability to create layouts in 3D using the same UX as when creating 2D layouts. Mix and match 2D and 3D objects in layout...
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Under Consideration

Automatic "Native Size" for dragged images.

Automatically display an image pixel-perfectly after dragging it into a canvas.
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Under Consideration

Custom Text Layouts

Text layouts based on custom shapes that aren't rectangular.
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Under Consideration

Customizable Ellipsis/Truncation Character

Select a custom truncation character other than "…"
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Under Consideration

Layout Templates

Create templates for layouts that can be re-used across the project. UI Objects can be placed in the "slots" of the template...
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Pin 2D Elements to 3D elements

Without writing code, pin 2D elements to the screen position of 3D transforms.
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Under Consideration

Spline Layout

Create layouts where objects align along a spline/trajectory.