Version 2.0.0

Welcome to UI Graph - a menu system for Unity. UI Graph supersedes the Canvas Flow package.

Release Date

Released on August 30th 2019.

What's New

  • New Architecture

    • Canvas Controllers have been decoupled from their canvas. They now consist of a Scriptable Object and a Prefab. This is architecturally similar with a Controller and its View in the Model-View-Controller paradigm. This decoupling allows Canvas Controller instances to be passed as references without loading their canvas into memory. This facilitates features detailed below, such as Container View Controllers.
    • Canvas Controllers now store their Canvas in a Prefab, rather than a Scene. This makes editing easier with Unity's new Prefab Workflows, as well as giving more performant and reliable loading/instantiation (doesn't require an AsyncOperation).

  • Container View Controllers

    • Build complex multi-screen layouts using view controller containment (nesting).
    • Four standard containers are provided - Tab Bar, Stack, Navigation, and Split - which are heavily customizable. A wealth of user-interfaces can be created using combinations of the standard container view controllers.
    • Easily embed child view controllers by using Graphs (see below).
    • Script your own custom container view controllers and even make them graphable, just like the standard containers, so all team members can use them in Graphs without coding.

  • Graphs

    • Storyboards have become Graphs, and the Storyboard Editor (now the Graph Editor) has been entirely rebuilt in Unity's new UIElements framework.
    • Graphs now support Container View Controller transitions in addition to the Present & Dismiss transitions, as well as embedding child view controllers.

  • Transition Sequence Animator

    • Create transition animation sequences without coding using the new transition animation system.
    • Create a transition sequence by adding one or more animations to it, such as Scale, Slide, Fade, and Rotate. Tweak the timing of each animation in the sequence to achieve the desired transition effect.
    • Easily script your own animations to use with the sequence animator.

  • Other Highlights

    • Interactive Transitions - Support for interactive and cancelable transitions that feel at home on mobile devices.
    • Full Source Code - UI Graph ships with full source code and no DLLs. The package includes Assembly Definition files, so your script compile times in the Editor won't be unnecessarily affected.
    • Two Demo Projects - UI Graph includes two demo projects to provide further reference and example usage. The Assassin demo is a desktop/console style menu interface, featuring many of the standard container view controllers. Whilst the Chirp demo provides a common mobile app user-interface, also featuring many of the standard container view controllers and complete with interactive transitions.

Compatibility

UI Graph is compatible with Unity Personal, Plus and Pro. Unity 2019.1 or newer is required.

Existing Users

Please note that UI Graph is a separate package from Canvas Flow and as such, existing projects using Canvas Flow will need to be migrated manually to UI Graph. UI Graph and Canvas Flow may co-exist in the same project, allowing you to gradually move parts of an existing project over to UI Graph, if you wish.