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True Shadow - UI Soft Shadow and Glow

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True Shadow lets you build beautiful UIs with soft shadows and glows, quickly and painlessly. No more faking soft-shadow with manually created texture.

Price $19.99

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Price history for True Shadow - UI Soft Shadow and Glow, 6 months Current $19.99; lowest $9.99; highest $19.99 in this period. $0 $10 $20 Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Version 1.15 released 29 Jun 2026 v1.15 Version 1.15.1 released 4 Jul 2026 Version 1.15.2 released 4 Aug 2026 v1.15.2

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About this asset

🎮 WebGL and Android Demo

📖 Manual & Documentation

🔥🔥 FEATURE HIGHLIGHT 🔥🔥

  • True shadow generation, creating much smoother than SDF based method.
  • Intuitive, WYSIWYG controls.
  • Use custom shader on shadow.
  • Emulate glow with colored and textured shadow.
  • Normal, Additive, Screen and Multiply blend-mode.
  • Build neumorphic UI by combining multiple shadow/glow.
  • Control over shadow size, spread, offset, color tint and more.
  • Efficient algorithm and caching system let you use very large shadow or many duplicated shadows without sacrifying performance.
  • Compatible with all build platforms, render pipelines, and many 3rd party UI effects.

Support many assets, including:

Most custom shaders and custom/3rd party UI can be supported with little effort

Have any question or bug report? Contact me any time!

🎁 You'll also get 20% off Translucent Image with this purchase!

From the publisher's Asset Store listing.

Technical details

Compatibility 🧩

  • Work with all build platforms and render pipelines.
  • Any sprite is supported, not just simple shapes.
  • All Image type: Simple, Sliced, Tiled, Filled.
  • Both uGUI Text and TextMeshPro are supported.
  • Raw Image, so you can have 2D shadow/glow of 3D objects.
  • Mask.
  • Layout Groups.
  • Builtin support for animating shadows on interactive elements (hover, select, click).
  • SVG with the Vector Graphics package.
  • And many custom and 3rd party UI.

True Shadow is continuously updated for the latest Unity releases, while being uploaded with the oldest compatible Unity version for maximum compatibility. The listed Unity Version does not reflect latest-version support.

Performance ⚡

  • Fast shadows generation, thanks to the battle-tested algorithm behind Translucent Image, allowing shadows to be generated in real-time.
  • Shadows are automatically reused when possible, so you can build complex UIs with plenty of shadow casting UIs at once.

Compatibility

Render pipelines supported in each Unity version
Unity version Built-in URP HDRP
2022.3.62f2 Compatible Compatible Compatible

As listed on the Asset Store.