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Animate UI Materials

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Modify and animate UI materials without creating a new material asset. Works with animation, serialization, nested prefabs, source control and material variants

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About this asset

This package exists to fill the lack of MaterialPropertyBlock in the UI system

It allows users to animate material properties, as you would with a MeshRenderer or a SpriteRenderer, in a clean and concise interface.

Setup is a breeze:

  • Select your UI element (an Image for example)
  • Add the GraphicMaterialOverride component
  • Select a property to modify from the dropdown menu
  • A child GameObject is created, with a GraphicPropertyOverride component
  • Animate or modify this property as you wish

To remove the override, simply delete the child GameObject holding the override

The reason a child GameObject is required is because Unity cannot animate arrays or duplicate components

From the publisher's Asset Store listing.

Technical details

Animating UI material has until now required custom scripts for each material. Furthermore, instanced material pollute the editor by creating false prefab modifications.

With this package, it is possible to customize or animate a material for a any UI component independently, without creating new material or scripts, and without modifying material assets.

* Works with float values and ranges, integers, textures and vectors

* Editor script for efficient workflow

* No runtime collection allocations

* Compatible with the SRP batcher

* All code available, with comments

* Free forever

Limitations:

* Only works with the SRP

* Displays toggles as float

* Does not show custom material editor

* Only works for UI components

* Parent material modifications require calling SetMaterialDirty to be updated

Compatibility

Unity version Built-in URP HDRP Custom
2021.3.32f1

Compatible with Unity 2021 and 2022

Material variant support only with Unity 2022

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