# UI+ UI Shader for VRChat Worlds ## Features - Anti-Aliased rounded corners - Border Width, Color and Blur - Box Shadow Spread and Offset - Refractive Glass (2 Modes - Static Texture or Grabpass) - Multi-channel SDF Textures - Super Sampling - Gradient (Radial, Linear) - Parallax Depth ## Usage - Create a new Material with the `"UI+/Image"` Shader - Assign it an Image component on a Canvas - Add Component `PositionAsUV1` to the Image GameObject (Important) For additional help reference the included sample scene ### Refractive Glass - Regular Mode (Recommended): Set a canvas background texture and adjust the canvas size (the image will cover the portion of the background where its positioned on the canvas) - Grabpass Mode: Uses a Grabpass instead for the background (requires manually managing render queues, no blur option) - Highlight rotation with the canvas transform ### MSDF - Supports MSDF textures generated with [msdfgen](https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen) - Disable sRGB on MSDF textures and enable high quality (use the included texture importer preset) - This allows sharper images with lower resolution (similar to TextMeshPro fonts but for an image) ### Gradient - Applies a gradient texture to the image, border or the shadow layer - Radial and Linear UVs with rotation and tiling with time ## Contents - UI Shader for Canvas Image or RawImage components: `"UI+/Image"` and `"UI+/Image Grabpass"` - Example Scene (all of the images were taken in Unity) ## Additional Info - Every Image requires a `PositionAsUV1` component (Add Component -> UI -> Effects -> Position As UV1). This component sets additional vertex attributes that are required for certain shader features to work properly - Additional shader channels `TexCoord1`, `Normal`, and `Tangent` are required on the Canvas component (On by default on VRChat UI) - Shader is only meant for the UI (mesh renderers are not supported) - The vertex color alpha has multiply all the individual layers in order for canvas group alpha to function. To keep borders, shadow and other layers visible use a transparent sprite instead or set the alpha on the material color property - To only apply vertex colors (Image Component Color) to other layers like the shadow, border without affecting the image, disable image tint and enable tint on the specific layer - The shader itself does not have any dependencies on VRChat itself and can be used in a standalone Unity application with the Built-In or Universal Render Pipeline as well (excluding the example scene), however theres better ways to do this with proper C# scripting - Some effects automatically enable the rounded box SDF, the corner radius gets applied even if the border is disabled - As an alternative to the `PositionAsUV1` you can enable Sliced Mode and set the `white-sliced-mode` sprite to adjust the radius with a pixel pre unit multiplier on the image component, however it will behave differently as the additional vertex data is missing ## Limitations This shader was created with certain VRChat limitations, due to lack of full C# scripting: - Only Image Type `Simple` is supported with borders/shadows, most the features were made to replace the need for sliced images. Sprite atlas is also still supported - Changing the Rect Transform Pivot is not supported with all features (changing the pivot of a parent Rect Transform works however) - The shadow feature does not work with non uniform transform scaling currently - Wide shadow distance effects might have issues with culling and sorting (the mesh gets extruded) - Managing the Render Queue can be harder with the Refractive Glass Grabpass shader - An attempt was made to make the shader compatible with UI as much as possible, but I can not guarantee it works with every Unity feature ## Prefabs using UI+ - https://github.com/z3y/ZPlayer ## Changelog ### [1.4.2] - 2025-12-4 - Applied texture aspect ratio to parallax to fix stretching ### [1.4.1] - 2025-12-2 - Parallax depth for the background glass texture - Tested and confirmed support in URP (Works in BasisVR) - Fixed material color getting disabled when vertex color is disabled - Added optional fog - Added cull mode - Added a special use case for sliced mode ### [1.4.0] - 2025-11-27 - Glass highlight min max adjustment - Border blur is now adjustable for glass and regular border - Shadow fill toggle - Added more samples - Fixed sample incorrect TMP component ### [1.3.1] - 2025-11-26 - Added glass highlight rotation ### [1.3.0] - 2025-11-25 - Added parallax depth effect for the sprite texture - Improved Anti-Aliasing - Added Anti-Aliasing offset property which can help remove the gap between UI Images - Invert corners toggle - Scene with few more examples ### [1.2.0] - 2025-11-19 - New shader inspector - Fix buttons for faster setup ### [1.1.0] - 2025-11-18 - Added Gradients - Fixed Shadow not working without borders enabled - Added options to tint individual layers with vertex colors ### [1.0.0] - 2025-11-11 - Initial Release ## Example Example VRChat World - https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_d86c4cca-1d13-49f6-af79-5ce997179a7c/info ## Contact https://discord.gg/bw46tKgRFT ## Terms of use You are permitted to use and modify the shader for public or private VRChat worlds, or any other Unity application, without including the shader source code.