True Shadow - UI Soft Shadow and Glow

🎮 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:

• Translucent Image
• All In 1 Sprite Shader
• Super Text Mesh
• Procedural Health and Progress Bars
• UI Spline Renderer

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

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

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Release Notes

v1.14:

 - TrueShadowDisableCache now works with multiple True Shadow

 - new ITrueShadowCustomHashProviderV2 interface to make integrating custom UI easier

 - Fix memory leak

v1.13:

- Improve compatibility with Text Animator

v1.12.2:

- Fix material leaking in some conditions

v1.12.1:

- Fix duplicated inspector warning

- Fix renderers Graphic dirtied every frames in editor

v1.12:

- Make True Shadow components easier to find in the Add Component menu

- Allow skipping the hashing of texts to improve performance on long dynamic texts like animated dialogues

- Support multi-pass shader on shadow caster

- Add a new plugin interface ITrueShadowCasterMeshProvider to use Mesh with sub-meshes as shadow caster

- Add a new plugin interface ITrueShadowCasterSubMeshMaterialProvider to use different materials for each sub-mesh on shadow caster

- Fix shadow not update when using some typewriter effects with TMP

- Fix ITrueShadowCasterMeshModifier plugins not updating shadow texture size

- Fix shader warning

v1.11:

- Demo scene and documentation for batching feature

v1.10:

- Increase the minimum supported Unity version to 2020.3 in accordant with the store requirements

- Fix memory leak on domain reload in editor

v1.9.1:

- Improve memory usage in certain cases

v1.9.0:

- Remove Color Bleed mode. It has no longer been necessary for a while.

- Fix Inset mode not working correctly with certain combination of settings.

- Inset mode now use Color by default. You may need to change Color back to black if that's what you want.

v1.8.5:

- Improve compatibility with custom shaders

v1.8.4:

- Fix time delay in custom shaders

- Improve linear space rendering in newer Unity versions

v1.8.3:

- Shadows now take CanvasRender color into account. This improves compatibilities with the Toggle component.

- Improve compatibility with Unity 2023

v1.8.2:

- Improve compatibility with TextMesh Pro

- Improve documentation on TextMesh Pro

v1.8.1:

- Fix compile error in Unity 6

v1.8.0:

- New Accurate algorithm for thin features