Nova - Free Trial

The free trial of Nova is a zero-risk way to determine if Nova meets the needs and requirements of your project!

BENEFITS:

Complete Feature Set: Nova - Free Trial contains all of the features, functionality, and APIs of the paid version.
Compatibility: Content built with the free trial is 100% compatible with the paid version, and vice versa. That means all of the Nova samples work with the free trial, and upgrading is seamless -- just replace the trial package with the paid version.

RESTRICTIONS:

Not Burst optimized: The performance of this free trial version is not representative of the performance of the paid version, as the paid version is 3-10x faster due to optimizations made via the Burst compiler.
No source code access: The public API is thoroughly documented on our website. The internal API in the free trial is obfuscated and precompiled

HOW TO UPGRADE:

Simply delete the Nova folder and import the paid asset -- it's that simple!

See novaui.io to learn more.

SAMPLES:

Several complete and thoroughly commented sample projects made with Nova are available on GitHub (for free), along with tutorial videos on YouTube to help you get started!

Inventory System
Mobile Settings Menu
XR Hand Menu
UI Controls (included in the asset!)
UI Playground (included in the asset!)
UI Blur (included in the asset!)

FEATURES:

🚀 Dynamic Styles 🚀

Take your visual quality to the next level without writing custom shaders or baking visual effects into textures. Add and adjust corner radius, gradients, drop shadows, and more on the fly!

Works with TextMeshPro!

🚀 Adaptive Layout System 🚀

Nova brings modern UI system functionality, such as auto sizing, padding, margins, and more, into the third dimension.

Sizing

- Value and percent based!

Positioning

- Value and percent based!

Alignment (Top, Left, Bottom, Right, Front, Back)
Padding
Margin
Min/Max Constraints
Shrink to Content
Expand to Parent
AutoLayouts (Vertical, Horizontal, Depth)
Aspect Ratio Locking

🚀 Data Binding 🚀

With a simple databinding API, flexible type-matching, and virtualized lists and grids, create a rich, dynamic, and performant UI with just a few lines of code.

🚀 Gesture recognition across all supported platforms, including XR! 🚀

Hover/Unhover events
Press/Release events
Click events
Drag events
Scroll events - complete with refined scrolling animations

🚀 PARTNERS 🚀

Convert Figma designs directly to Nova UI components with the Figma Converter for Unity tool by D.A. Assets!

🚀 AND MORE! 🚀

A garbage free Animations API for writing custom, modular UI animations!
Dynamic texture atlasing
Edge Snapping tools in scene view
Gradient tool in scene view

🚧 Limitations 🚧

Lighting not supported in SRPs.
Custom transparency sort axis not supported.
Asset uses Scroller under BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License; see Third-Party Notices.txt file in package for details.

Release Notes

2.1.3

Minor bug fixes

2.1.2

Android IL2CPP Faster (smaller) builds bug fix

2.1.1

Variety of bug fixes

2.1.0

Add BlurEffect component for adding gaussian-style background blurs, layer blurs, and other color filters to UIBlock2D images
Add BackgroundBlurGroup component meant to simplify background camera setup to use with BlurEffect
Add UIBlur.unity and UIBlurHDRP.unity demo scenes
Fix for TextField input focus on mobile

2.0.1

Add controls (e.g. Button, Toggle, etc) in right-click menu. Control prefabs reassignable in Nova settings.
Fix to handle TMP being merged into UGUI in Unity 2023.2
Fix for rendering artifact with dropshadows when using Meta Quest passthrough
Adjusted Window control resize behavior to use total drag instead of per-frame deltas
Bug fix for GridView.Refresh()
Bug fix for GridView when no databinders are added
Add support for multiple cameras and OnPostCameraSync to ScreenSpace component

2.0.0

Free trial is no longer editor-only, building for all platforms is now supported
Variety of bug fixes

1.3.1

Fix rendering issue when using OpenGL on Android Mali GPUs

1.3.0

Add WebGL support
Fix bug with using OpenGL on hardware that doesn't support ComputeBuffers (e.g. Mali GPUs)
Fix Nested Auto Layout + Expand bug
Other minor bug fixes

1.2.3

Add GestureSpace field to Interactable
Add new sample scenes for HDRP
Fix scrolling/dragging deltas in scenarios where the entire UI is moving
Fix Sprite padding not being respected
Fix GridView cross axis item count sometimes changing visually
Fix Navigation system throwing repeat exceptions for a single bad state
Other minor bug fixes
Some additional comments

1.2.2

Fix bug when using sprites that have been automatically packed by unity or are from a SpriteAtlas object

1.2.1

Fix critical bug introduced in 1.1.9
Comment corrections

1.2.0

[BREAKING CHANGE] "Expand" on child UIBlock now fills remaining space along parent's AutoLayout axes
Add multi-axis AutoLayout functionality, a.k.a CrossLayout
Support updating GridView.CrossAxisItemCount at runtime
Add TypeMenuName and TypeMenuPath attributes for manual control over custom ItemVisuals grouping in editor
Add "Edit Visuals Script" button to ItemView editor
Support multi-editing ItemViews with matching ItemVisuals types
Support multi-editing ClipMasks
Fix ListView.Refresh() not always populating ListView/GridView after adding new items to data source
Fix manual navigation needing a navigation scope
Other minor bug fixes

1.1.10

Fix TextField not handling Windows IME input
Fix sample InputManager not referencing correct camera

1.1.9

Add support for nested ClipMasks
Fix bug for content remaining invisible when scale is changed from zero to nonzer
Fix bug for ScreenSpace causing content to become invisible in HDRP
Bug fix with preview size in prefab view when enabling root UIBlock

1.1.8

Fix anti-aliasing issue on platforms using half in shaders (e.g. Quest)

1.1.7

Fix intermittent exception thrown when calling Interaction.Raycast during scene initialization/teardown

1.1.6

Adding FAQ window

1.1.5

Hot fixing 1.1.4

1.1.4

New UIPlayground sample scene
New example UI controls (ProgressBar, Tooltip, Window) in multiple styles
UI controls now support Color Change, Sprite Swap, and Animation visual state options
Opacity field added to UIBlock color fields
A few minor bug fixes

1.1.3

Fix SortGroup and ClipMask rendered-transform update bug caused by performance improvements in 1.1.2

1.1.2

Avoid reprocessing content when only root is moved (performance improvement)
Improve performance of camera sorting
Improve mobile drag detection in 30fps scenarios
Fix ScreenSpace being a frame behind if camera is updated in ECS PresentationSystemGroup
Various minor bug fixes

1.1.1

Fix Navigation Indicator rotation in Input Manager sample

1.1.0

Add Navigation API (for Gamepad/WASD support)
Remove Nova icon from scripts to prevent Unity from pulling them into the Gizmo menu

1.0.9

Add 9-slicing and image tiling support
Fix transform serialization bug for prefab instance roots

1.0.8

Fixed missing assembly reference in UIControls when project is configured to use new Input System package as input backend

1.0.7

Add Radial Fill feature
SortGroup sorting bug fix

1.0.6

Bug fix for supporting Sprite animations via Unity's animator

1.0.5

Fix for Unity Collections package 1.3.0+ renaming NativeHashMap type

1.0.4

Add ScreenSpace component
Fix TextInputField bug when TMP component has non-zero character spacing
Workaround a Unity SerializeReference bug causing ItemViews on prefabs to sometimes import incorrectly when copied into project

1.0.3

Matches v1.0.3 of the paid version of Nova

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