The shader evaluates distance to the outline per pixel. Curves, corners, strokes and soft edges stay sharp at any scale. Geometry and appearance remain editable parameters.

A UniShape stores editable geometry and layers. Corner radii, outlines, shadows and gradients remain parameters, so a new appearance does not require another sprite.

Both. The shader declares the standard uGUI stencil block — stencil id, comparison, operation and the read and write masks — and compiles the clip-rect variant, so a UniShape is masked exactly the way an Image is.

Yes. UniShapeWorld renders in 3D scenes without a Canvas, with sorting, pointer interaction and Core's shared world batching.

Yes — GameObject ▸ UI ▸ UniShape from SVG Path, or the same entry from the LightSide palette on Alt+L. The parser handles M, L, H, V, C, S, Q, T, A and Z in both absolute and relative form, converts elliptical arcs to cubics and flips to Unity’s y-up. It reads the first sub-path only, so one contour per shape.

Composite shapes support subtraction, intersection and exclusion. Cut layers subtract from lower appearance layers. An imported vector path still represents a single contour.

Each flattened polygon or polyline has a 64-vertex budget. Shared outline storage grows with live content and device limits. The 18 analytic primitives do not use polygon rows.

The tracing tool converts a sprite's alpha boundary into an editable contour. Alpha threshold and simplification are configurable; the source texture must be readable.

A compatible stack uses one draw call and can batch with UniText and UniLottie. Different materials, sampled textures, blend modes, masks or draw order can split batches.

UniShapes uses its own stroke and shadow layers. Each layer has editable paint, geometry and blending settings; standard uGUI mesh modifiers are not applied.

Custom ShapeLayer subclasses appear in the layer selector and use the shared rendering and change-tracking mechanisms.

Serializable IShapeProvider implementations supply geometry and appear in the shape selector. The built-in providers cover primitives, vector paths, shape assets, sprites and composites.

Rendering buffers and GPU data rows are reused. Capacity growth, authoring changes and asset creation may allocate; the rendering reference describes those boundaries.

Analytic primitives have a fixed formula per pixel. Polygon and polyline rendering also reads their vertices, so more vertices require more shader work. Each path supports up to 64 vertices.

Shape and layer choices are supplied as data to common shaders. Render features, graphics APIs and Unity's shader keywords determine the compiled variants.

The shared shader supports Shader Model 3.5 graphics APIs, including WebGL 2.0, GLES3, Vulkan, Metal and desktop graphics backends.

Unity 2022.3 and newer. Installing UniShapes also installs media.lightside.core, which owns the shared shader, the paint and gradient types and the point-editing tools the editor uses.

UniShapes depends on LightSide Core, and its Canvas component uses uGUI. UniText is required only by samples that contain text. Shared Core systems include paints, property state, geometry tools and rendering infrastructure.