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Custom shaders for UI Toolkit

May 26, 2026 1 min
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Learn how to use Shader Graph materials directly in Unity's UI Toolkit starting from version 6.3.

This tutorial demonstrates how to integrate Shader Graph materials into UI Toolkit, enabling dynamic UI elements with advanced effects. By assigning a custom material to the 'unity-material' property of a VisualElement, developers can animate shader parameters at runtime to reflect game states, such as health bar changes.

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Worth watching if: You are a Unity developer using UI Toolkit who wants to add custom shader-based visuals or dynamic animations to your UI elements.

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