Shapes

Bugs & Feature Requests

a real-time vector graphics library for Unity by Freya Holmér
After Shader Forge, I wanted to make something different.
It has bothered me for a long time that for some reason, html5 canvas is better at drawing primitives than Unity.
I really wanted something to help us make those crisp lines, discs, polylines and, well, Shapes!
so, here we are~

High-Quality Line Drawing

Clean lines of arbitrary thickness with advanced local anti-aliasing & thinness fading, in both 2D and 3D, with support for both world-space sizing as well as screen-space sizing

Naive

Shapes

Local Anti-Aliasing

Naive implementations of lines are often locked to 1 pixel in width, without any proper anti-aliasing. Shapes has built-in local anti-aliasing, so even if your project doesn't have any kind of AA, Shapes will still draw lines smooth as heck~

Round

Miter

Bevel

Polylines

Polylines with configurable Round, Miter & Bevel joins

2D Shapes

2D shapes like polygons, discs, rings, arcs and rounded rectangles with vector graphics-style infinite resolution, drawn with a single quad

3D Shapes

3D shapes like spheres, cuboids, tori & cones

Immediate-Mode API

In addition to the components, Shapes has an Immediate-Mode API for code-based drawing, including scene view drawing support for cleaner looking debugging and gizmos

Limitations

• No SVG support, Shapes is not designed to be an SVG asset importer/exporter

• No ECS support, because it seems to change every week and I barely know how it works yet

• No UI support in overlay mode, though you can use camera-based or world-space UI to work around it

• Applying custom shaders is currently difficult unless you know how to code shaders, since every shape has a very specialized shader