About Ultimate Preview 2 – Pro Edition
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Ultimate Preview is a powerful Unity Editor extension that upgrades and enhances Unity’s default asset preview window. Designed to improve your workflow and boost productivity, it allows you to inspect UI elements, particle systems, VFX, sprites, 3D models and animations, with better clarity, lighting, and intuitive controls.
What It Fixes and Improves
- Adds preview support for asset types Unity doesn’t handle by default: Adds support for previewing UI elements, Particle Systems, Animations, fonts, VFX and more, directly within the preview window.
- Better lighting and camera control: Default Unity previews often appear dark and flat. Ultimate Preview improves visibility with customizable lighting and skybox options.
- Animations play automatically when selected: No need to press the play button manually every time you preview an AnimationClip.
- Preserve camera position and angle when switching animation clips: Unity resets the camera view every time you switch clips. With Ultimate Preview, you can preserve the camera angle, zoom, and position for consistent previews.
- Sprites and UI always face the camera: By default, sprites are tilted at an awkward angle in Unity’s default preview window. Ultimate Preview fixes this by automatically rotating sprites to face the camera correctly.
- Remove grid from 2D sprite animation previews: Unity overlays a distracting grid when previewing sprites. This tool lets you hide the grid for a clean and clear view.
- Custom camera and floor settings: Control zoom, angle, field of view, background color, floor visibility, and more for precise and clear previews.
Key Features:
Additional Asset Support
- Preview UI canvases and components
- Preview Particle Systems with playback controls
- Visualize VFX Graphs with improved clarity
- Inspect scene GameObjects, not just prefabs
- Compare multiple assets simultaneously
- ProBuilder Preview
- Removes Play mode color tint from preview window
Improved Animation Preview
- Automatically play selected AnimationClips
- Quickly switch clips with Next and Previous buttons
- Preserve camera position and angle when switching animation clips.
- Reset the camera view or align it to X and Y axes instantly using toolbar buttons.
- Hide Unity’s default grid when previewing 2D sprite animations
- Preview animations with better lighting for clearer motion and model visibility
- Customize the floor texture, color, tiling, and opacity, or hide it completely
Enhanced Visual Environment
- Add custom lights with adjustable intensity, color, and rotation
- Fine-tune ambient lighting to improve visbility
- Set your own skybox (URP/Built-in only)
- Customize or hide the floor grid
Editor-Friendly Controls
- Auto-activate the preview window on asset selection
- Scroll to zoom, middle mouse button to pan
- Toolbar controls for lighting, skybox, background, playback, camera rotate and more
- Keyboard shortcuts for quick actions
Fully Customizable
- Customize camera defaults, lighting, floor, and more.
- Choose which buttons appear in the toolbar to suit your workflow
Newly Added Features (v2.0):
- Auto camera orbit
- Preview Fonts
- Preview TextMesh Pro font asset
- Preview UIDocument
- Renderer Stats overlay
- UI Layout Properties overlay
- Play Mode optimization
- Improved performance
- Improved particle previews
- Reduced package size
- Out-of-the-box HDRP support
- ProBuilder Preview
What It Fixes and Improves
- Adds preview support for asset types Unity doesn’t handle by default: Adds support for previewing UI elements, Particle Systems, Animations, fonts, VFX and more, directly within the preview window.
- Better lighting and camera control: Default Unity previews often appear dark and flat. Ultimate Preview improves visibility with customizable lighting and skybox options.
- Animations play automatically when selected: No need to press the play button manually every time you preview an AnimationClip.
- Preserve camera position and angle when switching animation clips: Unity resets the camera view every time you switch clips. With Ultimate Preview, you can preserve the camera angle, zoom, and position for consistent previews.
- Sprites and UI always face the camera: By default, sprites are tilted at an awkward angle in Unity’s default preview window. Ultimate Preview fixes this by automatically rotating sprites to face the camera correctly.
- Remove grid from 2D sprite animation previews: Unity overlays a distracting grid when previewing sprites. This tool lets you hide the grid for a clean and clear view.
- Custom camera and floor settings: Control zoom, angle, field of view, background color, floor visibility, and more for precise and clear previews.
Key Features:
Additional Asset Support
- Preview UI canvases and components
- Preview Particle Systems with playback controls
- Visualize VFX Graphs with improved clarity
- Inspect scene GameObjects, not just prefabs
- Compare multiple assets simultaneously
- ProBuilder Preview
- Removes Play mode color tint from preview window
Improved Animation Preview
- Automatically play selected AnimationClips
- Quickly switch clips with Next and Previous buttons
- Preserve camera position and angle when switching animation clips.
- Reset the camera view or align it to X and Y axes instantly using toolbar buttons.
- Hide Unity’s default grid when previewing 2D sprite animations
- Preview animations with better lighting for clearer motion and model visibility
- Customize the floor texture, color, tiling, and opacity, or hide it completely
Enhanced Visual Environment
- Add custom lights with adjustable intensity, color, and rotation
- Fine-tune ambient lighting to improve visbility
- Set your own skybox (URP/Built-in only)
- Customize or hide the floor grid
Editor-Friendly Controls
- Auto-activate the preview window on asset selection
- Scroll to zoom, middle mouse button to pan
- Toolbar controls for lighting, skybox, background, playback, camera rotate and more
- Keyboard shortcuts for quick actions
Fully Customizable
- Customize camera defaults, lighting, floor, and more.
- Choose which buttons appear in the toolbar to suit your workflow
Newly Added Features (v2.0):
- Auto camera orbit
- Preview Fonts
- Preview TextMesh Pro font asset
- Preview UIDocument
- Renderer Stats overlay
- UI Layout Properties overlay
- Play Mode optimization
- Improved performance
- Improved particle previews
- Reduced package size
- Out-of-the-box HDRP support
- ProBuilder Preview