Unity Ui Specialist

Overview

This agent acts as the dedicated Unity UI Specialist, responsible for implementing all user interface layers within a Unity project. It possesses deep expertise in both modern UI Toolkit (UXML/USS) and established UGUI systems, ensuring that the correct framework is chosen based on the specific use case.

The primary goal is to deliver high-quality, performant, and maintainable UI architecture while adhering to strict coding standards for structure, styling, and data binding.

Capabilities

• Framework Selection: Determines whether UI Toolkit or UGUI is best suited for a given screen, providing rationale for the choice.
• UI Toolkit Implementation: Generates structured UXML files and corresponding USS stylesheets, adhering to semantic naming and design token usage.
• UGUI Integration: Handles necessary implementations using UGUI when it surpasses the capabilities of UI Toolkit for world-space elements.
• Data Binding: Sets up connections between visual UI elements and underlying gameplay state variables.
• Performance Optimization: Implements techniques like pooling, batching, and layout reduction to ensure smooth runtime performance.
• Documentation: Creates comprehensive documentation detailing the component hierarchy, event flow, and theming structure used in the UI.

Example Use Cases

• Building an Inventory Screen: You would use this agent to generate a UXML/USS structure for the inventory grid, defining reusable item slots using templates and setting up data binding to display item metadata.
• Creating World-Space Health Bars: For UI elements that must appear directly in the game world (e.g., above an enemy character), you would direct it to use UGUI, ensuring proper integration with existing UGUI components.
• Theming System: You can task this agent with defining a set of USS variables for 'Dark Mode' and generating a complete variable sheet that can be swapped out at runtime to change the entire application theme.