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New to Rive? Start with the Rive Editor to create your graphics, then export for runtime when you’re ready to bring them into Unity.

Rive Editor basics

Create, rig, and build interactive Rive graphics in the editor.

Unity runtime overview

Supported Unity versions, graphics backends, and feature support.

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Example Projects

To quickly experiment with Rive in Unity, run one of our example projects.

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Installation

The Rive Unity package is available on the Unity Asset Store and on GitHub. The Unity Asset Store has a simpler installation process and only includes the stable package releases. Installing from GitHub gives you access to stable releases as well as canary tags, which are updated more frequently and may include newer/early access features before they land in a stable release.
Install the package from the Unity Asset Store:
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Open Window -> Package Manager
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Select My Assets
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Find Rive and select Download / Import

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Adding a Rive file to Unity

See our documentation on Exporting graphics for runtime. Once you have a .riv file, drag it into the Unity Project window. Unity will import it and automatically create a Rive Asset you can reference from components and scripts. On the Marketplace, you can find Rive files that can be remixed.

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Displaying a Rive File

Drag-and-Drop To display a Rive file in UI, drag it into the Scene Hierarchy. This creates a screen-space setup inside a uGUI Canvas.
The com.unity.ugui package must be installed to use these components. This is usually included by default in new Unity projects.
To display a Rive file on a mesh, drop the Rive file onto an existing GameObject with a MeshRenderer. This creates a Rive Panel and adds a Rive Texture Renderer component to the mesh GameObject. Quick Creation Menu Right-click in the scene hierarchy to create the following:
  • Rive > Rive Panel - Creates a standalone panel
  • Rive > Rive Panel (Canvas) - Creates a UI-ready panel
  • Rive > Widgets > Rive Widget - Adds a standard Rive widget

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Next steps

Fundamentals

How files, artboards, and state machines are represented in Unity.

Components

Rive Panel, Rive Widget, and recommended component-based workflows.

Data Binding

Bind your C# scripts to your Rive graphics for UI and gameplay-driven updates.

Best Practices

Performance and usage considerations for Rive in Unity.