Easy Tooltip – UI Hover, Popup & Hint System – Unity

Instantly add professional, responsive, and highly customizable tooltips to your Unity UI. Whether you are building complex RPG stat cards, strategy game interfaces, or simple menu hints, Easy Tooltip handles the hard work for you. Designed for both Artists (via a powerful custom Inspector with live previews) and Programmers (via a robust 1-line C# API).

⠀⠀🎮⠀Play the Live WebGL Demo

⠀⠀📖⠀Read the Online Documentation

⠀⠀🎬⠀Watch the Video Showcase

✨ KEY FEATURES

  • 🚀⠀Zero Setup: Just add the script to a UI element. The global manager auto-generates behind the scenes.
  • 👁️⠀Live Editor Previews: View and edit tooltips in the Scene view without entering Play Mode.
  • 💻⠀1-Line C# API: Populate dynamic UI inventories or spawn tooltips via code instantly.
  • 🛡️⠀Smart Screen Clamping: Tooltips automatically detect screen edges and flip or clamp to stay visible.
  • 🎯⠀Fixed & Relative Positioning: Choose “Follow Mouse” tracking, pin to 12 specific anchor points, or use Remote Target Overrides.
  • ✨⠀Dual-Tooltip Support: Includes a decoupled Hint Trigger for secondary cursor-following prompts (e.g., “[RMB] Equip”).
  • 📏⠀Auto-Separators: Pass arrays of text and the system automatically injects scaled visual dividers.
  • ⚡⠀High-Performance Pooling: Recycles instances in-place to eliminate gameplay lag spikes.
  • 🎨⠀Visual Prefab Overrides: Swap layout styles per-item (Includes Default, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Tactical prefabs).
  • 🕶️⠀Native VR Support: Optimized for World Space canvases and tested for Meta Quest 2 pointers.

📦 WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • Clean C# Source Code (Fully documented).
  • 4 Customizable UI Prefabs (Ready to drop into your game).
  • 2 Interactive Demo Scenes (Game-Ready Showcase & Feature Sandbox).
  • Event Hooks (UnityEvents) for seamless custom game logic.

⚠️ Important Requirements:

  • Requires the official TextMeshPro package.
  • Follow-Mouse mode relies on screen coordinates (Desktop/WebGL). For VR, Fixed Positioning is required.

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Asset uses Google Fonts (OFL), Material Icons (Apache 2.0), and Pixabay Audio.

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