Custom Converters in Rive: write a script that takes one base color and outputs darkened/lightened variants automatically. Change the source, every variant updates.
Here's how to set it up. 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPIE...
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Rive Editor 0.8.4450
🚀 New View Model data table view — easier to work with large amounts of data
🎨 State Machine UI — more real estate, Listeners relocated in animation tree
🏷️ Tags for Timelines, State Machines, Listeners, Folders
🎯 Individual Listeners now support multiple actions
Featured submissions from Javier Oliver, Paweł Andrzejewski, and Ian Sterling
The submissions coming in for the Rive Vehicle HMI Challenge are next level.
Extended to April 1 — $15K in prizes, join on Contra
contra.com/community/to...
Our judges:
Helmut Klinger-Emmerdinger, UI/UX Design Specialist at BMW Group
John LePore, co-founder of BlackBox Infinite, Emmy-nominated. His team built the Apple Vision Pro F1 experience and worked on UI for Marvel, Westworld, and Blade Runner 2049
The Vehicle HMI Challenge is live. $15K in prizes, build any vehicle HMI with Rive.
March 18-25. Cockpits, clusters, spaceships, submarines, planes, sci-fi vehicles. Go nuts. contra.com/community/to...
Learn how to build Rive text elements with multiple styles inline, all populated with data binding. This opens up several use cases, like localized text with custom inline styling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvqk...
The Rive Vehicle HMI Challenge starts this week on @contra
Build a vehicle HMI with Rive. Think cockpit HUDs, instrument clusters, media centers, or companion apps. It doesn’t have to be a car. Boats, planes, spacecraft, submarines, sci-fi vehicles. Get creative.
contra.com/community/to...
The Vehicle HMI Challenge — $15K in prizes
Show us your best vehicle HMI built with Rive. Think cockpit HUDs, instrument clusters, media centers, or companion apps. It doesn’t have to be a car. Boats, planes, spacecraft, submarines, sci-fi vehicles. Get creative.
Starts March 18 on Contra.com
Rive Scripting: build a cloner with Rive's AI Agent youtu.be/5OB-MPZo-v4
🎥 Apply path effects to multiple strokes and fills simultaneously in Rive. In this tutorial, you'll see how to create Effect Groups, combine effects like Trim and Dash, and how changing order of effects produces different visual results.
www.youtube.com/watch
Various Rive updates across the editor, runtimes, and docs
🌈 Further banding improvements on gradients
🔡 Custom/system fallback fonts support for React Native
✨ One-click AI context integration for docs into Claude/ChatGPT (screenshot)
🎥 New Effect Groups tutorials in docs
Rive x Unity tutorial: control a Rive health bar in Unity. Full tutorial on the Rive YouTube.
Full details here community.rive.app/c/announceme...
Rive Editor 0.8.4375
🎨 Improved tree styling
🐛 Fixed a bug with updating the editor on Windows
🚀 Flutter runtime on Linux now supports Rive Renderer
🐛 Various fixes and improvements across the editor and runtimes
Rendering updates now live across the Rive Editor and Runtimes:
🌈 Interleaved gradient noise dithering added to reduce banding
🪶 Vector Feathering GPU optimizations
🧪 Large feather radius test scene benchmarks:
⏱️ 2.15ms to 0.92ms on Intel
⏱️ 0.125ms to 0.095ms on Nvidia
Spotify had a record Q4 and their CEO directly attributed it to Wrapped, which is built with Rive.
"Day one of Wrapped marked the highest single day of subscriber intake in Spotify history.” — Alex Norström
Rive Editor 0.8.4342
🚀 Single file invites (viewers free across all plans)
🚀 Scripting: Expanded view model instance support
🎨 UI updates: Tab bar, state machine, tree, and general styling improvements
🤖 Optimizations to AI prompts which should reduce credit spend
Rive for Unreal Engine is now live on Fab www.fab.com/listings/3a2...
The Rive gamedev challenge is live right now on Contra! Build a game with Rive and win $5k in prizes. 6 days left.
Watch the full tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kQ...
Scripting in Rive for absolute beginners.
Since the release of Rive Scripting with Luaua and AI Agent, a lot of people have asked for a programming tutorial for absolute beginners. This is it.
Build a game with Rive. Win $5K in prizes.
Join the challenge on Contra contra.com/community/to...
Create a Path Effect script in Rive, catch the full tutorial on the Rive YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QaD...
How to use Rive in Unity 👾
Big congratulations to our Scripting Challenge winners on Contra 🏆
🥇 Isa Ganttus
🥈 Sajal Kumar
🥈 Fernanda Marques
Check out the livestream via the link in comments 👇
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Rive HQ in SF last night 👋
Great convos, great people, and lots of Rive energy.
Stay tuned for more Rive events coming soon 👀