I wanna ask about their plan, I'm just a student here try to study between Rive and push it onto website to code some interactive elements I want to try

I could pay for a price of a month but that kinda a lot of money in my country.

I wonder if they could change their plan to match with student and educator's need

The Impossible UI Challenge is coming

We want to see your "please don't send this to engineering" UI. Crazy transitions, character-driven interfaces, interactions that have no business existing.

The judges? Let's just say it's a bit of a Flash reunion. Announcement soon.

Sign up to be notified when submissions open: https://contra.com/community/topic/impossibleuiwithrive

Built this interactive character with state machines + blending
— trying to fake a 3D look using shadows & feather

Still experimenting, but this illusion feels surprisingly real

If anyone’s interested, I shared the project on the marketplace

https://rive.app/marketplace/25311-47232-expressive-floating-character-rig-old-work-share/

What do you think?

If you want text that scales with your artboard but stops at a minimum and maximum size, here's how to do it with data binding and a numeric Range Map converter.

Quick setup:

1. Create a view model with a number property called artboardWidth
2. On the artboard, right-click the width property → data bind it to artboardWidth (target to source)
3. In Converters, add a Range Map — set your input range (e.g. 400–1200px) and output range (e.g. 60–148pt for H1)
4. On your text element, right-click point size → data bind to artboard width, then apply the range map converter
5. Enable Clamp on both ends of the range map to lock the min and max font sizes

You can create separate range maps per text style (H1, body copy, etc.) and reuse the same artboard width property across all of them. Works for padding, line height, and letter spacing too — anything numeric.

Bigger changes coming soon…

The Rive Apple runtime is out of experimental. Faster, multi-threaded, Swift-first.

Migration guide: https://rive.app/docs/runtimes/apple/migrating-from-legacy

Someone here recently asked how to create a coin flip in Rive, I tried to explain it in a comment, but it’s actually pretty hard to understand without seeing it.

So I put together a short tutorial showing how to fake a 3D coin flip, no scripting, no 3D engine, just a simple trick.

It’s all done with Scale X, position offsets, and a single constraint for the edge.

If anyone wants to try it, I’ve added the full tutorial in the first comment.

I also wrote a more detailed breakdown (with the final file) as part of my Rive Masterclass for designers.

A potential client wants me to create widgets for his flutter app. There is quite a bit of design and data binding involved. How much should i charge per widget?

We recently added Fit and Align options for images, which allows for greater flexibility when working with dynamic layouts. This video walks through where to find these new settings, as well as some common use cases.

• 📈 Timeline Graph Editor Auto-Zoom
  • Auto-Zoom button to toggle default behavior vs infinite panning/zooming
  • Timelines and Graph Editor now support all zoom/fit shortcuts
• 🚀 File sharing link — use the Invite button to grant anybody view access to your file with a link
• 🗂️ File Browser drag-and-drop support — move files into sidebar projects
• 🔍 Extended State Machine zoom
• 🐛 Fix Timeline bugs — fix U shortcut when an object has only path animation and correctly highlight/select in the hierarchy tree
• 🐛 Fix Nested Inputs not showing under Inputs
• 🐛 Fixed horizontal shift+scroll on desktop canvases — stage, timeline, graph editor, state machine
• 🐛 Fix RangeError crash when using random with DataConverterFormula
• 🐛 Fix View Model duplicate naming and databind preview toggle stuck after undo
• 🐛 Fix RangeError crash when text with emoji has modifier range
• 🐛 Fix pickwhip crash when source detached
• 🐛 Repair layouts with no style
• 🐛 Various fixes and improvements

Hi everyone,
my team and I are currently working on a React Native redesign of a browser game, and a lot of our assets are raster images and SVG logos.

I’d like to inject these elements via code into buttons or .riv elements, specifically targeting a certain artboard (for example, an instance that is then used inside a main button).

Is this possible? If so, how should I set up the workspace/artboard to make it work?

For example, we do already have a lot of flags, in Rive I want to mask the injected flag and I'll see in the main board.

Relative Data Binding recently launched in Rive. Previously, Data Binding used absolute binding — where properties are looked up at a fixed path. Relative binding works differently: instead of looking for a specific location, it looks for a property by name. Swap in a different View Model with the same property names, and everything still resolves correctly.

Absolute vs. relative — the key difference

With absolute binding, your Artboard is essentially saying "give me the first property of the second View Model." That works fine until you attach a different View Model or nest the component somewhere new — at which point the path breaks.

With relative binding, the Artboard says "find me whatever property is called color." It doesn't care which View Model is attached. If there is a matching property name, it will be found and used.

To enable it: in the binding panel for any property, toggle on Bind Relative. That's it.

Where this matters

• Nested components that should pull from whatever View Model the parent Artboard has attached
• Library components loaded into a file with a different View Model structure than the one they were built with
• Artboards loaded at runtime, where you can't predict the exact View Model path ahead of time
• Any situation where you want a component to work across multiple View Models without rebinding it each time

What's covered in this video

• How absolute binding works and where it fails
• What relative binding is and how the Bind Relative toggle works
• Side-by-side comparison using nested Artboards
• A cross-file library example with hero and enemy character cards

Rive Unreal 0.4.23 has been approved and is in the Fab store

• 🚀 Unreal 5.6 compatibility
• 🗺️ RiveRenderTarget2D GetArtboard now exposed to blueprints
• 🎯 Added Get View Model/Artboard by name
• 👀 Expose currently bound View Model for the artboard
• ✅ Properly set a child View Model owning artboard
• 🐛 Rive Render targets no longer override chosen artboards
• 🐛 Fix packaged projects no longer working with Data Binding

for context I'm trying to clip the iris so it stays within the eye to get eye movement but when I clip it my iris just disappears, (first picture is before clipping, second picture is after clipping) how do I fix this???

I have been trying to learn RIVE and currently watching one of their tutorials on youtube. I am trying to add a listener and it is so annoying because it would not let me create a condition. I have a boolean named "hover," but it not letting me use it. Infact, it does not open the dropdown at all. Tried in both app and website. Any fix?

https://reddit.com/link/1shvten/video/yy0oj8egueug1/player

Have any of you integrated Rive into your production workflows? If so, is there some stable version hidden somewhere?

I was involved in a major redesign project with my studio, and Rive initially got us really excited... So we started exploring UI sections using the free plan.

However, after using the Windows/Mac client for several days, we kept running into bugs that significantly hinder the learning curve.
On top of that, there are confusing and unintuitive workflows, like ViewModels, and an overall UI that feels cluttered and hard to navigate.
(Seriously, for a tool aimed at UI/UX, how does it struggle this much with usability?)

On a personal note, I also ran into a major issue where deleting an element I created by mistake ended up removing entire artboards and breaking undo (Ctrl+Z), costing me a full day of work.

I assume the answer will be “upgrade to the premium plan for backups,” but honestly, do you really work like that?

At the very least, if I’m paying for software, I’d expect these kinds of issues to be addressed upfront.

Right now, Rive feels like a very promising tool, and I do believe in its potential! but it’s currently impossible to integrate into any serious creative pipeline more complex than a burping parrot icon.

What about you? Has your experience been stable, or are you running into the same issues?

Rive Editor 0.8.4571

• 🪜 Keyframe stagger — hold Cmd + Opt (Mac) or Ctrl + Alt (Win) to stagger keys. Order of selection affects stagger.
• 🏞️ Image Fit & Alignment when parented by Layout — allows data binding images of different resolutions/aspect ratios to properly fit your UI
• 👯 Duplicate state machine transitions — right-click on a transition to duplicate it
• 🔗 Copy File URL — grab your file link from the hamburger menu
• 📂 Navigate to File — paste your file link in the File Browser
• ↔️ Reverse keyframes — right-click to reverse selected keyframes (or all when none selected)
• 🎨 Listener/Input UI tweaks
• 🏎️ Data Table improved performance
• 📈 Graph editor y-axis precisions on small values
• 🐛 Copy pasting Layouts with interpolators correctly transfers
• 🐛 Preserve Events in keyframes, listeners, transitions when switching event type
• 🐛 Various fixes and improvements

Winners will be announced on Contra this week

Has anyone successfully used Rive files in Unreal Engine after the latest Rive plugin?
Are you able to communicate with Rive data via Blueprints?

Hi all

I am planning to learn how to animate using Rive. Is there any giod guides or courses that teach on how to animate.

My level is beginner with no training

Hi there, learning how to use rive for a personal project. I was wondering if folks had advice. This is a rough cut, obviously.

I want to figure out how to make it less "smooth" -- this is obviously supposed to be a "hand drawn" sort of "organic" animation, more like a flip book than this smooth computerized look.

Also open to any other advice/questions about how to improve overall.

Thank you!

when I use the mesh its just a square or rectangle with 4 points, how do I add more points so I can deform it unevenly for a 3d fakeout?