I am using an orthographic camera view where the camera follows the player, but does not rotate. When the player goes behind other objects I need a way to still see it. I played with hiding the objects but the prefabs I am using from the asset store do not seem to work well unless they are rendered opaque.
How can I have the player show through other objects, or have an outline or 'ghost' of the player visible?
I would suggest you to use another camera which will have same behaviour (same position/rotation, movement) as your main camera but will only render the player's layer. so when player goes behind other objects, this camera can still see it and make sure it renders on top of everything else using Depth property of camera.
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I am learning how to make games using unity, i have used free sprite packs from unity's store.
i have selected each individual sprite and changed its z position to 0, but when the game runs it looks completely different to how it looks in the editing window.
please help.
Here is a video I recorded.
https://youtu.be/2hb9m01PQBk
Are your sprites on a prefab, or children of another game object? The Transform of the parent object affects the transform of all children.
It looks like this is a camera problem. Your camera is set to perspective, it is possible to do parallax backgrounds with a perspective camera and you may have already accomodated for it, but that is the first thing I would check.
You can modify this by going to your Main Camera and selecting Orthographic from the Projection drop-down menu.
I am entirely new to Unity. I have a task to work with a tool in Unity. I'm not sure the "Game" is where I should work or the "Scene"? this is how my "Game" tab looks like, but I saw animations in the "Scene" tab. for changing parameters of animation, I should come back to the "Game" tab to change and again go to the "Scene" tab to see the result. I think something is wrong, and I should see the animation in the "Game" tab. Am I right?
It was confusing for me to explain my problem cause I have no idea!
It's very confusing what is happening in your Unity scene.
I assume either you have a disabled camera object or no camera at all.
Search the hierarchy for a MainCamera object and enable it. The game view is rendered from cameras in the application. If you cannot find a camera gameobject, try adding a camera (Gameobject>Camera). If you could find a camera gameobject, you should also check it's Camera component has target display set to Display 1.
In the Scene View at the top left, you can click 2D View. Then you can select the canvas in the hierarchy and press "F", while your mouse is over the scene view, to focus it there. In the end, you should be able to see the canvas in the scene view just as you can in the game view.
In fact, you don't need a camera in the scene to render UI elements, which is quite confusing. So if you don't need to solve the "no camera rendering" problem, as long as there are no 3D objects you want to draw. Keep in mind that you will probably need to manually place an audio listener if you want to hear something at some point.
In your hierarchy window search box write this :
t:Camera
And see if any will show up. The camera needs to be enabled if there is one present. If there is none, then you need to create one from GameObjects -> Camera.
As above answers indicate, there is a missing Camera object. Please keep in mind also that a disabled parent object will affect child objects. This was my case, my Camera object was a child object for a XR Ring object which was disabled and I was getting the "No Cameras rendering" message.
Unity has video tutorials about this where it claims to simply add NavMeshSurface component to an object and rotate the object to any orientation to get behaviors like walking on walls, etc.
However, this does not work for all orientations. Here is what happens when I try it out for a random surface. Note that I have a script that rebakes the NavMesh for every left mouse button click.
if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
surface.BuildNavMesh();
Link to view my video
I have a scene in HoloLens2 where walls are generated at runtime and I want a spider to walk on them. So naturally, I want NavMeshes to get generated on walls irrespective of their orientation. Please help.
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I have a VR project for which I am trying to render a canvas to be "always on top" of everything using a separate UI camera as noted here.
I made my UICamera object a child of the main camera - which is the centerEyeAnchor object in the OVRCameraRig.
And I set the culling mask for my UICamera to only show its layer and removed that layer from the main camera (CenterEyeAnchor).
But in fact the perspective is weird and it seems like the UICamera is offset a little bit but its transform is zero'd out in the inspector, so I don't why it's displaying so weird.
If I set the culling mask to "Everything" for both cameras it's still offset a little.
In general you don't need the UI camera to be a child of CenterEyeAnchor. Move it out to to the top level and zero out the coordinates. The Oculus rig might be doing some magic with IPD or something else and it screws up the pixel-perfectness of UI.
My title might have actually been a bit misworded, as to be honest I'm not sure how to word it, but basically I'm making a game on Unity and I have my main scene and I am making a main menu however what I want to do is have a, I guess, camera slowly panning around the main scene as the background of the main menu. Not sure if I worded that right or what wording to actually type into Google to research it so I'm hoping you guys might be able to point me in the right direction.
Cheers guys,
Jason
As stromdotcom mentioned you can attach a script to the camera.
It's hard to tell what you're trying to do but if you want to circle the camera around a point...
Try making an empty game object in the middle of your scene and point the camera at it.
Make the object the parent of the camera (using the object and cameras transform properties).
From here you should be able to set the game object to rotate using a script, which should make the camera spin as it is a child of the object.
I have not tried this in Unity but I have used this technique in other programs so I'm assuming it will work. Sorry if it doesn't.
If your scene is already set up then you can attach a script to your camera which simply modifies the camera's transform to move it around the room. You can move and rotate the camera just like any other transform in your scene.
Im pretty sure what you are looking for is "Animation view". Unity has a tutorial on it: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/animation/animation-view?playlist=17099