This is a follow up to this question regarding how to display objects on one camera only in google-vr and unity.
In the current demo project of Unity and Google-vr, I can only access Main Camera Left and Main Camera Right while running the game. During runtime, I am able to disable a layer with the culling mask of one camera.
But I am not able to save those changes while running the game. If I stop, the two Main Cameras Left/Right disappear and I only see Main Camera and GvrReticle as child.
I suspect the cameras are created or imported from a prefab during runtime.
What would be the right way to have the left / right cameras accessible when not running the screne?
It's mentioned in the guide:
Often you will wish to add the stereo rig to your scene in the Editor rather than at runtime. This allows you to tweak the default parameters of the various scripts provided in this plugin, and provides a framework on which to add additional scripts and objects, such as 3D user interface elements.
To turn your Camera into a stereo camera, select the Camera (or Cameras) in the Hierarchy panel, then execute the main menu command Component > Google VR > Update Stereo Cameras.
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New to unity so hoping this is a dumb / quick fix.
I'm using XR Interaction Toolkit's XR Origin camera (device-based if it matters) and want to add a second camera to overlay my UI elements so the canvases appear on top of walls / elements instead of intersecting and being hidden by them.
I've duplicated my main camera and removed all scripts except the main camera one, set it as a child to the previous main camera, and adjusted the culling masks to be UI-only and Everything-but-UI. I've also set the depth of the ui camera to be higher than the main camera, and set Clear Flags to Depth only. My UI elements are in the correct layer and the camera of the canvas is the child UI camera.
The result is a disaster. When I click the button to bring up my UI overlay, me view becomes a 360 pixelated block of tiny mirrored rectangles.
Any help would be appreciated, or workarounds not using 2 cameras.
Thanks all
Basically, there is a problem with ARFoundation package in Unity3D.
At first, I generate avatar model from the AvatarSDK. Not really important at this problem. but anyway. It returns skinned mesh renderer with blendshapes.
What I want to do next is to control those blendshapes with my own face through front camera. For this, on my scene I loaded ARSession/ARInputManager, ARSessionOrigin/ARFaceManager.
Then, when by model is generated, I enable ARFaceManager component to track face.
What I see next is front camera image with my virtual model on it.
The problem is I need to track face by front camera, but I do not want to see front camera image on screen.
Can it be solved?
In order to do this, you need to create a new skybox cubemap material first.
After you've done so, navigate to AR Session Origin > Main Camera in your hierarchy and find the AR Camera Background component.
Click the Use Custom Material checkbox and load your newly created skybox material as the custom material.
This will override the default camera material setting.
Good luck!
I would like to make a basic game to practice some unity scripting. How can I add a new camera to my scene? I have created a cube as my main character and dragged a camera script from the store onto my cube but it says no cameras rendering.
what do you mean with "dragged a camera script from the store"
Instead, after you added your cube, select it and in the inspector (normally on the right side of your editor), click "add component" and type in "camera" and select the camera component
I am making a first-person game using Unity and Vuforia. What I'm trying to achieve is that the user can have a marker attached on an object that can be held in his hand (a bottle, a book, or toy). So when he plays the game, he can hold the object in his hand, have the object facing the webcam, and move or rotate the object to control the first person character in Unity, e.g., tilt the marker-attached bottle in physical world so the first person character moves forward in Unity's virtual world. ps. by virtual world I mean just a basic first-person character walking around in a room, not the kind of VR that involves Oculus Rift.
I just played around with Vuforia. The good thing is I can choose my own image as the marker (looks like not every marker-based Unity plug-in can do this). But with Vuforia, can I create a virtual environment that's not showing the webcam's view? I did a basic Vuforia + Unity tutorial that only shows what the webcam captures and overlays a virtual cube on the detected marker. Summary of what I need is: not showing the webcam's view but still have the webcam functioning that it can capture the marker and I can use its position/rotation. In a way you can say I am just using the marker+webcam combo as a sensor used to control my virtual world activity.
Thanks!
From what I get it appears you want to use your marker as a target object to control motion in AR..
You'll have to build the functionality in Unity only as to what you want it to do specifically according to your set gameplay..
For example if you want a virtual dog to follow a target object, one easy way to do it is to provide an offset between the marker and the game Object and play a walking/running animation.
So it will appear as if the object is always following the marker, whereas in reality it is playing same animation at a constant distance.
As far as importing the marker is concerned.. It is no different than what you must have done with your cube..
In your Vuforia account Dev Portal:
Download the Vuforia SDK and import in your Unity asset folder.
Go to Liscense Manager under Develop tab and add a Liscense Key.
Now go to the Target Manager and add your images in the Databse which you want as target. (make sure the image quality is good for it to work prperly)
Now download the database and import it in your Assets folder in Unity.
Now go to your Liscense Manager again and copy your Liscense key and Open Vuforia Configuration under Vuforia Behaviour (Script) when you click on AR Camera, you'll find a dialog box there, paste this key there.
Save the build and run your game in Unity and bring the marker in front of the Webcam and it should work properly.
Hope this helps.
I am developing an app with vuforia Cloud Recos. I want to add the feature of allowing the user to pause the page so she does not have to keep pointing the device on the target to view the trackable. This is pretty useful when I want to show texts. Is there anyway to achieve that on Unity3D ? A good example is Microsoft's Here City Lens app which includes a button to pause the page as the screenshot shows;
You could take a screenshot of the screen and apply it to an Image UI object. That is if you do not need the camera feed anymore.
If you need interaction with the elements, I would only take a screenshot of the camera feed without items. Get AR camera transform, apply it to a new camera, disable AR camera.Then apply the screenshot to a background plane covering the whole screen. Keep items on as well and they do not listen to Vuforia anymore. You are pretty much recreating a basic Unity scene. The items should not be moving with Vuforia, the camera is. So they are still in the middle and you need to know where was the camera when you took the shot. Your scene is complete