I have a first person controller and currently if I walk into a slightly transparent object, it disappears until I walk out of it.
I have a 'water' cube object that is very light blue and transparent, and when I move my camera into third person view then enter the water, my screen turns light blue which is good. In first person mode (which is what I'm trying to figure out), the cube disappears and my screen color remains the same.
I know it has something to do with my camera but even after going through all the features on unity docs and changing a few settings in the inspector, it all remains the same.
Like mentioned in the comments your cube is not visible because the backside of its faces is being culled, meaning they are not rendered. This is not a camera setting but a property of the shader your water cubes material is using.
You could create get a duplicate of the shader your are using where you add Cull Off to change this.
Read about it here.
If you want to go that route you need the source files for your shader. Assuming it is one of the Unity Built in shaders you can get them from the Unity Download archive here for your Unity version.
Clipping the camera trough objects is rarely a desired and you should look at a different way of achieving your effect like using a post-processing volume because the "water" would still be a cube and be drawn behind everything in front of its faces.
For example in a FPS type game this would result in the gun not changing color.
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I am working on a small game where I only want to draw the objects (mesh) when it is inside an invicible box. I have gotten the clipping to work so that the mesh is only rendered inside the box (using the solution mentioned here: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1875660/urp-render-only-whats-inside-a-cube.html
The only annoyance now is that even when the mesh is clipped, the SSAO is still being rendered as you can see in the following image (in the red box):
I assume it is because the object is still contributing to the depth normals - but I am unable to find more information about this - or even if this is the actual issue.
Do any of you have a suggestion for how to prevent this from happening?
I am using Unity 2021.2.8f and URP v12.1.3 btw
The Postprocessing effect SSAO is applied to all layers seen (not culled) by your main camera. Try to put the object on a different layer and ignore it on your main camera.
You could also integrate an additional forward renderer (+ new camera) to your project, which does not use the SSAO effect and takes care of your object.
I have a 2D polygon that is defined by a edgeCollider. Is there a way to hide everything that is outside of the shape and show only what is inside?
I tried using skyboxes and lights. I thought about creating a mask(but i dont know how to create such a mask).
Is there a way to only show what is inside the shape defined by edge collider?
What about using the colliders trigger events?
Set this polygon as a trigger in the edgeCollider2D component in the inspector. Then you can use the collider OnEnterTrigger2D.
Your gameobjects are all disabled until this edgeCollider collides with in. Then disable the gameobject OnExitTrigger2D.
If you wanted to limit it to a certain number of object only. You would set a layer to only hide/show these object.
void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {
if(other.gameObject.layer == "hiddenObject"){
other.gameObject.enable = true;
}
}
Then the reverse on the OnTriggerExit2D.
I'm not sure the effect that you are aiming for. So another solution could be a postprocessing shader.
I can only give a high level description on this however.
You would take the final screen image texture, and the current position of the polygon and then add the pixels from the screen texture to the polygon texture and output this texture. (this shader has to exists already).
But you want the inverse of these.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/shader-TransparentCutoutFamily.html
You're wanting to keep what's in the hole and get rid of what's outside of it?
You can download the built in shaders to edit them here
https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive
Just find your version of unity and select builtin shaders from the drop down.
Edit: "SPOTLIGHT!", try this but with your custom shape
http://www.shaderslab.com/demo-49---spotlight.html
How do I remove this "giggly" effect when slowly moving a sprite?
I have tried adjusting Antialiasing values in QualitySettings and Filter Mode in ImportSettings in the Unity Editor but that doesn't change anything.
Ideally, I would like to keep the Filter Mode to Point (no filter) and anti aliasing turned on to 2x
The sprite is located inside a Sprite Renderer component of a GameObject.
I have uploaded my Unity Project here: http://www.filedropper.com/sprite
I really don't know how to fix the problem... Can anyone help with my personal project?
I cooked up a quick animation to demonstrate what's happening here:
The grid represents the output pixels of your display. I've overlaid on top of it the sliding sprite we want to sample, if we could render it with unlimited sub-pixel resolution.
The dots in the center of each grid cell represent their sampling point. Because we're using Nearest-Nieghbour/Point filtering, that's the only point in the texture they pay attention to. When the edge of a new colour crosses that sampling point, the whole pixel changes colour at once.
The trouble arises when the source texel grid doesn't line up with our output pixels. In the example above, the sprite is 16x16 texels, but I've scaled it to occupy 17x17 pixels on the display. That means, somewhere in every frame, some texels must get repeated. Where this happens changes as we move the sprite around.
Because each texel is rendered slightly larger than a pixel, there's a moment where it completely bridges the sampling points of two adjacent pixels. Both sampling points land within the same enlarged texel, so both pixels see that texel as the nearest one to sample from, and the texel gets output to the screen in two places.
In this case, since there's only a 1/16th scale difference, each texel is only in this weird situation for a frame or two, then it shifts to its neighbour, creating a ripple of doubled pixels that appears to slide across the image.
(One could view this as a type of moiré pattern resulting from the interaction of the texel grid and the sampling grid when they're dissimilar)
The fix is to ensure that you scale your pixel art so each texel is displayed at the size of an integer multiple of pixels.
Either 1:1
Or 2:1, 3:1...
Using a higher multiple lets the sprite move in increments shorter than its own texel size, without localized stretching that impacts the intended appearance of the art.
So: pay close attention to the resolution of your output and the scaling applied to your assets, to ensure you keep an integer multiple relationship between them. The blog post that CAD97 links has practical steps you can take to achieve this.
Edit: To demonstrate this in the Unity project you've uploaded, I modified the camera settings to match your pixels to units setting, and laid out the following test. The Mario at the top has a slightly non-integer texel-to-pixel ratio (1.01:1), while the Mario at the bottom has 1:1. You can see only the top Mario exhibits rippling artifacts:
You might be interested in this blog post about making "pixel-perfect" 2D games in Unity.
Some relevant excerpts:
If you start your pixel game with all the default settings in Unity, it will look terrible!
The secret to making your pixelated game look nice is to ensure that your sprite is rendered on a nice pixel boundary. In other words, ensure that each pixel of your sprite is rendered on one screen pixel.
These other settings are essential to make things as crisp as possible.
On the sprite:
Ensure your sprites are using lossless compression e.g. True Color
Turn off mipmapping
Use Point sampling
In Render Quality Settings:
Turn off anisotropic filtering
Turn off anti aliasing
Turn on pixel snapping in the sprite shader by creating a custom material that uses the Sprite/Default shader and attaching it to the SpriteRenderer.
Also, I'd just like to point out that Unless you are applying Physics, Never Use FixedUpdate. Also, if your sprite has a Collider and is moving, it should have a Kinematic RigidBody attached even if you're never going to use physics, to tell the engine that the Collider is going to move.
Same problem here. I noticed that the camera settings and scale are also rather important to fix the rippling problem.
Here is What Worked for me:
Go to Project Settings > Quality
Under Quality Make the default Quality as High for all.
Set the Anistropic Texture to "Disabled"
Done, And the issue is resolved for me.
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I am trying to make a VR game with google cardboard in unity. However we can not find a way to display score text right in front of the player. However when I add 2D text it is only on one side and therefore on one side of the eye and getting the position right for 2 texts is hard. If I use 3D text and set in front of the players position I think it will go into the wall if a player hits one. Is their any way to display a score on google cardboard / Unity VR.
You can either use native Unity Canvas UI or Googles hack to render OnGUI calls onto a texture.
I would definately recommend Canvas as that is the way Unity is working on their UI features, and it has much better layout capability.
To use canvas, Right click in the hierarchy and add UI->Text. You will automatically get a canvas. The important part is set the canvas to world-space (not screen space overlay). Then drag the canvas game object so it is a child of the Google Cardboard Main head object. Scale it down (like x:0.001,y:0.001,z=0.001) because by default it will be massive. To avoid going through walls position it about 0.5m in front of the camera - within any collider you may have.
there is another approach as well which you can place that canvas under camera make it world space, and then adjust it as you want, after that where ever you look at it will be seen easily ( as suggested by earlier user in answers) as you can see below in picture i placed canvas > Text > under camera which i used for oculus/ google camera
Ok ill get straight to the point, here is an image of what i want to achieve:
And here is an Image of what my game looks like:
What I'm referring to is how the tiles seamlessly "connect". As you can see, on the first image there is a slight fade from one tile to the next one, for example where the sand and grass meet. On the second image, my game, there is not fade and no transition and it looks very bad. Like when the grass changes colors, there is no fade/filtering.
I assume this is a fairly common problem, so is there any assets from the asset store that solve this problem, or any built in solution within Unity? (Without writing own own custom script, of course) If there isnt any, how do I go about creating this filtering/transition between the tiles?
I suggest you to draw them on your own in some software and then importing it in Unity, other way to do it is to make them overlay where the transition is and put 50% opacity on both layers just where they are overlaping, this will give you small effect of transition.