I am trying to make an animation of a countdown.
I first made a Gameobject, created a canvas for it, and inside that canvas I created a UI Image, attached an image to it, and finally created an animation with that image.
Everything is working fine except the animation is not showing in game scene but only in normal scene, but when I go to that UI Image component and start the game I can see the image changing which means that its not the animation but something else.
Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
There are several possibilities. Depending on if the image is showing up at all, you can check if your UI image is anchored correctly (four triangle marks) or pivot position is where you want it (circle mark). Depending on how this is done, if you Game window resizes in play-mode with the display set to Free Aspect, your image may move off the visible screen or, in some cases, get crushed which usually shows up as a red X in the editor. I can see this happening if your Game window is set to Maximize on Play.
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how do I sort game object in front of canvas?
notice that Render Mode set to screen space - overlay
hope you have another option instead of change render mode to camera
UI elements in the Canvas are drawn in the same order they appear in the Hierarchy. The first child is drawn first, the second child next, and so on. If two UI elements overlap, the later one will appear on top of the earlier one.
In case you need to render a 3d gameobject you cannot use the screen space overlay, and need to switch to screen sapace camera.
Everything is very well explained here.
If you could share more details of the concrete problem, what is the outcome of your attempt and what is the result expected, you will be able to obtain more accurate help.
I'm making a main menu for my Android game and I ran into this bug I suppose which I can't seem to resolve.
I made the options button reveal a rect transform that shows sliders for volume control and buttons for right or left shooting button placement.
The UI buttons seem to work fine, but the sliders won't slide. If I place the sliders outside of the game object with the rect transform mask it works, and if for example during the editor play test I copy the slider inside the game object the copy also works, but then for example if I take a slider that was outside of the game object and put it under the game object during the play test it again won't work.
Has any of you encountered this issue? How can you work around that so I maintain the revealing-window effect? Thanks.
EDIT: I fixed it by resetting the scale values of the rect transform of the holding game object to 1. It was set to 117 while the width and height were set to values 117 times smaller than they would have otherwise. I don't know why it messes with hoe the touch is read for the sliders, but it was resolved after scaling it down to 1 and adjusting the rect width and height and the UI objects' scale back.
Does any know or can possibly point me to some instructions or a github repository on how I can create a script where I have an object and in GoogleVr (Cardboard) if I was to gaze over an object, a tooltip would appear?
If anyone is familiar, in the Cardboard Demos under Under Arctic Journey > Learn, when you click on the fox, a tooltip appears to showcase that item along with like a brief description on it. I want to have something similar (maybe even the same thing) except just having a gaze over will automatically show it. Is this possible?
I want to have this done on multiple objects in my project so I want it created so I can easily substitute out text and whatnot.
Have a script with a reference to a World Space Canvas (WSC). The WSC will be your tooltip and be activated when you hover over the object and disabled when you don't.
You can set images and texts of the WSC through the inspector or through code if you make a reference to them.
The script should also always have its rotation set to face the player.
You can use the SetActive(bool) method to show or hide the WSC.
The UI system makes it easy to create UI that is positioned in the world among other 2D or 3D objects in the Scene.
Start by creating a UI element (such as an Image) if you don’t already have one in your scene by using GameObject > UI > Image. This will also create a Canvas for you.
Set the Canvas to World Space
Select your Canvas and change the Render Mode to World Space.
Now your Canvas is already positioned in the World and can be seen by all cameras if they are pointed at it, but it is probably huge compared to other objects in your Scene. We’ll get back to that.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/HOWTO-UIWorldSpace.html
Did you find out why this was happening? I'm having the same issue here.
I had a canvas with a scroll bar working normally, I needed to set the canvas render mode to "Screen Space - Camera", and now the bar doesn't move anymore.
When you change the Canva's Render Mode from Screen Space - Overlay to Screen Space - Camera, an new slot called Render Camera will appear under the Canvas. Drag your main camera into this slot. That camera will be used to send events to the UI elements.
If you've already done this but the problem is still there, delete the ScrollRect and create a new one. Finally, if the ScrollRect is still not moving, make sure that no other UI object is blocking it.
Maybe a hidden panel or image with 0 alpha... Any UI object that is below the ScrollRect in the Hierarchy tab will block the ScrollRect if on top of it.
EDIT:
Once you drag the main camera to the Render Camera slot, Plane Distance slot will appear. Also make sure that it's not set to 0. Mine is set to 100 as shown in the screenshot above and that should work fine.
There might be multiple reasons why your scrollview doesn't work
I encountered with a similar problem. My canvas had a background image so i had to put a Image element without a sprite and set the alpha to "0" within Content of scrollview.
when your viewport field is not referring to viewport object in scroll rect
Try altering the movement type
I also had this problem due to not having an EventSystem in the scene.
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