Getting Camera to Render Unity UI prefab

Jackyboy

Hey Chris,

  I was finally able to create a custom unity UI but I cannot get it to render within the view of my custom camera.  I know it spawns during the game because after the Actionlist was activated, I paused the game and saw it in the scene view floating above my scene.

I'm also checking the unity forum in case that's a Unity issue but I'm just seeing stuff about rendering textures as of now.  Help me.  Thanks

ChrisIceBox

What is your Canvas's Render mode set to?  You'll have to give more detail about how you've set it up, as well as about this custom camera you've got.

If you're not looking to make a World Space UI (i.e. one that works in 3D), you might want to take a look at the supplied Demo UIs, which are basically Unity UI versions of each of AC's default menus - they can be found in AdventureCreator/Demo/UI.

Jackyboy

 Thanks @Ressie

The mistake I made was putting the actual canvas to 'Linked Canvas' 

Good stuff!  It works now.

Jackyboy

I have a small issue.  Although I get the UI to show, it only pops up for a second then disappears.   I tried creating both actionlist to run during the game and also during the cutscene and it still only shows for a second.  

I'd like it the menu to remain visible until the user presses the 'i' button.  I've already set up 'i' as an active input so that's fine, but getting the menu to remain visible is the problem

ChrisIceBox

What is your Menu's "Appear type" currently set to?

Also, it's not clear if this is because it's a Unity UI, or the menu's properties in the Menu Manager.  Try temporarily changing it back to a regular Adventure Creator menu (just give it a background / size so that you can see it), and see if it then works.

Jackyboy

It's a Unity UI and its render mode is set to 'Screen space overlay'  

The appear type is set to 'Manual' and I tried other settings as well but they didn't work.  

I'll try what you said and will let you know.  However the reason why I wanted to use Unity UI is to have a scrolling text list.  If I can get the AC menu type to scroll text as well then I won't need to use Unity's.

Thanks

Jackyboy

Hey Chris I followed your tutorial, printed it and went over it again and again.  The Diary does not open.  When I click on it in the inventory, the cursor blinks and nothing happens.  Here's my set up

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a492/Paid_Surveys/menujournal_zpsaj9ljqva.jpg

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a492/Paid_Surveys/Menu actionlist_zpsa9es3khb.jpg

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a492/Paid_Surveys/diary1_zpskwzphprw.jpg

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a492/Paid_Surveys/canvas_zpshvmapadg.jpg

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a492/Paid_Surveys/diary menu_zpsrhcs5gwn.jpg

ChrisIceBox

It may be that the ActionList is getting run twice rapidly - test this by inserting a 1-second pause after each Menu: Change state Action.

Your screenshots still suggest you are using Unity UI.  Again, change it's Source to Adventure Creator first - AC won't be able to have scrolling in the same way, but we need to determine the source of this problem.

Jackyboy

Ok thanks, I'll edit that and test.  

Jackyboy

So the adventure Creator menu works fine; it's definitely a Unity UI issue.  

ChrisIceBox

And what was the result of the 1-second pause, when set back to Unity UI?