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2D Camera - Preview is not working

Discussion in '2D' started by Salade_de_poney, Jan 20, 2017.

  1. Salade_de_poney

    Salade_de_poney

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    Hello everyone,

    I wanted to use unity for one of my project and I already face my first problem: I cannot see anything through the preview.
    I found no answers online :(

    I tried to recreate the camera,change position, change few setting but nothing can make it work. Here is a picture of my current settings:

    http://imgur.com/a/k5mEC

    Thank you for helping me !
     
    Salade_de_poney, Jan 20, 2017
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  2. mgear

    mgear

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    Camera Z is 0, try if you make it -10 or so?
    (maybe that's why it cannot see those objects that are also in z=0)
     
    mgear, Jan 20, 2017
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  3. Salade_de_poney

    Salade_de_poney

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    How come I missed that part... Thank you very much
     
    Salade_de_poney, Jan 20, 2017
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  4. DemonStray

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    Didn't want to make a new thread, as my issue is somewhat relevant to this topic.

    I was having some trouble earlier that resulted from the Z value of the camera being at the same Z position as other objects, but I quickly fixed that. However, to my knowledge, changing the Z position of the 2D camera was never supposed to change the size of sprites, was it? I've watched some videos of people creating simple 2D games in Unity (pre-5.6, not sure what versions) and the Z value only ever seems to determine its own sorting layer, essentially, without ever appearing to zoom in or out in distance. My issue is that as I decrease the Z value, it actually zooms out and as a result, it's become nearly impossible for me to get assets to appear organized at all; I find it ugly when my test scene's camera cuts off in the middle of a "pixel" on what's supposed to be a piece of pixel art.

    Anyone familiar with this, and got any advice? Sorry I don't have any screenshots, I'm timid of sharing images of what I'm working on. ;)
     
    DemonStray, Apr 26, 2017
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  5. RockyWallbanger

    RockyWallbanger

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    It sounds like your camera is set to perspective. An orthographic camera won't scale the sprites. For the record, neither will a perspective camera, it's just that your viewing the sprite from closer or further making it appear smaller or larger.
     
    RockyWallbanger, Apr 26, 2017
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  6. DemonStray

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    Oh boy, I'm like 99.9% sure you're right. It was only the second or third time I've ever opened Unity, so it makes perfect sense that I'd make such a rookie mistake ahaha.
     
    DemonStray, Apr 28, 2017
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  7. jeffthoms321

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    Its happens first time when we use 3d and 2d tools thats why camera is most important part of it
     
    jeffthoms321, May 4, 2017
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