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Question Black Asset silhouette Preview

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by craigjwhitmore, May 19, 2020.

  1. craigjwhitmore

    craigjwhitmore

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    In the Project view when I enlarge the view to show the items in a selected folder, all I see are black silhouettes, rather than a coloured images. When the item is selected, the inspector shows a lit 3d image correctly, as does adding the item to the scene.

    Here's an example.
    unity project.png
     
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  2. craigjwhitmore

    craigjwhitmore

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    Does anyone know how to fix this please?

    If I use HDRP, the entire box is black, as well as the inspector shows a white silhouette on a black background.
     
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  3. craigjwhitmore

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    In a standard project, Reimporting fixes the issue, however Reimporting the assets in HDRP. Other asset packages can appear purple on black.

    unity project 2.png
     
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  4. craigjwhitmore

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    Opening the default HDRP project, assets don't show, only grey boxes are present. When reimport is applied, assets show as black & white. 1.png 2.png
     

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  5. Donopardo

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    Hi! Did you find a solution?
     
  6. craigjwhitmore

    craigjwhitmore

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    No real solution. I think it's an issue with Unity's internal shader, it doesn't support a DX11 feature that is not present in older cards, and there is no override in the shader to handle it.

    The only way I managed to sort it out, was to reload each asset individually, although this isn't reliable, sometimes it works, most times, it doesn't.
     
  7. joeyloey

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    I had the same issue, I tried to reimport package - didn't work
    But if I right click on the asset and select "Reimport" it works...you can click to folder as well to fix all assets inside
     
  8. SammmZ

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    Hello from 2023.
    I use Unity 2022.2 with a freshly installed HDRP 14 and default settings. The same issue is here, previews are black. When the item is selected, the inspector shows a black preview as well, but as soon as you click once on the preview window it appears lighted correctly.