Rendering Player and Gun in Front of Other Objects?

So I'm making an FPS game, but I want to render the gun and player in front of everything else, so that even if the gun was sticking through and object it wouldn't matter because it wouldn't look like it. There was a topic a while back, I think it had something about using two cameras, but I can't find the topic and can't figure out how the two cameras are supposed to work together, is there a simpler solution? or can someone tell me how to do it with the two cameras? Thanks.

 

the rendering order is defined by the queue tag in your shader. What you can do is take the existing shader that you use(take the code for it) built in shaders
and only change the rendering queue to something like Overlay, or Geometry + 10...
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/SL-SubshaderTags.html
Then use this new shader for the gun material.

you can also do it with 2 cameras as follows:
Create a camera that is depth only (rather than skybox).
Set its depth property to be higher than the depth of the main camera.
Put your gun in a specific layer, say gunlayer).
Change the culling mask of the main camera to ignore gunlayer.
Change the culling mask of the second camera to render only the gunlayer

 

Awesome! That worked perfectly. Thanks!

 

could you please elaborate on this shader method? the duel camera solution worked for me but only within unity. it does not however work when applied to Augmented reality. basically I need just one camera to handle the render priority rather than 2 cameras to fix my problem.

 

5 years post.
That's some necro posting there.

 

9 year old post now, saved my life, sorry for the necro..

 

Older now, 12 years ago. Damn. Time really moves huh?

 

I manage to do this by creating a new shader and modifying the render queue.

Create a new shader, and open it. Inside the shader script find the "subshader" and inside it add ZTest Always, and save your shader. Create a new material and use the new shader you've created. At the bottom part of your material inspector find "renderQueue" and change this number higher than 2000. Drag the material to the object you want to render on top of others.

That should render your objects on top of others.