Feedback Unity AR App (Android and iOS) Image Tracking: Using four Images to scale a Plane

I started building an Android and iOS AR application with image tracking. The goal is to build a plane with a material on it based on the space between 4 trackable images. So my system should detect and store four image trackers and create Emptys at their locations. With these GameObjects, a custom written Mesh Pipeline should triangulate a plane scaled to these four trackers. I am currently trying to create and store the Emptys but dont really know how to debug my code in Unity since I have to run it on my phone and I'm not shure if my code works well.

Based on the AR Tracked Image Manager from Unity in the following class I used the basics which I found in the documentation (OnEnable, OnDisable and OnChanged). In the OnChanged Method I implemented the handling if a new Image is tracked that the GameObject is build and the Entry in the List is done. Update and Remove are also in here.

I don't know if this is the correct workflow after the ARTrackedImageManager.

Thanks for your help!

 

Here you spawn a gameobject. GameObject tmp = setEmpty(trackedImage.name, trackedImage.transform.position);
Have a list of gameobjects where you add these.
If the list has a size of 4 make a quad out of them

 

and this is what my Inspector for the Session Origin looks like

 

Seems like you have an issue spawning objects in AR when getting an image, not so much the quad generation.
Use debug.log to see where the code does and does not go

 

The Tracked Image variable in Add Anchor threw an error because it wasn't assigned. I'm gonna make some more tests if every thing works

 

I tested it further more and found the problem that every GameObject I instantiate are set to the same position.

 

Also when I lay down all four markers (I use old gamecards) before I start the application they are not being detected. But if I zoom in, then they are detected.

 

So the position I get every time for every detected Image is: 588.24, 890.39, 46.88. This is the possition of the session origin. How do I get the positions from the tracked Images?

 

Maybe spawn a gameobject so you can track the transforms?

 

how do you mean this exactly? I am spawning GameObjects at the tracked positions from the images but they all have the same coordinates.

 

If you visually see them in different positions your code of reading them is wrong (maybe you read your prefab position instead of the spawned GO?)

 

I can't see anything because I use Emptys and I use no prefabs actually because the plane is instantiatet on run time based on a script. I think I am using a wrong variable for the positions from the tracked images but couldn't find the solution therefore

 

i updated the code in the AddAnchor class in one of the upper messages

 

Then spawn a primitive?

 

For debugging it can help and I am gonna test it now but with my written code they all are gonna set at the point (0,0,0). I moved the session origin to that point but every detected Image gives me this coordinates, so every GameObject gets it too. Then all my Gameobjects are at the point (0,0,0) and so my plane between these 4 points can't be shown

 

I tried it with a primitiv cube but as predicted, it was build to the session Origin (0,0,0)

 

I now found out that when I add an empty GameObject to the TrackedImagePrefab variable in the ARTrackedImageManager some of my tracked Images positions are not equal to the ARSession Origin Position. Do you may know why this is so? I realy can't explain it.

 

Sorry, if you can't explain it I cannot help much