How can i enable the “camera preview” - the little window in the scene-window?

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how can i enable the “camera preview” (the little window in the scene-window)? it does not show up when i select the camera…
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I have the same problem. I tried opening camera window but there is no preview at all. Help!!

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My camera is unhided,this will not visible in my scene window.how can l solve this?

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All the mentioned thing’s don’t work for me. In my case, I had to modify the OverlayMenu itselt. Right-Click on the SceneTab header and selece Overlay Menu. Activate Main Camera there and viola, it should work again.

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this worked for me, thanks

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This is the correct answer.

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This is it. This is the right one. Select the main camera in the Hierarchy and open the overlay menu. Also, it's good to know it exists!

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Hey People!
I have fixed the issue for myself I accidentally disabled the Gizmos when I turned back on everything got working for me. If this works for you let me know…

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Thanks! I looked in the list and saw Camera checked so I didn't know why it wasn't showing up.. Turns out, you can make the select highlighted by clicking!

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A selected camera draws a Camera Preview, only when the Inspector is set to Normal mode, not Debug mode.

Ahhh!! Thanks man! Thought I was going crazy!

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To answer this question in case anyone else wants to know: I was scratching my head about this as well, but came across the answer by accident:

  • select the camera you want the preview from
  • look at the inspector
  • expanding the rollout of the section “camera” (it should be right under “Transform”) toggles the preview window at the bottom right of the scene-view.
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Camera preview only shows for one camera at a time. If you have multiple cameras in a scene, don’t forget to disable the cameras you don’t want to see the camera preview for.

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  1. select main camera
  2. Click the button in the top left-hand corner, right under the scene and game tab headings, right above the transform tool in the scene view.
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HELP！！！Accidentally opened two camera previews. I can only hide them manually — selecting other objects doesn’t automatically close them, it seems like they’re locked. Can anyone help explain what’s going on?

I remember that there was a weird behaviour in Unity 2022.3 when it came to the camera preview windows... afaik the MainCamera window is always shown (when active in the Overlay settings) and the other cameras show, when selected. But the MainCamera was always visible, regardless if selected or not. I think you'll have to stick with that, or upgrade to Unity 6 or so.

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