The lens flare is positioned in front of the camera, about 20 units away
The lens flare is NOT attached to a light, but rather is attached to an otherwise empty object
The lens flare has directional unchecked
The object is on default layer
The lens flare is set to ignore nothing
The camera’s far plane is 1000, so the flare is in view
The flare is perfectly viewable in the scene view
There are no objects between it and the camera, let alone colliders
The flare has a texture, and it’s bright enough
I’ve tried attaching the flare to a point light as well
The flare works fine in the scene view, but not in the game view.
What’s going wrong!?
EDIT: Another odd thing is that in older projects where the flares used to work, they don’t anymore. This also happens with GUIText. This is a very strange problem.
Perhaps they are fixed problem already,
but possibly my answer helpful for somebody come from google.
I encountered same problem, but only few flares (e.g. “Sun(from space)” and “Laser” in standard assets) worked. common point on these is “Use Fog” property on .flare assets.
other few flares also be works when “Use Fog” property checked out.
but still few flares (e.g. Subtle1,2,3) seems not work ever.
In my case, not showed both (scene view and game view) when use no showing flares.
therefore may be not same cause for original poster, but few case on same problem, perhaps clue of cause is related fog properties?
