Place UI element in background (Behind ALLLL game objects)

Questions & Answers
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Hey everyone,

So typically all canvas items will be in the forefront of the entire game for a 2d game. I need ONE element to be able to be behind the entire background.

My canvas setting is screen space - overlay

I really like that setting and I’d like to keep it that way, if I need to make a 2nd canvas with a different setting I’d be happy to do that. But I’m just having trouble understanding some of the answers that seem unrelated to what I’m doing.

Thanks!

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You can change the sorting layer of a canvas and every item inside the canvas will be in that layer. You can create a second canvas with your background object and set the sorthing layer to a layer lower than the rest of the objets.

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3

I do not find that option… I’m using Unity 2019.4.1

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Make sure your canvas -render mode, is set to “Screen Space - Camera”
Than they layers are not that important for the basic use case