Hello,
I am trying my very first project in Unity and came across a simple game design video:
When I create a Plane, nothing shows in the scene - nothing at all.
Now, I don’t have a split scene screen like the video shows since this was not the default settings, so it would be nice if getting that set up could have been explained; yet I feel there may be something missing from my fresh install.
Please advise why I am not seeing anything when adding anything to the scene window using ‘Game Object /3d Object/ anything…’
Thank you in advance.
It’s hard to tell. Perhaps your scene view isn’t looking at the place where the object was added. Perhaps you’re not looking at the Scene view at all, but some other tab that’s on top of it. Perhaps you’re looking at your plane edge-on. Or perhaps it’s something I haven’t thought of.
Double-clicking an item in the Hierarchy tab generally centers it in the Scene view, so you might try that.
If that doesn’t solve it, why don’t you post a screen shot of some of these things not showing up, so we can see what you see?
Thank you for the fast response.
Here are 3 screen shots:
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video demo screen #1 - his layout is different than mine, but I don’t think this is an issue and I did try different layouts with no change.
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video demo screen #2 - this shows the Plane on his 2 ‘Scenes’ Is that what both areas are called?
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my screen shot after adding Plane. I also tried adding other things, but got the same result and deleted them.
OK, it’s really weird that your Scene view is completely black. Even when the scene is empty, it should be a sort of dark grey, with (at most camera angles) a light gray grid representing the Y=0 plane.
I also notice you have an error showing at the bottom of the window. If you switch to the Console tab, you can learn more about that. This looks like a Unity error, not an error in your project, so I don’t know that you’ll be able to make much sense of it — but it will give you some specific phrases to Google.
To be clear, this is not your fault — nor is it a common problem (it’s the first I’ve heard of it). Somehow, Unity is not getting along with your system, where it needs to do 3D rendering. Maybe it’s a video driver or video card issue, or something like that (Windows can be tricky that way). But look up those error messages, and maybe post in the Windows platform forum. Hang in there, I’m sure you will get to the bottom of it!
Agreed with Joe.
Just a shot, but see on your Scene view the two buttons at the top that are highlighted? One looks like a sun and the other a picture frame. Turn both of those off and see if that does anything.
