Steam VR Fade camera

Questions & Answers
1

I know Steam VR has a fade script. Of course without being a programmer it’s hard to get that to work. So I wondered if anyone had a working example they could show me?

2

I’m just going to leave this here, for if someone else is having trouble getting the steamvr fading to work.

What worked for me was to add the SteamVR_Fade script from the steamvr unity package to the camera child object under the [CameraRig] which has the SteamVR_Camera script on it. I believe in the standard prefab its the “Camera (eye)” object.

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Then when I want to fade I just call the static SteamVR_Fade.Start method.

Test script I Used:

using UnityEngine;

public class SteamVrFadeTest : MonoBehaviour 
{
    private float _fadeDuration = 2f;

    private void Start()
    {
        FadeToWhite();
        Invoke("FadeFromWhite", _fadeDuration);
    }

    private void FadeToWhite()
    {
        //set start color
        SteamVR_Fade.Start(Color.clear, 0f);
        //set and start fade to
        SteamVR_Fade.Start(Color.white, _fadeDuration);
    }

    private void FadeFromWhite()
    {
        //set start color
        SteamVR_Fade.Start(Color.white, 0f);
        //set and start fade to
        SteamVR_Fade.Start(Color.clear, _fadeDuration);
    }
}
3

Hi,
I have attached the steamVR fade script to the camera(eye) and then attached your script above to a random object, the script works ok but I just want it to fade from white and not the double fade, to and from, whats the correct syntax for this to work correctly?

4

Addiction to @dsentence 's answer, if you want to fade out on scene change, you can simply use the SteamVR_LoadLevel:

Valve.VR.SteamVR_LoadLevel.Begin(sceneName);

P.S. you can input the background color and fade out time.