why can't see UI elements in scene view

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My problem is ( as illustrated below ) that none of the UI elements are showing up in scene view. All i can see is the boundaries provided by the rectangular tool.

Every other thing is working as expected.

Am I missing something?

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I tried reinstalling Unity, but it didn’t solve the problem.
My current version is 4.6.0f1, but I had the same issue with older versions as well.
I’m running Unity on Windows 7.
I have an Ati HD4300 videocard if that’s relevant (can’t guess how…).
Thanks for helping!

I'm having the same problem: http://screencast.com/t/AqH0HuMZ3Z If I set canvas render mode to World space the elements are visible in SceneView.

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I am also having this problem in 5.0

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I got in contact with the support. Seems like it's fixed in 5.0.2p1. https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases

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i have the same problem using 5.0.2p2

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i had the same issue with 5.0.2p2 and 5.0.2p3, so I did go back to 5.0.2f1 which does not have this issue. (at least for me)

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I solved with selecting Layer menu in the top right corner of unity, check on the relative layer(UI layer). Hope this helps.

Unfortunately, this does not help. My canvases are set to UI layer by default. Even when creating a new project, new scene, new UI element it is still not visible.

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Hahaha i solved with selecting Layer "Default" not "UI"

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JUST PREES ON LAYERS

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Hey guys !
I had the same issue and none of the solutions above seemed to work. Then I just remembered that for an obscure reason you have to unzoom a lot in your scene.

All the UI’s elements are way much bigger than your actual scene size.

Hope this helps.

I had this same problem. Why does the Camera start in the bottom left corner of the screen? And is there a way to fix this?

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Thanks I spent too much time before figuringout that this was the issue :)

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Thanks! Spent 30 mins figuring this out wow

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Thanks for this - I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out as well. Not sure why camera starts on bottom left and scene window won't just auto adjust camera to new object created. Shortcut that is helpful for me to find an object in scene is: press object in hierarchy and hit shift+f in scene to find it there.

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For anyone who has this problem, and yes its not the zoom, nor the Layers dropdown at the top right, nor the zOrdering of the canavas / camera

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I founds this!
if you are using the new Rendering Pipeline, URP, HDRP , LWRP. check the settings at your forward renders, it must have UI and Transparent layer assigned to the transparent layer dropdown!

Like this

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Thanks pal, that worked for me

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thanks man, that really was the issue

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I couldn’t solve it with upgrade to 5.0.2f1 but i saw the answer of “selecting Layer UI” and this didn’t work for me however I selected Default layer and it worked

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also need select “UI” option on “Layers” of top right 。
just now i fix it

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Update to 5.0.2p4 helped for me.

Alright. I will try the latest patch.

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Try resizing the Width and Height of the Rect Transform to fit your content, that worked for me.

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You need to select an object on the scene before attempting to add a UI Component to it. If you want to create a UI object directly, go to GameObject → UI

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If UI element is an Image, you may have set myimage.enabled=false in the update() method.

Although the checkbox next to “image” component would be unchecked in editor, which it doesn’t appear to be in your case.

May help someone else, though.

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I just fixed it by raising the Sort Order level on the Canvas itself. I hope it will be of any help.

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I had the same problem with Unity 2017, and by switching to 2D mode and zooming about a bit, the problem is gone.

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Found another reason this might happen. Just having elements in the Scene is not enough for them to be visible. You have to make sure they are also inside the Canvas item in the scene hierarchy!

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OMG this also happens to me on 2021.3.0f1, i was going crazy until I see this post, thanks!

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Hi, I have unity 5 2d project, I can not open UI components

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. Do i need to import something? How can I make it work.