Worldspace Canvas appears in editor not in Game.

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Ok I’ve been working on this all day and I can’t find anything on this.

I have a screenspace overlay for my regular gui elements and I’m trying to create some worldspace elements to float around a sphere I have made.

All of the worldspace canvas I create appear in the editor exactly how I want them, but in game they cannot be seen. If I switch to the scene view while running the game they are there visible and in the right places but invisible in the actual game.

Here is a screenshot : 2014-10-31_0038

I’m sure there is just a simple setting I just haven’t figured out how to set yet but I can’t find any information to help me. Anybody have any suggestions?

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i’m going out on a limb as i dont have much information, but are you world space canvas’s on a layer that the camera can draw. GUI is put on the UI layer and i’m not 100% sure if cameras render that layer.

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Oh thank you! That was exactly it.

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I put the Canvas in the default layer, but it isn’t showing in game view. Any suggestions?

Edit: solved it somehow. No idea how.

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How did you solve it ?
Look at this thread.

I have updated to 5.3.4p4 on April 20th, it worked fine until yesterday.
And is not our project, I could reproduce it in an empty project with just a World Space Canvas and a Text.

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Hey,

Same issue here :

After upgrading our project to 5.3.4p4, we noticed that our UI elements are not anymore rendered to the RenderTexture used in the materials.
After making a simple repro project, this looks like a serious bug from Unity :

  1. Create a new UI Canvas with a simple text in World Space
  2. Create a camera that renders only the UI layer in a RenderTexture
  3. Use this RenderTexture as Albedo on a new material, and assign this material to a quad rendered by the MainCamera
  4. The text isn’t displayed (works with 5.3.4f1, don’t work on 5.3.4p4 / p5)

I submitted a bug report, then i noticed that FiveFingers already reported it :

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It also seems to not be working in 5.3.4p6. I upgraded my Unity to it today and my UI isn’t working.
Should I upgrade to one of those 5.4 beta builds if this keeps going on?

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It says that it’s fixed in 5.3.6 but what the hell does that mean???

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Same here, the bug still exists. The only line in the changelog about Render Texture is this one :

“(none) - VR: Fixed an issue with incorrect Render Texture size being used. Most notable with deferred rendering.”

and it’s actually not related to this bug.

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Same here. We have some labels using a worldspace canvas that are renderer on the editor but not when building to iOS nor Android.

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I just updated to Unity 5.4.0b17 and it appears to be fixed…

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I should say I was misguided by forum messages… Our problem was a different one, but the effect was exactly this one. X)

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Just started having this issue today? Running Unity 5.3.4f1, anybody else still experiencing it or have a workaround? Was working fine yesterday uggghh,

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Same here in Unity5.3.4p6 .Unity’s UI Canvas do not show in Cardboard when use worldspace UI . The UI can’t be render to the texture cardboard used .
And in Unity5.3.4.f1 ,the problem doesn’t exist.

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Yeah I noticed that too. In Unity 5.4.0b17 it doesn’t appear to exist…
Maybe it’ll be fixed in the official Unity 5.4 update, but who knows.

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Appears as if it’s back on Unity 5.4.0b18

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Still not working for me on 5.4.0b18 with my repro project.

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The only solution that I can think of (and am using right now) is to turn off the Distortion corrector.

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Still happens in 5.3.5f1 despite it being listed as fixed in the changelog

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Filed Bug Report, Issue 799554

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I have been told from the Unity staff that this issue will be fixed in version5.6;
and now i’am using version Unity 5.3.4p1 ,everything is fine .