What would be the best way to render overlay objects, or objects that render on top of other geometry in 3D?
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Maybe by rendering a separate scene / group without clearing the render buffers (or z only) in onAfterRender or disabling depth testing if thats an option and the overlay objects are already sorted.
Theres also renderOrder in threejs. I think we export that from Unity too from the material but am not 100% sure right now
What version of Unity were the samples done in? I am trying to look at the Stencil Sample, but when upgraded to 2021.3.12f1 all the custom layer information is gone so can’t really see what is going on. Is that how I should manage the objects using a RenderObject Feature?
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2020.3.x
Sorry a little new to the RenderObjects and advanced rendering stuff in URP.
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Yes thats controlled via the Layers.
Weird it is not working for me for some reason. I will pull down the repo again and open in 2020.3. When opening it said it was an unknown version for some reason in Hub.
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Yeah this is what I am seeing when trying to clone through GitHub desktop, in Unity Hub. If I try switching versions it shows the second image.
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Oh thats weird. Its 2020.3 tho. Thanks for letting me know will check why that is tomorrow
Mmh the ProjectVersion.txt says 2020.3.33f1 tho
I will update to that and try
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Okay that is why I opened the “needle-engine-samples” in Hub not “needle-engine-samples\projects\Needle Engine Samples 2020_3”
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Oh haha i see
I didn’t notice sorry
No poblem
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User error on my part
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Okay, now everything is working with Hub accessing the right folder.
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okay I got it 90% where I need it. Only issue is the Shadow Catcher is rendering on top. Any ideas on why that might be happening?
I got lucky in random testing and got it working with a combination of RenderObjects and a script to set the needed values. My first TS code and I managed to make it work.
import { Behaviour, serializeable, Renderer } from "@needle-tools/engine"; export class ImagePlane extends Behaviour { // this will be a "Transform" field in Unity @serializeable() renderOrder: number = 1; @serializeable() depthTest: boolean = false; @serializeable() depthWrite: boolean = true; start(){ const imgRender = this.gameObject.getComponent(Renderer); imgRender.renderOrder = [this.renderOrder]; imgRender.sharedMaterial.depthTest = this.depthTest; imgRender.sharedMaterial.depthWrite = this.depthWrite; } }
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Okay it looks like this was resolved when I switched to a material set Transparent instead of Opaque
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@Marcel_Wiessler1 
And apparently this breaks, ie the objects disappear, in AR. Any thoughts on what might cause that?
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