How to make a video the background of a scene in Unity

[fading pulsar]

i tried following tutorials, but i cannot seem to get the texture working? or do i need to assign tehj video player to a square?

[lunar nova]

So right click in your asset folder and create a Render texture (Give it the dimensions you need)

Name it whatever you want
Then create a video player in your scene (if you don't already have one)
Then assign the render texture assign the render texture as the Target Texture in the Video player

Then inside your Canvas Create a Raw Image (this is where your video will be player)

Then select it and assign the render texture in the Texture field of the Raw Image

That should give you a playing video when you start the game

If you want it to play on a 3d obj assign the render texture as the input texture to the material

[fading pulsar]

oh hello UV

[lunar nova]

Hello 👋

Didn't we already do the same before?

Has it stopped working?

[fading pulsar]

yeah it didnt work

so i got rid of it

but now i need to redo it

[lunar nova]

This was the only thingy left which we did fix
Anyways try redoing it

[fading pulsar]

nono thats not the same

that was a different issue

not issue i mean, another thing that we did

[lunar nova]

Lemme know what I current issue is after you follow the steps

If you have already deleted the previous stuff there's no point talking about it

[fading pulsar]

does not work? do ineed to create a anew canvas

because i already have a canvas

used for my pause menu

wait nvm

it works

but why is it covering everything?

i dont want it to coverall of my game

[lunar nova]

Needs to be behind everything

So put it at the top under the canvas

Objects in the canvas will be rendered on top of each other

Thus the object at the top will be covered by objects below that that

[fading pulsar]

i put it at the top of the canvas but it still covers everything

also how to play multiple videos in the same gameobject?

i can only play one even though i have multiple video players

[lunar nova]

Well make different render textures and assign and reassign them based on your needs

[lunar nova]

Could you send a screenshot of the hierarchy and the scene view of how to looks

[lunar nova]

And are there are any other canvases?

[fading pulsar]

no

[lunar nova]

Hm what you can try and do
Hm what you can try and do is
Have it on a different layer and make 2 cameras one for rendering the video and one for the rest of the ui
So the other camera will just render the video so set the layer culling as only the layer of the video
And remove the layer from.the second camera

Then simply set it as an overlay

[fading pulsar]

oh i think

my camera acts as the background

yes it acts as the background @lunar nova

[lunar nova]

Doesn't matter

[lunar nova]

Do this properly should work

[fading pulsar]

what do you mean by 'have it'? the canvas or the video player

[lunar nova]

the raw image

[fading pulsar]

ok

[fading pulsar]

wdym by remove the layer from the second camera

[lunar nova]

Remove it from the culling layer list

[fading pulsar]

by culling layer you mean culling mask right?

ook

this correct? my rawimage is the water layer

[lunar nova]

yes this should the the camera 1 and then simply have the other camera which renders all layers except water

and then change it's depth

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-depth.html

Camera's depth in the camera rendering order.

Cameras with lower depth are rendered before cameras with higher depth.

Use this to control the order in which cameras are drawn if you have multiple cameras and some of them don't cover the full screen```

So set this camera's depth to 0 and the other one as 1

So it's overlayed on top

[fading pulsar]

still

i only see the background (whcih actally isnt even moving even tho it is a gif file)

[lunar nova]

gif's don't work use a mp4 or other video formats

[lunar nova]

are you sure you have done everything correct?

[fading pulsar]

sorry i meant mp4

i converted it from a gif file

to mp4

[lunar nova]

well it should move when the game starts

[fading pulsar]

ill sernd screenshots

[lunar nova]

Set the canvas as screen space camera and assign the main camera

[fading pulsar]

why is my video notmoving?

it workled tho the character and stuff is on top

[lunar nova]

have you assigned the render texture and told the video player to play at start?

and set it to loop

[fading pulsar]

ah

works now

[lunar nova]

Nice

[fading pulsar]

hey @lunar nova how would it work with a scene that has no camera

i tried repeating what we did here

but all my ui dsiappeared

[lunar nova]

it won't work

[fading pulsar]

oh so i need a camera

[lunar nova]

A scene can never not have a camera

then it won't render anything

[fading pulsar]

my scene doesnt have a camera tho

[lunar nova]

it does

[fading pulsar]

nvm i got it working

[fading pulsar]

no im talking about a different scene

[lunar nova]

if it does not the game view would say no camera and thus not render anything

A scene can't be used without a camera

[fading pulsar]

@lunar nova im trying to add an image background to my scene, but when i attach it in the background covers the full screen?

it worked before by putting a Background panel at the top of the hierarchy, but now when I try replicate it, it doesnt work?

[lunar nova]

Yes just add an image to a image or raw image and set the anchor and scale points to fill the entire screen

[fading pulsar]

but then the image covers all of my game?

i can no longer see my character again

[lunar nova]

Well aren't your characters sprites?

Use the camera technique we used earlier
As sprites and ui elements are not meant to work together

See if the camera layer one works