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untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:01 AM

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Lets continue here @bold cloud

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:01 AM

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aight

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:02 AM

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That chat is driving me nuts. So, first ctrl z back to your correct transform values.

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But I guess, they get overriden anyway when instantiated

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:05 AM

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If I ctrl Z it also put the renderer back to world space. I'll just input the transform values again.

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But now I don't have the sorting layers...

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:07 AM

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Show your inspector again

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:10 AM

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untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:10 AM

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Remove the renderer ! 😉

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:10 AM

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I can't, because Image (script) depends on it ??

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The hell is that

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:11 AM

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Okay, so what did you open. the PilePreview. Is it a prefab?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:11 AM

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it is

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:11 AM

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Can you show the inspector and hierarchy when its being loaded?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:11 AM

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Oh, all my prefabs have a canvas renderer, that's funky

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I'm specifically trying to get the preview over the end turn button

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:14 AM

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Well that is wrong that they have a renderer 😄 That should not be the case

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:15 AM

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untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:16 AM

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Why the heck is it all green... 😄 I could never work with that 😉 Okay. So can you put your prefab in edit mode into the place where it should be, remove the renderer and then make a new prefab out of it or override it?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:16 AM

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huh, all my objects have one actually

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:16 AM

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Ohhh, well... somethings going on here thats not meant to be.

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:16 AM

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I didn't add them that's for sure, they're here by default

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:17 AM

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Does your root canvas have a renderer?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:18 AM

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yup

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:18 AM

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untold imp Why the heck is it all green... 😄 I could never work with that 😉 Okay. So can ...

I still can't remove the renderer because of Image (script), whatever that is

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:19 AM

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Can you show your root canvas inspector?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:19 AM

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untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:20 AM

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Well that looks right. I just think that all your child objects are basically their own UI system within itself

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:21 AM

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So I should rework it all so that all the renderers are gone ?

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:22 AM

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Sounds like. Just make a new unity UI for testing. then add an empty gameobject to it and add an image component

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:22 AM

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a new unity UI ?

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:23 AM

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Right click in hierarchy, UI Canvas, but be sur eto not select any gameobject, so it gets on root of the hierarchy

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:24 AM

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Oh, ok

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I added an empty to a new canvas, and yeah when I add an image a renderer just pops

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:27 AM

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What the heck 😄

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No wait, I guess this is okay, just checked, it can work with or without that.

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:28 AM

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Well that's a relief

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:28 AM

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Okay, lets ignore the renderer for now. I tmight be okay to have it in.

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So what about if you add canvas to it

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What does the component look like for you?

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Oh boy, yeah I am sorry about the renderer, just chcked. most of my system is dynamic, so I barely had any image, but those i have, have a renderer. I guess visual stuff like image needs it. so ignore that renderers are bad on children 😄

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:30 AM

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untold imp So what about if you add canvas to it

If I add a canvas to what ?

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:31 AM

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to your previewGameobject. the prefab you instantiate

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:31 AM

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so, that ?

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That the instantiated prefab

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:31 AM

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There it is, override sorting

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:32 AM

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The problem is that it doesn't at all look like that from the prefab itself

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:32 AM

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click it! and set the order to whatever you want.

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What does the prefab look like?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:32 AM

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So I can't really pre-set it

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I don't have override setting there

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:32 AM

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Oh because of prefab mode

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:32 AM

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Ah yeah if I open it I get the thing

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that's strange

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:33 AM

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thats unity 😄

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:33 AM

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the gift that keeps on giving

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welp, I suppose it should work now, but I'll test once I've fixed another issue : when I make the window bigger, everything moves around like mad and it is very inconvenient. I'll tell you if that works once I can test it x)

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:35 AM

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You should really look into relative positioning.

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Instead of setting your position in your prefab, calculate it when instantiating. So take your pile button for example and plus vector2 to position it, so it will always be placed at the correct place

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:36 AM

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Yeah that's what I do

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:36 AM

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Oh well, whats th eother issue?

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I guess you have some messed up pivots/anchors then?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:37 AM

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It's unrelated, I guess I'm just instantiating things wrong

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I suppose so, though I don't know what either of those are. I'll figure it out.

untold imp Apr 7, 2022, 9:38 AM

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Alrighty, then I leave the thread here, alright?

bold cloud Apr 7, 2022, 9:38 AM

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Okay !

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