Limonada

Hey there.

I'm crafting my game menus and another issue has struck me.
I have only the group leader in the field, but in menu I need to show the character models of group and non group members.

I tried doing It as usual, creating a camera inside the character prefab that outputs into a render texture, and setting this render texture to an avatar type (Full mody model).

The issue is that the field leader profile is rendered, but other characters don't.

OFC after 5 minutes I realized that since they are not instantiated there was no cameras to render the texture.

Is there anyway to setup this?

gamingislove

You can use ORK's prefab view portraits for this. They spawn prefabs for your combatants (or items, equipment, etc.) and handle the camera/texture stuff.

The default prefab view settings can be found in UI > UI Settings > ORK UI Settings > Prefab View Settings. You can define the camera (prefab) and render texture stuff here.
To use a prefab view portrait to a combatant, add a regular portrait and enable Use Prefab View in it. It'll use the prefab of the combatant but can optionally also use a defined prefab.

Limonada

Thank you @gamingislove !

I just got it working! I fumbled along until I discovered the offset (prefabs were spawning on top of each other), and now works like a charm!

gamingislove

Hm, that's strange - the default setup in a new project should already spawn them with an offset of -10 on the Y-axis to prevent that.

fourscoopsplease

Sorry to necro this thread, but can you please explain how to setup a Camera Prefab? Is it literally just a camera object dragged into the asset folder? Anything special that needs to be tweaked on it?

gamingislove

Basically, yes, that's all that's needed.
However, you might want to change some settings on it, e.g. having a fully transparent background color or only rendering specific layers (via the culling mask).

fourscoopsplease

Hmnm, I can't get anything to show.

Any idea on where I'm missing something?
UI settings
Prefab Settings
Hud Settings
Result

gamingislove

You didn't set a Render Texture in the prefab view camera settings.
The prefab view works with a camera putting what it sees into a render texture, which is displayed by your UI.

fourscoopsplease

ah thanks, I've created on (just default settings) and assigned it. However, it's still not displaying anything.
I saw in another thread the portrait content had to have a RawImage type, so i've added that as well to the HUD.

I note that while the game is running, the portrait content is grayed out, like it's disabled?

fourscoopsplease

I've found that I need to create another portrait, instead of creating a new portrait set. That's fixed the issue.