Hi,
Apologies if this question has been asked before. The project I'm working on is a personal one and it involves four different characters which means four different character rigs, models, textures, motions, etc. What I have now works, but it's intermitten. How it's set up is that all four character loads at once behind a texture GUI that covers the whole screen. I'm using this as a cover. Then when you tap on the welcome screen, 3 or the characters are hidden and one remains. On the AR Camera screen are four stationary buttons. One for each character. The whole point is that you can touch each button and that character will show while the others are hidden. So the problem is this.
1. When I point the camera at the image target and wait for 5 seconds before touching the welcome screen to go into the scene, the whole thing works and I can touch each button to rapidly switch from character to character.
However,
2. When I point the camera and immediately touch the welcome screen enter the screen, it takes a second for the first character to appear and when I try to switch to another character, the one that was there hides and then it hangs for a long time.
So, my question is,...
1. Should I just seperate each character as it's own augmented scene? And how is that done? If you've seen the James May Science Stories app, how is each agumented scene seperated yet all in one app?
2. I'm using Activate/Deactivate to show/hide my characters. Is there a better way to do this in Unity?
3. Is there some setting you can set in the ARCamera or ImageTarget that would make the scene work better?
Any help would be greately appreciated. Feel free to contact me through my site - www.3david.com
Loading Multiple Characters and Motions
Have you tried enabling / disabling the renderers for these models, rather than activating / deactivating the model's gameobject? The latency you're seeing may derive from the activation process.
Loading Multiple Characters and Motions
Hi, Did some more poking around and have discovered that the augmented scene isn't hanging, but rather, the AR Camera needs to re-lock to the image target.
Loading Multiple Characters and Motions
OnTrackingFound is only fired once each time the target is detected. So if you are tracking a target, and want to reassign the model while it's being tracked, you'll need to render the model and make it a child of the target using your button logic, within OnGUI().
Loading Multiple Characters and Motions
I'm sorry to say, I'm not programmer by any stretch of the imagination. I'm using Playmaker with Unity, the visual scriptor. Currently, all four characters are parented to the image target. The buttons are shooting set actions to show/hide each character.
Loading Multiple Characters and Motions
OK, after trying all day, I've settled on a work-around solution. I started by tracking in all the characters at once and then set each button to set the scaling of each character. So, one character is sized correctly while the others are scaled down to nothing. Amazingly it actually works.