Multiple camera layers in Unity using SteamVr

Hi all,

At the bottom of this page, if you search for "Camera layering:", this is described as fairly straight forward:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/tree/master/unity_package/Assets/SteamVR

I can get my 2 cameras drawn to the hmd, but the depth information seems to not be taken into account? In the standard Unity preview window I see my desired result, but in the hmd the depth of the cameras is the wrong way round.

Has anyone solved a similar problem or can point to any useful docs please?

Thanks!

 

I'm having an issue with this as well. I'm not clear how to set this up. Should the 2nd camera have all the Steam_VR scripts on it? The camera just auto disables when I run the game.

-Matt

 

Has anyone set up layered cameras with Steam VR? I'm still getting strange results. A simular setup is working fine with the Oculus.

 

Any success with this? I found this post Maybe someone with more Unity experience can decipher it? http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/steamvr-how-to-display-content-in-left-right-eye.396236/

UPDATE: I figured it out. See my post on the other thread.

 

GetWilde, your solution did not work for me. I am trying to make a 3D skybox, but when I set the Clear Flags to Depth Only on the eye camera, it does not work. The resulting texture does not take into account the sky box camera.

I followed your instructions, made a left and right eye camera, but this did not appear to have any effect. Any ideas?

 

This problem persists. I still cannot find a way to have a layer consistently render above any other layer for the HMD.

 

This now works in 5.6
-Every camera must have a steam VR_Camera component
-Set Clear flag to depth only
- Set depth accordingly

Camera set to render on top of everything else.

 

Thanks for the info! Helped me out.

One thing to note, as of 2019.7 all you need is:

• Clear flag to depth only
• Set depth
• And of course the correct culling mask (layer

You do NOT (at lease in my case) need the steam vr camera component

 

I might be partially right/wrong here. Even though you don't specifically have to add the VR camera component, something is still controlling it, am pretty sure it's SteamVR doing it. I see that the camera is being moved with the HMD. It appears to be just doing the movements. But does anyone know if all that it is doing?

 

I have the same issue with a Magic Leap (AR) project.
All cameras in the scene are moving with head position and rotation, with no additional components added to those objects.
I'm trying to render to render texture, I gave up on layering effects because they only render to one eye, which is another problem altogether.
Is this a bug?