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Support => NGUI 3 Support => Topic started by: dt1000 on June 16, 2016, 06:39:01 AM

Title: How can NGUI hide elements from Replaykit on iOS?
Post by: dt1000 on June 16, 2016, 06:39:01 AM

Hi there.
I am implementing replay kit on my game and I want to show some recording HUD.
Is there a way to hide certain GUI elements from Replaykit when using NGUI?
Thanks,
Dan

Title: Re: How can NGUI hide elements from Replaykit on iOS?
Post by: ArenMook on June 18, 2016, 04:57:36 AM

I am not familiar with that kit, but I would say put them on a separate layer with a separate UI camera or something similar.

Title: Re: How can NGUI hide elements from Replaykit on iOS?
Post by: dt1000 on June 18, 2016, 07:12:18 AM

Thanks, Aren,
But I'm not sure that will do the trick.
I had a look at this tutorial, which covers ReplayKit, including how to hide UI elements...
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ios-9-an-introduction-to-replaykit--cms-25458 (http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ios-9-an-introduction-to-replaykit--cms-25458)

Apparently the elements have to be in a their own separate UIWindow instance (whatever that means!)

Is there a way to do this with Unity and NGUI?

This plug-in seems to have a solution...
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/45295 (https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/45295)
...but I already have ReplayKit working super well (just without the nice GUI hiding).

Any suggestions?

Thanks once again!
:D

Title: Re: How can NGUI hide elements from Replaykit on iOS?
Post by: ArenMook on June 20, 2016, 12:46:42 AM

Doesn't sound possible then. Unity renders everything into one window (iOS UIWindow).

Title: Re: How can NGUI hide elements from Replaykit on iOS?
Post by: r.pedra on June 21, 2016, 07:51:17 AM

I suppose, iOS have events for when you start recording and stop recording.
You can SendMessage to Unity from ObjC code to tell Unity that the record have started/stopped and hide or display your UI depending on that.

Title: Re: How can NGUI hide elements from Replaykit on iOS?
Post by: dt1000 on June 22, 2016, 06:41:24 AM

Hello.
The author of reK kindly got back to me regarding this issue...

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Hi Dan,
 
Thanks for your message. Actually, it is a bit tricky – you need a native UI window to do that. And hiding stuff that's rendered inside Unity is not possible (except if you develop a solution that renders all your GUI in a separate native window).
 
reK features native recording controls (start/stop button) that are not visible in the recording.
 
Please let me know if you have more questions – or if I can talk you into using reK ;)
 
Greetings from Austria,
Rainer

...so it looks like what I am after is not actually possible.

Not to worry - one less thing for me to do!

Thanks for the tips everybody.

:D

Dan