3D UI uses widget depth instead of world position

[kittikun]

Hi,

I have been trying to do a simple rotating plate showing sprites. I created each sprites and placed them in 3d on a circle.

The problem is that it seems sprites still need to be have they widget depth correctly adjusted. I cannot use the world position depth for this.

If I understand things correctly, I need to use a panel to have an actual geometry created so each item is created the following way:

 UIPanel
  |
  |- UISprite

Also I find it strange that you need to set clipping to "Constrain But Dont Clip" to be able to specify a panel size

I have looked at your Example 3 - Menu scene and you do sort the panels depth instead of relying of their physical position. Come to think of it, you are not setting any size for those panels so they don't draw any gizmo in the scene view.

Is there any workaround using NGUI for this case ? Or do I need to not use NGUI for this control ?
The reason I wanted to use NGUI if because I wanted to use atlas/sprite, a designers are already used to.

Thank you

[ArenMook]

If placing widgets into your world, you will want to make sure they have a UIPanel to draw them. It doesn't need clipping set.

If you then want the draw calls created by the UIPanel to be sorted by Z instead of depth, set the Render Q on the panel to "Explicit" and leave it at 3000. It's the "Transparent" queue.

[kittikun]

Sorry I should have read the doc more carefully:

If you want NGUI 2.X-like behaviour where all draw calls were Z-based instead of depth-based, specify an Explicit render queue (3000 is what NGUI 2.X used).

Anyway, thank you for replying