camera culling mask - show and hide UI

[reis]

Hi guys,

I'm just looking for a simple way to be able to take a photo without the UI being in the way.
I'm using Prime 31 plugin with NGUI.

I know I could use the NGUI Camera's culling mask, onClick set the culling mask to 0 then turn it back on.
I'm just unsure how to go about it as I cant use a non-static object to select camera as the take photo code is in a coroutine as I get the error

An object reference is required to access non-static member

I have got this so far,

1. public Camera hideUI;
2.  
3. public static IEnumerator TakeScreenshot(MonoBehaviour mono )
4.  {
5.  if( Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.IPhonePlayer )
6.                         {
7.  
8.                            int previousMask = hideUI.cullingMask;
9.  
10.                            hideUI.cullingMask = 0;
11.  
12.                            //take screenshot code from prime31
13.  
14.                            hideUI.cullingMask = previousMask;
15.                      }
16.  
17.  
18.  

I'm just a bit unsure how I find the camera's name that I need to refer to - unless theres a better way around this please let me know! Thanks guys.

[ArenMook]

It tells you what the problem is. Your TakeScreenshot method is static, yet you have a "hideUI" variable in your script. Static functions can only access other static variables. It's not an NGUI question but a basic C# question.

Try getting rid of it, and replacing "hideUI" with UICamera.list[0].camera.

1. int previousMask = UICamera.list[0].camera.cullingMask;
2. UICamera.list[0].camera.cullingMask = 0;
3. UICamera.list[0].camera.cullingMask = previousMask;

[reis]

Thanks Araon, I know its a basic C# question thats why I said at the bottom I'm just unsure what the camera was called when calling it from a static function - Thank you for your help!