NGUI Sprites get garbled when used along with the Vuforia AR plugin

[thePostFuturist]

Hello,

I'm working with the Vuforia AR plugin, and NGUI Sprites keep getting garbled when used together: alpha channel gone (now black bg), letters in text become rectangles.

I've tried a few things, such as forcing Unity to include the shaders provided by NGUI, to no avail.

Vuforia creators think this might be due to the shaders' render queue: https://developer.vuforia.com/forum/unity-3-extension-technical-discussion/ngui-vuforia

This is something I haven't tested and am not even quite sure how to test.

Last thing: in the attachment screenshot you will see a garbled NGUI Sprite. Underneath it, however, is a texture that Vuforia uses, which preserves its alpha and seems to be unaffected.

Thanks for reading.

[ArenMook]

I am not familiar with Vuforia. The shaders NGUI uses are very simple. They're basically the same thing as Unlit/Transparent, except with vertex colors. They don't write to depth, but they do use alpha, like all transparent shaders.

[thePostFuturist]

Which shader corresponds to a regular UISprite chosen from an atlas?

I should also note that Unity's new nuGUI is unaffected. Both text and graphics render the same.

[ArenMook]

Depends on the atlas you chose. Select the material used by your atlas and you will know.