Asset Store gray screen in Unity (MacBook Pro; 10.12)
I'm trying to get some assets from the Asset Store, but every time I open it in editor, it stays a gray screen. I've never had this issue and have been googling it for the past hour and everyone has said to Disable Direct X, but that's for Windows. I'm on macOS Sierra, so that's not the issue. I've even added "Mac" to the search terms, nothing. Reinstalled unity, hasn't solved it. What could be the issue for this to all of a sudden stop working?
Have exactly the same problem. Happens in Unity 5.4 and 5.5. I think it may be related to 10.12.1, since it started right after the update two days ago.
$$anonymous$$ushing some buttons (clicking reload in the upper right corner, then right-clicking on the gray panel) I can select "Show Dev Tools". In there, I can clearly see the asset store loads, i.e., the DO$$anonymous$$ tree is being generated. I suspect it's a rendering problem.
Unless this happens over night, I havent had this issue before. I've been on 10.12 and unity 5.4 for awhile now and no issues. Was working fine yesterday morning. Then at night it started this.
This. Is. Weird.
Last week, Unity and the asset store embedded tab were working perfectly for me under $$anonymous$$acOS Sierra.
Today I have this bug, and the same behavior as all of you with respect to the workaround.
I did not upgrade Unity or $$anonymous$$acOS this past week. So...I get what's happening, but why?
Same here. I confirm, the panel shows contents only kept as a window.
Answer by MASTware · Oct 26, 2016 at 11:23 AM
I've found a solution. Don't use the asset store as a tab. Drag the tab (embedded window) to a single window. If the asset store is not embedded in the main window then you can show the asset store correctly.
I have the same problem after updating to MacOS Sierra (10.12) on a MacBook Pro. I guess the last released version of Unity is not compatible with Sierra. I have the problem with the Unity versions from 5.3 to 5.5.
I've noticed some UI updating issues on Sierra for several apps, not just Unity. Your answer is "correct" in the sense that it is a possible fix, but it is not the solution to the real problem (the bug in Unity or Sierra).
@Graphics_Dev: That's true that isn't the solution to display the asset store in the tab. But it is a workaround and the "solution" to get an access to the asset store in Unity through displaying the store in a seperate window. Sorry for the inexactly ter$$anonymous$$ology. I'm not an English native speaker.
If you have a small screen like me, make sure to make Unity as small as possible and then drag to the extreme non-unity space to force new window.
Answer by vitaly-odarchenko · Feb 27, 2018 at 10:23 AM
On macs "fontd" process may be the problem. Open your Activity Monitor, if the "fontd" eats almost all CPU thats a cause. As mentioned here https://icicity.com/2014/02/13/high-cpu-usage-caused-by-fontd-on-os-x you need to open your Terminal and write:
sudo atsutil databases -remove; atsutil server -shutdown
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