Sprite not visible?

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I'm sorry this has been asked before, but none of the solutions have worked for me. I made a simple background in photoshop and saved it as a PSD. Unity automatically set it as a Sprite (2D & UI) under import settings. When I dragged it in the hiecharchy, I can see it in my scene view but NOT my game view.

I tried putting the sprite in its own layer, making the layer appear first, and also setting the "Order in Layer" to a value such as 5. No dice.

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Any advice on how I can make this sprite appear in gameview? Thanks. I'm using Unity 4.6b18

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Answer by kacyesp · Sep 02, 2014 at 02:31 AM

In the scene view, drag the main camera over the sprite. Also make sure that the camera's z value is lower than the sprite's z value in the transform's position.

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tomachinz · Mar 04, 2019 at 07:39 AM 0

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any idea why this would be good? my sprite is not in the scene, as i add it dynamically. it's in an asset.

DmitryKanunnikoff · Jun 14, 2019 at 08:09 AM 0

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"Also make sure that the camera's z value is lower than the sprite's z value in the transform's position." - excellent! Thank you very much!

lucbloom · Mar 28, 2020 at 11:18 AM 1

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This answer might be old. 2019 and up: Use UI --> Image Don't use 2D Object --> Sprite

ertbaran · Apr 12, 2020 at 12:33 PM 0

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Yeah. That is good idea :)

JasonZGames · Jul 28, 2020 at 09:12 AM 0

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Thanks! That Worked For $$anonymous$$e! Change Ur Camera Z To Around -10 And It Will Work

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Answer by HorusVision · Apr 02, 2019 at 04:25 PM

Use UI --> Image

Don't use 2D Object --> Sprite

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starrtennis · Jul 22, 2019 at 04:32 AM 0

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This sounds like a really arbitrary and unnecessary workaround. Shouldn't both methods work?

Ghostling225 starrtennis · Jul 28, 2021 at 08:56 AM 0

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No, for UI elements, you should use UI components. A 2D Sprite is the thing you'd use when making, for example, a 2D player character. A UI Image, on the other hand, is rendered with the Canvas/UI system and was, well, built just for this purpose - Images in UI Canvases

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Answer by HanSoloYolo · Mar 24, 2018 at 06:29 PM

None of the above worked for me.

I am doing a Vuforia Project with the AR Camera, the camera always defaults to 0,0,0 on Play.

My clipping near plane cannot be set to -1. The lowest value is .01 for near.

I cannot move the camera and I cannot set the clipping plane to -1.

Sprite plays fine in scene view. How to I get my sprite to show up in game view?

EDIT Got it working!

I set the canvas to Screen Space - Camera
Then set the Render Camera to Main Camera.

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Answer by jtathir · Aug 11, 2017 at 06:47 AM

Make sure your camera clipping near value is set to -1. Hope this will help, i faced similar problem an d this was the solution.

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Sindrex · Aug 15, 2017 at 01:45 PM 0

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Can confirmed this worked for me too. Had an image that didn't show up when playing, but did this and it was fixed.

dvural · May 03, 2019 at 05:01 PM 0

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i only got this problem when entering one specific scene, fiddling around with layer settings did nothing but this fixed it.

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Answer by r4lax · Aug 16, 2017 at 04:27 AM

maybe you are in wireframe mode , i had the same issue i put it in shaded mode and works

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