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Game Development How to Make a Video Game The Unity Editor and Scene Setup Place Assets in the Scene View

Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points
Posted by Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points

Help! Missing rocks and logs from environment!

Hi,

I have placed my environment into the hierarchy section and the floor/pond appears. But there are no rocks or logs visible? They are in the props folder as they should be, and when clicked they show the shape and position of where the item should be within the environment, but not the colour or texture and they do not stay after I have clicked off of them. It kind of looks like they are underneath? As in the environment has been reversed? But I'm not sure how to change it back.

Thanks for your help.

J.

P.s here is a link to two screenshots, first is how it looks like after putting the environment into the hierarchy and the second is what it looks like after clicking on a log in props. Thanks. http://imgur.com/a/82oeC

4 Answers

Robert Smith
Robert Smith
8,485 Points
Robert Smith
Robert Smith
8,485 Points

Click "Layers" in the top right hand corner and make sure "Default" is ticked

Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points
Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points

Ooh thanks for this Robert - I will check today and give an update.

Brendan Albert
Brendan Albert
32,954 Points
Brendan Albert
Brendan Albert
32,954 Points

Robert, like a boss! I was having the same exact issue and wouldn't you know that all I had to do to fix it was your suggestion. Thank you very much!

Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points
Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points

Here is a link to two screenshots, first is how it looks like after putting the environment into the hierarchy and the second is what it looks like after clicking on a log in props. Thanks.

http://imgur.com/a/82oeC

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Jordan,

This is a really weird problem - I'm not sure what the cause is exactly. A couple things that come to mind:

  1. What's your OS + hardware configuration? Looking at the taskbar, it looks like you're on a laptop using an older version of Windows. An older mobile graphics card may not support shader model 3.0, which could be a requirement for the course. The reason I'm not sure is because shader model 3.0 was introduced back in 2004, so almost every modern computer should support it now.
  2. Did you set the rendering mode to "Deferred" in the Player Settings?
  3. Have you tried restarting Unity? That can fix a lot of problems sometimes.
  4. You could also try changing the Quality Settings to Low Quality.
Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points
Jordan Hudson
Jordan Hudson
2,977 Points

Hi Nick!

Thanks so much for helping me out on this one, big fan of your lessons, taught me a lot!

So in reply:

  1. Nice detective skills, it's windows 7 on a laptop yes - however it's a HP ZBook 15 G2. Only a couple of months old, i7, 16gb ram. A fairly decent laptop?
  2. I followed your steps closely, the rendering mode is 'deferred', colour space 'linear'.
  3. I've restarted it three times, no luck.
  4. Changing the Quality Settings is altering the textures and unfortunately nothing else.

I'm going to delete the project and start again from scratch, I'll update here afterwards.

Thanks.

EDIT: Didn't work, followed the steps after deleting and starting again.

Andres Altuve
Andres Altuve
16,274 Points
Andres Altuve
Andres Altuve
16,274 Points

Hi Jordan,

Create a zip of your project and share it with us, I wan't to check it out on my computer and see what happens..

The last resource is to uninstall Unity3d and install it again.