Syphon GUITexture in Unity3D

[robotfunk]

I’m trying to use Syphon in a GUITexture attached to a camera in Unity3D. I can get a Syphon texture onto gameobjects fine with SyphonClientTexture, but I can’t get it to work as a GUITexture on a camera. Is what I’m trying to do possible at all?

I could parent a plane to the camera but this is for a virtual camera system where a camera man can see real actors keyed into a realtime 3D scene. When zooming in/out the plane would get out of focus.

[Brian Chasalow]

It totally works. I just tried it, it’s super easy.

1) GameObject/Create Other/GUITexture
2) add a syphon client texture script to that object (or create a new script that derives from SyphonClientTexture)
3) modify SyphonClientTexture’s ApplyTexture() method (or override it) so that instead of
renderer.sharedMaterial.mainTexture = clientObject.AttachedTexture;
renderer.sharedMaterial.mainTexture.wrapMode = TextureWrapMode.Repeat;

you do:

guiTexture.texture = clientObject.AttachedTexture;

boom, syphon client texture on a gui.

[robotfunk]

thanks, nothing I tried worked until I removed all traces of Syphon and reimported the package. Works fine now.

first results:

[Brian Chasalow]

cool. Yeah, the new package with the Advanced SyphonClientTexture examples (like the projector example script) should show you how to do something like this.

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