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ScaryG
New Participant
June 12, 2013

Using NGUI with the Rift

I wrote up a quick tutorial on using NGUI with the Rift after setting it up for myself the other day. It's not complicated but there are a few steps so I thought it might be helpful to collect them all in one place.

http://www.beowulf99.com/blog/?p=1014

Hope it helps someone!
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    ScsiOverdrive
    Up and Coming
    June 12, 2013
    Excellent tutorial! As an NGUI user this is going to be really useful :)

    I suppose an extra step we could take is to package up a prefab with the rendering plane and shaders and distribute that. Then a user could just add the prefab to the right camera or player object, wire up the NGUI camera, and be good to go.

    On a side note, I was not aware of Sublime Text. It looks pretty neat :)
    ScaryGAuthor
    New Participant
    June 14, 2013
    Thanks!

    Good idea about providing a package file. Not sure about the legality of distributing the NGUI shaders though, I'll have to ask on the support forum.

    Sublime Text is amazing! I've been using it for about a year now. It's almost perfect... fast, massively configurable, cross platform, keyboard-centric without being obtuse, very fair license. If it had better C++ completion it WOULD be perfect.
    WadeWatts
    Up and Coming
    June 16, 2013
    Thanks for the tip on the NGUI. I use NGUI myself with Unity. So this Rift info will come in handy.

    You should check out WebStorm by JetBrains.... its a great IDE.

    WadeWatts - Gregarious Simulation Systems

    Mickman
    Up and Coming
    June 27, 2013
    I simply used one of the NGUI sample scenes & then added the OVR camera package.

    This works well but I find I can only click buttons in the left lens.
    http://www.mickbanks.com
    Stardog
    Up and Coming
    August 23, 2013
    Nice tutorial. I have some smearing issues with an animated widget. Does anyone know if it's fixable?
    @st4rdog
    smx
    Up and Coming
    January 14, 2014
    If I use the rendertexture in combination with ngui I encounter smearing as well, for example with the colored slider.
    virror
    Up and Coming
    January 25, 2014
    I have the same issue as Mickman, anyone have a fix for this?
    It works really well except for input issues : /
    m0rgul
    New Participant
    November 4, 2014
    Followed your tutorial, nice, easy and sweet. Now my UI is projected onto a plane, it looks nice and all...but I can't click the buttons in any way... What have I messed up? Or is there some other things I need to do in order to be able to interact with NGUI elements (which are plenty - buttons, sliders, etc)
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