Cool now show one for mobile too 🤔

Hey @Code Monkey how to did you make your characters. Did you pay some one or make them your self. Either way you are my biggest inspiration and role model not lying. DM me on discord I am on the server and I want to almost interview you and learn from you. I really hope you can do it because it would mean so much to me.

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I saw a game do it once and I was so confused as to how to do it

There's always a hero in the comment section!! I figured it had something to do with the background.

the year is 2022，so.... if that, maybe you should have check out you dont have set any URP at graphics,

I know that I had to change the clearflag from "Skybox" to "Solid Color" :)

Yup when working with external functions they need to have the exact name

Thanks, I had a spelling mistake in a function and it was not working. Now all is perfect!

Do you have any more knowledge of what to turn off? as i would love to use URP with the transparent window.

@@lewisbailey1000 When I was creating new project with 3D URP core. I only need to delete the `Volume` object that was present in the scene. And if I remember it right I just do every other things as this video suggest except changing pipeline to built in

Dw, i found the thing you have to disable

@@lewisbailey1000 What was it?

1 year later, for URP transparency, you have to untick "Post-Processing" (so it's not enabled) in your scriptable object "Universal Render Pipeline Asset_Renderer". Maybe there is a better way.

Oh man thank you this has been driving me nuts! finally got it working with URP

Yes! thank you!

Thanks !

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nice this helped me thanks

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I was just thinking the same thing. I wonder if there's a way through the unity API to grab unity's window handle. EDIT: looks like System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle did it for me. Got this working in an hdrp project infact. Just need to be careful about your post processes you select.

Heh yeah with over 500 videos I've already covered tons of topics! Thanks!

The Code Monkey Steam app will have lots of C# focused interactive tutorials so make sure you add it to your wishlist!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity does it cost money

nm- if you put "SetClickthrough(!CodeMonkey.Utils.UtilsClass.IsPointerOverUI());" in the update of the Transparent Window it'll include Unity UI, instead of only sprite collision.

Cinematics are tricky because they are very specific. Essentially you either animate the camera manually or go with Cinemachine + Timeline

Sebastian has an excellent video on it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mb2geb2Tz9q3gZs.html It looks simple but to make it work right it's actually surprisingly complex. I would love to make a mini 2D Portal one day, playing with momentum is a ton of fun.

If you are using URP trye to uncheck the HDR on quality setup

Yup that's doable, I believe it's with Shell_NotifyIcon();

Yeah it does not work in URP, only with the Built-in render pipeline.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity any ideas on how you could get this to work? There are several things about the URP that I'd like to use in my project.

Instead of using the Raycast method I just used a button toggle. So I press a button and it makes the whole window capture clicks, then I draw, then press the button again and it's all clickthrough

It's "SetWindowPos"

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Still get the same error. I go wride the whole code again.. I hope that the error is then gone

This makes the background transparent, it doesn't copy it. You need to figure out some way of capturing the desktop rather than just making it transparent, I'm sure it's possible but no idea how.

I used this effect in UI before. in shader graph theres a way to grab the background and aply to the shader to make it look "invisible" I think it would work in this case too.

I have made a bg capturer before which blurs it on awake and sets to correct images. I'll try it here and let you know.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Sadly shaders do not work....

I've researched this topic before. Unity doesn't (and can't) run its graphics instructions directly on top of its window. Unity renders the scene into a separate buffer (the BitBlt buffer), which then DWM copies the pixels to wherever the Unity window is. And when DWM copies the graphics buffers around and renders the actual window, it uses its own shaders that are essentially out of your reach. With some extra DWMAPI instructions it is possible to enable DWM's own blur and DirectComposition shaders, but not much more than that, you can't apply custom Unity shaders and post-processing effects directly on window composition. Now, since then, extra window masking flags have been added for Windows 10 allowing to record the desktop, but excluding certain windows from the rendering entirely. Such windows become completely invisible to all forms of screenshots and desktop recording (except from hardware capture cards, of course). Then you could go with a faux-transparent window that's actually opaque, but takes screenshots of the desktop while excluding itself from them, to add to those screenshots completely within Unity, where all shaders are fair game.

did you manage to fix it?

@@karlhenderson8463 I had windows 7 maybe that's why. (win 10 is working fine)

Never had that issue, and I've used this to make the annotation app for my Game Dev Reacts videos where I write on top of KZfaq. Maybe try a different browser?

Update! I figured out I can add a script to interactable objects that has an "OnMouseEnter" and an "OnMouseExit" function that modifies a bool variable that dictates if the window is interactable or not. I have come across another problem, which is that when Im running a videogame that removes my toolbar when playing, even when the game is running "below" other apps, when I run the transparent unity application it removes my toolbar when in use. Any ideas on how to fix this? (the issue doesnt appear if the videogame is minimized or closed)

Yes it's a dynamic mesh with a standard shader. unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=11c9rWRotJ8 This system only works in the Built-in Render Pipeline, I couldn't get it to work with URP

That's a fun prank!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity haha thanks and thanks for the tutorial too!

Yup if you add some post processing it does mess up the transparency. I'm still using this just like I made it here, haven't updated beyond Unity 2019

@@CodeMonkeyUnity This actually is possible in 2022.3 using URP: I followed most of your procedure but added a camera override: Camera.main.clearFlags = CameraClearFlags.SolidColor; Camera.main.backgroundColor = new Color(0, 0, 0, 0);

This is using the Win32 API so no, at least not exactly like this

This may sound stupid but have you added the script to some object on the scene? I was in the same scenario until it hit me I had to do that

Have you tried setting the fullscreen mode to "fullscreen window"? That's where I went wrong

Did you ever figure this out?

It's awesome you're starting so young! Go for it!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Yeah I'm hopeful, but my PC overheated a year ago... :(

Did you untick that box'? are you using the built-in render pipeline?

@@CodeMonkeyUnity yes i did uncheck the box and am using the built render pipe line

inside the function SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, NEWLOCATIONX HERE, NEWLOCATIONY HERE, 0, 0, 0)

While the mouse is down it is constantly storing the mouse position and adding vertices to a mesh. Basically every frame 2 vertices get added and connected to the previous 2, it's a constantly growing series of quads. I covered how to handle Meshes through code here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5eTbNWIt9XYemw.html

I did say it only works in BRP. At least back when I made this URP didn't work at all, with or without post processing

Are you using URP? It does not work in BiRP Do you have custom shaders with custom post processing?

I believe lately Android and iOS have been allowing more apps to run in parallel so I'm not sure it's possible now but I'm guessing it will be possible in the future

You don't need a plugin for tweeting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtJjrNib05-rhoU.html Here's a tutorial. Btw if the link doesn't work just search you're animating UI wrong, it's a video from Game Dev Guide.

@@orun1 That video only shows you how to do it with a plugin. Did you even watch it?

Normally just code based tweening but I never go too crazy with my menus.

For anyone stumbling upon this I simply added this to my Update function to fix the issue: Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition); SetClickthrough(!Physics.Raycast(ray.origin, ray.direction)); Hope this helps!

do the part around 14:20 and if that does not work here is the code: using UnityEngine; using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; public class TransparentWindow : MonoBehaviour { //Example using various API's [DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern int MessageBox(IntPtr hWnd, string text, string caption, uint type); [DllImport("user32.dll")] private static extern IntPtr GetActiveWindow(); //This is used to make the window click trhu. [DllImport("user32.dll")] private static extern int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex, uint dwNewLong); [DllImport("user32.dll")] private static extern int SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hWndInsertAfter, int x, int y, int cx, int cy, uint uFlags); //This is used to interact [DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern int SetLayeredWindowAttributes(IntPtr hWnd, uint crKey, byte bAlpha, uint dwFlags); private const int GWL_EXSTYLE = -20; private const uint WS_EX_LAYERED = 0x00080000; private const uint WS_EX_TRANSPARENT = 0x00000020; //This is used to run in the background. private static readonly IntPtr HWND_TOPMOST = new IntPtr(-1); //This is used to interact private const uint LWA_COLORKEY = 0x00000001; private struct Margins { public int cxLeftWidth; public int cxRightWidth; public int cyTopHeight; public int cyBottomHeight; } [DllImport("Dwmapi.dll")] private static extern uint DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea(IntPtr hWnd, ref Margins margins); private void Start() { #if !UNITY_EDITOR IntPtr hWnd = GetActiveWindow(); //Make the window background transparent.(Bare Minimum we need) Margins margins = new Margins { cxLeftWidth = -1 }; DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea(hWnd, ref margins); //Make the window Click thru but can be clicked on non transparent. SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_LAYERED | LWA_COLORKEY); //SetLayeredWindowAttributes(hWnd, 0, 0, LWA_COLORKEY); SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0,0,0,0,0); #endif } } this 99% should solve it.

@@progCan sadly I have long since figured out this issue BUT your info is not wasted as it will help anyone else with the struggle

Hmm maybe you can make the Unity window clickthrough and instead of using a regular button just add some code testing for Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) and doing a Raycast yourself to see if the mouse clicked on a button. But not sure if that works, not sure if Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) still triggers if the window is clickthrough

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I tried doing that first but it seemed as though each click would still focus the window. I eventually found this which helped out, however, it hides the icon on the taskbar, which is ok I suppose. const int WS_EX_NOACTIVATE = 0x08000000; SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_LAYERED | WS_EX_NOACTIVATE);

Yes, I make the build at 7:30

The .unitypackage includes all the source code, so if you're not interested in Unity you can import it onto an empty project and then just grab the source code and copy paste it to your non-Unity project

Don't think that's possible, through this method Unity has no context on what is behind it

Hi, i still hv problem with this. Can anyone help me