This is from a newbie so please be kind: I am having a problem with the 2D camera. I am working through the 2D game tutorial at http://pixelnest.io/tutorials/2d-game-unity/ and the camera does not show the actual game area. (see photo 1);
but as you can see from the camera preview nothing shows.??
can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
According to the tutorial the screen should look like this:
Yes. In following this tutorial in Unity 2017 I encountered this problem and I cannot figure out why the camera preview and/or the game view is not showing the sprites at all. (see images above).
I am acquainted with UE4 and cryengine, but I THOUGHT that since in unity, using Visual Studio, that the game framework WAS a monogame since you have to use their librarys. Guess I was wrong and Monogame is a stand-alone dev ide.
I feel like you didn’t get a proper answer so I’ll try to clarify your confusion a little
Unity uses Mono for its C# scripting, which is a C# development platform (http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/), which I guess is why you confused it with MonoGame.
But MonoGame is unrelated to Unity in any way. MG is a re-implementation of the old XNA API (originally designed by Microsoft).
Both Unity and MonoGame are used to make games, but they are two different species.
MonoGame is a C# framework (eg 100% coding and total freedom), while Unity is a game engine with C# scripting (eg visual editor, a lot of out-of-the-box features, little coding, but much less freedom).
Personally I prefer MG over Unity, but if you’re not an experienced dev and you are not interesting in delving into the programming world, maybe Unity is not such a bad choice for you.
