CanvasLayer's weird layer behavior

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v4.3.stable

Am I doing this wrong?
The UI does not connect to Camera2D unless another UI object is with it.
Both UI objects (CanvasLayers) are under a Player object (CharacterBody2D).

Player (CharacterBody2D)
   CanvasLayer
   CanvasLayer2

Without the second CanvasLayer:
(UI is seemingly stuck in the blue rectangle area)

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With the second CanvasLayer:
(UI now loads properly, but the second CanvasLayer is stuck)

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I have no clue what makes this happen and sure is a headache to handle. Nothing seems to be mentioned in the Godot Docs.

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It is very hard to tell what you want to happen from these images. CanvasLayers and their children are not affected by the camera’s view, they will be static on-screen.

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My original goal here is to connect the UI to the Camera2D, but I don’t know how to. Others say that simply placing the UI in a CanvasLayer would do the trick, and so I followed. It didn’t work because it was still not connected to the Camera.

I experimented for a bit and got the 2 CanvasLayer thingamajig that’s here right now

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Can you show your scene tree with the UI? Your UI nodes should be children of a CanvasLayer.

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The player:
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The CanvasLayer:
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Du you have by any chance an integrated intel graphics card?
You might run into: Zero child of CanvasLayer (which is a child of Camera2D) may render with wrong transform [Windows, Intel HD 630 or lower] · Issue #58314 · godotengine/godot · GitHub

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I do have intel integrated graphics.
Changed from Forward+ to Compatability and it seemingly fixed the problem.
How odd!