Character ok in Editor but messed up in Game Build

Hey guys,

In the Editor when I'm working and play testing my main character looks good. But when I build the game and play it, my main character looks like it has mesh issues. That is it looks kind of like vertex weighting problems, jagged edges, and weird normals happening.

It almost seems like the vertex indices of the mesh are messed up somehow. But I can't figure out why this is happening or what about the build process might be causing it. Since it's perfectly fine in the Editor.... but not in a build.

I'm using HDRP 7.2.1 package version and Unity 2019.3.3f1 right now. Are there any settings I should look at to fix this?



Things I've tried:

I've tried building the game with and without GPU Skinning in the Player settings. Also checking or unchecking the Vertex Compression and "Optimize Mesh" options in player settings. I've tried re-importing main-character's model. I've tried messing with the index 16 bit/32 bit and the normal/tangent settings at the model's import options as well.

I've tried changing the LOD settings in the Quality Settings and I've tried different options in the HDRP asset and Camera's Frame Settings -- but not all of them or I might have missed something important.



Is there anything I could try to figure out what's messing up the character model in a build?

 

Have you checked if you game is using a lower-than-intended quality level? The "Blend Weights" setting in the quality level may cause some issues. If you are using custom shaders, you may also want to make sure they support the UV's flipping on the Y axis between OpenGL and DirectX.

 

Hey you were right, that fixed it! It was in a different Quality Setting than I expected. I just assumed if I had "Ultra" Quality Setting selected and in-use in the Editor, that the game build would default to that Quality Setting. I guess that is not the case.

I manually adjusted the Quality Settings to a higher level in code and now it works great!

Thank you.

 

Great! If you want to outright disable lower quality settings, you can actually delete them in the Quality Settings window so only the ones you are OK with remain. (little trash can icon next to the name of the setting)

 

You set the default quality level separately for the editor and all the different build types.

 

Is there a "section" that you do that in? There are so many settings in HDRP it makes my head spin lol.