Bug Fog working in editor but not in build

3 days of trying to debug this

2021.3 URP.
Fog is working in the editor but is not working in a build.
If the scene is being reloaded in the build - the fog appears...

What I tried:
1. Toggling fog off and on using a toggle (nothing happens)
2. Preloading all shader variants for the fog
3. Graphic Settings > Changing fog mode to manual

Anyone ever experienced that?

Thx!

 

Ok - solved it...

To anyone who deals with that... in my case it was loading another scene on Awake which applied the light settings of that other Scene.

 

Thank you for coming back to post your postmortem update!

This also gets into what is the current active scene, which is the one used for lighting, which of course in turn also controls fog.

Here's more related ramblings about multiple scene setups:

Additive scene loading is one possible solution:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/right-way-for-performance-divide-scene.1023673/#post-6630961
https://forum.unity.com/threads/right-way-for-performance-divide-scene.1023673/#post-6754330

https://forum.unity.com/threads/problem-with-canvas-ui-prefabs.1039075/#post-6726169

A multi-scene loader thingy:

https://pastebin.com/Vecczt5Q

My typical Scene Loader:

https://gist.github.com/kurtdekker/862da3bc22ee13aff61a7606ece6fdd3

Other notes on additive scene loading:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/removing-duplicates-on-load-scene.956568/#post-6233406

Timing of scene loading:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/fun...ject-in-the-second-scene.993141/#post-6449718

Also, if something exists only in one scene, DO NOT MAKE A PREFAB out of it. It's a waste of time and needlessly splits your work between two files, the prefab and the scene, leading to many possible errors and edge cases.

Two similar examples of checking if everything is ready to go:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/daily-events-and-content-changes.1108202/#post-7143713

https://forum.unity.com/threads/uni...on-before-other-scripts.1153739/#post-7401794