Game starts during Unity personal splash screen

I just upgraded to Unity 5. Imported my game and built a new version for iPhone.

There's a new splash screen. Or, well, the game starts with a blank screen, and then shows the new splash screen. That for some reason seems to stay on the screen for about 4-5 times longer than the previous splash screen. During this time, sounds from the game start to play. When the splash screen goes away, the whole intro of the game has already played.

I spent the last hour frustratingly adjusting an extra pause before the intro to time it to start after the overtly long, unanimated unity splash screen. I had to build the project dozens of times and run the game on device to see when the game can actually start, when the splash screen has cleared. And now when I run it in the editor, I have to wait 4 full seconds before the game starts, because that's the delay needed for the splash screen on device.

I haven't seen any mentions in known issues about this, this can't be working as intended, can it? Get pro, or good luck manually timing your game to start after the mandatory splash screen?

 

bump...
I'm facing the exact same issue.
It was working on 4.6 perfectly.

 

Hi folks!

Just wondered if you managed to get any traction with solving this? I'm annoyingly experiencing the same thing! grrr

Cheers
Mike

 

I'm also still looking for a solution to this problem...

 

Experiencing the same issue, thus bumping this

 

Same problem here. Not critical in my case, but would be good to know if it's fixed at some point.

 

Any updates on this?

 

Kinda funny but this is a working solution:
1. put solid colored quad over screen;
2. check if it becomes visible(read pixels from screen);
3. when square becomes visible(pixel color read from screen matches quad color) start your game loop;

note: read just one pixel for efficiency. ))

here's code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SplashScreenGoneDetector : MonoBehaviour {

public delegate void SplashScreenHidden();
public SplashScreenHidden onSplashScreenHidden;
private bool splashScreenHidden = false;

void Start () {
tex = newTexture2D(1, 1, TextureFormat.RGB24, false);
StartCoroutine(ReadPixelsFromScreen());
}


private Texture2D tex;

IEnumerator ReadPixelsFromScreen() {
yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
int width = Screen.width;
int height = Screen.height;

tex.ReadPixels(newRect(width/2, 0, 1, 1), 0, 0);
tex.Apply();
var pixelColor = tex.GetPixel(0,0);


if(pixelColor.r == 1.0F)
{
onSplashScreenHidden();
}
else
{
StartCoroutine( ReadPixelsFromScreen());
}
}
}

 

Any news on this? It has been a while.

EDIT: OK, I see that Application.isShowingSplashScreen exists in 5.2 now. Too bad that we can't update to Unity 5.2 because our game broke in several ways.

 

Yeah, 5.2 breaks my game as well: iOS rendering is really slow. 5.3 breaks my game, Texts render a notch too high. 5.4 sposed to fix THAT, but my game is done and I want to ship. Really guys, come on. I know building an engine is really, really hard work. But both 5.2 and 5.3 making my game not work properly locks me out of updates for a long time, and now the Unity Personal Splash (which I totally don't mind) is playing while my corp logo is up.

The time the unity splash is shown is different on all three of my iPhone 4, wife's iPad Mini and iPhone 6. So I can't even time it to show my logo at a good time.

 

Application.isShowingSplashScreen and chain your logo when that becomes false?

 

isShowingSplashScreen doesn't exist in 5.1, which is what I have to use because of the problems cited in my post you quoted.

 

And I'm assuming you've tried the solution 2 posts above yours and it didn't work either?