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iOS Shadows not working (after trying the obvious solutions)

Discussion in 'iOS and tvOS' started by cl-apps, Apr 10, 2014.

  1. cl-apps

    cl-apps

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    Hi there,

    Really weird problem I have discovered. Shadows on iOS don't work.

    I first noticed this on my latest project when testing so I thought I'd cut to the chase and test a brand new empty project with a plane and a cube with one directional light set to hard shadows. Checked the camera rendering path to Forward. Checked the project rendering path. Checked the quality settings are set to Hard Shadows / checked shadow distance. Checked the Player settings... Everything I can think of. Including someone said check the main camera Field of View setting so I checked that too.

    Nothing... Just a cube without shadows...

    I'm running Unity 4.3.4 Pro / iOS Pro on a Mac.

    Shadows used to work in the past but I hadn't used them for ages in preference for Lightmapping but I would like to use them now. Last thing I thought was they weren't going to work.


    Any ideas on what to check now? Or is this a genuine bug?

    Thanks for any help,

    Chris
     
    Last edited: Apr 11, 2014
    cl-apps, Apr 10, 2014
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  2. cl-apps

    cl-apps

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    Solved!

    I think this is a bug within the editor - Anyway the Quality settings were not being used and defaulting to Fastest setting (0). So no shadows.

    Writing a script I forced the Quality setting to (3) and sure enough I now have shadows again!

    I'm sure this wasn't a problem in the past but a 'feature' introduced in the latest 4.3.4 version.

    Anyway, I now have my shadows back so I'm happy. Hopefully this post may be of help to others struggling to find a solution to missing shadows.
     
    cl-apps, Apr 11, 2014
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