Post processing stack's Bloom effect causes black screen on android OpeGL ES

I had a hard time figuring this out. On SOME android devices with OPenGL ES rendering (and this includes the NOX emulator on PC), using the Unity postprocessing stack with Bloom On will render your scene black. Everything will be black except your UI elements. Also, the color mapping - especially the filmic tonemap, will cause black spots on these devices. On other android devices, it works just fine. Haven't tried the iOS build yet.

 

Well, it's not really intended for mobile at the moment, so it could be anything.

 

Check out the Sleek Render package, it's tailored for mobiles and maybe will work for you. https://forum.unity.com/threads/sleek-render-lightning-fast-mobile-post-processing-effects.502181/
Users report exceptional picture stability on a wide range of devices. Unlike the standard post processing stack which sometimes displays wrong on certain GPUs/devices.

 

Unity's PostProcessing stack is far from stable on mobile, it's basically not designed with mobile in mind. If you're looking for production-ready mobile post-processing that has actually been used in multiple released games on every mobile platform, check out the PRISM link in my sig.

 

Black screen on Android are commonly related to out of range or NaN pixel values used in shader operations - those invalid values could be produced by non saturated/very high bright pixel values, probably due to invalid normal values.

 

Which version? If you are using the version from the asset store, then perhaps the NaN remover in the the github version (2.0) will fix the issue. I am running into a similar issue on a console platform, and will be testing v2 vs v1.