Shadows are not being displayed

Hello, I just got my hands on the oculus rift, and the first thing I experienced is that in the editor the game runs with shadows very nicely. But as soon as I start the game, shadows go away and colors become crappy. I thought this was a oculus related thing, but when I donloaded a free oculus game I realized that it has something to do with my unity settings. I would say that oculus is ovewriting my current unity config. The game should be on "Fantastic" Quality but it turns into "Fastest" everytime I hit play. Builds do the same thing.

Any help would be apreciated. Thanks

- Rafael

 

A screenshot of your quality settings would probably clear things up quickly.
Some things to check:
1. Make sure the default checkbox for your build type is set to "Fantastic"
2. Make sure Shadows are enabled for that default setting
3. Make sure the light in your scene has shadows enabled
4. Make sure you're using the right light type for your render settings (i.e. Forward Rendering is only directional shadows, point lights will not cast shadows ... unless that changed)

If all of that checks out perfectly, I'd recommend trying only 1 quality setting

 

All of those options are correct.
Here is the screenshot of my Quality settings :

And right beneath is a screenshot of the same scene without any changes in play mode.


Shadows do work, the problem is that when I press play, they go away and the scene just becomes ugly.

 

I just found the solution, For some reason, oculus rift's Assets change the default resolution and Quality settings. I'm going to dig around and find the right script, if I find it, I'll post how to fix it here so anyone else who get's this issue can easely fix

 

ahh you're using the plugin still; good luck with your fix!

 

I had to, when I exported the game without it, it had no oculus support. Even thought it had "Virtual Reality" Enabled :/

 

I see; well right now the only real benefit of using UnityVR is that it has shadow pass optimizations. Other than that it's lacking a lot of the features the plugin has, but they'll come over time.