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Viewing HDR content on Display HDR Monitor in Scene / Game mode

Discussion in 'Universal Render Pipeline' started by abj87, May 22, 2022.

  1. abj87

    abj87

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    I bought a new monitor after my old monitor stopped working. It has a display HDR certification and I can see a big difference in quality when I watch HDR videos on youtube or UltraHD discs on windows.

    In unity, if I enable HDR in the display settings and the player settings I can view a HDR output but only after I build and compile a windows PC project. In the Scene / Game view I can only get LDR to display. This is no good. Microsoft Edge and VLC can display HDR content easily for multiple open windows so I know it should be possible.

    What can I do to enable this in the runtime editor and game mode so I can easily see what I am doing?
     
  2. abj87

    abj87

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    Any help?
     
  3. funkyCoty

    funkyCoty

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    It's a unity limitation. You'll only get HDR output on builds.
     
  4. Goatilus

    Goatilus

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    Well that's not true.
    In the "project settings -> player -> other settings" there is an option "use display in HDR mode" and you can even select the bit depth.
    This is for me in the Version 2021.3.23f1 and I know that it's there in later versions as well.

    I'd like to know if there is a way to also show the scene view in HDR, as this setting only seems to show it in the game view.