Hi. Right now i am using RGB(A) Compressed ASTC 4x4 - 8x8 block compression on many of my textures. If an Android device does not support ASTC format, what will Unity then use. Its unclear in the documentation if the fallback is ETC2 or 32 BIT. The best case scenario for me if it went like this: AS…

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ASTC fallback on Android devices

Unity Engine

DevDunk April 3, 2024, 9:42pm 2

I think the fallback is RGBA8 as said in another forum post.

Unity 6 has multiple compression systems per platform, not sure how that works. Here you can add both astc and etc

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ASTC fallback on Android devices

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