Can I let Android user to choose Quality

[mfatihbarut]

Hi all,
You know unity player has settings before starting the game for quality but there is no such a thing for mobile platforms (as far as I see)
Is there any option approach for developer to let Android users to choose game graphic quality

[adamgolden]

You can do your own graphics options menu, some example code for URP is here:

Mobile graphics optimization, unplayable game

If you want to give users the power to tweak their own performance/temper throttling, this might help: using UnityEngine.Rendering; using UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal; // procedurally changing MSAA, Render Scale, Shadow Distance, whatever else there: UniversalRenderPipelineAsset urp = (UniversalRenderPipelineAsset)GraphicsSettings.currentRenderPipeline; urp.msaaSampleCount = _msaa; urp.renderScale = _renderScale; urp.shadowDistance = _shadowDistance; // to enable/disable shadow pass entir…

[Joe-Censored]

I save the quality level to PlayerPrefs. On load of the build, read it back from PlayerPrefs, and if it exists then set quality to that value (if not there, then leave quality at default). As far as the UI for the player to select between, see any UI tutorial. I like using a slider which jumps between ints, but you can implement it a variety of ways.

[mfatihbarut]

thk

[Ryiah]

@Joe-Censored

I save the quality level to PlayerPrefs. On load of the build, read it back from PlayerPrefs

Unity should be doing this automatically with a key named “UnityGraphicsQuality”.

[Joe-Censored]

@Ryiah

Unity should be doing this automatically with a key named “UnityGraphicsQuality”.

You’re correct, but only so long as the game doesn’t crash or otherwise have its task ended uncleanly. I don’t know about you, but it always irritates me whenever I play a game, save some options, then a few hours later the game crashes, and I find I have to set all the options again since they weren’t really saved when I thought they were.

(I’m pretty sure the quality setting is saved automatically on exit, not when the change occurs)

[xVergilx]

Quality settings is also available in runtime. Just make a few presets, and let user choose.
Alternatively, expose required options via menu or any other UI.

Unity - Scripting API: QualitySettings

[angrypenguin]

@Joe-Censored

(I’m pretty sure the quality setting is saved automatically on exit, not when the change occurs)

If it’s via PlayerPrefs I believe that’s the intent - it saves on exit, or you call PlayerPrefs.Save() if you specifically want it to save at other times.

In an options menu or similar I’d consider calling Save after every change.

[FrankenCreations]

@angrypenguin

If it’s via PlayerPrefs I believe that’s the intent - it saves on exit, or you call PlayerPrefs.Save() if you specifically want it to save at other times.

Thank you. This is why I randomly read forums. I had not even thought of this. I just used playerprefs without further investigation. It worked for me and I never thought about it again. I will amend my practices to reflect my newfound knowledge.

From unity manual
By default Unity writes preferences to disk during OnApplicationQuit(). In cases when the game crashes or otherwise prematuraly exits, you might want to write the PlayerPrefs at sensible ‘checkpoints’ in your game. This function will write to disk potentially causing a small hiccup, therefore it is not recommended to call during actual gameplay.

[angrypenguin]

Honestly, it’s called PlayerPrefs, I wouldn’t expect people to call it during gameplay anyway.

Given the nature of Unity and the context of many users, I think that’s one place where the manual could benefit people by giving a clear reminder that we have a full .NET environment at our disposal, including various file IO and related tools. It would probably save many of the cases I’ve seen where people struggle to shove inappropriate stuff into PlayerPrefs because they think that’s just what Unity uses for saved data in general.