Hi, I got my nexus 7 (2013), just some days ago, I started developing a game, the thing is, on my computer, everything looks great, the colors I wanted, a pretty blue sky and everything looks colorful, then I tried it on my nexus 7, I hated the results, the sky was purple every color was more violent, darker and didn’t transmit me that “joy” at all from seeing it, is this normal? cause I find it weird to be there such a huge different in both screens. Any advice?
Two things: color depth / compression, and calibration.
Color depth
Ensure your textures are set for 24bit color, and consider uncompressed for any textures that will have subtle gradations, like skyboxes. The Unity builder will compress the hell out of images to save room, but this comes at a cost of fidelity.
Color calibration
Have you considered whether it might be your computer’s screen that is “out of whack” with regards to the colors? If you use one screen for a while, your eyes will train themselves to assume that the colors are normal when they may be quite different on other screens.
Every screen is different, every video card is different, even if made by the same factory on the same day. It’s possible your own Nexus is tuned poorly or defective, even compared to other Nexus devices. Mine seems accurate.
It’s quite possible that your Nexus 7 is not displaying colors correctly, but since they’re all produced in a batch without any software end-user controls so they should be pretty well calibrated at the factory for general color consistency. However, your monitor is probably older, probably has a little menu for adjustments, is driven by a video card that has even more adjustments, and most people have never calibrated their video system for accurate color.
There are small colorimetric devices that can observe your screen, and then program your video card to compensate for the peculiarities of your personal output situation. Photographers often buy these so they can ensure that what is shown on their screen will match what comes out of a professional printer. If you design a lot of artwork on a screen that happens to be way off, then all your customers are going to wonder if you are colorblind or if you have artistic reasons for fuchsia rainclouds.
I’m not pointing fingers, just remarking at how hard it is to get colors right. I agree it sucks when your devices disagree on what “blue” should look like.
I don’t have experience with mobiles but most people’s PC monitors are not calibrated and so the colors will be off in different ways on different monitors and thus not look the same across monitors.
If your monitor is off in one direction and theirs is off in another then the difference in colors can be huge. You can’t get it to look perfectly the same on other people’s monitors since you can’t calibrate theirs; The best you can do is calibrate your monitor and then what you create will look closer to intended and not way off on some people’s monitors.
As far as I know, it’s hard to get a monitor well calibrated any way other than using special hardware calibrators that you stick on your monitor screen so it can analyze the output and automatically adjusts the settings based on that. One very popular one, which I’m going to get soon, is the Datacolor Spyder4Express which is on sale for $80 right now.
You’ll have to periodically recalibrate your monitor as they change a little over time. I think some professionals even recalibrate every few weeks or once a month.
Okay thanks for the answers so far, anyway, does this screenshot looks good on your screen? (it looks good on my laptop and bad on my tablet)
edit: also, I feel like unity’s true color isn’t true color anymore, I used to use true color for pixel art, but now the color gets still afected.
It looks like an image. We have no idea what you intended for the colors on your image, MadJohny. I suggest you start with a good photograph which matches something in real life. The easiest way to see if something’s odd is to use images of skin tones. Find a popular magazine cover, and find it online too, and compare.
https://www.google.com/search?q=color+calibration+images&tbm=isch
I tried comparing both screens with an image I found fom your link, I can notice a bg difference between both screens, my tablet shows colors way more darker than my laptop screen, anyway, in my oppinnion my tablet looks more correct, the colors on my laptop seem like they have the gamma way up than tey should and in my tablet they actually look like pretty solid colors, seems like the right tone in my opinnion