No Shadows on Android. Why?

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Hi. In my game (live on google play store since two years) shadows was working ok.
Now im using Unity 2021.3.11f1 but in the editor shadows works good as always, but in my android devices shadows don’t work. I cannot see them.

Things I have tested and not worked:

  • In project settings set all platforms to default Ultra (all are green on ultra). And set Hard shadows there, with a tested shadow distance (50) that should work.
  • Builded the game and launched on android with every of this setups: Auto Graphics API on. Auto Graphics API on with all Require ES3.1, ES3.1+AEP, ES3.2. Then with Auto Graphics API off. Then switching top position of Vulkan, OpenGLES 3, OpenGLES2 (deprecated).
    No one of this builds showed me shadows on my device.

Debugs logs for:

Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] shadows {QualitySettings.shadows}");
Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] shadowmaskMode {QualitySettings.shadowmaskMode}");
Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] shadowDistance {QualitySettings.shadowDistance}");
Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] shadowNearPlaneOffset {QualitySettings.shadowNearPlaneOffset}");
Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] shadowResolution {QualitySettings.shadowResolution}");
Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] shadowProjection {QualitySettings.shadowProjection}");
Debug.Log($"[GraphicSettings] GetQualityLevel {QualitySettings.GetQualityLevel()}");

[GraphicSettings] shadows HardOnly
[GraphicSettings] shadowmaskMode Shadowmask
[GraphicSettings] shadowDistance 50
[GraphicSettings] shadowNearPlaneOffset 3
[GraphicSettings] shadowResolution High
[GraphicSettings] shadowProjection StableFit
[GraphicSettings] GetQualityLevel 5

Im using Unity 2021.3.11f1.
Using the normal Built-in Render Pipeline.
Tested on Moto G30 and Galaxy S22 Ultra.

Any idea what should I check? Thanks.

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Ok, after several tests, looks like its something in my scripts. Not related to shadow configuration. Im digging into it.

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Finally solved, it was not something in my scripts. Don’t sure what it was, but after setting up Lighting Settings Asset under Window/Rendering/Lighting, Clean Build my addressables from Window/Asset Management/Addressables/Groups and build it again, builded the game for my phone, shadows are working now.

Hope this helps for someone.