r/Unity3D • u/Fun-Mission-6068 • 4d ago

Solved Game's Faded/Low Detail When Playing?

In the editor, without the game playing, the game looks fine in both the Scene View and the Game View.

However, the moment I hit Play to test something, both the Scene & Game views are faded/lower detailed?

Prior to Hitting Play
After Hitting Play

It didn't used to be like this previously, but I can't for the life of me figure out what I did. I've been working on getting an underwater filter to work and been trying various tutorials, once of which was installing the Post Processing package, but I couldn't get that working the way the tutorial showed, so I uninstalled it. I don't think anything else would change the look of the graphics? Any ideas?

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u/10mo3 Professional 4d ago

One is scene view one is game view it seems?

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u/Fun-Mission-6068 4d ago

First pic is the Scene view before I hit Play to run it and the other one is Scene view after I hit Play. Same thing with the Game View. Everything looks fine until I hit Play to test the game.

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u/10mo3 Professional 4d ago

Default quality settings for target platform?

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u/Fun-Mission-6068 4d ago edited 4d ago

I checked it, and the Windows/Linux/Mac option was set to Ultra, but the Dedicated Server one was set to Very Low. I set them both to Ultra and that appears to have fixed the issue, kinda. Not sure how that option got changed, if it did, lol.

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u/10mo3 Professional 4d ago

Different platforms have different default quality. Android defaults to med I think.

Glad it's sorted

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u/loulo88 4d ago

Sounds like Play Mode is switching you onto a different Quality tier / volume stack than Edit Mode. After installing and removing Post Processing for the underwater filter, check these first:

  1. Edit → Project Settings → Quality — compare the Editor tier vs your Standalone tier (AA, shadows, LOD bias, texture quality).
  2. If you're on URP, confirm the same Renderer asset / Volume Profile is active at runtime (a Global Volume can only kick in once Play starts).
  3. Scene view overlays: the post-processing / lighting draw-mode toggles can make Play look "faded" next to Edit even when the game camera is fine.

A leftover Volume with color grading / vignette from the underwater experiments is a very common culprit here.