Problem with exported game looking different from game in editor.

[cunning frost]

Hi, I'm having a problem with my game being different when I export it ... Here's what it looks like when it's not exported (left), and how it looks like when it's exported (right). I think it might be a shader issue, but I'm not sure.

[desert radish]

what did you export it to? it could be that you've developed the game on Forward+ but then exported it to mobile/web, in which case it will automatically change to the compatible render mode for the export.

[cunning frost]

Nope, they're supposedly both exported and running as an exe format on Windows, maybe something got changed to compatability in the process but I don't think so

[desert radish]

hm, it seems to not be just the colors, only part of the water has that deep blue, as if there is an extra color rect or something.

[cunning frost]

Yeah, it's weird because the wave effect is just a bunch of polygons layered on top of each other. Then the underwater portion is a ColorRect with one for the background and one for the foreground. I just discovered that if I remove the foreground rect, then the bug goes away. It's very confusing, because they have the exact same material except for some different transparency parameters.

[desert radish]

glad you found a solution, although i still don't understand how that would be exclusive to the exported version.

[cunning frost]

Yeah ... Unfortunately the solution makes the graphics look worse, so I'll have to fix that now. Maybe at some point I'll figure out how to reproduce it and submit a bug report

[desert radish]

you could maybe take the scene from the exported project, open it inside the editor and check if it's somewhat different.

[cunning frost]

like inside the pck file?

[desert radish]

there are pck-extraction tools.
but if you choose export zip in the export window as well as disable the project setting "convert_text_resources_to_binary", this should also work with just a regular zip explorer.