Apple TV Player settings

This page details the Player settings specific to tvOS. For a description of the general Player settings, see Player.

You can find documentation for the properties in the following sections:

• Icon
• Resolution and Presentation
• Splash Image
• Debugging and crash reporting
• Other Settings

Icon

Use the Icon settings to customize the branding for your Apple TV app.

Apple TV images consist of between two and five layers. Unity provides two layers for Apple TV icons.

Note: For more information on layering images for Apple TV, see the Apple Developer documentation on Layered Images.

Setting	Функция:
App icons	Build the custom icon that you would like to appear on your AppleTV home screen for each resolution (1280x768, 800x480, and 400x240).
Top Shelf icons	Build the custom icon that you would like to appear on the AppleTV top shelf for each aspect and resolution (4640x1440, 2320x720, 3840x1440, and 1920x720).

Resolution and Presentation

Enable the Disable Depth and Stencil option to disable the depth and stencil buffers.

Splash Image

In addition to the common Splash Screen settings, there are two additional settings for the tvOS platform:

Use the AppleTV (1x) and AppleTV (2x) properties to set Apple TV static splash screens.

Debugging and crash reporting

Setting	Функция:
Enable Internal Profiler (Deprecated)	Enables an internal profiler which collects performance data of the application and prints a report to the console. The report contains the number of milliseconds that it took for each Unity subsystem to execute on each frame. The data is averaged across 30 frames.
On .Net UnhandledException	The action taken on .NET unhandled exception. The options are Crash (the application crashes hardly and forces tvOS to generate a crash report that can be submitted to iTunes by app users and inspected by developers), Silent Exit (the application exits gracefully).
Log Obj-C Uncaught Exceptions	Enables a custom Objective-C Uncaught Exception handler, which prints exception information to console.
Enable Crash Report API	Enables a custom crash reporter to capture crashes. Crash logs are available to scripts via CrashReport API.

Other Settings

This section allows you to customize a range of options organized into the following groups:

• Rendering
• Identification
• Configuration
• Optimization
• Logging
• Legacy

Rendering

Use these settings to customize how Unity renders your game for Standalone platforms.

Setting		Функция:
Color Space		Choose which color space should be used for rendering: Gamma or Linear. See the Linear rendering overview for an explanation of the difference between the two.
Auto Graphics API		Disable this option to manually set the graphics APIs. This option is enabled by default, and includes Metal.
Color Gamut		You can add or remove color gamuts for the iOS platform to use for rendering. Click the plus (+) icon to see a list of available gamuts. A color gamut defines a possible range of colors available for a given device (such as a monitor or screen). The sRGB gamut is the default (and required) gamut. When targeting recent tvOS devices with wide color gamut displays, use DisplayP3 to utilize full display capabilities. Use Metal Editor Support as a fallback for older devices.
Metal Editor Support		Enable this option to use the Metal API in the Unity Editor and unlock faster Shader iteration for targeting the Metal API.
Metal API Validation		Enable this option when you need to debug Shader issues. Note: Validation increases CPU usage, so use it only for debugging.
Metal Write-Only Backbuffer		Allow improved performance in non-default device orientation. This sets the frameBufferOnly flag on the back buffer, which prevents readback from the back buffer but enables some driver optimization.
Force hard shadows on Metal		Enable this option to force Unity to use point sampling for shadows on Metal. This reduces shadow quality, which should give better performance.
Memoryless Depth		Choose when to use memoryless render textures. Memoryless render textures are temporarily stored in the on-tile memory when rendered, not in CPU or GPU memory. This reduces memory usage of your app but you cannot read or write to these render textures. Note: Memoryless render textures are only supported on tvOS, tvOS 10.0+ Metal and Vulkan. Render textures are read/write protected and stored in CPU or GPU memory on other platforms.
	Unused	Never use memoryless framebuffer depth.
	Forced	Always use memoryless framebuffer depth.
	Automatic	Let Unity decide when to use memoryless framebuffer depth.
Multithreaded Rendering		Enable this option to use multithreaded rendering. This is only supported on Metal.
Строка состояния		Enable this option to use Static batching.
Dynamic Batching		Check this box to use Dynamic Batching on your build (enabled by default).
Compute Skinning		Enable this option to use DX11/ES3 GPU compute skinning, which frees up CPU resources.
Graphics Jobs (Experimental)		Enable this option to instruct Unity to offload graphics tasks (render loops) to worker threads running on other CPU cores. This is intended to reduce the time spent in Camera.Render on the main thread, which is often a bottleneck. Note: This feature is experimental. It may not deliver a performance improvement for your project, and may introduce new crashes.
Normal Map Encoding		Choose XYZ or DXT5nm-style to set the normal map encoding. This setting affects the encoding scheme and compression format used for normal maps. DXT5nm-style normal maps are of higher quality, but more expensive to decode in shaders.
Lightmap Encoding		Choose Low Quality, Normal Quality, or High Quality to set the lightmap encoding. This setting affects the encoding scheme and compression format of the lightmaps.
Lightmap Streaming Enabled		Enable this option to load only the lightmap mipmaps as needed to render the current game Cameras. This value applies to the lightmap textures as they are generated. Note: To use this setting, you must enable the Texture Streaming Quality setting.
Streaming Priority		Set the lightmap mipmap streaming priority to resolve resource conflicts. Unity applies these values to the light map textures as it generates them. Positive numbers give higher priority. Valid values range from –128 to 127.
Enable Frame Timing Stats		Enable this option to gather CPU/GPU frame timing statistics.

Identification

Setting	Функция:
###Идентификатор бандлов	Enter the provisioning profile of the game or product you are building. The basic structure of the identifier is com.CompanyName.ProductName. This structure may vary internationally based on where you live, so always default to the string provided to you by Apple for your Developer Account. Your ProductName is set up in your provisioning certificates. This value appears as CFBundleIdentifier in the associated info.plist file. See the Apple developer documentation on CFBundleIdentifier to learn more. Note: This is shared between iOS, tvOS and Android.
Version	Enter the release-version-number string for the bundle (for example, 4.3.6). This appears as CFBundleShortVersionString in the associated info.plist file. See the Apple developer documentation on CFBundleShortVersionString to learn more.
Build	Enter the build number for this version of your app. This appears as CFBundleVersion in the associated info.plist file. See the Apple developer documentation on CFBundleVersion to learn more.
Signing Team ID	Enter your Apple Developer Team ID. You can find this on the Apple Developer website under Xcode Help. This sets the Team ID for the generated Xcode project, allowing developers to use the Build and Run functionality. An Apple Developer Team ID must be set here for automatic signing of your app. For more information, see Creating Your Team Provisioning Profile.
Automatically Sign	Enable this option to allow Xcode to automatically sign your build.

Configuration

Setting		Функция:
Scripting Runtime Version		Choose which .NET runtime to use in your project. For more details, see Microsoft’s .NET documentation.
	.NET 3.5 Equivalent (Deprecated)	A .NET runtime which implements the .NET 3.5 API. This functionality is deprecated, and should no longer be used. Please use .NET 4.
	.NET 4.x Equivalent	A .NET runtime which implements the .NET 4 API. This API is newer than .NET 3.5, and as such, it offers access to more APIs, is compatible with more external libraries, and supports C# 6. This is the default scripting runtime.
Scripting Backend		Choose the scripting backend you want to use. This setting is not enabled for tvOS.
API Compatibility Level		There are two options for API compatibility level: .NET 4.0, or .NET Standard 2.0. Tip: If you are having problems with a third-party assembly, you can try the suggestion in the API Compatibility Level section below.
C++ Compiler Configuration		Choose the C++ compiler configuration used when compiling IL2CPP generated code. This setting is not enabled for tvOS.
Use on Demand Resource		Enable this option to use on-demand resources. This setting has no effect for tvOS.
Accelerometer Frequency		Define how often to sample the accelerometer. If you choose Disabled, then no samples are taken. Otherwise, you can choose from 15Hz, 30Hz, 60Hz and 100Hz frequencies.
Camera Usage Description		Enter the reason for accessing the camera on the tvOS device.
Location Usage Description		Enter the reason for accessing the location of the tvOS device.
Microphone Usage Description		Enter the reason for accessing the microphone on the tvOS device.
Mute Other Audio Sources		Enable this option if you want your Unity application to stop Audio from applications running in the background. Otherise, Audio from background applications continues to play alongside your Unity application.
Requires Persistent WiFi		Enable this option to require a Wi-Fi connection. tvOS maintains the active Wi-Fi connection while the application is running.
Allow downloads over HTTP (nonsecure)		Enable this option to allow downloading content over HTTP. Default and recommended is HTTPS.
Supported URL schemes		A list of supported URL schemes. To add new schemes, increase the value of the Size property and then set a reference to the Asset to load in the new Element box that appears.
Target SDK		Select which SDK the game targets. The choices are Device SDK and Simulator SDK. Note: Be sure to select the correct SDK. For example, if you select the Device SDK but then target the Simulator in Xcode then the build will fail with a lot of error messages.
Target minimum tvOS Version		Defines the minimum version of tvOS that the game works on.
Architecture		Choose which architecture to target. This setting is not enabled for tvOS because it changes automatically depending on the value set for the Target SDK property.
Require Extended Game Controller		Enable this if your app requires a game controller. For more information, see the Apple Developer documentation on Game Controllers.
Active Input Handling		Choose how you want to handle input from users.
	Input Manager	Use the traditional Input window.
	Input System (Preview)	Use the Input system. The Input System is provided as a preview package for this release. To try a preview of the Input System, install the InputSystem package.
	Both	Use both systems side by side.

API Compatibility Level

You can choose your mono API compatibility level for all targets. Sometimes, a third-party .NET library uses functionality that is outside of your .NET compatibility level. In order to understand what is going on in such cases, and how to best fix it, try following these suggestions:

1. Install Reflector for Windows.
2. Drag the .NET assemblies for the API compatibility level you are having issues with into Reflector. You can find these under Frameworks/Mono/lib/mono/YOURSUBSET/.
3. Drag in your 3rd-party assembly.
4. Right-click your 3rd-party assembly and select Analyze.
5. In the analysis report, inspect the Depends on section. The report highlights anything that the 3rd-party assembly depends on, but that is not available in the .NET compatibility level of your choice in red.

Script Compilation

Setting		Function
Scripting Define Symbols		Set custom compilation flags. For more details, see the documentation on Platform dependent compilation.
Additional Compiler Arguments		Add entries to this list to pass additional arguments to the Roslyn compiler. Use one new entry for each additional argument. To create a new entry, press the ‘+’ button. To remove an entry, press the ‘-’ button. When you have added all desired arguments, click the Apply button to include your additional arguments in future compilations.The Revert button resets this list to the most recent applied state.
Suppress Common Warnings		Disable this setting to display the C# warnings CS0169 and CS0649.
Allow ‘unsafe’ Code		Enable support for compiling ‘unsafe’ C# code in a pre-defined assembly (for example, Assembly-CSharp.dll). For Assembly Definition Files (.asmdef), click on one of your .asmdef files and enable the option in the Inspector window that appears.
Use Deterministic Compilation		Disable this setting to prevent compilation with the -deterministic C# flag. With this setting enabled, compiled assemblies are byte-for-byte identical each time they are compiled. For more information, see Microsoft’s deterministic compiler option documentation.
Enable Roslyn Analyzers		Disable this setting to compile user-written scripts without Roslyn analyzer DLLs that might be present in your project.
Use Roslyn Reference Assemblies		Disable this setting to the compiler not to skip compilation reference assemblies when the metadata of the assembly does not change.

Optimization

Setting		Функция:
Prebake Collision Meshes		Enable this option to add collision data to Meshes at build time.
Keep Loaded Shaders Alive		Enable this option to prevent shaders from being unloaded.
Preloaded Assets		Set an array of Assets for the player to load on startup. To add new Assets, increase the value of the Size property and then set a reference to the Asset to load in the new Element box that appears.
Дополнительные опции AOT компилятора.		Additional options for Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation. This helps optimize the size of the built tvOS player.
Strip Engine Code		Enable code stripping. This setting is only available with the IL2CPP Scripting Backend. Most games don’t use all necessary DLLs. With the Strip Engine Code option enabled, you can strip out unused parts to reduce the size of the built player on tvOS devices. If your game is using classes that would normally be stripped out by the option you currently have selected, you’ll be presented with a Debug message when you make a build.
Managed Stripping Level		Choose how aggressively Unity strips unused managed (C#) code.
	Normal	Remove unreachable managed code to reduce build size and .NET/IL2CPP build times.
	Aggressive	Run UnityLinker in a less conservative mode than normal, reducing code size even further than what Normal can achieve. However, this additional reduction may come with tradeoffs. For more information, see ManagedStrippingLevel.
Script Call Optimization		Choose how to optionally disable exception handling for a speed boost at runtime. See iOS Optimization for details.
	Slow and Safe	Use full exception handling (with some performance impact on the device when using the Mono scripting backend).
	Fast but no Exceptions	No data provided for exceptions on the device (the game runs faster when using the Mono scripting backend). Note: Using this option with the IL2CPP Scripting Backend does not impact performance; however, using it can avoid undefined behavior on release builds.
Vertex Compression		Set vertex compression per channel. For example, you can enable compression for everything except positions and lightmap UVs. Whole Mesh compression set per imported object overrides where vertex compression is set on objects. Everything else obeys these vertex compression settings.
Optimize Mesh Data		Enable this option to remove any data from Meshes that is not required by the Material applied to them (such as tangents, normals, colors, and UVs).

Logging

Select what type of logging to allow in specific contexts.

Check one box that corresponds to each Log Type (Error, Assert, Warning, Log, and Exception) when running scripts (ScriptOnly) , all the time (Full), or never (None).

Legacy

Enable the Clamp BlendShapes (Deprecated) option to clamp the range of Blend Shape weights in SkinnedMeshRenderers.

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• 2018–11–28 Page amended

• Input System preview added in Unity 2019.1

• GPU Skinning renamed to Compute Skinning in Unity 2019.3

• GPU Skinning renamed to Compute Skinning in Unity 2019.3NewIn20193

• OpenGLES2/3 deprecated in Unity 2019.3

• OpenGLES2/3 removed in Unity 2020.1