No Splash Screen on Windows Phone 8 with Unity Pro?

So I finally got the dreaded Windows 8 Installed on my Mac and I have Unity up and running.

I noticed the splash Image states "Not applicable for this platform"

So, no splash screens on Windows Phones?

 

That's good?

 

I haven't built it for the device yet, so I don't know what comes up instead of a splash screen, that being said, I haven't decided if that's good or not.

 

Seems to be by design that not all apps add one unless needed. Note that store submit rules require to show at least something after 5 seconds and 20 seconds is max your app can load without user interaction on any WP8 device.

"Windows Phone 8 apps load quickly, so a Windows Phone 8 app usually doesn’t need a splash screen. New Windows Phone 8 projects don’t include a default splash screen image file. However, if you want to use a splash screen in your Windows Phone 8 app, add an existing JPG image file to the root folder of your Windows Phone 8 project, and name the file SplashScreenImage.jpg.

For apps that take a long time to load, we recommend that you create an animated splash screen to indicate progress while your app prepares to run. One way to do this is by creating a Popup control that displays the animation while the app resources are loading. When the app has finished loading, you can hide the Popup control. For more info about animations, see Quickstart: Animations for Windows Phone."

 

Just fyi, in Unity Free we see standard "Powered by Unity" logo on WP8

 

Now that doesn't make mush sense.

Is there anyone with a Pro license that's built a project on the device yet? If so, do you see a splash screen?

Thanks,

 

I'm not sure if there's anything I need to change, but here on Pro I just made a build and it showed the default Unity splash screen as well.

EDIT: note that this was on a debug build, not release

 

I wonder if there is something wrong with the Pro license on Unity's Side.

I wonder if they saw this during the beta testing.

 

I suspect that you can change the tile/splash screen from the generated Visual Studio project, I'll try to tinker around with it later tonight.

 

Alright I finally got back to it and I am able to change the splash screen by changing the image "SplashScreenImage.jpg" in the root of the build directory. I assume that we'll get access to changing the splash screen sometime soon; they generate their default splash image, why not let us change it through Unity?

I'm wondering if Free users can also change the splash screen.

Odd.

 

Wow!!

Thanks for figuring that out! One of the big perks of Pro from me is having my own splash screen (among other things).

I hope the streamline it soon.

 

Thanks for the explanation Tomas, we were wondering why we hear game music and still see only a black screen for a couple of seconds upon start. Now we know there will be unity splash screen and we need to add few seconds before displaying our intro animation.

 

Hey Tomas1856,

When I go to Player Settings in Unity, under splash screen it states "Not applicable for this platform". I have Unity Pro.

 

On Windows Phone 8 both Icon and Splash Image say the same thing "Not applicable for this platform"

On Windows Store App I can't select the Splash Image button at all. It does not open.

Here are the Window Phone 8 Pics

 

Here are the Windows App Store Pics

 

Tomas:

I'm wondering why the Splashscreen is not used in it's full scale ?
I filled all available sizes in the app manifest and everything is okay in VS ( no red warning crosses/icons in the image Assets )

But still only the small splashscreen gets used in the build, both on Desktop and on Surface RT
A test of several released games built with Unity ( according to the betaboard list ) i installed from the Windows Store, shows the same problem:
The splashscreen isn't using the largest image resolution which would fit to the screen resolution, only the smallest image gets ( 620x300) displayed
Is this a current limitation for the Store export module ?

 

Thats exactly what i'm doing - but the splash screen always comes out as the small one ...

 

It may have something to so with the scale, I found this on Microsoft's website:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465338.aspx

 

Guys, I have unity 3d pro but I can't remove the first screen that shows the unity3d logo.

Does any one know how to solve this problem?