Update: SRP batcher is in 18.2
List of built-in shader variables set by render pipelines
Threading in Unity
Single thread / direct -force-gfx-direct
- Main thread
- device
Multi–thread / client+worker pair -force-gfx-mt
default, and if GraphicsJobs checkbox is off
- Main thread
- device
- client
- Render thread
- device
- worker
Graphics Jobs / legacy -force-gfx-jobs=legacy
Cpu command – run in linear
Render command – run in parallel
Graphics Jobs / native -force-gfx-jobs=native
if GraphicsJobs checkbox is on.
if platform / API doesn’t support native then will fallback to legacy
only in player + Vulkan / DX12 / Metal
Cpu command – run in parallel
Render command – run in parallel
- Main thread
- device
- client
- Render thread
- device
- worker
- Job thread
- N render thread
- N render thread
[Custom SRP] How to use Unity features?
Update:
If you are using 2019.1+, you might notice there is a big change to the SRP APIs.
I’ve created a new repository and you can grab here. Much cleaner and minimal.
https://github.com/cinight/CustomSRP
Here lists out exact what codes enable the Unity feature when making our custom SRP.
*Note that my codes may not be perfectly optimised, but the concept itself won’t change.
*Hope the information is accurate enough. I’ll keep them updated.
Indicators:
In pipeline code
In shader code
✅ Doesn’t need to specifically care about it in codes. Write the codes as usual.
#ifdef SHADER_TARGET_SURFACE_ANALYSIS in Surface Shader
#ifdef SHADER_TARGET_SURFACE_ANALYSIS
//Codes that Surface Shader should work
#endif
Volumetric shader
StungaLab – 21³ Cubic Animation Tech Note
Me and a few of my friends (StungaLab) decided to create this animation from last year and I’m responsible for all Unity things – setup / shaders / tools / plug-ins etc. I didn’t help a lot as I have my full-time job in UK so most of the work are actually done by the 2 amazing 3D artists Felix Yin-Zhen Chu and Shadow Chi-Ho Wong, also 2D part by Carol Tsz-Ching Ng. It is the first time for us all to put ourselves into such a big production — target at high quality, massive amounts of assets, and short time-frame, (esp. ) lack of knowledge of using Unity (they are almost the first time Unity user). The final animation really surprised me.
I only have mobile game development experience in the past so there was no way for me to grab so many plug-ins and use so many expensive graphics features in any projects. So I had no idea how to correctly set things up for a project like this. Glad that I work in Unity and the knowledge I gained supported me a good start.
Note: Not everything shown in this blog are being used. But they are the stuff I worked on so I hope to keep them here as a log.
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