670 Vert model in unity with mobile/diffuse = 4.9k verts?

670 Vert model in unity with mobile/diffuse = 4.9k verts?

Hi can someone help me under stand why i am getting so many verts..

I am totally confused as to why there are so many from such a small model. this is in a new scene just the model of the tree. i know that with nothing in the scen ( blank new one) there is 1.7k verts from what i am not sure..

But i am under the impression that for mobile devices it best to keep an entire level to 100k verts which seems pretty much impossible..

Any advice on what i can do would be awesome.

Thanks

Daniel

 

1.7k tris (5040 vertices) is cubemap rendering

To understand what are you rendering use the Frame debugger tool which is under "Window/Frame Debugger" menu item. It will show you that your model actually rendered lots of times in the scene because of shadowmaps, depth rendering, etc.

For example cascade shadow maps render your object 3 times. 1 more time is depth rendering, 1 more is main rendering
That is 5 times overhead for just rendering of one model.
If you turn off the shadows or will use shadows without cascade, you will save some performance

 

Cool thanks for this. I'll look into it first thing.
Cheers