DOTS Render Pipeline

Hi guys,

Did you have any information during the unite about the DOTS render pipeline introduced during the keynote ?

I'm very curious about the purpose, time window, etc

Thanks

 

Hi @Joachim_Ante,

Do you speaking of hybrid rendering package ? Because I stayed on the idea that Package was temporary, waiting for a better solution.

 

Hi @Joachim_Ante
This was said almost a year ago:

But unfortunately to set shader properties per instance is not something you can do right now without forking RenderMeshSystemV2, please correct me if i'm wrong.

This is the only thing that stopping me right now from starting to use DOTS in production

 

V2 has taken some of the rendering to engine side, I don’t think you can add the instance color anymore, or at least not as easy as in v1.

With DMII (drawmesindirectinstanced) you can achieve this quite easily at the cost of loosing V2 features.

If I find time next weekend, I will put a system up in the old 2D thread where we experimented with sprite rendering, this has 3 implementations of DMII, but I found them to be complicated and too focused on stress testing. I left a concept idea in the thread that I never implemented, maybe next weekend

 

DOTS Instancing with Shader Graph is being worked on. In the latest version, you can find options to enable it (Actually the DOTS Instancing option has been in shader graph for a while now) Hybrid Instanced is what's new and for each property created.



Don't know if they actually do anything yet as I don't code but not too long ago some updates showed up on Github - https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/commits/dots-instancing

As far as I know, the Hybrid Render just converts mesh to their ECS representation with the proper components needed so that just sits on top of HDRP, URP, (and probably Custom SRPs)

 

Awesome news

 

From the name firstly, since 2 years "hybrid" is the adjective for temporary module waiting "pure" rewritten module.( maybe rename it to DOTS renderer package so ?)
And from conversions here and there because this package was made for megacity with a specific logic in mind ( loading data from subscenes) which no covers not all cases ( procedural for example)

 

it is in fact hybrid as long as it uses objects for models and materials

 

as mentioned above, i posted in the other thread, much less polished than other solutions there, but in my view simpler + should be more performant

https://forum.unity.com/threads/200k-dynamic-animated-sprites-at-80fps.695809/page-2#post-5024381

 

@Grimreaper358 @Joachim_Ante is this feature still present in Unity 2020.3 Shadergraphs? I still see options for GPU instancing but not for DOTS Instancing.