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GPU Skinning broken with OpenGLES3 Daydream (causes render artifacts) on 2018.3

Discussion in 'Daydream' started by Xarbrough, Jan 10, 2019.

  1. Xarbrough

    Xarbrough

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    I'm wondering if anyone has had similar issues and maybe found a workaround: We've upgraded our project to Unity 2018.3 and now have strange render artifacts and glitches, which look like this:

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    Basically, all textures (including render textures) are garbled and flicker in wild colors as soon as a certain number of SkinnedMeshRenderers are present in the scene.

    This happens when:
    • SkinnedMeshRender count is above a certain number (approx. 40 instances)
    • GPU Skinning is enabled
    • Only Unity 2018.3 (2018.2 works fine)
    I've investigated quite a while to rule out other influences and only found the actual skinning to cause the issue. In my reproduction project there are no other textures or special objects, only SkinnedMeshRenderers without animations. In my test case I spawn skinned meshes in an empty scene. At the start, everythings works fine, then I spawn more instances and as soon as their count is roughly at 40, the flickering starts. To me, this looks like GPU Skinning is writing data to some vertex buffer and other shaders are reading from the same data or some similar effect.

    I can work around the issue by disabling GPU Skinning in the PlayerSettings, but for our current project it is basically essential to use the option because of performance limitations. Additionally, we would like to upgrade to 2018.3 because there are other unrelated performance improvements which we would like to benefit from.

    I've filed bug Case 1109597, but since it may take some time to resolve, I wanted to hear if anyone from the community knows a possible solution in the meantime. Thank you!
     
    Last edited: Jan 11, 2019
    Xarbrough, Jan 10, 2019
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  2. ThatDarnCat

    ThatDarnCat

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    Hi Xarbrough,

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We've managed to reproduce the issue you are seeing and our developers are investigating.
     
    ThatDarnCat, Jan 11, 2019
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  3. Xarbrough

    Xarbrough

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    That’s great news, thank you!
     
    Xarbrough, Jan 11, 2019
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  4. RMGK

    RMGK

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    Having the same issue using Samsung S7, running Android 8 using Unity 2018.3.3.
     
    RMGK, Feb 1, 2019
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  5. isidro02139

    isidro02139

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    Dear @ThatDarnCat any updates on this issue? I searched for case 1109597 but could not find it in the Unity Issue Tracker. We are facing this after upgrading a 2017.4 project to 2018.4, would be great if we could keep GPU Skinning enabled for performance reasons...
     
    isidro02139, Oct 27, 2019
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