Object count insanity!!!!

Hi
Why does unity have a fit with large amounts of objects is there a hard coded thing or does the power of the user computer come into play. For instance if i create a million empties and press play unity will crash whats the cause of this ?Would a more powerful computer be able to handle more objects or is the limit exist with unity itself?

 

A million objects? What is the real issue that you are having?

 

Just stress testing but why does unity struggle with a million empties I would think they they should not have any noticible impact So what is the process when dealing with an object even an empty one?And if i had a supercuputer could i far exceed this test or is unity the bottleneck here?

 

Perhaps if you shared your code or tried on a different computer using a binary search approach to see where it falls over you might be able to determine. In the meantime, you might consider using the Unity Profiler https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Profiler.html

 

You might be interested to take a look at the following thread. GameObject's are very costly and the editor starts to surrender when using a few ten-thousands:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/5-6...e-of-open-savescene-and-enterplaymode.447500/

Related issue-tracker item:
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/non-linear-editor-performance-of-savescene-and-enterplaymode

I believe Unity's entity component system is solving this issue, but it's only in preview at the time of writing. As far as I remember, this talk mentions the "megacity" scene contains millions of entities.

Spoiler: Entity Component System (ECS) "Megacity" walkthrough - Unite LA 2018 Keynote

 

Hey Jeff
there was no code it was a blank scene and I just duplicated an empty a million or so times.

 

Hi Peter
Yea I saw that video but I'm using 5.66 so ecs is never coming my way at least not in the foreseeable future

 

Not my point. Point was to compare. But it's not needed now, we got our answer!