Profile Loading Times

The profiler inside Unity gives quite some great insights. Unfortunately it starts to tick only when the scene is loaded. What I would really need to profile is the loading time of the scene itself though. My game start takes around 10-20s which is way too long, scene switching again ~10s on a S4.

How can I find out what the biggest bottlenecks are to speed up scene loading times? Is there any tool (Unity or Asset Store) which can find that out for me? I really don't want to spend hours guessing and trying out all kinds of things that only might be critical.

Would be awesome if someone had advice on this for me!

 

There's no tool that will let you profile the loading times. If 10s is way too long, then load a smaller first scene which can load more quickly. If you get that first scene up and running, you can then call Application.LoadLevelAdditiveAsync() to load more data into the scene.

 

Forgive the shameless plug, but you might want to check out SECTR STREAM. This doesn't measure your load times but it gives you tools to break up a scene into chunks and stream those chunks in and out. If your scene is amenable to that, it can make fur a huge reduction in load times.

 

Forgiven. Your post seemed exactly what the OP wanted to hear.

 

I played around with loading things additively but it is only possible for certain scene types. I would really like to increase the startup time of the app until I reach the main menu scene.

As there seems to be no tool (would be a great feature!), what general advice could you provide? What takes a long time to load on an Android S4 and what is not an issue? Are there any rules? I'd suspect that the Unity developers know very well what are the expensive operations but there is no documentation or help on this topic. E.g. Is it important to combine multiple textures into one or does that make no significant difference. Does using substances make a big difference and what influence do the cache settings for them have? Or should I even precalculate them in case loading the substance engine in itself already adds significant loading time penalties? Does the format of the music influence loading times (mp3 vs ogg...) etc.

 

I would also like to hear about that from some Unity devs.
This is a really important topic, and "Just slam a long loading screen in your game" isn't really a sufficient answer.

+1 For a loading time profiler

 

Still no help on that matter? I have issues with this as well.

Koby

 

Ping! A game I'm working on for a client takes 20 seconds to get from the menu scene to the game scene. The game scene is large, but not outrageous — maybe 100 scene objects or so, most of it UI (the sprites that are the actual game get created on the fly after the scene starts).

I wish there were a profliing tool that would let me see how that 20 seconds was spent, so I'd have some idea where to start optimizing.

 

Bump! ... it's been a year since last post but Google lead me here. So, any tips? I'm still googling around finding chunks of advice on things but nothing complete.

 

Ok, but there really SHOULD BE.

 

Bump, we are still wating