Profiler native plug-in API

This come from 2018.2 release note

Can I know more about the API?
Note : there's nothing about it in the docs.

 

Interesting

 

Draft documentation is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ldq6c6wKfYT9VFCzubTUV1ZVgc1-EWxU7CaX5Ik1v6Y

The header itself can be found in the Unity install folder. We are working on the public example.
Internally we switched one of platform profilers to use it and planning to do that for all platforms.
At the same time it might be useful for anyone who wants to grab events when they occur.
There are some known issues we are fixing atm:
1. GC.Alloc is not grabbed.
2. Profiler.BeginSample only grabbed with profiler enabled.

 

Thank you i was really want something like this but in the doc there's nothing about getting useful data like in the Editor Profiler you just show how we can register callbacks...IMHO the doc is useless sincerely

 

The API is for collecting the data.
We are working on the plugin demo which explains what can be collected.

What to do with an event is up to the collector. Profiler does postprocessing and aggregation of the events received through these callbacks to built a merged/filtered representation. As was said before this is primarily for the integration with system profilers which can then display Unity events on top of OS/CPU and other data.

 

Can this API be used to collect data as described in this thread?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/pro...y-to-get-more-statistics.497602/#post-3234581

Basically collect the "Render Statistics" as shown in the editor game window, but in a player instead.

 

@alexeyzakharov any ETA for the demo?
@Peter77 I was also thinking about something like that

 

Only some of that stats can be collected. Right now you can get "calls count" value for almost any profiler event (e.g. Material.SetPass, Camera.Render, MeshSkinning.Render or anything you see in the profiler except samples generated by Profiler.BeginSample). For quite some time calls count information is available in development players through Profiling.Recorder API and we use it internally in performance tests. You don't need Plugin API for this.

Stats like vertices, meshes count are not exposed yet. Once ready we'll expose C# API similar to Recorder to get an integral counter value.