Assets [RELEASED] Project Scan - analyze your ENTIRE project and find potential performance improvements!

Project Scan is now Live on the Asset Store​

After 9 months of development, I am proud to present you my latest asset, Project Scan.

What is it?

Project Scan is an Editor Extension that allows developers and artists to scan their entire project to find potential performance improvements, a brief explanation and how to improve it!



It scans various assets like Audio Clips, Textures, 3D Meshes, Scripts and even your current Scene contents to find common performance errors.



Project Scan is extremely customizable and you can filter out specific files, GameObjects, and directories!



Check out Project Scan in action!

I am open to any feedback that comes by!

Feel free to ask any questions!

 

Does this tool take into account the build target and suggest performance improvements that are consistent with the build platform requirements?

 

Hi,

It checks whether your build target is Mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry build targets etc.) and, based on that, runs particular tests and outputs specific results.

For example, realtime reflection won't perform well on Android devices like on Desktops or Consoles. Project Scan captures that.

Apart from limit, you can also specify your own benchmark. E.g. how many polygons per scene or per mesh do you aim to have? This is really useful if you wish to know whether you hit limits you've set.

Hopefully that answers your question

 

Project Scan's Bottleneck Scanner can easily help you see which GameObjects/Assets require your attention. Added support for filtering GameObjects by scene.

That's right, Project Scan scans not only currently active scene, but also all your currently loaded scenes!

See it in action!

 

After months of hard work, Project Scan is now stable enough to carry a BETA tag. The stage of CLOSED BETA officially begins!

I am actively looking for participants who are willing to test and provide feedback on Project Scan during the CLOSED BETA stage. BETA participants will receive a free copy of Project Scan upon its launch.

If you’re interested in participating or have any questions, please send a PM or an email to beta@hardcodelab.com

Be sure to mention the following info:

• Your name (or nickname if you prefer)
• What is your role in game development (e.g a programmer or an artist)
• Years of experience
• Machine Specs

See you there!

 

It's been almost a month since BETA started and I have received a lot of useful feedback from some of you guys! Thank you for that!

Here's how Project Scan's Bottleneck Scanner looked like 1 month ago:



And here's how it looks like now!



And that doesn't include tons of tests internal optimizations, features and bug fixes!

Don't forget BETA is still on and if anyone would like to participate, drop an email at beta@hardcodelab.com

 

Check out a quick video to get an idea of how it feels like working with Bottleneck Scanner!

 

Project Scan comes with lots of Filtering options. Have a look at this quick video!

 

Project Scan is now live on the Asset Store!

Get it here: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/85287

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Interesting project!
Do you also monitor performance in playmode somehow?
Do instantiate and destroy account for pooling?
What about expensive functions in general and finding out how often they are triggered?

 

Hi @umauj

Project Scan scans your project files and scripts, while running it in playmode would be possible, it would have a heavy workload on the system and therefore impractical.

In the future, Project Scan will have a runtime scanner which would continuously read data both in playmode or at runtime!

Instantiate() and Destroy() are expensive functions and Project Scan does catch it regardless if you're using it for pooling or not.

It does look out for expensive functions and more is going to be added in the future, also accounting for how often they're being used.

I hope this answers your questions!

Regards,

Elmar

 

Project Scan Roadmap is now live on Trello! See the upcoming and planned features for future versions!​

If you want to a see a specific feature, let me know and it will be considered in the future! ​

 

Project Scan 1.0.2 Update Now Live!

Changelog:

• Added support for Unity 2017.1
• Minor code changes
• Fixed a bug which caused ArgumentOutOfRangeException to be thrown for MacOS Sierra users

 

Great tool, love using it.

However I was not able to exclude folders. It still keeps scanning all the third party assets and my other folders. The comma separated input line is not good way. I think there should be check box related UI, so that we can choose them. I mean i have 60 folders maybe, how will enter their names one by one manually ?

 

Hey @MoribitoMT

Thanks for purchasing Project Scan!

Would it be possible if I could have a look at your settings?

Thanks,

Elmar

 

Project Scan 1.0.3 Update Now Live!

Changelog:
General

• Added support for Unity 2017.2
• Minor UI tweaks

Bottleneck Settings

• Added a directory treeview allowing you to exclude directories from being scanned. This makes filtering folders much faster and less tedious.

Affected Objects List

• Added an option to add Folders to filters directly.
• Added an option to “Open File” to open an asset in a default program
• Added an option to “Open Folder” to open folders

 

Hi @elmar1028, there is a simple error with the asset; there is a Editor file (I think it was PS_DirectoryTree - can't recall right now) that was sitting on a normal folder and was causing unity build to fail. I had to move it under Editor folder.

 

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I have submitted an update and it should be live soon.

 

Yes, I had the same problem, and cannot build to iOS without deleting the asset.

And one more thing, the new file directory system is very slow, I try to choose the folders to scan ( I have like 300-400 folder in my 10gb project ) and scrolling down is almost impossible, it stucks and moves very slowly, it does not crash but is so slow to scroll down.

 

To fix this do the following:

1. Locate the script named PS_DirectoryTree located in Project Scan/Tools/Bottleneck Scanner/Classes/Other/Bottleneck Settings
2. Create a folder named "Editor" in the same folder PS_DirectoryTree is
3. Drag PS_DirectoryTree.cs into "Editor" folder.

Your project should now compile without any errors.

Thanks for letting me know about the slow directory system. I am taking a closer look at it right now and hope to release a fix in the near future.

 

Project Scan 1.0.3p1 Update Now Live!

Changelog:
Bug

• Fixed an issue that prevented Unity from compiling a project.