[Suggestions] Range selection support for Unity Profiler

Currently Unity Profiler can only select one specific frame, but sometimes we need to measure average time costs in a range of frames.

So I strongly suggest that you guys can add range selection support for Unity Profiler.
(Ignore me if this is already supported...)

 

Thank you for the feedback! Frame range selection is not yet supported in the Profiler Window, but we are considering adding it. We are collecting use cases and analyzing workflows to ensure we get it right. Thus

Could you please describe your use case and which decisions this would help you to make.

(Not to sidetrack you, but I have to mention that there is a tool in a package form which does analysis of profiler data - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...yzer@0.4/manual/profiler-analyzer-window.html)

 

Hi, thanks for the reply. My use case is simple.
I wanted to measure the UGUI scrolling efficiency using Mask and RectMask2D. It's something you can't measure within one frame.
For other cases, like profiling Update costs, we have added custom profiling codes to get the avg cost.
But wouldn't it be nicer to have it built-in with Unity.

 

1. We wrote our custom profiling codes to get a Methods avg cost(Well, our custom profiling codes is not just for this case.).
2. In the actually performance test, our QA team use other profiling tools to get a list of calls which have a higher total cost and also avg cost. But as developer, I would like to see those results in the Editor, not after the build and using other profiling tools to get the results.
3. For the scrolling case, actually I just need the avg cpu cost. But it would be nice if Unity gives the call hierarchies that take the most cpu time in the selected range.
4. What would be more useful is to get the avg cost of each job within a period of time.

Basically, I just want immediate feedbacks inside Unity after I make any optimizations, not after build using XCode instruments or other tools. And some optimizations must be measured using total cost and avg cost.

I didn't know there's a Profile Analyzer tool, so I'm gonna try it out first. Thanks again.

 

This would be really useful - I just was trying to do this myself

+1 from me

 

We have a simple use case where we lazily load several files. The method itself will be called on the span of several frames and it's very important for us to know how much time it took in total to load all data over about 100 frames. With the current profiler we can't do that.