Unity Level Streaming

I still am!

 

How do things go when there are fewer objects in the Scene?

I'd love for Unity to just make the issue go away, but that number stands out to me as being... rather high, for just a single scene in an additively loaded world.

I just took a look at a few scenes in a fairly large, and largely unoptimised game I'm working on. The whole loaded world is ~12k to ~20k loaded objects total, with individual scenes up to around 5k. While more objects will be added, by the time we're done I expect those numbers to be a fair bit lower than they are now. In particular, scenes with thousands of GOs are one of our primary optimisation targets precisely because of the large number of objects which can either be a) turned into instanced rendering lists or b) combined.

Of course, those approaches will work for this game, other approaches would be needed for other projects.

From memory, a few years ago when I looked into this, the bit which put me off was actually a texture loading hitch? Is that still a thing?

 

Also worth wondering whether this performance hiccup is happening in both editor and build. From memory scene loading in editor is a bit slower than a built game.

 

It doesn't matter if 10k game objects is a lot or not. What matters is - the "integrate" part should not be done in one frame. Loading 10k empty cubes without textures, awake and start methods causes hiccup in a final build. In editor it freezes everything for over 1 second.
On the side, I render over 20k game objects in my HDRP scenes using GPU instancing and material property blocks and I have constant 60FPS. The problem is loading the scenes. I would go the DOTS way, but it is all in preview what I don't like at all.