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Why does SendWillRenderCanvases take up so much frame time?

Discussion in 'UGUI & TextMesh Pro' started by quitebuttery, Nov 21, 2014.

  1. quitebuttery

    quitebuttery

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    Is it me, or is the new GUI kind of a performance hog--at least on Android? I noticed SendWillRenderCanvases is taking up like 14% of my frame time in the profiler. I've got a few simple control panels in a cockpit which are rendered using Canvases. Is there any way to cut this function's execution time down via the design of my UI?
     
    quitebuttery, Nov 21, 2014
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  2. quitebuttery

    quitebuttery

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    To answer my own question--I was activating/deactivating a lot of GUI objects unnecessarily in that frame. I guess it creates a lot of setup overhead. Fixed it and now it doesn't show up in my profiler.
     
    quitebuttery, Nov 21, 2014
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  3. mushdevstudio

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    When I disabled Pixel Perfect on the canvas the frame rate drop went away.
     
    mushdevstudio, Jan 10, 2019
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  4. clintonb

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    The second half of this talk goes into depth on fixing UI performance problems:
    . I know it talks about activating/deactivating things. It also talks about having separate subcanvasses that update independently. It's well worth a watch.
     
    clintonb, Jan 10, 2019
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