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Aras Pranckevi\u010dius<\/a> wrote on the Unity blog about the new frame debugger feature they added to their editor: Frame Debugger in Unity 5.0<\/a>. The hack, he calls it, is very simple and just consists in interrupting the rendering at a given stage and display whichever frame buffer was active at the moment. Just a couple of days of work; most of the work went into the editor UI.<\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no actual \u201cframe capture\u201d going on; pretty much all we do is stop rendering<\/em> after some number of draw calls. So if you\u2019re looking at a frame that would have 100 objects rendered and you\u2019re looking at object #10 right now, then we just skip rendering the remaining 90. If at that point in time we happen to be rendering into a render texture, then we display it on the screen.<\/p>\n

This means the implementation is simple; getting functionality working was only a few days of work (and then a few weeks iterating on the UI)<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Illustration\"<\/a>

Illustration from the article: “Here we are stepping through the draw calls of depth texture creation, in glorious animated GIF form”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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