Fast mobile shaders or rather Mobile! Fast!

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Scaling with HW•Up to 10x performance difference inpopular mobile GPUs•Your weapons:• Resolution• Post-processing• MSAA• Anisotropy• Shaders• Fx/particles density, on/offJust like on PCs, mobile platforms like iOS and Android have devices of various levels ofperformance. You can easily find a phone that’s 10x more powerful for rendering than someother phone.Quite easy way of scaling: 1) make sure it runs okay on baseline configuration, 2) use moreeye-candy on higher performing configurations.
“Onload” CPU?••More fast coresSkinning, batching, particlegeometry• Easily doable & works•Occlusion cull, post-fx,shadowmaps, particle rast• API limitations... someday?Right now we very often find that games are limited by the GPU on pixel processing. So theyend up having unused CPU power, especially on multicore mobile CPUs. So often it makessense to pull some work off the GPU and put it onto CPU instead.Some easy examples (Unity does all of them right now): mesh skinning, batching of smallobjects, particle geometry updates.Possible future examples: rasterizing depth for occlusion culling on the CPU, rasterizingshadowmaps or particles on the CPU, etc. Some of those are hard to do because of OpenGLES 2.0 limitations right now though.Also, even if putting CPU to full use might make the game faster, it might make it drain morebattery. So as always, adapt all advice to your own situation.
Page 1 and 2: Fast mobile shadersor ratherMobile!
Page 3 and 4: Outline• Desktop vs. Mobile• GP
Page 5 and 6: Mobile•••Needs to use 100x le
Page 7 and 8: Old Is New•Techniques from 2001 i
Page 9 and 10: Workload••Frequency of computat
Page 11: Scene•••Opaque is the bestAvo
Page 15 and 16: GPU Species••••ImgTec Power
Page 17 and 18: Architectures•Tiled Deferred• P
Page 19 and 20: Case: HSR Performance•0.8-3.5ms t
Page 21 and 22: Hidden Surface Removal•Simple geo
Page 23 and 24: Saving BW & ALU•Framebuffer write
Page 25 and 26: Tiled Framebuffers•Higher Z preci
Page 27 and 28: Case: MSAA•4xMSAA, iPad2• 6ms i
Page 29 and 30: Case: Mipmaps•••Turn off mipm
Page 31 and 32: Case: OptimizingSHADOWGUN forTegra
Page 33 and 34: SHADOWGUN+Tegra2••Target 30 FPS
Page 35 and 36: Sort opaque geometry!•Saved ~15ms
Page 37 and 38: LUT Baking ToolsAnother bonus: sinc
Page 39 and 40: Texture Compression•••Tegra h
Page 41 and 42: Profiling toolsTools
Page 43 and 44: PVRUniSCoPVRUniSCo gives cycles for
Page 45 and 46: PerfHUD ES
Page 47 and 48: Tools: Android + Adreno•Adreno Pr
Page 49 and 50: Shader Performance
Page 51 and 52: GLSL ES specific•Precision qualif
Page 53 and 54: General Intuition•••Note: Han
Page 55 and 56: Precision: half / mediump••16 b
Page 57 and 58: Precision•Minimize conversion bet
Page 59 and 60: Shader Performance•Some shaders
Page 61 and 62: Shader Performance••Normalized
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Relative Performance•All lines in
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Unannouced TitleHigh poly, lots of
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Current state••37FPS after opti
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Getting GPU time on iOS•Force CPU
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Post-processing•Precision: lowp/f
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Burning Walls shader
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Burning Walls shader•Saved ~8ms p
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Optimize Particles•Reduce overdra
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Case: AngryBots
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AngryBots••Not much optimizatio
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Added for PC•••Depth of Field
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Wet floor•Render subset of scene
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Planar reflection
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Albedo
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Gloss (A of albedo tex)
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Pixel shader
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Splashes: geom + atlasWater splashe
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Post-fx costs••At native device
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Combine post-fx•Color Correction
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Cheat a bit•Scratch texture on no
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FXAA•Fast Approximate AA• Post
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Fail #1•FXAA is all float/highp
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Win #1•Use more (5) vec2 varyings
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FXAA 3.11•Latest FXAA 3.1 “cons
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Optimizing FXAA 3.11•Down to 12.7
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Extra SlidesExtra stuff we had init
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“Proper way”•Bake a bunch of
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Actually reflectedThis is what is a
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Ta-da!
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Reflection UVs••Not much physic
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Without Bloom
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Also Color Adj•Can also do simple
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“Mood Boxes” in Unity 3.4 Angry
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Mood Boxes•When entering new mood
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