To render large instance counts efficiently, BRG uses a new shaderA program that runs on the GPU. More info
See in Glossary instancing mode called DOTS Instancing. Every shader that BRG uses must support DOTS Instancing. In traditional instanced shaders, the shader is passed an array for each instanced property in a constant or uniform buffer, such that each element in each array contains the property value for a single instance in the draw. In DOTS Instanced shaders, Unity passes one 32-bit integer to the shader for each DOTS Instanced property. This 32-bit integer is called a metadata value. This integer can represent anything you want, but typically it represents an offset in the buffer from where the shader loads property data for the instance that the shader is rendering.
DOTS Instancing has many advantages compared to traditional instancing, including the following:
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