There are several ways to analyse a render graph:
To open the Render Graph Viewer window, go to Window > Analysis > Render Graph Viewer.
The Render Graph Viewer window displays a render graph, which is the optimized sequence of render passes the Universal Render PipelineA series of operations that take the contents of a Scene, and displays them on a screen. Unity lets you choose from pre-built render pipelines, or write your own. More info
See in Glossary (URP) steps through each frame. The Render Graph Viewer displays both built-in render passes and any custom render passes you create.
For more information about the Render Graph Viewer window, refer to Render Graph Viewer window reference.
The Render Graph Viewer window displays the render graph for the current sceneA Scene contains the environments and menus of your game. Think of each unique Scene file as a unique level. In each Scene, you place your environments, obstacles, and decorations, essentially designing and building your game in pieces. More info
See in Glossary by default. To select another render graph, use the dropdown in the toolbarA row of buttons and basic controls at the top of the Unity Editor that allows you to interact with the Editor in various ways (e.g. scaling, translation). More info
See in Glossary.
You can use the resource access blocks next to a resource name to check how the render passes use the resource.
In the previous example, the _MainLightShadowmapTexture_
texture goes through the following stages:
During the first five render passes between InitFrame and SetupCameraProperties, the texture doesn’t exist.
The Main Light Shadowmap render pass creates the texture as a global texture, and has write-only access to it. For more information about global textures, refer to Transfer textures between passes.
The blue merge bar below Main Light Shadowmap means URP merged Main Light Shadowmap, Additional Lights Shadowmap and SetupCameraProperties into a single render pass.
The next five render passes don’t have access to the texture.
The first Draw Objects render pass has read-only access to the texture.
The next two render passes don’t have access to the texture.
The second Draw Objects render pass has read-only access to the texture.
Unity destroys the texture, because it’s no longer needed.
To check the details of a render pass, for example to find out why it’s not a native render pass or a merged pass, do either of the following:
For more information about displaying details of a render pass, refer to Render Graph Viewer window reference.
You can use the Rendering Debugger to log the resources URP uses and how it uses them, in the Console window.
To enable logging, follow these steps:
For more information about the Rendering Debugger, refer to Rendering Debugger.
Use the Frame Debugger to check the render passes and draw calls in the rendering loop.
The Frame Debugger displays the following in the Event Hierarchy panel when the render graph system is active:
<render-pass>
is the render pass number and <subpass>
is the subpass number.The Frame Debugger shows only render passes that contain a draw call.
For more information about the Frame Debugger, refer to Frame Debugger.
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