I’ve just converted a project from 4.14 to 4.15. Kite assets couldn’t be converted so i re-download new version of it and replaced on project. But now the problem is my fps dropped from ~90 to ~10. Everything “Dynamic” on gpu profiler takes around 20-25 ms, DBuffer also. I almost checked everything, reset settings of the rendering from project settings. Disabled DBuffer but still “Dynamic” eats a lot of performance. Even though i delete directional light (only light in the scene), “Dynamic” still eats 20ms. Scene uses kite demo assets.
I’m attaching an image to show difference and gpu visualizer screenshot. I hope someone can help me about this problem.
I found the reason with the help of someone from discord channel. He says migration can break the lod screen sizes of static meshes. At first i migrated all 4.14 assets to 4.15. But later i downloaded 4.15 kite demo assets and replaced them on the project. But LOD screen size of all static meshes is 0. Triangle count is like 6x of original scene. It should be a bug.
If you look at the 4.15 release notes you will find a bullet point listing this “LOD for Foliage and Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh Components is now consistent with regular Static Meshes and uses a new screen size calculation.”
My guess is that the new screen size calculation is altering the settings you specify when migrating to a new engine version. My other guess is that our samples team simply migrated the kite demo to 4.15 and is suffering from the same problem I’ll double check this and let them know if they need to update the samples content.
Unfortunately, things like this are a risk you run when migrating to a new engine version.
Regarding your LOD material problem if you look at your slot name for element 3 and 4 they have the same slot name. I know from experience that having two elements share a slot name can cause errors like the material not saving or mimicking the other element’s material.
I checked release notes again and noticed that change. I didn’t know slot names can be same so most likely, issue reason is that. I thought at least kite demo 4.15 assets should work like intended. At the moment i continue to work on 4.14 but i’ll fix them myself when i upgrade my project to 4.15.
