Hello people! I have a very weird issue, and I really hope someone can clarify this for me. Also, I’m not sure whether this is the right place to post it, I’m sorry if it isn’t!
I have a scene - all dynamic lighting. I made it like this, since I wanted to create this faster, and because shadows looks more ‘crisp’. Now, I suddenly ran into a performance problem today. Weird thing is, the Unreal scene says it has 1mil tris in the camera viewport (with the “Stats Engine” command), and the scene is only 220k tris in Maya. This makes no sense in my mind, but here are the pictures :
I know the statistics show 343k tris, but that is because I am streaming two levels at the same time - the scene from Maya, plus one more scene, that is about 100k tris. Why is this happening? Any ideas?
Let’s see now. For some reason, the combination of those two is what kills my game.
Only in the apartment - 103k tris. Perfectly fine, and it is normal. Then, only in the persistent level - 63k. I have no idea where does it take those 63k from, but that’s alright (since the other scene isn’t in the viewport). Then for some reason, the combination of 103k and 63k is 971k tris?! How does that even, WHAT? I am really, really hoping this is a mistake on my end and not the engine’s fault! In the persistent level, I have only my post-process volume, a skylight, the directional light (sun) and an atmospheric fog. Nothing that has topology.
I use LPV, directional light with indirect lighting, AO turned on and 3 other light sources with shadows turned on in the scene. The rest of the lighting is with no shadows. So if I reduce the amount of lights that have shadows on, the problem will disappear?
