How To Render 10,000 Animated Characters With 20 Draw Calls In Unity
This is an English translation of a blog I wrote in Chinese in 2017. Although the original blog was a few years ago, I found this article very interesting, so I decided to translate it into English.
0x00 Introduction
I think a lot of game developers hope that the more objects they can render in their scene, the better.
Unfortunately, rendering and managing a large number of game objects is at the expense of CPU and GPU performance, because there may be too many Draw Calls, if the game object is animated, it will also involve the CPU skinning overhead, so we must find other solutions.
So, this article will talk about using GPU to achieve efficient rendering of animated characters and reduce the skinning overhead on the CPU side. At the same time, reduce the number of Draw Calls of rendering 10,000 animated characters from 10,000+ to 20. (The model comes from RTS Mini Legion Footman Handpainted)
