A method and device for reducing memory occupation of a Shader module of a mobile game

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and device for reducing memory occupation of a Shader module of a mobile game. The method comprises the following steps of starting a Unity editor to search all Shader type resources so as to obtain a resource list of the Shader type resources; loading Shader files one by one according to the resource list; transmitting the Shader object into an interface in a Boolean parameter mode through the interface obtained in a reflection calling mode, executing the step of obtaining the variant number of the Shader, and writing the variant number into a file to be stored; and sorting the variants, analyzing the Shader files with the large number of variants, and optimizing the Shader files with the large Shader variants. The device comprises a memory and a processor, and is configured to implement the method. According to the present invention, the number of the Shader variants is counted, and after the number of the Shader variants is sorted, game developers can optimize files with large variants faster and more accurately, so that the memory occupation of game programs is reduced.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method and a device for reducing memory occupation of a Shader module of a mobile phone game, and belongs to the technical field of game software. Background technique [0002] After mobile games have become mainstream, the game has become more and more serious, and the memory usage at runtime is also getting higher and higher. How to reduce the memory size at runtime and improve the frame rate of the game has become an important link that affects the quality of the game. The smaller the memory size, the smaller the probability of being cleared by the system. [0003] In games developed using the Unity engine, the memory occupied by the Shader module occupies part of the memory of the entire game process, and reducing the memory of the Shader module is also an important aspect of reducing game memory. The number of keywords in the Shader directly affects the variant (Variant), and the number of Variant will affect the memory...

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The number of keywords in Shader directly affects the variant (Variant), and the number of Variant will affect the memory size of ShaderLab, and also affect the parsing and compilation time of Shader, thus affecting the memory size and game frame rate

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