billboards_base material depth'n'perfomance problem

[v.chizhkov]

Hello, everyone!

I encountered with some problem with customization of ObjectBillboards material.
I have to realize cloud layer by using of billboards. I create corresponding game object: each billboard in set is separate cloud.

After that, I tried to customize material: I used billboards_base as base material, define my diffuse texture with image of cloud and tune blending “src alpha – one minus src alpha”.
At this step I got such result:

 

Everything is fine, when I switch off Depth mask option:

 

But this action rapidly decreases FPS.

Please, could anyone explain me, how to customize my cloud layer without lack of performance?
Also I can't understand such behavior and need more details.

Thank you in advance.

[silent]

Hi,

 

Could you please send us minimal test scene for reproduction?

 

Thanks!

[v.chizhkov]

Hi, silent.

 

Of cource. There is a sample.

I have to achieve a proper vizualization of big amount of billboards with semi-transparent texture. And with acceptable performance.

Sample.zip

[silent]

Hi Igor,

 

We'll check your scene and report back ASAP. Skipping deferred pass in material settings (States -> Deferred -> Skip) theoretically should increase performance a lot. Could you please check it?

 

Thanks!