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Brute Force - Grass Shader Documentation

8. Performance Tips

Number of Stacks

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Probably the biggest performance factor of the grass shader is the number of layers you are using.

For PC/Linux I recommend using between 8 and 15 layers and for mobile/VR/AR you should stay below 6 layers.

The performance hit is relative to the view angle of the grass, the more you see of it the higher it will be.

Material Pragmas

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Check or uncheck the features you don't need in the material, if you don't need Interactive effect you should disable "Use RenderTexture Effect" 

Fade Distance

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If you don't care about rendering from afar you should set the Fade-Distance range lower so that the grass doesn't get unnecessarily rendered, the ideal range will change depending on your scene's metrics.

You can get a really nice boost in performance by using this feature appropriately.

Use the lite variant

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Depending on your game style you should consider using the lite shader variant, it's the same shader I use on my game Crumble and it works flawlessly even on the Nintendo Switch at 60FPS

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