URP and GPU instancing & MPB 的注意事项

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Tested with: 2020.1.0b16.4138 + URP 9.0.0-preview.38, Windows DX11

Objects with same material & same property values

SRP batcher ON material GPU instancing OFF	SRP batched
SRP batcher ON material GPU instancing ON	SRP batched (because if SRP batcher is ON, gpu instancing will be ignored)
SRP batcher OFF material GPU instancing ON	GPU instanced

Objects with different material & different property values

SRP batcher ON material GPU instancing OFF	SRP batched
SRP batcher ON material GPU instancing ON	SRP batched (because if SRP batcher is ON, gpu instancing will be ignored)
SRP batcher OFF material GPU instancing ON	Not batched nor instanced (expected because they are different materials)

Objects with same material & different property values set by MaterialPropertyBlock

SRP batcher ON material GPU instancing OFF	Not batched nor instanced (because MPB values are not same)
SRP batcher ON material GPU instancing ON	Not batched nor instanced (same as above)
SRP batcher OFF material GPU instancing ON	Not batched nor instanced (because properties are non-instanced)

According to Unity Documentation about GPU instancing, user can use MaterialProperyBlock to have different material properties for each instances.
Apparently the test showed that this is not true anymore in Universal Render Pipeline.

Reason:

URP shader properties are all wrapped by SRP batcher macros “CBUFFER_START(UnityPerMaterial)”.
GPU instancing need to use this macro “UNITY_INSTANCING_BUFFER_START(MyProps)”

Solution:

What if we really want to have GPU-instanced object with different properties set by MPB?
Edit the URP shader or have a custom shader like this:

Shader "Custom/Instancing In URP"{    Properties    {        _MainTex ("_MainTex (RGBA)", 2D) = "white" {}        _Color ("Color 1", Color) = (1,1,1,1)    }    SubShader    {        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" "DisableBatching" = "True" }        Pass        {            HLSLPROGRAM            #pragma vertex vert            #pragma fragment frag            #pragma multi_compile_instancing                        #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/SurfaceInput.hlsl"            struct appdata            {                float4 vertex : POSITION;                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;                UNITY_VERTEX_INPUT_INSTANCE_ID            };            struct v2f            {                float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;                UNITY_VERTEX_INPUT_INSTANCE_ID            };                        sampler2D _MainTex;            float4 _MainTex_ST;            UNITY_INSTANCING_BUFFER_START(MyProps)                UNITY_DEFINE_INSTANCED_PROP(float4, _Color)            UNITY_INSTANCING_BUFFER_END(MyProps)                        v2f vert (appdata v)            {                v2f o;                UNITY_SETUP_INSTANCE_ID(v);                UNITY_TRANSFER_INSTANCE_ID(v, o);                o.vertex = TransformObjectToHClip(v.vertex.xyz);                o.uv = TRANSFORM_TEX(v.uv, _MainTex);                return o;            }                        float4 frag (v2f i) : SV_Target            {                UNITY_SETUP_INSTANCE_ID(i);                float4 col = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv);                float4 color = UNITY_ACCESS_INSTANCED_PROP(MyProps, _Color);                col *= color;                return col;            }            ENDHLSL        }    }}