I suppose it’s not possible, but asking anyway: is there any way of disabling Enlighten? I’m doing a mostly 2D Android/iOS game that doesn’t need GI nor lightmaps for that matter. Yet there is still the Enlighten worker thread spawned. While testing on iPad, I noticed in the xCode CPU view that the Enlighten thread does stuff even though I’m not using any of it. Seems it depends on scene, but I didn’t figure out why it’s more active in some scenes than in others. (I actually had forgotten some “Clear to skybox” cameras in some menu scenes instead of “Clear to solid color”, but that was not the cause of the extra Enlighten activity.)
Anyway, it should be possible to disable Enlighten if one does not use it. The worker thread is probably not sucking too much CPU time, but on mobile devices any unneeded background activity is not a good thing IMHO.
Yeah - EnlightenRuntimeManager.PostUpdate…
ReflectionProbes.
I’m writing custom shaders, and it’s getting harder and harder to disable all these ‘features’
Good to know it’s a known problem! Still, I’d like a way to just completely disable Enlighten if it’s not needed. Or perhaps you could automatically infer if it’s not used from the built scenes and disable when building the player. Food for thought.
Also wondering why it’s even enabled if running with -nographics on dedicated servers. Got reports of big servers with 56 cores having 14 worker threads for Enlighten per game instance. How do we disable that stuff for dedis?
Hi, is there any news on this? I’m not seeing Enlighten worker thread on iPad Air with 5.3.2, was something done about it? I think I saw the worker thread being spawned on Android while testing earlier today, but I don’t recall if that APK was built with 5.2.4 or 5.3.2…
I’m still seeing it in in 5.3.0f4. Is this supposed to be automatically removed or is it our responsibility to ensure that nothing in our Scene is accidentally trying to use lighting when we don’t intend to? If the latter is the case, is there a checklist that we can go through to “remove” all the lighting related stuff Unity tries to “help” us with? I feel as though I have, but I’m obviously missing something since the Enlighten thread is still spawning.
The image showing the “Setting up 1 worker threads for Enlighten” was on Android via Android Studio’s logcat. I’m not sure how to determine if it is consuming any processing power. How would I do that?
I ran locally on my Windows machine too, but I’m unable to find any thing with “Enlighten” when I try to search in the profiler. How would I best confirm whether or not the spawned worker thread is consuming any processing power?
In 2021.1 (or 2? not 100% sure right now) It’s been fixed to only show data if enlighten was on. In the Editor, there are some minor idle bits that are still running in a background thread. The “Total CPU” category on the chart was also removed because it summed up all other categories, basically making things in the stacked chart look twice as bad as they are.
