Multiple Blit problem

Questions & Answers
1

I’m having a weird problem when trying to do a Blit to a renderTexture followed by a Blit to destination:

Void OnRenderImage (RenderTexture source, RenderTexture destination)
{
        RenderTexture render1 = new RenderTexture (source.width, 
              source.height, source.depth);

        Graphics.Blit(source, render1, mat1);
        
        mat2.SetTexture("_SecTexture", render1);

        Graphics.Blit(source, destination, mat2);

        render1=null;    
}

This is causing an increase slow down that eventually just crashes unity.
Doing only one of the Blits seems to work normally, but when i do two, i’m having problems.
I searched a lot for an answer and didn’t find it. Help!

2

Leaving this to help anyone with the same problem, the way to do this is using temporary rendertextures.
Something like this will do it:

 RenderTexture renderTemp = RenderTexture.GetTemporary(source.width, source.height);

with

RenderTexture.ReleaseTemporary(renderTemp);

at the end.
I hope this helps :smiley:

3

Because RenderTexture is an Unity’s Object, it doesn’t get garbage-collected even if you set render1=null. Multiple call to new RenderTexture() (by calling OnRenderImage multiple times in this case) will eat up your RAM, hence, it will crash Unity. To free up the space consumed by RenderTexture, you should call Destroy(render1).

Or alternatively, as you already know, just use temporary RenderTexture.