Frame Debugger event information

The Event Information Panel in the Frame Debugger window displays information about the event such as geometry details and the shaderA program that runs on the GPU. More info
See in Glossary used for a draw call.

Label	Description
	Render target selector: When rendering into multiple render targets (such as multiple RenderTextures or when also rendering to depth), this specifies which render target to display in the Game view. This is useful for example to view individual render targets in a G-buffer.
	Color channel selector: Specifies which color channels of the render target to display.
	Levels: Controls the black and white intensity. Use this to isolate areas of the Game view based on light intensity.
	Output / MeshThe main graphics primitive of Unity. Meshes make up a large part of your 3D worlds. Unity supports triangulated or Quadrangulated polygon meshes. Nurbs, Nurms, Subdiv surfaces must be converted to polygons. More info See in Glossary Preview: Displays a preview of the selected event output as well as the mesh geometry in the event. For more information, see Preview.
	Event properties: Contains further information about the selected event. For more information, see Event properties.

Preview

The preview section consists of two tabs:

• The Output tab displays a preview of the selected event output.
• The Mesh Preview tab displays the mesh geometry Unity rendered in the event.

Label	Description
	Preview: A preview of the mesh geometry Unity rendered during the event.
	Mesh name: The name of the mesh asset in the preview. Click on the mesh name to take see the mesh asset in the Project windowA window that shows the contents of your Assets folder (Project tab) More info See in Glossary. If the geometry was procedural and there is no mesh asset associated, this is empty (Unity displays -).
	Preview mode: Specifies how the preview renders the mesh. The options are: • Shaded: Renders the mesh using its material and a basic light. • UV Checker: Applies a checkerboard texture to the mesh to visualize how the mesh’s UV map applies textures.. • UV Layout: Displays how the vertices of the mesh are organized in the unwrapped UV map. This view disables the Wireframe toggle. • Vertex Color: Visualizes any vertex colors that the vertices in this mesh have. If no vertices have a vertex color, this option is unavailable. • Normals: Visualizes the relative directions of the normals in the mesh with color. • Tangents: Visualizes the tangent data in the mesh with color. • Blendshapes: Visualizes blend shape deformations on the mesh. If the mesh has no blend shapes, this option is unavailable.
	Wireframe toggle: Toggles the mesh wireframe on and off. When enabled, the preview displays the mesh vertices and edges.

Event properties

The event properties section contains properties and values for the selected event. It has a Details fold-out section that contains information about the event itself and then a fold-out section for each type of shader property. If the fold-out section is grayed-out, it means that the shader in the event didn’t contain any properties of that type. For more information on the information that each section displays, see:

• Details
• Keywords
• TexturesAn image used when rendering a GameObject, Sprite, or UI element. Textures are often applied to the surface of a mesh to give it visual detail. More info
  See in Glossary
• Ints
• Floats
• Vectors
• Matrices
• Buffers
• Constant Buffers

Note: When using OpenGL and GLSL shaders, this panel displays all shader properties as being part of the vertex stage.

Details

The Details section displays information about the rendering event, such as the number of draw calls as well as the meshes that Unity rendered and the shader it used to render them.

Property	Description
RenderTarget	The name of the render target
Size	The size of the render target.
Format	The TextureFormat for the render target.
Color Actions	Shows which actions to perform on the color target when: • The GPU first loads the color target. For more information, see RenderBufferLoadAction. • The GPU finishes rendering to the color target. For more information, see RenderBufferStoreAction.
Depth Actions	Shows which actions to perform on the depth target when: • The GPU first loads the depth target. For more information, see RenderBufferLoadAction. • The GPU finishes rendering to the depth target. For more information, see RenderBufferStoreAction.
Memoryless	The render textureA special type of Texture that is created and updated at runtime. To use them, first create a new Render Texture and designate one of your Cameras to render into it. Then you can use the Render Texture in a Material just like a regular Texture. More info See in Glossary memoryless mode mode. For more information, see memoryless.
ColorMask	The color channel mask used for the render target. For more information, see ColorMask.
Blend Color	The color blending method Unity used during the selected event.
Blend Alpha	The alpha blending method Unity used during the selected event.
BlendOp Color	The color blending operation Blend Color used.
BlendOp Alpha	The alpha blending operation Blend Alpha used.
Draw Calls	The number of draw calls Unity processed during the selected event.
Vertices	The number of vertices Unity processed during the select event.
Indices	The number of indices Unity processed during the select event.
Clear Color	The color Unity used to clear the render target during the selected event. If Unity didn’t clear the render target, the display doesn’t show a color here.
Clear Depth	The color Unity used to clear the depth bufferA memory store that holds the z-value depth of each pixel in an image, where the z-value is the depth for each rendered pixel from the projection plane. More info See in Glossary during the selected event. If Unity didn’t clear the depth buffer, the display doesn’t show a color here.
Clear Stencil	The color Unity used to clear the stencil bufferA memory store that holds an 8-bit per-pixel value. In Unity, you can use a stencil buffer to flag pixels, and then only render to pixels that pass the stencil operation. More info See in Glossary during the selected event. If Unity didn’t clear the stencil buffer, the display doesn’t show a color here.
Batch cause	The reason why the SRP Batcher was unable to batch the selected rendering event with the previous rendering event. This is only relevant if your application uses the SRP Batcher.
Meshes	The list of meshes that Unity rendered during the selected event.
Pass	The shader Pass Unity used.
LightMode	The LightMode pass tag Unity used during the selected event.
Used Shader	The shader asset Unity used during the selected event. This can sometimes be different than the original shader, for example when the original shader uses a fallback shader or USEPASS.
Original Shader	The original shader Unity used with the pass.
ZClip	The shader’s depth clip mode.
ZTest	The shader’s depth test mode.
ZWrite	The shader’s depth clip mode.
Cull	The shader’s cull mode.
Conservative	Indicates whether the shader used conservative rasterization.
Offset	The depth bias on the GPU that Unity used during the selected event.
Stencil	Indicates whether Stencil is enabled in the selected event. For more information, see Stencil.
Stencil Ref	The stencil reference value.
Stencil ReadMask	The stencil readmask value Unity used to perform the stencil test.
Stencil WriteMask	The stencil writemask value Unity used to write to the stencil buffer.
Stencil Comp	The operation that the GPU performed for the stencil test for all pixelsThe smallest unit in a computer image. Pixel size depends on your screen resolution. Pixel lighting is calculated at every screen pixel. More info See in Glossary.
Stencil Pass	The operation that the GPU performed on the stencil buffer for pixels that passed both the stencil test and the depth test.
Stencil Fail	The operation that the GPU performed on the stencil buffer for pixels that failed the stencil test.
Stencil ZFail	The operation that the GPU performed on the stencil buffer for pixels that passed the stencil test but failed the depth test.

Keywords

This section displays information about the enabled shader keywords Unity used in the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the shader keyword.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the shader keyword in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader
Scope	Indicates whether the scope of the keyword is global or local. For more information, see Declaring keywords.
Dynamic	Indicates whether the keyword is dynamic or not. For more information, see Declaring and using shader keywords in HLSL.

Textures

The Texture section displays information about the named textures Unity used during the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The property name for the texture.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the texture in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader
Size	The size of the texture. This is the width and height for 2D textures and width, height, and depth for 3D textures,
Sampler Type	Indicates type of a Texture (such as 2D Texture, cubemap, or 3D volume texture).
Color Format	The color format that the texture uses. For more information on RenderTexture formats, see GraphicsFormat. For more information on formats for other texture types, see TextureFormat.
Depth Stencil Format	The depth stencil format for the RenderTexture. For more information, see RenderTexture.depthStencilFormat. Note: If the texture isn’t a RenderTexture, Unity doesn’t display a graphics format here.
Texture	The texture name.

Ints

The Ints section displays information about the named int values Unity used during the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the int property in the shader.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the int property in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader
Value	The value of the int property.

Floats

The Floats section displays information about the named float values Unity used during the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the float property in the shader.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the float property in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader
Value	The value of the float property.

Vectors

Property	Description
Name	The name of the vector property in the shader.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the vector property in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader
Value(R)	The R component of the vector.
Value(G)	The G component of the vector.
Value(B)	The B component of the vector.
Value(A)	The A component of the vector.

Matrices

The Matrices section displays information about the named matrix values Unity used during the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the matrix property in the shader.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the matrix property in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader
Column 0	The values in the first column of the matrix.
Column 1	The values in the second column of the matrix.
Column 2	The values in the third column of the matrix.
Column 3	The values in the fourth column of the matrix.

Buffers

The Buffers section displays information about the named buffers Unity used during the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the buffer in the shader.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the buffer in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader

Constant Buffers

This Constant Buffers section displays information about the named constant buffers Unity used during the rendering event.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the constant buffer in the shader.
Stage	The shader stage that Unity used the constant buffer in. The possible values are: • vs: Vertex Shader • fs: Fragment Shader • gs: Geometry Shader • hs: Hull Shader • ds: Domain Shader

Share event information

To help you share information for a particular event, the Frame Debugger window can copy the information in the user interface to the clipboard. It can copy information for a single property, for all the properties in a properties section, or for an entire event. This means you don’t need to take one or multiple screenshots to share the results of a frame capture.

To copy a single property and its values to the clipboard, right-click the property and select Copy Property.

To copy all the properties and their values from a properties section, right-click the properties section header and select Copy All <property type> Properties.

To copy all the information from the rendering event, right-click the event header and select Copy Event Info.