Disabling Reflection Texture has no FPS Win

[gamefan]

Hi,

I want to offer user to disable reflections in my application so that there is gain in fps if he/she wishes to. I set ReflectionTextureEnabled in standardMaterial to false, the reflection is disabled but there is no performance gain. Removing the reflection texture from the mesh's material does increase the fps count. But I don't want to remove the reflection texture completely as user can toggle this back on again. Any strategies on how to do this?

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#DHPSEM#1

[adam]

Try removing the meshes from the renderList.

[gamefan]

It can be done but I will have to index the meshes in the render list so that they can be added back again once reflections is switched on. I was looking for a simpler solution. Is there a property that will completely disable reflections somewhere deep down in the babylon render loop?

[adam]

21 hours ago, gamefan said:

Is there a property that will completely disable reflections somewhere deep down in the babylon render loop?

I would think that StandardMaterial.ReflectionTextureEnabled would be the answer.  This appears to be a bug.

edit:

This fix increases the fps (maybe not completely):

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#DHPSEM#11

If you try setting StandardMaterial.ReflectionTextureEnabled to false after the scene is loaded you get a broken reflection:

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#DHPSEM#10

[gamefan]

13 hours ago, adam said:

If try setting StandardMaterial.ReflectionTextureEnabled to false after the scene is loaded you get a broken reflection:

Yeah, noticed this. Once set ReflectionTextureEnabled to false it has to be set to true to enable reflection again. That property remains unchanged in the browser session of pg.

#11 increases the fps, but will have to do this to all materials. Can I someway override a StandardMaterial function without editing the babylonjs file. Thanks

[Sebavan]

Adams fix has just been deployed to the playground, your first sample now works as expected it drop the number of commands from 689 to 341 and 203 draw calls to 103.

You can verify it with http://spector.babylonjs.com

[adam]

I submitted another PR this morning that should allow you to switch reflections on and off correctly after the scene is loaded.

[adam]

This is now working.

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/index.html#DHPSEM#20