How do you open ProfileReport.pkpr?

Question

Hi,

I am currently trying to profile our Unity game. I noticed, that there is a PkFxProfilerCaptureButton component which will create a binary ProfileReport.pkpr file. How do you open this file to view the results? Couldn't find a way to open it with the editor. Also, couldn't find any documentation about it.

Sorry, if there is an obvious way to do it - I am new to PopcornFX. I know that you can profile individual effects in the editor but I am more interested to see why our overall performance isn't that great sometimes (I'm a programmer, not a VFX artist).

Thank you,
Georg

Answer 1

Hi, you'll need to grab the "ProfilerReplay.zip" archive here: https://support.popcornfx.com/projects/popcornfx-v2/files

(and register if you don't have an account on this support tracker, it can take a couple of hours to get validated, as we do a manual activation)

You can then drag & drop a .pkpr file on the .exe, and it'll open a window showing the captured profile.

You can navigate in there using the IJKL keys to zoom in/out and pan. Hovering a node with the mouse will display its timings.

It's a pretty "barebones" tool but it should do the job.

We're actually thinking about integrating that in the PopcornFX v2 editor directly, and/or allowing to capture chrome tracing files instead, which might be much easier for everyone to use (but they produce much larger files, so it might be impractical for large traces).