Technical Analysis

Game: The House
Genre: Suspense, thriller
Made in: Unity
Type of game: Triple A/ indy
Hardware: Consoles/ pc

Before/ After HDRP of project

Before:

Game currently crashes unity and/of laptop
Whole scene gets stuck
Make it look more cinematic
Optimize for better performance
Project structure fix
( Folder structure is currently all separate with their own packages. In order to fix this, need to remove the assets and add them to a folder which indicates what assets I use. That also applies with scripts and shaders.)
Clean up scene.
Unity hierarchy fixen
Game runs smoothly tho, some fps drops sometimes.
Runs mostly on a constant 30ms with ultra settings.
Camera post processing used to make the game look good.

Profiler

Statistics

After:

Assets turned pink.
Assets material switched to HDRP lit.
Some materials switched, Some still pink.
Need to optimize it with shader forge.
Lights turned very soft, need to sharpen it.
Dynamic weather system doesn't work, need new skybox and weather system.
Camera doesn't seem to work anymore, might switch to first person.

Hierachy after organizing

In-game after HDRP and Converting assets.

After fixing the textures and skybox with HDRP

Unity Profile after HDRP

After Occlusion Culling

Occlusion Area

Profiler

Statistics

Technical Plan of Action

Main focus:

Lighting and post processing for scene.

Other focus:

Fix lighting by baking and sharpening.
Fix/replace shaders that doesn't work with HDRP.
Find a way to get a decent skybox. Need a skybox with moon, moonlight, sound, wind and maybe even rain.
Fix 3D models Such as trees that are still pink.
Use Occlusion culling
Convert project to 2018.3.13f1

Conclusion
Before everything the game was pretty heavy with particles and lights and LOD's with a weather system to make it more dynamic. It ran smoothly even though post process was added. But it was still a bit heavy for my pc's performance.

Commencing with the optimization.

I directly converted the project into an HDRP project. It gave me allot of pink assets which I then converted to HDRP assets. Some assets were still pink and that was fixed with Shadergraph. The project still felt heavy and the light were really soft and bright. After adjusting the lights,unity had problems rendering the particle system for the candles. It gave me black spots, those were spots that couldn't be rendered because too much was happening there. Eventually I decided to remove some candles and this fixed the problem. Next was to make it even more optimized and for this I used the occlusion culling. This made the game run smoothly in unity.

Definitive Conclusion

After optimizing the game, the textures looks good but had to make sacrifices for performance. This made me rethink my workflow on how much I can add in a game in unity.

Tutorial to watch for HDRP: