Add an FPS counter to Unity8 for yourself

UniSuperBox

Just logging something for posterity, maybe someone will find it useful.

You can add this to the end of Unity8's Shell.qml, but before the final closing brace, to get a (somewhat accurate) FPS counter:


    Label {
        id: fpsCounter
        property real t
        property int frame: 0
        color: "red"
        text: "? Hz"
        z: 9999
        textSize: Label.XLarge

        anchors {
            top: parent.top
            left: parent.left
        }

        Timer {
            id: fpsTimer
            property real fps: 0
            repeat: true
            interval: 1000
            running: true
            onTriggered: {
                parent.text = "FPS: " + fpsTimer.fps + " Hz"
                fps = fpsCounter.frame
                fpsCounter.frame = 0
            }
        }

        NumberAnimation on t {
            id: tAnim
            from: 0
            to: 100
            loops: Animation.Infinite
        }

        onTChanged: {
            update() // force continuous animation
            ++frame
        }
    }

I'm not interested in making this a "feature" per se, but it's useful for testing if you like.

Please don't do this on your device, it will get in the way and cause a bunch of CPU and GPU load.

kugiigi

I'm interested with the results of each device. So far, in my experience, Nexus 5 is much smoother than bq E5 and MX4. I migh try this one of these days