4 Unity Destruction Libraries Compared - Which is best for you? 

There are a lot of questions regarding performance in the comments. Below are the profiling stats on my machine, in editor (it was a little harder to get these in a build for you so quickly - sorry!), for the demo scene I constructed. Each scenario is using as close to the same configuration in the respective system as possible, and the meshes being fractured are identical across all libraries. Each scenario includes the default Unity Sphere mesh and the respective shattered object (sphere and shattered object targeting 25 sub pieces each) 1. a Pipe with top face open 320 vertices, 192 triangles (2 submeshes) 2. a Torus with 1088 vertices, 768 triangles (2 submeshes) fully closed 3. a Door with the exterior as open faces. 36 vertices, 26 triangles (1 mesh) 4. a Door + Arch mesh with the door having open faces on the exterior. 240 vertices, 158 triangles (1 mesh) In general, OpenFracture was the fastest unless we are reusing object fragments in RayFire (remember OpenFracture is also the worst results, no other system supported "reset" functionality that reused objects except RayFire), RayFire was second (including when spawning particle systems), DinoFracture was the slowest. DinoFracture generates far less garbage than any other system. OpenFracture results: 1. Pipe: ~50ms 5.2MB garbage 2. Torus: ~74ms 4.8MB garbage 3. Door: ~133ms 6.3MB garbage 4. Arch: ~56ms 5.6MB garbage RayFire (particles / pooled). Interestingly, spawning particle systems does not meaningfully impact the performance here. 1. Pipe: ~190ms 3.5MB garbage / 1.4ms 8.4KB garbage 2. Torus: ~77 + 134ms 1.8MB + 3.0MB garbage (2 separate frames happen in the scenario) / 1.5ms 9.1KB garbage. Secondary frame barely shows on profiler, hard to identify with certainty. 3. Door: ~240ms 2.3MB garbage / 1.4ms 7.9KB garbage 4. Arch: ~78ms 1.1MB garbage / 1.7ms 9.9KB garbage DinoFracture: 1. Pipe: ~260ms 221KB garbage 2. Torus: ~245ms 370KB garbage 3. Door: ~403ms 198KB garbage 4. Arch: ~252ms 309KB garbage

Great video as usual. I really appreciate you doing this and hope you'll do more comparison/review type videos like this in the future!

This was so perfect and exactly what I was looking for right now! Thank you as always. These types of breakdowns and testing help a lot.

Really good comparison! There are so many cool assets on the Asset Store, but they just take so much time to use and integrate! I love seeing someone take the time and show the pros/cons to each

This is actually really great! We definitely need more objective and in-depth "asset review" type videos in general.

Just discovered your channel today. Such great content!! Took a while for your channel to show up in my feed (strangely!) but glad it finally did. Looking forward to looking through your videos :)

Love this compare asset video format! Would love more of this kind.

Good stuff! Thanks for the reviews, would definitely like to see more.

Great video, I appreciate the reviews so in the future if I'm looking for destruction, I have a good reference.

Wow, rayfire is really impressive. Thanks for taking your time (and money for some assets) to compare them for us!

Great video as always, keep up the great work ;)

that is super useful, thanks for the cool video!

Thanks a lot, really good video! You are a hero!! :)

love this series of comparing popular unity assets. I've always wonder if I have made the right purchasing dicision

Great video. Thank you!

Awesome video dude!!! Subbed

This is excellent!! Unbiased reviews like these are rare. Often the content creator is gifted the assets and might therefore not provide an unbiased review - or might not be as critical when talking about limitations. Great stuff. One thing to consider: In many of your videos you see some stutter when fracturing some objects. Would be great if you also put som emphasis on the performance of the assets. Like, are they fit for mobile etc.

Watch how effortlessly I implement these ideas at zero cost. Thank you sir once again for the very informative video. I learned several somethings!

Oh I love this topic! Haven't watched the video yet or implemented this in any of my project, but there has been an open source library called "Unity Libre Fracture" which looked interesting too.

Nice video man! Well explained. Especially when you warned that implement destruction on a game is not so simple as add an script and everything just works! I bought rayfire some years ago in a 70% or 50% sales. I agree that 205$ is REALLY expensive. By the way, right now it is in 50% lol

dude thanks for this!!

Thank you

I regret not getting Rayfire when it was part of a Humble Bundle package. Hoping it is included in a future bundle. At over $320 AUD I just can't justify the cost. Especially when you can get just as good, or better, results with Blender or with the Unreal Engine using Chaos both which are for free.

I really like this video, if possible can you make another video about voxel destruction in uniy

Very cool, I'd looked at some of these assets and wasn't really sure about any of them, so its nice to see an objective, trustworthy third party person bite the financial bullet and try them all out

I am using "Destructible 2D" which is main feature of my top-down game

Its not expensive 215$ for asset like RayFire, you meed to hire full team of senior devs for 3 months , to get framework like this and spending over 15k $ of every month

nice asset review, was also a bit dissapointed with destroy it, if you cant model and make your own destroyed models, its only useful if you cant code OnCollision events yourself, i found.

I have Destroy It. Creator gets back to me fast. But it takes too much time for me to set everything up. So never used in real project. Dino Fracture I got in a humble bundle and one of first paid assets I ever used. It is simple to set up for a newbie. I mainly use it for breaking glass and doors for PC VR. Rayfire looks great but cost so much and don't really need right now. Do you have a video like this for Slicing? I think Rayfire also has a Slice option. No slice I have used has worked on high poly models. Thanks for the video

i got ray fire in 2021 for 85 during sales when it was 170 usd at that time. so i guess if ray fire is that good, one might consider buying it early or wait til Unity buys it out.

hello, can you please make a video about texture cutter destruction the way that rainbow six use for wall destruction

i have 2 its dinofracture and destroyit

Can you make one for odin inspector and Gaia Pro too. For they are expensive dicisions to make as well.

Great video! I recently got Destroy It in a Humble Bundle and then bought Rayfire for 50% off. Are there any cases when you would use Destroy It over Rayfire? Also, any chance you could try out Animancer? I bought it, but suck at reading documentation and want to try it out.

hi , i heard creating destruction animation in blender and importing in unity is more efficient in term of resources

Trust ne you ate best unity programmer in the world but ypu will be beter without this haircut❤️❤️

Haha, the absolute PAIN talking about how expensive Rayfire is. Edit: Next time I would like to see the performance impact in frametime between the different assets. I don't need anything extensive, but I would like to know the performance between each of them. Even just a slide stating the delta. That's definitely my biggest hurdle when thinking about assets.

....i always think and see the name as "Liam Academy"

Did you tried Libre Fracture? it's open source and using Nvidia Blast

I know you tried to make this a real REAL comparison, but this is like such a 'mud vs clay vs tile vs Gold' situation, you know?

Nice hair

I wanted to buy rayfire for so long but with 70% off the price it's too much for a "toy" since the destruction game I aim for is for Unreal engine.

Rayfire is way to expensive I feel.

I think you can ask the asset developer for a copy of their assets for reviewing in your channel, in this way you at least won't have to put hundreds $ on making of videos like these.

215$ 🤣

Why the blue hair. What happen to modesty and decency