material batching ?

AlecMoody

Does unity automatically batch like materials? For example, I have a bunch of Bumped Specular materials where the only difference is the "main color" swatch which is being used to recolor a diffuse map. Will unity batch these?

Adam L. Gray

Hmm, I personally have no idea, and not super techy as it gets to game engines. But were the case for it not to be so, then reckon a single material with (I'd assume less draw calls) vertex-paint controlling the diffuse colour save performance per chance?

gsokol

No, Unity wont batch objects with different materials....so if you make a new material to change the main color...it wont batch.

Farfarer

Yeah, it won't batch different materials.

If you had the colour set at a vertex level, it'd batch because you'd only need one material for all of 'em.

Frankie

It might say real time under the stats page in game view "saved by batching"

LoTekK

Entirely relevant post on the Paladin Studios blog a little while back:
http://www.paladinstudios.com/2012/07/30/4-ways-to-increase-performance-of-your-unity-game/

Here they go into a few things mentioned above, such as using a single material, affected by vertex colors, in order to allow everything to batch together.

cupsster

would second that article as well ^, use vertex color to colorize and it should work...