Instancing in UE3

Psixos

Is it possible to carry over mesh instancing from max to unreal? For example, say I have a mesh that I've mirrored then arrayed so that I can reuse my uv's & polys etc, is it possible to transfer how the scene is setup in max after exporting without having to do the arrays again in unreal? Are the meshes still counted as instances or as a total amount of tris? *shrug*

warby

no cant instance stuff in max or maya and take it to ue3

vik

They still count towards the polycount since the engine has to render them, but instances require no extra resources or extra drawcalls, since they`re already in the memory. That`s my understanding of instances anyhow

Psixos

Thanks for the answers guys. I should've thought of this before, my scene's quite heavy so it seems like I've got quite a bit of extra work to do, urgh.