Alpha Blend and Draw Calls

Unity Engine
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So I am getting all caught up on my draw call situation, and since I am working in Unity iPhone, most of my shaders use alpha blend (particles mostly). But the downside I am realizing, is that alpha blending batching can be broken depending on where the object is from the camera. Is there any workarounds or advice anyone has to prevent this?

Thanks.

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skinned mesh.

3

Erm, skinned meshes dont batch though…or is there something I a missing…

4

I’m guessing alpha blended meshes don’t batch either (because otherwise you’d get bits rendering infront of other transparent objects, even if those transparent objects are behind parts of the batched mesh).

5

If they are using the same material they do.

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Any more insight?