Can SpriteRenderers be batched with MeshRenderers using compatible materials?

Unity Engine
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Hi there.

I’m trying to use a MeshRenderer to render a sprite from a SpriteRenderer atlas (I want to customize the geometry for a special effect). I’ve got it working by making the MeshRenderer copy a SpriteRenderer’s sharedMaterial and copying over its MaterialPropertyBlock with GetPropertyBlock()/SetPropertyBlock().

That seems to work fine, except that the MeshRenderer doesn’t get batched with the SpriteRenderers in the scene that use the same atlas. Is that to be expected, or am I doing something wrong that is preventing batching from working?

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I would guess that’s expected since MeshRenderer and SpriteRenderer components are separate things.

–Eric