Diffuse material and or point lights using extra draws?

Unity Engine
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I was hoping somebody might be able to help me with this. I have character “A” at 4000 tris and a uses diffuse material, the tri count doubles to 8k- 2 draws- Then each time I add a point light it draws the character again, 12k, 16k, etc…

Is this correct, or am I messing something up. In essence my low poly character is now turning into a high end ps3 model.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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If you are using forward rendering then each light that affects an object causes it to be drawn again. Deferred lighting has a higher initial cost and higher system requirements, but the lighting is done in screen space so additional lights are cheap (depending how many screen pixels each affects).