Each Sketchup model generates at least 4 draw calls. How to solve this.

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I’m using sketchup to model some simple buildings due to it’s simplicity of use. The problem is that every model exported in fbx format has at least 4 materials, what means 4 draw calls. I would like to merge all these materials in just one.

I already googled a lot, for hours and found no easy solution like a plugin or another sotware that can easily merge all the materials and textures into just one.

Anyone knows a solution for this?

Thanks.

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Apparently the model uses 4 materials.

  1. make sure all your surfaces use the one and same material
  2. don’t export backfaces, or set backface material same as the one above
  3. Go to Window/Model Info and purge unused, might have some unused, hidden junk
  4. Find a ruby script that will run a clean-up pass on the model which removes junk