Help in regard with STATIC Batching.

Graphics Shaders & Materials
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Hello Devs,

I am having issues with static batching and I wanted your help in regard to that. I am just going to give the most primitive scenario I have.

I have a cube with a material on top of it. That material is mobile/Bumped Diffuse shader.

Now, I have a OnTriggerEnter script on that cube. Hence if the cube is in contact with the player, it triggers an event on the player’s script. I have lots of cube on a particular scene. I do spawn and despawn those cubes on a timely basis depending upon scenario. Now as I have lots of cubes on the environment, I pool them. I use PoolManager from Path-o-Logical games.

These cubes (one prefab) are
Static and use the same material.
I use only one light = Directional Light

But they do not get batched. I am not aware as of why they do not get batched.

Can you guys help me on this issues?

Also I did post this on Path-o-Logical forum. Please ignore the first half of that post. I did find a solution to that problem and the solution is here.

Your help is appreciated.

Thank you.

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Static batching only works on objects that are completely static and do not have any dynamic behavior of any kind. So no spawning, etc.

–Eric

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Oh okay and with static batch does the scale of each object matter even though they share the same prefab and material.

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Yes, the objects should have the same scale.

–Eric

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Eric, then it is possible to Dynamically batching them?

I have loads of cubes on the scene which just Spawn In and Out. I really want to reduce the drawcalls.

If there is n’t any other way, maybe I could make sure that all the instances from the same prefab are spawned during start().

I highly appreciate your help.
thank you.