How to optimize when using same shader but different Metallic values

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I have textures that use the same Standard shader in opaque rendering mode, but each texture has different metallic values. Naturally I’d like to use a single material but different metallic values means I have to have a different material for each value. Is this as good as it gets or is there a trick I’m missing? I thought of perhaps hijacking a few bits off the green color from the textures to represent the metallic values and create a custom shader that can extract the metallic value from the green channel, but there may be a better way.

Any thoughts?

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Why not use a metallic texture?

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Ahhh… thank you, it’s been so long I forgot a metallic texture map could be assigned. Unfortunately the bundle I purchased came with each texture assigned specific values rather than a metallic texture map, but that’s beside the point, you answered my question. A texture atlas of metallic textures would solve the draw call/batching issue. Thanks bgolus!