Light Draw Calls

Unity Engine
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Hey Guys,

I noticed that anything hit by a point light is generating an extra draw call per object. So if there are 5 objects in scene then i get an extra 5 draw calls. Is there a way to batch this call into 1?

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No, each light = additional drawcall per object in scene.

… I think :slight_smile:

3

Only for pixel lights. Vertex lights don’t generate extra draw calls.

–Eric

4

I thought all lights on the iphone were vertex lights? :slight_smile:

5

Yep; that’s why the MBX Lite graphics emulation option is a handy thing. So yeah…might want to turn that on, then look at the draw calls again. (Now that I see this is in the iPhone forum. :wink: )

–Eric

6

Pixel lights (spot/point) are “simulated” using projected textures - so they look more “round”.

7

“I” think some of those quotation marks were “superfluous” :slight_smile:

I’m lucky to have a single dynamic light in a scene normally. I’d much rather spend more time in 3DMax faking it than trying to get an iphone to do the lighting trickery I want :slight_smile:

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Ok. So theres no way to get Unity to bake the texture either?