Meshes as Variables...

Questions & Answers
1

If I assign a mesh in the editor to a public variable in script of type "Mesh", when I assign it's content to an object (...meshFilter.mesh = ...), does Unity LOAD the Mesh then, or is it already cached in memory?

I change meshes on a number of my objects over the course of the game, and I'm noticing quite a bit of slowdown, even on iPhone 3GS. This shouldn't be the case, as there are only around 20 objects, and they're all box colliders?

Anyone have any ideas?

5

Why not attach all the various meshes to a parent gameObject, and simply turn on or off the ones you need or don't need?

2

When you assign the mesh, it gets loaded into the graphics hardware. I think that is what slows things down.

3

Any way to get around this, then? Any way to "pre-load" meshes so I don't get the performance hit?

4

Can you use prefabs? The performance will be far greater if you are using prefabs.