Removing MeshFilter!!

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Hi,

For any game-object in Unity, if i remove the ‘MeshFilter’ component, the following things make me wonder!!:

  1. No mesh data at runtime – this is fine
  2. Still draws the object – this is bizzare since there’s no ‘MeshFilter’ component having the corresponding mesh!!
  3. In conformance with #2, stats window shows no change after removing ‘MeshFilter’

Does mesh data remains with Unity runtime even after removing the ‘MeshFilter’ component at runtime?

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You need the MeshFilter in order to specify what mesh to render. Without a MeshFilter, you won’t see anything. Yes, you can delete the component at runtime and it will still render, at least for a while (probably cached like Graham Dunnett said). I wouldn’t rely on that, though, and you don’t gain anything, so there’s no reason to do it. Try this: put an object in the scene, delete the MeshFilter component, save the scene, then reload it. See, now the object is invisible, because it doesn’t know what to render.