I have some bushes in my environment and when the player touches them they move a little bit.
Right now I have a vertex shader which, when the player touches the bush, makes the bush wiggle a bit. BUT, this creates a separate material instance for every single bush.
I’m wondering if it would be more performant to have the bushes use the same material and just add an animator which handles the bush movement instead?
Any recommendations here are welcome!
Thanks!
Definitely the vertex shader approach , as for the material instantiation thing you can avoid it by rendering your bushes using a “DrawInstanced” command or by ticking the “GPU instancing” toggle on the material , more info here.
Also , use the frame debugger to be sure that the batching is happening correctly
Ah excellent! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, this makes perfect sense!
Wait, does this work with shaders created in the shadergraph? (Built-In)
Yep , you have the “GPU instancing” toggle in shadergraph too
Am I blind? I just can’t find it lol, couldn’t find it on google either. I hate to be annoying but please where is the button?? 
I think you need more arrows to make it clearer.
Weird, it seems to be hidden for built-in, but you can find it by toggling Debug mode in the inspector like this :
Ah! That old chestnut. Thanks a lot for taking the time to help out, I really appreciate it. Thank you!! 
