Mesh instancing (kinda)[ANSWERED]

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:49 pm

Hi, Just a question about IRRlicht.

Suppose I have an object: "tunnel.b3d"

I want to re-use 10 times in my level.

How will this mesh stored in memory (mesh cache)?
As 10 copies or only 1 (because mesh filename is the same)?

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:56 pm

MeshCache was the right guess :-) It's loaded once and then the same mesh is used in all the nodes. So it's only once in main memory.

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:10 pm

Thanks! I was not totally sure.

OK. So I will have to rename the mesh if something is different from it (texture, UV coordinates (because I could use Gile[s] to create Lightmaps)

Icare · Post by **Icare** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:40 am

Or you can just clear the cache and reload the mesh.