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Lights and instancing

kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
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Does it affect recourses or render times to instance lights or not? I created instances of a road section but the spotlights for the street lamps didn't instance with it so each instance has it's own spotlights parented to it and I was wondering if it would make a difference to go through and just instance 1 spotlight instead of having a ton of individual spotlights.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,204

    There's no benefit in instancing lights, so no it isn't supported.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914

    Except for the benefit of being able to change the original and having it affect the instances. I just wasn't sure if it used less resources or not.

    Thank you for answering :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,145

    well I think there definately is with emission shaders on props

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,204
    th3Digit said:

    well I think there definately is with emission shaders on props

    Yes, for the geometry.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914

    Fortunately with emission shaders on props, those get instanced when the prop is instanced :) so that makes that easy

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