GPU Instancing for Dense Game Worlds in Unity
When you are building a game world that needs to feel alive - dense forests, sprawling cities, battlefields with hundreds of units - you hit a fundamental rendering bottleneck long before your polygon count becomes the problem. The bottleneck is draw calls . Every time Unity tells the GPU to render an object, it issues a draw call. Each draw call has CPU overhead: setting up the material, binding…
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