Multimeshes are slow

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friendMaster2000

Has anyone here ever achieved any performance gain from using multimeshes? I'm using version 3.5. At runtime, I can see in the Remote panel how there's no MeshInstance nodes which means Multimeshes are rendering as expected. Im using Engine.get_frames_per_second() to observe the performance. No matter how many meshes are in the scene Multimesh performance is always substantially worse than using MeshInstances. I thought this was a performance improvement. What am I missing here?

cybereality

Are you using MultiMeshInstance? Can you post a screenshot of your node tree and also any code you are using (code can be copy pasted to the forum, use ~~~ above and below the code).

friendMaster2000

cybereality i got my answer from a few good people on the godot reddit. Turns out multimeshes just arent as good of an optimization as I thought they were. In most cases view frustum culling provides better optimization. That's why I wasnt seeing any performance improvement.