texture memory question - colour tinting a single texture multiple times?

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Hi, I'm working on a project for mobile and texture memory is becoming a big issue. I'm thinking of rather than using multiple textures but to share a single texture over multiple assets with a different colour tint on it. Am I right in thinking this will reduce the memory foot print as I have heard this might brake batching and force the app to generate multiple versions of the source texture?

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Answer by Eric5h5 · Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42 PM

It will not generate multiple versions of the texture. It will create a new material for each color, which will prevent batching from working.

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Earlybird · Sep 28, 2014 at 05:28 PM 0

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Thank you for your clarification on this. Provided the additionally generated materials are still referencing the source texture will be enough to make a big difference on our memory footprint. Batching isn't so important in our situation.

Thanks again :)

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