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	One of the most powerful tools to optimize your [[Special:MyLanguage/worlds\|world]] for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.		One of the most powerful tools to optimize your [[Special:MyLanguage/worlds\|world]] for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.
	Reducing Materials used, means reducing drawcalls. This is crucial, because drawcalls are an instruction from a CPU to a Graphics Card to render something in a certain way. This is something that happens every single frame. VRChat is a CPU bottlenecked platform, where you GPU has a lot of free headroom, therefore the less strain you put on your CPU the more performance you gain.		Reducing Materials used, means reducing drawcalls. This is crucial, because drawcalls are an instruction from a CPU to a Graphics Card to render something in a certain way. This is something that happens every single frame. VRChat is a CPU bottlenecked platform, where you GPU has a lot of free headroom, therefore the less strain you put on your CPU the more performance you gain.
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	Reducing Materials used, means reducing drawcalls. This is crucial, because drawcalls are an instruction from a CPU to a Graphics Card to render something in a certain way. This is something that happens every single frame. VRChat is a CPU bottlenecked platform, where you GPU has a lot of free headroom, therefore the less strain you put on your CPU the more performance you gain.		Reducing Materials used, means reducing drawcalls. This is crucial, because drawcalls are an instruction from a CPU to a Graphics Card to render something in a certain way. This is something that happens every single frame. VRChat is a CPU bottlenecked platform, where you GPU has a lot of free headroom, therefore the less strain you put on your CPU the more performance you gain.

	If you are striving to have visual fidelity combined with high performance, then making a single [[Special:MyLanguage/Atlas\|Atlas Texture]] of all your textures used in your world will be the key to that. This advanced guide will go into great detail on how to best achieve this task. It showcases a small example to follow along, as well as how it was done in the [[Eventide]] world.		If you are striving to have visual fidelity combined with high performance, then making a single [[Special:MyLanguage/Atlas\|Atlas Texture]] of all your textures used in your world will be the key to that. This advanced guide will go into great detail on how to best achieve this task. It showcases a small example to follow along, as well as how it was done in the [[Community:Eventide]] world.

	Please note that you should be [[Special:MyLanguage/Baked Light\|baking light]] and marking all non-moving objects as [[Special:MyLanguage/Batching\|static]], before you continue. These are 2 easy methods that also have a huge impact on performance.		Please note that you should be [[Special:MyLanguage/Baked Light\|baking light]] and marking all non-moving objects as [[Special:MyLanguage/Batching\|static]], before you continue. These are 2 easy methods that also have a huge impact on performance.

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	One of the most powerful tools to optimize your World for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.		One of the most powerful tools to optimize your World for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.

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	One of the most powerful tools to optimize your World for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.		One of the most powerful tools to optimize your World for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.

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	One of the most powerful tools to optimize your [[worlds\|world]] for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.		One of the most powerful tools to optimize your [[Special:MyLanguage/worlds\|world]] for best performance is to use as few materials as possible. This is important, since each material has a compounding requirement of drawcalls/batches to render your scene. Simplified this means, each material generates 1 drawcall inherently per object or batched object. However each reflection probe and lightmap texture applied does add an additional one each. Other factors compound this even further, but the bottom line here is to highlight that each material added to your world will have a substantial performance impact.
	Reducing Materials used, means reducing drawcalls. This is crucial, because drawcalls are an instruction from a CPU to a Graphics Card to render something in a certain way. This is something that happens every single frame. VRChat is a CPU bottlenecked platform, where you GPU has a lot of free headroom, therefore the less strain you put on your CPU the more performance you gain.		Reducing Materials used, means reducing drawcalls. This is crucial, because drawcalls are an instruction from a CPU to a Graphics Card to render something in a certain way. This is something that happens every single frame. VRChat is a CPU bottlenecked platform, where you GPU has a lot of free headroom, therefore the less strain you put on your CPU the more performance you gain.

	If you are striving to have visual fidelity combined with high performance, then making a single [[Atlas\|Atlas Texture]] of all your textures used in your world will be the key to that. This advanced guide will go into great detail on how to best achieve this task. It showcases a small example to follow along, as well as how it was done in the [[Eventide]] world.		If you are striving to have visual fidelity combined with high performance, then making a single [[Special:MyLanguage/Atlas\|Atlas Texture]] of all your textures used in your world will be the key to that. This advanced guide will go into great detail on how to best achieve this task. It showcases a small example to follow along, as well as how it was done in the [[Eventide]] world.

	Please note that you should be [[Baked Light\|baking light]] and marking all non-moving objects as [[Batching\|static]], before you continue. These are 2 easy methods that also have a huge impact on performance.		Please note that you should be [[Special:MyLanguage/Baked Light\|baking light]] and marking all non-moving objects as [[Special:MyLanguage/Batching\|static]], before you continue. These are 2 easy methods that also have a huge impact on performance.

	==Preparing Models==		==Preparing Models==
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	== Replacing your individual textures with the Atlas Texture==		== Replacing your individual textures with the Atlas Texture==
	With your models prepared at '''[[How to Atlas everything in your World#Setting up UV's for an Atlas\|Setting up UV's for an Atlas]]''' and your atlas ready at '''[[How to Atlas everything in your World#Creating an Atlas Texture\|Creating an Atlas Texture]]''' it is now time to bring it all together. Follow along closely:		With your models prepared at '''[[Special:MyLanguage/How to Atlas everything in your World#Setting up UV's for an Atlas\|Setting up UV's for an Atlas]]''' and your atlas ready at '''[[Special:MyLanguage/How to Atlas everything in your World#Creating an Atlas Texture\|Creating an Atlas Texture]]''' it is now time to bring it all together. Follow along closely:

	Make your atlas texture the texture of a new material in blender, so that your atlas can be selected as an image in your UV editing window.		Make your atlas texture the texture of a new material in blender, so that your atlas can be selected as an image in your UV editing window.
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	Should you have used a 1024x1024 texture on a 4096x4096 atlas, this would mean you would want to scale it down to 1016x1016 instead.		Should you have used a 1024x1024 texture on a 4096x4096 atlas, this would mean you would want to scale it down to 1016x1016 instead.

	As explained in '''[[How to Atlas everything in your World#Creating an Atlas Texture\|Creating an Atlas Texture]]''' the importance of having padding, requires scaling down your textures slightly.		As explained in '''[[Special:MyLanguage/How to Atlas everything in your World#Creating an Atlas Texture\|Creating an Atlas Texture]]''' the importance of having padding, requires scaling down your textures slightly.

	Therefore to calculate how far you need to scale down your UV selection to fit its space on your atlas is as follows:		Therefore to calculate how far you need to scale down your UV selection to fit its space on your atlas is as follows: