Performance issues with many objects

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Godot Version

v4.4.1

Question

The game that I’m making requires a small room to be filled with a lot of equipment(switches,buttons,gauges), It’s probably hitting the 5000 mark, luckily many of them doesn’t require to have shadows and isn’t a physics object, just static meshes that can rotate, scale.
The issue is that even tho i turned off cast shadows and GI Mode and put them on a different layer because they don’t need shadows, the visual profiler spikes really high when more light instances are enabled.

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This is confusing because if i remove the many equipment the shadow casting goes back to normal values and the performance returns, but what shadows when it doesn’t cast any? I need a really efficient way to handle large amount of small object, I can’t make them into a single mesh because each needs to be interactable.
What do you guys recommend?

Thanks

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i think you need some type of clustered rendering for merging multiple objects in only one draw call but i dont know if godot has something like that.

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Can you reduce the number of lights? Their effect on execution cost is multiplicative…

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Well I’m 1:1 modeling an interior and I want it to match, but the lights can be toggled, I’m just curious why is it calculating shadows for something that doesn’t use shadows

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Clustered rendering sounds interesting I’ll dig around

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i think in godot is MergeGroups or something like that, in other engines like Unreal is Proxy Mesh or Proxy Actors.

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I checked and only found docu. from godot 3.6 was it renamed? moved?