Tips: -If the instances are invisible in game, go to the material editor and enable *Used With Instanced Static Meshes* - Use instances only for objects close to each other, because the whole group is either rendered or hidden (culled) at once - no granularity here. - Several instancing components per actor are OK, and can help with the issue from the previous point. -You can't vertex paint individual instances - though you can paint the mesh and save, if identical copies are not a problem for you.

Super helpful! Thanks.

jump to 6:45 for how to create instances in Unreal Engine

Yay, finally! Very informative, thank you very much. :) Btw. if you didn't know: you can right-click a pin (like tranform and location) and "split struct pin" instead of the "make transform" nodes. Just makes your BPs a little bit more compact. You can also right-click and "promote to variable", to skip some steps, when you want to use new variables :)

This was a super-useful tutorial, and very well-explained! Thank you very much for sharing.

Well done! Just want to clarify one section: using instancing doesn't require using blueprints. You can also do it from code. Thanks for the tutorial!

Thank you so much for doing these tutorials. They're very easy to follow and are structured so well. Can't praise your work enough. Looking forward to the next tutorial!

Wielkie dzięki za ten kanał, od lat uczę się modelowania, ale wraz z własnym rozwojem, zacząłem bawić się shaderami i wciąga mnie to coraz bardziej. W pracy trafiłem na problem związany z sortowaniem przezroczystości, potem trafiłem na film z ditheringiem. Później szukałem czegoś o shaderach na YT i trafiłem na Twój material płonącego drewna, zacząłem więcej o Tobie szukać i okazało się, że prowadzisz cały kanał na ten temat, na którym ponownie znalazłem wspomniany wczesniej dithering. Super jest to co robisz i doceniam! Ta cała wiedza z różnych dziedzin miksuje się w jednym miejscu, bardzo mnie to fascynuje. To jest chyba to, czym chciałbym się zajmować, ale obawiam się, że może już być trochę za późno z nadgonieniem wielu rzeczy. Chociaż - kto wie... Ledwo po studiach trafiłem do pierwszej poważnej pracy i ze stanowiska 3d przeniesiono mnie do robienia efektów i każdy kolejny kawałek wiedzy, każdy kolejny efekt, który uda mi sie osiągnąć jest jak diament... Zdaję sobie sprawę, że historia życia jakiegoś randoma spośród komentarzy jest nic nie warta, ale miałem jakąś wewnętrzną potrzebę się tym podzielić. Tym bardziej, że ludzi z taką wiedzą i to we własnym kraju jakoś ciężko mi znaleźć : ) Pozdrowienia!

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Thankyou so much! This will greatly improve the framerate of my game!

Very Helpful. Thank you!

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Really interesting tutorial thanks

"One thing to know about instanced static meshes is that if any part of the mesh is rendered, the whole of the collection is rendered. [...] It’s recommended to keep a single set of instanced meshes in a smaller area; for example, a pile of stone [...], a stack of boxes" software.intel.com/en-us/articles/unreal-engine-4-optimization-tutorial-part-2#instanced-static-meshes

This was really helpful, Thanks!

Amazing stuff! Thanks so much!

Huge help, thank you so much!

Very good video. Please make more!

amazing tutorials in your channel, thanks a lot keep like this :)

That 30 min tutorial took a lot of time from you to make it , thanks a lot mate for your time , btw are you enginer in some big games company :) ? you have great info .

AFAIK later Unreal versions added Auto Instancing (in 4.23?). Would you say this manual approach is now less relevant and only for extreme/edge cases? Or is the Auto Instancing actually not that useful?

0 to 50 is 51, not 50 (I assume Last Index means the last index to call function with - for(i = first_index; i

5:28 gave me an idea, say we have a town ur walking to a specific building and you didnt group any meshes outside. However in the building you group meshes together because theres no point in culling as oppose to outside you cant call because everything is popping in and out. Obviously using level streaming when going towards/inside the building.

Why does my mesh not show the "Instancing" option? It goes from Static Mesh, to Materials, then to "Instanced Static Mesh Component" But there's no "Instances" section???

Very usefull video, thank you!

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you save me from the hell fps drop i tried and it gives me 120fps with 1000 of instances thanks thanks

hey i know this is 5 years ago, but i am wondering, i have a utility widget that i want to spawn in a bunch of tiles, however when i close the program those tiles don't save. is their a way to keep them saved in data ?

Thank you very much! You save my life

thank you my friend,its useful

Thanks you very mush.

superb tut

why do the instances LOD dont work on my project? They all come at the same color when i go into the LOD visualization

Could you potentially turn on collision based on the LOD used?

Why is it unwise to set the meshes to static? Is it because the lightmap will be large? I was using this method to create a distant city with meshes of very low resolution lightmaps (

for me its too many arcade static meshes does merging them can help like instanced static meshes???

Great tutorial!

hey i have a question..can u vertex paint instanced statiic meshes?

Oh god, this is sooo good! I have a question: You said the foliage tool use basically Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh metod. If so, i will not get any perfomance improvement when spam al lot of tree, or grass with Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh, right?

Great video!

Actual Asteroid belt creation begins on 13:05

Vid was 3x longer than it shoulda been, tbh

Great video but still have questions: 1. What's the difference between regular Instances and Hierarchical Instances? 2. How can you reference any of the instances in case you need to destroy one, etc? Thanks

Hi, Thanks a lot, super helpful video, but I would like to ask for a clarification, I am searching like crazy how to bake lightmaps for instanced meshes but I didn't find it. So, it makes me thing that dynamically lighted instances are less expensive then if they are baked and less expensive yet then "pure" (not instanced) static meshes. Am I right ? P.S.: I am a beginner in Unreal Engine 😉

Whats the difference between Hierarchical InstancedStaticMesh and InstancedStaticMesh ?????

Why is it if I take your BP_Instancing_AsteroidRing and place it in an Actor, then spawn that actor into the level it crashes UE4?

Hello Again, how would you spawn Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh at runtime? Here is what I have so far: 1) Created a blank BluePrint 2) Added the Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh component on the left and then choose the static mesh on the right. 3) Saved and then added the BluePrint to the level 4) In the level Blueprint I setup a Get all actors of class and then chose the Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh BP in the level 5) Connected that to a "Add Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh component" 6) Connected that to a the F key on the keyboard 7) When pushed the F key when playing nothing happens. Is there something special I am missing? Thank you, John

Hi my friends. What is the difference between instantiated mesh hierarchy and instantiated mesh?

Hello, I'm facing a weird issue in 4.19 where a large no. Of hism changes lod simultaneously like if i have 20 hism then 10 hism change lod and then other 10, and it is completely random they are not changing lods 1 by 1 based on screen space. Can u help ?

Hi, which GPU was used to do these tests? best regards.

will this work for me I have very large 16 tile height map with lots of trees and rocks mountains etc

very good teacher

great video !!

I'm abit confused, i switched out the default static mesh, to use my own but it appears invisible even though i have instanced static mesh enabled..

Question: is this only really useful if you need to have tons of a certain mesh in a scene at once? I'm using a ton of building meshes for a city, but they're randomly generated and the player typically can't see more than 15 at a time if they try. Would instancing help with this at all?

Your Experimental Code does not seem to work in 4.23 killing frames yes but doesn't move anything. Any thoughts? This is in regards to the Update Instance Transform.

How can I make the ring shape?? I made 1 myself that has a rectangular shape... I'm sorry I didn't watch the video as the internet is too slow and the vids bot loading..

it's a great technique but what about the visibility\frustrum\etc culling, is it faster to cull(hide edraw) individual sm actors(f.e. when we merge actors into a single mesh instead of constructing HISM) or instances in the HISM actor? f.e. if you have some actors in front and behind the mountain, would it be better to make 2 hism actors, or one for all of the meshes. And in what cases would it be better to simply merge them into 2 meshs? Thx

Awesom Tutorial @Tech Art Aid. I have one question. How can I use Baked Lighting on this?

hey would this work for open world game that uses a lot of trees and rocks?

Can the ISM be spawned with Different Static Mesh?

Sorry, this might be a dull question, but, is UE 4 is a CPU based render engine or GPU based render engine? thanks a lot!

many thanks! :)

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great video, i just wanna ask: Having a mesh with 157 triangles + lod Using Hierarchical instanced static mesh Why the instances don't have an independent lod, but they all depends from the first instance ?

are there anyways of making it fade into one another rather than instant snapping?

In your example the BP of instance mesh if you move it in a circle path does the collision of each instance will move with the object ? hope you got what i mean .

HI since i am new to unreal engine ... is this useful for arch viz scenes ?

Could you still individually vertex paint these instance meshes? I.e. it will cost an extra draw call on for example moss over rocks, but not a draw call per individually painted instanced rock.

Thank you :)!

Hi can I destroy or hide the one of these rock during the collision with others. And is collision detection affects the efficient of this idea?

Is there a way I could detect collision with a mesh and get the id I'm colliding with?

If you were to add 2 actors in your level and their mesh and materials are the same, will they automatically instance?

Where can I enable automatic display of how much I moved component/actor? Is this some recently added feature? I'm still on 4.13.1 tho..

tryed to import your iles looked like it imported but nothing showed up..

Is there a way to combine group od LODs viewed from the distance into a static mesh? Like for example I have a whole street of houses which have to be individual objects, but when I'm far away I'd like their LODs to create one big static mesh. Is that possible?