Does Static Switches with Multiple Textures Hurt performance?

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Hello, Everyone!

I’m working on a material that uses several Static Switches but I wanted to know about its uses.

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The image shows an example. I want the material to have several logics applied with different textures and logics. Here’s the result in the example

Switch 1:

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Switch 2:

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But when I look at the statistics table in UE, It shows that both Textures are loaded:

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Does that also happens in the final build? Is the material loading every single texture even when they’re not being used?

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These are one of those moments where you should learn to test in a packaged build, just… do an empty scene, put the thing in there with one of the texture chosen and package it up and test it. Then just do a memory dump of the package and you will have your answer.

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What do you mean by memory dump?
Do you mean using a software like renderdoc or something like that?