Lots of Unique meshes vs re-using lots of modular meshes

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I would like to merge alot of actors into unique meshes so as to reduce drawcalls, does having more unique meshes impact performance? I currently have 20 unique meshes, after merging actors I will have 40 or so.

Regardless of whether I do or dont merge my actors into lots of little Unique meshes The same materials and textures would be used.

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It increases memory use, but if the meshes aren’t complex then it’s not going to make a difference. The other issue is that a single object can only use one lightmap so you would possibly have to increase the lightmap resolution very high.