Multiple instances of the same material / texture - multiple times present in the VRAM?

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Hello,

if I have multiple meshes with the same material (with a texture sample in it) applied to it, is this texture sample also multiple times present in the VRAM? My situation is that I made a crowd with 20-50 human skeletal meshes. Some of them are duplicates, so it would be good if the textures they are sharing would be loaded only once into the VRAM.

Thank you,

Thilo

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The textures would only be loaded once in memory. Same with the actual mesh data for any meshes that are used multiple times