OpenGL ES3, Batching, Instancing etc

Development Platform & Builds Mobile
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Do you guys have an estimate for when mobile will support GLES3.0?

All of Apples A7 GPU devices support it, and I think we can assume the new devices coming this year will also.

Primarily I’m interested in using geometry instancing, this is unsupported in ES2.0 but would make a huge difference for my project on mobile, I can’t see any way in the engine of batching static meshes (other than manually in Maya!). Or am I missing something obvious.

Many thanks in advance.

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I hope this gets some focus also. Both apple and android, and is probably going to yield nice performance improvements (or development efficiencies) for certain type of games.

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If you are targeting A7 or greater, I’d recommend you use the Metal RHI (once we can distribute it) as it’s way more efficient!

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Thank you!

Metal looks amazing, can’t wait to try it out in UE4.