What Affects the SM5 Texture Limit (Besides Actual Textures)?

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There are a bunch of built in features that use texture samplers, mostly static lighting stuff but translucency also has a bunch since all translucent lighting has to be forward (in the same shader).

In the upcoming 4.6, on PC D3D and consoles, you will be able to use up to 128 unique textures. is made possible by picking shared samplers per TextureSample node instead of always using the UTexture asset settings.

Oh wow that’s great news! Thank you , I will just leave the samples in the material disconnected until I get 4.6. 128 texture samples sounds awesome, maybe even a little bit too extreme! I doubt we will be hitting that limit for quite some time…