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public Rendering.IndexFormat indexFormat;

Description

Format of the mesh index buffer data.

Index buffer can either be 16 bit (supports up to 65535 vertices in a mesh), or 32 bit (supports up to 4 billion vertices). Default index format is 16 bit, since that takes less memory and bandwidth.

Note that GPU support for 32 bit indices is not guaranteed on all platforms; for example Android devices with Mali-400 GPU do not support them. When using 32 bit indices on such a platform, a warning message will be logged and mesh will not render.

Changing indexFormat sets subMeshCount to one and clears the index buffer.

See Also: IndexFormat, ModelImporter.indexFormat, SetIndices, SetTriangles, SetIndexBufferParams, SetIndexBufferData, MeshData.

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