/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I'm trying to remember what something is called but I can't remember it's name. It's where when you have multiple objects in a scene of the same time that instead of loading the same mesh into ram multiple times you load one copy of the object and have the data for each instance of the character or object that is being rendered stored into an array on the object. It's for rendering large numbers of the same enemy/character/whatever with less resources. I had thought that was called deferred rendering but thats for lighting. Does anyone know what this is called I can't remember it for the life of me.

And example of a game this would be useful for would be dynasty warriors. You have larger numbers of the exact same enemy on screen so rather than have a seperate object/mesh to call render to for each you have one object with an array contain the details of each entity such and their health, location, state, frame of animation, etc. Then you issue a render call to that one object so that you only have one render call instead of a separate render call to each entity.