Examples vs Modular Examples

The examples and the modular examples may look the same but they have a very important distinction, namely an example is made up of a single joined mesh while a modular example is made up from prefab modules. The examples are slightly more performant than the modular examples because they are a single mesh, while the modular examples are made up of many modules which will incur a miniscule additional cost of more draw calls.

The modular examples have the advantage of giving you the ability to move the modules around and effortlessly change how your spaceship looks like.

When testing the performance of each. The performance seems to be affected only if you have hundreds of spaceships in your scene. If you have less than one hundred spaceship in your scene then the difference between using examples versus modular examples seems to be negligible.