# Mesh instances with different UVs not working

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** material, pbr, instances, uv\
**Created:** [December 1, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/mesh-instances-with-different-uvs-not-working/46083 "2023-12-01T07:35:33Z")\
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Yes, in that case you should use a single texture atlas and pass the (u,v) offset into this texture to your instance. That’s basically what the PG you linked does ([https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#64K1I1#2](https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#64K1I1#2)).

If you want to be able to do it with a regular standard / PBR material, you should create a [material plugin](https://doc.babylonjs.com/features/featuresDeepDive/materials/using/materialPlugins).

See this answer from @Blake, who is doing it for instanced meshes, but it would be mostly the same for thin instances:

> [@InstancedMesh shared UV](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/instancedmesh-shared-uv/33719/5):
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> Hey there. slight_smile I think what you’re after is a way to use a different part of the texture for each face of each instance? Here’s an example that uses a simple material plugin ([docs](https://doc.babylonjs.com/divingDeeper/materials/using/materialPlugins)) to add support for a uvOffset attribute. Then the first instance uses the first row of 6 images and the second instance uses the second row of 6 images.

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