# NME and instances
**URL:** https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [May 3, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524 "2021-05-03T13:42:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@unicomp21](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/unicomp21)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524/1 "2021-05-03T13:42:41Z")
mesh.position in NME. When working with instances in NME, is the instance position passed via mesh.position, etc.?
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### Author:  [@Deltakosh](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Deltakosh)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524/2 "2021-05-03T15:49:04Z")
Yes as long as you add the Instance Block
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### Author:  [@unicomp21](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/unicomp21)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524/3 "2021-05-04T10:36:04Z")
@Deltakosh Is there a version of “shader ball” for instances?
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### Author:  [@unicomp21](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/unicomp21)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524/4 "2021-05-04T11:39:47Z")
Sorry for all the questions. @Deltakosh If I need the instance position, with the intention of using it to hide all the instance vertices by collapsing them to 0,0,0 in the vertex shader, I guess it’s being held in mesh.world3 of the instance block in NME?
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### Author:  [@Deltakosh](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Deltakosh)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/nme-and-instances/20524/5 "2021-05-04T15:13:15Z")
Correct 🙂