Skinned Mesh Planar Shadows Drawcall Count

Hey guys,

I have a skinned mesh with 8 parts. Now every part has a material which has 2 passes, one to render the mesh and the other to render the planar shadow. Is it possible to render the whole animated skinned mesh shadow in 1 call as the material for drawing the shadow would be same? Like combining meshes. Also if I use SkinnedMeshRenderer.BakeMesh() after sampling the animation every frame, and then drawing the result mesh, will it be much slower?

Thanks

Ayush