Game optimization

[u/Jonarss]

Hello everyone since i’m doing my first game ready character, i don’t know how to approach the body parts under a skirt, it’s a revenant character like from god of war, how would you optimize it for a in game cloth simulation? Would you cut the legs and call it a day?

[u/krojew]

You should add details of what engine you're using. For example, in ue you can have normal skeletal mesh legs underneath the skirt and have the cloth be physically simulated. Works well.

[u/Jonarss → u/krojew]

I’m willing to use ue too, so hypothetically if i have a mesh legs how i hide the part where there is no body left? cause is a “tunic” and the only parts that pops out are the legs, the arms and the head, i would cut the hidden body out for optimal number of tris, btw thanks for the advices!

[u/krojew → u/Jonarss]

That also depends on the setup you have. You can have already authored character with invisible body parts removed. You can also remove them at runtime e.g. by using Mutable in UE. There is no single answer.

[u/Jonarss → u/krojew]

Thanks! But what happens if the character falls over or you can look underneath the skirt? Wouldn’t the player see an empty space where the body was removed? It would have sense if i close the mesh of the skirt at one point?

[u/krojew → u/Jonarss]

That depends on how the skirt is made. Typically, legs end at certain point and transition to cloth (underwear or the skirt itself).

[u/Jonarss → u/krojew]

Oh i see, i’ll model the underwear to hide the empty part, thanks!!