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How much does hidden or invisible geometry affect performance in DS?

FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,847
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Pretty straight forward question. I wonder if I hide parts of armor/clothing with the geometry editor on how much it will affect perfornance. I want to buy a certain armor for the centaur, but only use the top for my non centaur soldier and then have quite a few instances, but I am worried about the performance impact if they all have hidden or invisible geometry on them.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,944

    Invisible bones (as opposed to surfaces made invisible by their material properties) are not passed to the renderer. I'm not sure there's much effect for viewport performance.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,847

    thanks Richard. What about surfaces made invisible by their material properties?

  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679
    FSMCDesigns said:

    thanks Richard. What about surfaces made invisible by their material properties?

    I'm curious, too. And does it make any difference between setting cutout opacity to 0 VS toggling the parameter's display to off?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,944

    A see-through surface still gets passed to the renderer and processed when a light path goes through it, the engine has to check its effect even if it is intended to come out as zero.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,847

    Thanks for the info Richard, much appreciated!!

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