How to save performance with animations?

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@Waves

What’s more the thing that will really beat you down is the number of drawcalls unless you have Vulkan but thats not so common yet. If your character has a 5 or 6 materials applied to it and its carrying a weapon with another 3 or 4 materials. Then placing 100 characters in the scene will result in 1000+ drawcalls … good luck with that. Each material’s complexity will also play a part in the overall cost.

What if I have 5 or 6 materials on the character and 2-3 on the weapon, but all materials have no texture, because the meshes got colored by faces?
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@Waves

Lastly your example of 4x Static Meshes vs Skeletal meshes. If you use Instanced static meshes you should be able to stuff the scene with far far more than 4x skeletal meshes at the same performance cost.

I have no idea how many I can have for true, in the first test with skeletals I had about 150 enemies on screen at 60fps and with static meshes 600 enemies^^
With 1000 enemies I had with skeletals about 12fps and with static meshes about 30fps…
But this was on beginning of development, now I have never tested for a long time.