Skeletal mesh - Wrong triangle count? Also dynamic shadows not working

Development Platform & Builds XR Development
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Hi all,

I’m building a scene with two characters, one will be the player ( with the camera placed where his head is ) and another character in front of him.

The polycount is relatively small, meaning the player is 16662 triangles while the character in front of him is 11593 triangles, however if I use Scene Rendering to check the polycount I can clearly see that the polycount on the skeletal meshes is higher then expected, and being above 100k I’m experiencing frame drops to 30fps which is quite annoying ( total skeletal mesh count is 56510 tris ).

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I’m also trying to set dynamic shadows for mobile ( using 4.11 ) and looks like I can’t use cascaded shadows, so what is the best solution to have dynamic shadows using 4.11?

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None. For me dynamic shadows don’t work in 4.12.4 (but should, since 4.12 is when dynamic shadows came to mobile). I recall 4.11 doesn’t even support dynamic shadows on mobile at all.

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I tried to have the same setup for cascade shadows, but then I realized that is 4.12 only…but before 4.12 how dynamic shadows worked on mobile? that is so strange :smiley:

But the very strange thing is the polycount on the skeletal meshes, which is roughly 2times the real polycount and I have no idea why :frowning:

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It did not.