Two or more textures upon one character

[darthviper107]

@biacat;468051

Ok, thanks. I was aware of the drawcalls which affects the nonstatic meshes in engines, but I had the need to be ensured about how UE works.
The character was a football player, so I have the need to swap textures for the shirt and trunk.
So, let’s recap, if I understood well: I make the puppet a unique mesh, then I map its body (less torso “shirt” and hip “trunk”) into a uv map (which will have its own normal/diffuse/specular maps), and I make the same thing for torso and hip: then, when I import the mesh into UE, I wust have to swap the maps for shirt and trunk. Right?

I would do a mesh with its own material for the head, a mesh for the torso, and a mesh for the legs, and then you would switch out the materials for those. I’m not sure how they do it in the football games, performance might not be an issue with all of the players having different torso materials and head materials, or they might figure out a way to create a single material that they could then change the jersey number/colors/logos for.