Importing and Fixing Marvelous Designer Clothes in Character Creator 3 

Glad I could help man.

"Damn it" 😄

I mean it's true though. You do realize that it's common practice to do this in AAA Studio's right? Having geometry that will never be seen makes no sense and if they do make it so that the clothes can be swapped out they still do this except they make the pieces modular and separate them from the rest of the skeleton like they do with the MetaHuman characters. So it's 100% accurate and common practice in any game studio. At the time I made this I was still pretty new on the scene so I didn't realize that it was actually common practice it was just something that made sense to me at the time.

In fact I would go so far as to say that if you were doing a job interview for a studio and you didn't remove the geometry underneath they would probably laugh you right out of the room because it would be obvious you really didn't know what you were doing.

Yeah, so I may have gone a bit overboard there I don't remember but ideally you want your characters total poly count to be less than 100k triangles, the max I would push it would be 150k. Just turning off tessellation for your chars will help significantly. So, when your making stuff it won't hurt to make it higher poly then you need and then just bake it down, the CC tool for reduction has that built in and it's pretty good at it actually. Although it's a kind of projection method and has some cons such as buttons being projected onto the shirt behind them. I have tried baking clothes in Substance and Maya and failed at both when trying to do this for a simple blacksmith apron I made. The CC method though left 2 small black spots on it so I cheated and baked the normal and AO in substance for the High Poly and then loaded in the Low poly and rather than baking those two I used the ones baked for the High Poly. Also, I should add that this is for your main chars, the NPCs populating the world should be significantly lower on average depending on how many you plan on having.

@@unrealdevop Thanks for the rule of thumb of 100k -150k Tris, it's very handy. Also thanks for the good advice. i will play with the reduction tool to see how it performs. Take care my man.

@@littleeiffel4246 Yeah you too, you may find that for your specific needs these will vary. For your Cinematics it doesn't really matter how detailed things are as long as you can still properly Weight Paint things.