So, technically, vertex animations is a form of optimization you've been doing.

But the other thing, which is definitely not in yet, I hope I can push this with update 4, is I made...

I mean, that's amazing.

That looks like a plushie.

Honestly, it kind of does.

I want to squeeze it.

So currently, people with poor GPUs are kind of crying out for better optimizations, which is totally legit to ask for because we have a lot of things that we didn't optimize yet.

So as it is now in the live build, we don't have...

imposters for meshes.

So an imposter is something that should represent, but it is not the same.

It's a form of loading, a level of detail.

So what you would do on a distance, you would, I'll show it with the constructor.

You can, of course, force that.

So this is the first lot and you get further away.

This is the second lot.

As you can see, details got reduced.

Now if the third lot where

it became a beautiful mess.

And then the fourth lot where it even became a more beautiful mess.

And then at one point it just becomes this really simple shape that should represent the same mesh.

And so this changes as you move further and further away.

So you shouldn't TM notice.

You shouldn't.

But you will notice the performance increase.

Yeah.

We noticed some GPU gains

on it,

which was good to see.

Okay, so that was loading that you just demonstrated.

So then what are these imposters then?

So imposters is technically just the last lot, only then extremely simplified.

Okay.

So it's almost a box.

Storage containers.

Oh, okay.

So those, just the really, really low-quality ones, they're considered, they're called imposters.

Yeah, and on the distance, you cannot see if it's the last lot or first lot, really.

So that's the idea behind it.

It's like,

do

you see a difference between this until you zoom in?

Yeah, right, right, right.

Oh, that's really cool.

And

as

you can see of the geometry...

Holy

shit!

Wow!

Can you just zoom in on that a little closer?

Folks at home, playing along at home, can notice the difference in the mesh.

So you can see the complexity there.

A lot less polys on something that you can hardly make out anyway in the distance.

Now we have our lovely manufacturer here.

It's just, it looks so fucking stupid.

Yep, but it works.

But it works, it works great, yeah, from far away.

So, yeah.

And also, what we do is remove the skeletal mesh at distance.

Ah, yeah, that makes sense.

So

we have it here modeled in, I believe Simon made those in the past.

Yep.

And it represents it.

It works on the distance, but the player

will

not notice it.

Yep, definitely.

So yes, that's imposters.

Yeah.

Very cool.

The things you should never see.