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Mesh optimizing

Mesh optimizing - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Mesh optimizing

- [Instructor] Unreal has some impressive features for simplifying meshes right out of the editor. Let's open up one of these office chairs here and take a look. On the left of the view port, you can see a few statistics about the asset. The one we're interested in is this triangle count. As you can see, we're nearly at 38,000. Now that might not be a lot for this one object, but when you copy it a few dozen times in the scene it can really add up. Let's see if we can fix this. Head over to the Details panel and scroll down to LOD 0. Here you'll find a Reduction Settings option. Let's go ahead and expand that down. Now I know it seems like it's too good to be true, but click on the Percent Triangles and add something like 50. Now you'll see when we apply changes, the triangle count immediately drops. And yet, I can't tell much of a difference with the chair. Let's take a look at the wireframe and see it we notice…

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