Hello, I’ve been wondering if the vertex animation has a better performance than bone animation for the same mesh?

I have a scene with many animated characters and before I do the switch, I was wondering if someone already had already tested this out.

Thanks

From my tests, there doesn’t seem to be much difference in performance. I had 100 animated bones/vertex characters (with shared geometry) and they were handling it fine.

I was encountering a serious slow down when I tried to make the models do different animations off the same skeleton (using MD5).  If they shared the same animation object, they all acted in unison.  Once I cloned the skeleton animation, the performance slowed to a crawl with more than around 5 characters.  Can you post your code relating to the skeleton?  Are you cloning the animation or just making them all act off the same one?

Thanks!

Hello Alex, I was also sharing a single meshInstance.animationState with all of my instances. Cloning the animation will multiply the GPU/CPU calculations for bone transforms and also resulted in slow performance.

This is why I was trying to see if vertex animation were more performant with different mesh/animations.

I’ll let you know my results once I’m done.