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I have also written a very in depth tutorial that is available on the OP. It's more refined and cut out some old/obsolete practices that are present in the videos

Also hopped onto the hype train!

Thank you, Matt! Just this communication alone is amazing, really looking forward to the changes in the coming months!

Maybe is the best I can say. I doubt it will happen, so you are going to have to work around this.

Yeah increasing the resolution would be great, though I fear it's not particularly plausible, since doubling the res means 4x the memory usage. Also, contrary to popular belief, this has nothing to do with internet usage. Every player generates every other player's models and textures locally on their own PC. This is why people using a certain glitch will still show up normally on most people's screens. Ultimately, giving the character a second texture atlas would go a long way, though I am unsure if the system can do that.

Backpacks and high heels do not use additional meshes, they just deform the back and feet respectively. Most hats use texture space on the skull instead of using a texture slot. There are a number of exception to the rule I stated, the only way to figure it out exactly is to trial and error it.

Okay, quick explanation on how the customisation system works on a base level. The customisation system has two major parts, one being mesh deformation (used to change the shape of the naked body to match the shape of clothing) and the other being additional meshes, these are things like a lot of piercings, belts, holsters, the bottoms of skirts and some head gear. All things that deform the base shape of the body have no impact on texture resolution. Additional meshes however almost always need additional texture space. Now by default there are 2 "tiles" of texture space on the character texture free for extra meshes. This means that you can almost always use at least 2 extra meshes without having to worry about the resolution being lowered by the system. If you add another mesh, one of the existing meshes will have it's texture resolution halved to make space for up to 3 extra additional meshes, all at half resolution. Eventually it will also half the resolution of the eyes, feet and teeth. Now I don't think I have seen the layout of the headphones, but it is possible that it might use both free slots, and when you add the skirt, it needs to scale one down, and it picks the skirt. The real issue here is that there does not seem to be a way to manually control which mesh gets a reduced texture, and in this case it would be much better for it to pick the headphones. The complexity bar is only there to stop people from killing the texture baking process with too many layers and has nothing to do with any of this. TL;DR: reducing polygons will do nothing, this is a limitation of the system that will not go away.

Hey that's looking pretty good already!

We are currently talking with LO about this and we will have an announcement regarding rendering and ripping soon!

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