I have noticed that using apex clothing on my character decreases the frame rate a bit too much for use with the Oculus Rift so I was wondering if there was a way to turn it off in game as a graphics setting.
I have tried making the clothing object not visible but it does not seem to increase the framerate. The only thing that works is taking the apex part out of the scene.
Take a look at SetClothMaxDistanceScale for your Skeletal Mesh Component. Not sure if it’ll improve performance, but it’ll visually toggle it to off.
Also, a more complex way to do this is to make an LOD for the mesh (or just reuse LOD0), and assign it a new material that does not have a Apex file associated with it. Or you could even assign this LOD a new Apex file, but one without self-collision on it.