Hi people,
I was wondering what will be the best approach for attaching an Armour piece like for example gloves in hands. The fingers will have animations and so the gloves should animate along with the finger bones. I am aware that there are two methods of implementation.
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Using sockets in bones. This will work but the animations wont play on the gloves right? It will just be static and move along. Thus this method will fail.
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By rigging the armour piece in Maya, importing the skeleton, adding them as components in the character BP and using the ‘Master Pose Component’ to drive the animations. This method will work. But I have a question regarding this. If we use this method, and say we have 4 armour pieces in total. This means the character BP will always have 5 skeletal mesh components (4 armour pieces + character itself) every time. Will this create any performance problems? Will this draw 5 skeletal meshes in scene every time I hit play? Will this be expensive in terms of performance?
Any help would be appreciated. In case my questions are not clear or you wish to ask more questions, please do ask me and I shall explain. Thanks in advance.