So I have a character mesh that has pre-modeled cut points on the arms and legs that I’d like to use for dismemberment. My current system switches materials to a 0-opacity material when I need to hide a limb, however because there’s 4 pre-defined “chunks” in each limb and each chunk has its own material, that’s 17 materials that are being used per character which I’m not happy about.
If my entire character was only using 1 material, is there a way to dynamically hide different parts using some property in the material? I was thinking something like vertex colors or texture masks that change based on which body part I need to hide, but I haven’t wrapped my heard around using these in real-time.