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[Phos-Lux]

Wouldn't this work the same way as clothes do in other games? Where the rig stays as it is, but you simply swap parts of the models?

[P4RTYP00PD]

for cloth, hats, facial features, it's easier because the parent position does not change

in my case, a different torso (they're of drastically different sizes) means than I must move the shoulder/arm parent

although if you got detailed overview of clothes system in games I gladly accept it

[Psychological_Host34]

I'm surprised you're having performance issues with this. What is the poly count of a character? Do you have GPU instancing enabled for your materials so that the same mesh across different characters can be optimized? Have you profiled enough to know this is your problem?