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Complex Animated mesh and Colliders
I have a ship mesh, a fairly complex one, which I want to use in a physics game, where there'll be a lot of objects inside the ship. The game is in the First Person and third-person perspective, and to make it a bit more immersive I want to animate the boat, so it's rocking a bit.
My problem is the colliders. Since this is a complex model, with various architecture on it (eg. Railings, masts, interior rooms), I initially simply wanted to use a static mesh collider- This would solve most of my problems instantly, but the thing is, you can't animate a static object (which makes sense). So now I tried building a lot of colliders, (I used the asset Concave Collider, to assist me) and I'm probably around halfway done. I just did a bit of testing, and I already dropped almost 200fps, simply from adding the colliders to my animated ship. Since my game is a physics game, I need the colliders to be fairly precise, but the drop in performance already, is simply too expensive, as there will be a significant drop, once I start adding the other physics objects.
So in short my question is:
Are there any (easier) way of doing complex colliders, without killing the performance?
Alternatively, if I go for a static collider (meaning no animation), do you have any hints on how to 'fake' ship movement? Adding some 'noise' to the main camera is not really giving me the results I was hoping for.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Use Collider the way open world normally use. Custom Colliders contain only 1 box and many circle Colliders on the edge for Big $$anonymous$$esh object. And Colliders only become active when player is close. Any Object far from player or not in view will not be animated or have physics
Its best to make complex colliders up from lots of primative (cube, sphere etc) colliders. That way it saves a lot of performance.
