Animation Optimization

Resources

• Animation Budget Allocator
• Unreal Engine 5 Character and Animation Optimizations | Unreal Fest 2024
• Animation Debugging and Optimization
• About Standard Blend, Dead Blending and Inertialization
• Fast Path, Worker Threads, Performance

Miscs

• Disable Tick Animation on Skeletal Mesh Init in the Project Settings. This can cause hitches when initializing a lot of SKM at once. Disabling it will cause a T Pose for one frame, you can hide the SKM then show it once initialized.
• Be sure you save in variables the values you use in the anim graph. This will enable fast path.