Hi TonyDPrime
>>if the garment drapes over a concurrent reduced p-size mesh, does it still look as good as if it were not reduced?
Yes, in our experience 5k to 7k for the body is quite sufficient to look as good as on very high-poly mannequin.
>>The other thought I have is would the garment think it needs to react to both character
the garments only interact with the designated character mesh.

Hi Kenny - if the garment drapes over a concurrent reduced p-size mesh, does it still look as good as if it were not reduced?
The other thought I have is would the garment think it needs to react to both characters, or can it be made “part of” the one reduced-character and not the other full poly one, almost like a skeletoned outfit or a prop attached via a socket.

@TonyDPrime,

As far as the 15K, I think if you recommend to users a program or suggested steps to simplify the mesh, I think everyone will be excited to use it.  (A given user on their own may not know how to otherwise)

The easiest way is to use UE Skeletal Mesh Reduction Tool  (here is a video tutorial https://youtu.be/et91Drj2xJM?t=1123).
The more advanced way is to reduce the number of polygons in Maya/Max/Blender in specific regions for your skeletal mesh (head, hands, feet) and then import it into UE. For example, the basic mesh for the Genesis 8 DAZ character contains about 18k vertices but without the head, hands and feet it's less than 6k.

It looks really really cool!
Now If they had Bassline, Charly, and Rob, it would look really really really really cool!

How the pros are using Meta Humans :

https://youtu.be/SGO604ODyMM?t=376

Hi Kenny - with the physics, material zones having different weights that I can craft to my hearts' content sounds great.  In that respect, in matters not whether I see someone else make something look more or less synthetic, if with the same tool I can make it look great.
As far as the 15K, I think if you recommend to users a program or suggested steps to simplify the mesh, I think everyone will be excited to use it.  (A given user on their own may not know how to otherwise)
 

Looks great !
So I would like to give it a try and will Email you :)

@TonyDPrime 
>> Is the 15K limit something that can be adjusted as far as performance vs quality?
We hope to resolve the limit in not that distance future. However, I still don't get why not to use a simplified invisible mesh for the body and cloth collisions

Hi Kenny!  Is the 15K limit something that can be adjusted as far as performance vs quality?
With the synthetic, I am referring to the physics, do the garments per-piece each have their own multi-zone weighting, or is it just single zone dynamics currently.

Thank you Rob, my card survives...Sorry Rob, I've tried to retarget with the new way, as I showed you, the head is no more attached to the body :D. So I work with my old project where everything is ok. I'll work on it after the contest. For now...[/quote]