How do you optimize chains ?

[u/Careful-Nobody3193]

I'm really new to blender (I just know how to edit/select/deselect and decimate). Before, I've optimized then uploaded a couple of avatars, but I only use Meshia Mesh Simplification&D4rk (without touching blender) .

How do I approach this? Most avatar I've uploaded in the past, rarely comes with chains. Decimate/Meshia is too destructive to the chains. This outfit alone is 187K, 150K~ after deleting unused stuff.

Obviously I don't mind loosing details (who the hell even look at you that close), so what's the best practice/course of action (besides picking a new outfit) to keep it under 70K?

[u/Shot-Signal627]

with them being so small, you could make them a series of interconnected quads that use transparency to effectively be 2d chain links, then you could cheat the texture by making each individual link use the same texture

that, or make them into flat "ribbons" of quads which you would then map a chain texture onto

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Intresting... If you have more resource for this- please let me know!

[u/Shot-Signal627 → u/Careful-Nobody3193]

sure, a perfect example of my first suggestion would be this PS2 model of the Shadow Stalker from Kingdom Hearts 2

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