Magic Merge - Skeletal Mesh and Material Merger

This plugin has 2 main functionalities

• Mesh Section Baking and merging (static or skeletal meshes) - this is editor only
• Skeletal Mesh Merging - Editor or runtime - works with morph targets and cloth!

• Just pick material the sections you want to merge
• it combines and bakes the materials for the sections you select
• you can configure the merge settings for each LOD independently!

• Editor Version - Also merges morph targets
• Runtime version - New in V1.3. Also merges morph targets! (even in a packaged game)
• Both versions work with cloth
• The cloth sections cant be merged but they are transferred directly to the merged asset unchanged
• basic video tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMwcEkxIUw
• cloth video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3J-arefyBA

See the feature overview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IltlG8aYs

In depth tutorial playlist that goes over how to use all the features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQrTQ9iVki0&list=PLMu37UUZwLVBUWmu8KCIZ7YyxS6_raFbT

Did you find bugs or have Questions before you buy? visit the support server: https://discord.gg/TaySMET9C7

Limitations

• Cloth Sections cannot have their materials merged
• UDIM materials cannot be merged, but they can be baked out via experimental UDIM baking feature
• Generally, you should not merge masked/translucent materials with opaque materials
• you still can but the results are mixed, works good for far LODs though
• However, you can merge multiple translucent/masked materials together
• you may need to adjust the base material lighting settings afterword to get the best lighting match with the original material type
• with some meshes the normal maps bake too strong, there is a custom parameter in the flatten material instance you can use to adjust the normal strength as needed. I am not sure why this is happening and its inconsistent, if you have any idea, please let me know.