Last week we did an important fix for glTF skinned animation combined with normalmaps. It fixed the problem with incorrect lighting, but also made the code a little slower in case of skinned animation + normalmaps (we had to turn “off” one optimization). To counteract this, I’m reworking a relevant part of CGE renderer, to not only bring the old optimization back, but also optimize it even more, and bring other small improvements.

It’s a work-in-progress, but we already have:

1. Colors per vertex passing optimized (faster copy, 3/4 less data for RGB colors).

2. Custom shader attribute passing optimized (faster copy) and fixed for non-indexed primitives (see demo file).

3. Tangents and bitangents passing optimized (pass 2/3 less data due to not duplicating normal info).