Thanks! I have considered spatial partitioning and it unfortunately would not be a viable solution for most of the circumstances that the game will be built around

Thanks! There's going to much more to come! I would definitely say the profiler is the best tool for learning to optimize things. It has a bit of a learning curve to use, but once you learn it, it's very valuable

Thanks for asking, I just realized the post doesn't clarify that at all. I found a different niagara effect from an asset pack I purchased. I did some tweaks on that effect, then reran benchmark scenarios and used the profiler to confirm results

Yea! they're each an actor, in terms of resources, I don't have anything specific - the implementation is done using the detour crowd controller paired with state trees

in the future, i'll be releasing blog posts on alot of these things, which might shed some more light on stuff

thanks, it's one of those little things i didn't think of until i saw someone else playing

great advice. the clips im uploading now are prerecorded from months ago, so those changes won't be present there, but im definitely going to write this down for future implementation