The LOD level for skinned meshes is determined in the render phase, which is after the animation update and is also specific to the camera/target Atom renders to, which means that different render targets could end up using different LOD levels depending on how much screen space the character's bounding box takes.
In order to make sure that all transformations are calculated by EMotion FX that the skinned mesh Atom wants to render are available, the Simple LOD Component takes ownership of the LOD level and uses the Atom LOD override. That way Atom adapts to the LOD level determined by the Simple LOD component and makes sure the skeletal matches with the geometry LOD levels.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Jillich <jillich@amazon.com>
* Final update copyright headers to reference license files at the repo root
Signed-off-by: spham <spham@amazon.com>
* Fix copyright validator unit tests to support the stale O3DE header scenario
Signed-off-by: spham <spham@amazon.com>
Benjamin Jillich
Chris Burel
Steve Pham
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