Advice on more bones or more vertices

Eisot

Am learning the rigging and weights. The included picture shows bones I've added and auto generated mesh on one (1) image, no cut parts. It's for a game aimed at Android mobile devices.
Question:
For performance sake, is it better to have more bones or more and better organized vertices or a combination of both?

Any advice much appreciated. !![

Nate

You want only as many vertices necessary to get the mesh to bend like you need. You want as few bones bound to the mesh as needed to control the bending of the mesh. You want each vertex to be influenced by as few bones as possible (use prune). See here:
https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-meshes#Vertex-count
Also:
https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-metrics#Performance

Eisot

Thank you for answer and links! 😊