Am i crazy or are quest avatars being a pain in the bum recently?

im not putting this in help because im doing fine, it’s just that it feels like quest has been so hard to make recently??? i dont know why ….. im making a quest side of a chibi avatar for a friend and it keeps on telling me the face is like 12mb .. it’s 10k polygons and ive decimated it to 5000 which didnt even lower it by ANYTHING.. am i crazy ???

I always use a tool to see where the space has gone, did you make the quest version entirely by yourself or did the Creator run it through some tools?

The most amusing thing I had to fix for a quest avatar was stripping extra data from materials, each material was taking up almost 150kb, and if you just make a fresh one it’s like 1kb tops

Also sometimes a material can refer to textures that simply aren’t used by the shader.