I’m really concerned to hear the avatar optimizing feature will be enabled by default.
Unless VRChat is going to fix any breakage no matter how minor it is, please don’t enable optimization by default.
I’m worried that community support resources will be overwhelmed if any avatar (pattern, outfit, gimmick) are broken by the optimizer. Additionally, I feel we cannot expect fixes soon since release cycle of VRCSDK is very slow.
Actually I’m working on AAO: Avatar Optimizer, a avatar optimizing tool and as a part of this tool I created fully automatic optimization, which aims to not break any avatars. This feature performs similar optimizations to VRCSDK one.
However, I’ve faced many difficulties to not break avatars.
Based on my experience, I’m concerned about the potential issues.