Vertex Animation Toolkit Help

Introduction

Vertex Animation Toolkit is an Unreal Engine 5 plugin for creating and executing Vertex Animation Textures (VAT) derived from skeletal meshes. Vertex animations are important for rendering large numbers of instances and thus improving performance.

Features

Vertex Animation Toolkit offers many features to reduce development time and improve performance.

  • Create and bake VAT from Animation Sequence, Animation Composite or Animation Montage

  • Support for multiple LODs

  • Support for Instanced Static Mesh or Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh

  • Automatic vector calculation for improved anti-aliasing quality

  • Flexible and easy material setup

  • Material and runtime helper functions

Last modified: 23 January 2025
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