AnimToTextureHelpers

Update 13 Oct 2024: A PR was merged from Mann763 updating to 5.4

Update 19 Aug 2024: A PR was merged from a tomaaron updating to 5.3

A PR was merged from user @Bobble68 updating this to now work with Unreal Engine 5.2. Thanks @Bobble68, you are the hero of many. The 5.1 version was moved to a branch.

This plugin will create vertex animation textures in Unreal Engine, taking a Skeletal Mesh and a set of animations and creating a static mesh and textures which will animate that static mesh. This could be used to make a crowd, for example.

One UASSET is an Editor Utility Blueprint used to make vertex animation textures and related assets for bone based VAT motion. The other UASSET is a blueprint for instancing a static mesh with vertex animation textures. Copy these to your project content folder. They work in Unreal Engine 5.2

These are offered as a demonstration or example only, no support or guarantee is offered. It’s likely these would need modification for your use case.

NOTE: Clone the repo or download the files individually. A user has noted that when using the "download zip" feature, the binary files get corrupted and won't be recognized in UE.

A video on these can be found here: https://youtu.be/vrlFozqB0jA