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Skeletal animation deforms a mesh by transforming a bone hierarchy on the CPU each frame. Vertex animation bakes the per-frame vertex positions into a texture, a Vertex Animation Texture or VAT, that plays back entirely on the GPU. Skeletal is the right tool for gameplay characters that need bone control, IK, or runtime retargeting. Vertex animation is the right tool for crowds, ambient NPCs, and anywhere you want thousands of instances playing baked animations. Concretely: in a stadium scene, VAS renders 10,000+ animated characters at 60 FPS where 200 skeletal meshes drop to ~15 FPS.

Vertex Animation Studio supports Unreal Engine 5.5 and later.

Windows, Android, iOS, VR, Xbox, and PlayStation. The plugin is compatible with Nanite, Lumen, TSR, and World Partition.

We've tested up to 100,000+ instances with satisfying framerates. A typical scene with 10,000 vertex animated characters runs at 60 FPS, compared to ~15 FPS with just 200 skeletal meshes.

No. The plugin converts your existing skeletal mesh animations into Vertex Animation Textures (VAT) automatically. Your original assets remain untouched.

Yes. The plugin provides a full Blueprint API for playing animations, creating animation lists, handling crowd events, and setting per-instance custom data.

Yes, Sequencer integration is available as an experimental feature. You can add VA animation tracks to the Sequencer timeline for cinematic control.

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