TECH ART OUTSOURCE - Vertex Animation

A vertex animation baking tool, shaders, and animation system for Unity DOTS/ECS.
Render tens of thousands of models at the same time each with its own animation state.

Features

• Vertex animation model baker
  • Multiple animations (stored in one Texture2DArray)
  • LOD generation
  • Prefab generation
  • Animation book generation
• DOTS animation system
  • Simple API
  • Animation library and books
• Shaders
  • Lit vertex animation shader
  • Interpolation
  • Normal encoding and decoding
  • Shader graph support
  • Animation blending

Model Baker

Artist friendly GUI for converting models.

DOTS Animation System

Sample code to play an animation.

protected override void OnUpdate()
{
    float deltaTime = UnityEngine.Time.deltaTime;

    Entities.ForEach((Entity entity, ref VA_AnimatorComponent ac) =>
    {
        // Get the animation lib data.
        ref VA_AnimationLibraryData animationsRef = ref ac.animationLibrary.Value;

        // Set the animation index on the AnimatorComponent to play this animation.
        ac.animationIndex = VA_AnimationLibraryUtils.GetAnimation(ref animationsRef, animationName);

        // 'Play' the actual animation.
        ac.animationTime += deltaTime * animationsRef.animations[ac.animationIndex].frameTime;
    }).ScheduleParallel();
}

Shaders

Lit example shader (build in shader graph).
Full shader graph support.

Install

Installing from a Git URL

Documentation

Getting Started

• Example 1: Mainly used for testing.
• Example 2: Contains an animation system that shows how you could setup animated characters and a spawning system to test performance.
• Example 3: MonoBehaviour example for if you are not using DOTS.

Used By

• Project Castle

LICENSE

Overall package is licensed under MIT, unless otherwise noted in the 3rd party licenses file and/or source code.