It's a really interesting approach and the video explains it well. With nanite is becoming a thing for Skeletal meshes, it looses a bit of interest But your approach still save all the anim computations at runtime. Would have love to see your approach to create the texures from the animations. Great work !
Would it makes sense to use this method for a full playable character? Instead of using a skeletal mesh with animations using something akin to a sprite library with different vertex animations that are driven by blueprint? For most characters it wouldn't make sense but for something like Crash Bandicoot or say a blob of slime it would it be useful to convert a something like a softbody simulation or procedural displacement into a baked vertex animation for an otherwise static mesh?
It's a really interesting approach and the video explains it well.
With nanite is becoming a thing for Skeletal meshes, it looses a bit of interest
But your approach still save all the anim computations at runtime.
Would have love to see your approach to create the texures from the animations.
Great work !
Amazing!!
Would it makes sense to use this method for a full playable character? Instead of using a skeletal mesh with animations using something akin to a sprite library with different vertex animations that are driven by blueprint? For most characters it wouldn't make sense but for something like Crash Bandicoot or say a blob of slime it would it be useful to convert a something like a softbody simulation or procedural displacement into a baked vertex animation for an otherwise static mesh?
You might be better off with blend shapes, although of course it depends on the complexity of the animation.