Vertex Animation Manager - Unreal Engine Assets Free Download

Introducing the Vertex Animation Manager for Unreal Engine 4 and 5! This plugin allows the generation of vertex animation textures directly within the Unreal Engine editor, without the need for any additional tools. It comes with included components for the playback of Static Meshes, Instanced Static Meshes (ISM) and Hierarchical Instanced Static Meshes (HISM).

The plugin provides access to sockets and bones from both C++ and Blueprint code, allowing for the retrieval of socket transform, location, and rotation. You can easily setup your Blueprint actors and attach components by using the sockets. The runtime component can update the transforms automatically during the playback if you enable this option. The animation can also be played back without the need for any ticking enabled, as everything is controlled by time. Even if you have set up your skeletal mesh with notifications, these can still be used for the playback of animations by the vertex animation runtime components.

Technical Details

Features:

Generate Vertex Animation Textures (VAT) inside the editor for any Skeletal Mesh animation
Profiles that you can safe with your Skeletal Mesh assets
Fully works from the preview of your Blueprints to your Shipping Builds
Included Runtime Components to easily playback in C++ and/or Blueprints
Included Material Functions to playback in the material
Included Material Function to easily plug-in into any of your existing materials
Included Auto-Instancing for ISM and HISM VAT components
Included Notification Components to use in the editor and play events driven by the VAT
Included ready-made Niagara Notification Components

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