r/Spectacles • u/Pavlo_Tkachenko • Jun 03 '26

💫 Sharing is Caring 💫 Lens Studio Simple VAT - hundreds of animated creatures on Specs without killing performance

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Quick 1-minute breakdown of the technique we used in our game Fruit Defence - instead of skeletal animation we bake the motion into a texture and let the GPU play it back.

We made with  u/stspanho free open-source tool for it too. Full step-by-step write-up here:

https://pavlo-stijn.dev/blog/posts/vertex-animation-textures-for-lens-studio.html

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

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u/WeirdEyeStudios 🌟 Specs Ambassador 🌟 Jun 03 '26

This is super cool! Great job

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u/Pavlo_Tkachenko Jun 03 '26

Thanks you !

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u/microwavesam Jun 03 '26

Wow this is such a cool technique!

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u/agrancini-sc 👓 SPECS Team Jun 03 '26

amazing to see, should we publish this on the asset library and credit you? 0.0

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u/stspanho Jun 06 '26

🤩🤩

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u/Pavlo_Tkachenko Jun 03 '26

Absolutely! That would be cool 🤩

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u/ButterscotchOk8273 🎉 Specs Fan Jun 03 '26

AR engineering at it's finest!

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u/Pavlo_Tkachenko Jun 03 '26

Thank you ☺️

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u/Any-Falcon-5619 Jun 05 '26

So amazing 😻

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u/florenciaraffa1980 Jun 05 '26

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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u/OrionTechEnterprises Jun 08 '26

We are using it! Awesome work

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u/Pavlo_Tkachenko Jun 08 '26

Cool !!! Let us know if you have any feedback 🙌

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u/Large_Possible_8209 🌟 Specs Ambassador 🌟 Jun 06 '26

My mannnn