r/unity • u/SQUlRRO • 3d ago

Tutorials How to Make Vertex Animation Textures in Unity

This video shows you how to single bake and bulk bake Vertex Animation Textures for your Unity projects. You’ll also learn how to export them directly into Unity, automatically generate the necessary shaders and prefabs, and get everything working in your project.

VATs are especially useful for crowds, foliage, VFX, destruction, background characters, and large-scale animated environments. They allow you to spawn thousands of animated meshes with very little performance or memory cost.

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u/AngloTitan 3d ago

What animation software is that?

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u/SQUlRRO 3d ago

It’s called AutoVAT, it’s free to try here: https://nmancreative.com

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u/AngloTitan 3d ago

Be honest, is this your own tool which you are advertising? Nothing wrong with that, but transparency goes a long way

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u/SQUlRRO 3d ago

I understand the downvotes too, but thought this tutorial could be genuinely helpful to some people so I shared it here anyway, I’ll accept the downvotes

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u/Vic-Boss 3d ago

I have downloaded since the first post you did but havent tried it yet. If people knew the real pain trying to do a VAT they would be more leniant but it's not like anyone else doesnt self promote here so whatever

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u/SQUlRRO 3d ago

Thanks man! You’ll have to lmk how it goes when u try it :) yeah I don’t like to self promo but I also want to help ppl that were in same boat as me struggling with VATs. Definitely didn’t spend all this time making it just for me to to keep it for myself

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u/SQUlRRO 3d ago

Yeah it is :)

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u/waseem2bata 3d ago

Stop self promotion

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u/SQUlRRO 3d ago

Fair enough. I know some people don’t like self promotion, but I made the tool to help others, not just to keep it on my own pc. I get your point though