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Vertex Animation Manager

Publish date

2025-12-19

Asset Description

VAMP 2 is now available! VAT-only and GPU Skeletal Mesh featuring procedural Aim-Offset, directly onto the GPU.

General Information

Ready to enhance even more features, using the new compute shader animation system.

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). Additionally now with Advanced Quality mode to turn your mesh into GPU Skeletal Meshs, resulting in more higher quality renderings for transitions and per-bone weight blending, at large scales.

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.

Update 2.0 (UE5.4):

NEW: Advanced Quality with GPU Skeletal Mesh using Compute Shader
NEW: Aim-Offset using the new GPU Skeletal Mesh

Update 1.14 (UE5.5):

NEW: Nanite bake for UE 5.5 updated

Update 1.13 (UE5.4):

NEW: Spatial ISM with Spatial System (plugin needs to be owned)
NEW: PlayAnimationOnce Node
NEW: SIMD Velocity Optimizations
NEW: Variation Groups and Randomize method

Update 1.12 (UE5.4):

NEW: ISM previous transforms (UE5.4+)
NEW: HISM Async Build-Tree (UE5.4+)
NEW: Static Mesh Sockets from non-animated VAISM/VAHISM

Update 1.11 (UE5.2+):

NEW: Perfected Nanite workflow and support for all meshes
NEW: Reduction tool for automatic influence optimizations in editor
NEW: Ultra-precision profile setting for 32-bit float texture data

Update 1.10:

NEW: Two-Phased Game Loop, For game loop optimizations and multi-threaded processing
NEW: VAISM/VAHISM visibility flag adds and removes instances on the fly
NEW: VAMovementComponent to integrate Nav Mesh path finding with root motion

Update 1.9:

NEW: Full support up to UE5.3

Update 1.8:

NEW: VAT Physics Feature
NEW: VAT Normal Mapping
NEW: VAT Async Loading
NEW: VAT Morph Target Export to Texture

Update 1.7:

NEW: Full support up to UE5.2
NEW: Root Motion System
NEW: No frame limits, >500000 frames with 100 bones in one texture
NEW: Modular characters with one control
NEW: Sync with fully dynamic cloth systems
NEW: Support of TAA, MotionBlur and more with velocity data on ISM and HISM
NEW: Variations asset for multiple meshes on shared profiles
NEW: Scripted Action Assets for batch processes
NEW: Pause/Resume World

Update 1.3:

Tick-less Animation Blueprint to control animations
SyncMarkers and SyncGroups
Switch to RagDoll Skeletal Mesh

Update 1.2:

Nanite enabled for bone animations (UE 5.1+)

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

Code Modules: