Keywords: UE4, Animation Assets Workflow Notes

Vertex Animation Tool

Vertex Animation Tool - Timeline Meshes
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/Tools/VertexAnimationTool/VAT_TL_Meshes/index.html

Vertex Animation Tool - Key Framed Meshes
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/Tools/VertexAnimationTool/VAT_KF_Meshes/index.html

Unreal Engine tools for baking Skeletal Mesh animation into textures to animate meshes through the material shader (Recommended)
https://github.com/Rexocrates/Vertex_Anim_Toolset

UE4 Utilities, part 1
https://www.artstation.com/blogs/shinsoj/7PEB/ue4-utilities-part-1

Baking out vertex animation in editor with AnimToTexture (UE5)
AnimToTextureHelpers
https://github.com/kromond/AnimToTextureHelpers

Vertex Animation Manager. Vertex Animation Texture (VAT) generation from skeletal meshes, including components for playback with sockets and notifications
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/vertex-animation-manager/

Animation Sequences

Animation Curves
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/Sequences/Curves/index.html

Animation Re-targeting

Tutorial 2 - Animation Re targeting
https://github.com/jollymonsterstudio/Unreal-Tutorial-02-Animation-Retargeting

Timeline

WTF Is? Timelines in Unreal Engine 4 ( UE4 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7bdcvGlgIg

UE5 Animation Curves Compatibility

If there’re two skeletons (A, B) and their hierachical are the same, and skeleton A contains Animation Curves.

If skeleton A want to share it’s curves to skeleton B, you should add the Compatible Skeletons for each other: add skeleton B in skeleton A’s Compatible Skeletons list, and add skeleton A in skeleton B’s Compatible Skeletons list.

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