Skinner
Special Effects with Skinned Mesh in Unity
Skinner is a collection of real-time special effects for Unity that use vertices of an animating skinned mesh as emission points. Instead of duplicating mesh data on the CPU, it employs a replacement shader to stream vertex positions into GPU-friendly buffers, conserving memory and CPU cycles. With those GPU-side buffers, Skinner can drive effects like trails, particles, or geometry that react to the underlying skinned animation in sophisticated ways. The approach enables complex, performant visuals that stay in sync with character motion. ...