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.