GPU ECS Animation Baker
Leverage the power of DOTS, ECS & GPU Animation instancing to animate tens of thousands of characters at the same time
Easy conversion from classic Unity Animators & Skinned mesh renderers to GPU ECS Animators
Supports URP & HDRP, LODs, blend sampling & animation transitions
GPU ECS Animation baker works by baking all the bone weights into the UV channels of the meshes + baking all the bone transformations per frame into animation textures.
A custom vertex shader will take care of the rest. All your existing shader graph materials can be easily adjusted to be usable for GPU ECS animation via a custom subgraph function.
An ECS animation system will take care of updating all the shader values each frame.
The end result is a lightning fast animation system that is capable of rendering tens of thousands of animated characters at once each running their own animation.
Note: This asset requires Unity ECS 1.0.14 or higher. We will commit to upgrading the asset to be compatible with the latest ECS release.
Download the documentation for GPU ECS Animation baker here:
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