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Blender Tools with Unreal/Unity

A series of tools used to store vertex data in various ways. The data can then used in a game engine to animate meshes via a vertex shader.

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Blender Tools with Unreal/Unity

Description

A series of tools used to store vertex data in various ways. The data can then used in a game engine to animate meshes via a vertex shader.

Mesh Morpher

Used to store vertex offsets between a meshes shape keys in it's UV layers. Optionally vertex normals from it's second shape key can be stored in it's vertex colors.

Vertex Animation

Used to store vertex offsets and normals of selected mesh objects per frame into image textures.

Example

  1. Open Blender and go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install, then select mesh_morpher.py (or vertex_animation.py).
  2. Enable the add-on by ticking the checkbox next to its name.
  3. In the 3D Viewport, open the sidebar (N key) and navigate to the Unreal Tools tab to find the tool's panel.
  4. For Mesh Morpher: select a mesh with shape keys and click the operator button to bake the vertex offsets into UV layers.
  5. For Vertex Animation: select mesh objects, set the frame range, and run the operator to export per-frame vertex data into image textures ready for use in a game engine vertex shader.

Getting Started

These tools can be installed as add-ons or ran as scripts. Each tool has a panel located in the 3D View's sidebar under the Unreal Tools tab.

Installing as an Add-on

Edit > Preferences

Running as a Script