Labs Vertex Animation Textures 3.0 - Part 1
Vertex Animation Textures 3.0 ROP is part of the FREE and open-source toolset in Houdini called SideFXLabs. Vertex Animation Textures (VAT) is an efficient and powerful solution to recreate complex and non-traditional animations in real time. Because VAT only uses textures and shaders to achieve the visuals on the GPU, it has a much lighter performance impact on the CPU, compared to traditional skeletal mesh animations. Compared to previous versions, VAT 3.0 offers more streamlined workflows, additional advanced features, and a lot more customizability. For more information on SideFXLabs and how to get the tool visit: https://www.sidefx.com/products/sidefx-labs/.
You can access this guide as PDFs and try out a demo project at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tq7CExY8k103MJDVbi96GqIBm8P6S0Qn?usp=sharing
VAT3.0 comes with advanced interpolations, fluid UVs, tangent-space normal support, texture memory reductions, streamlined workflows, and a lot of freedom to customize your setups.
This is the same animation without our interpolation features.
This is the above animation (200 frames) playing at its original speed (60 FPS), demonstrating the degree to which you can manipulate time and reduce texture memory consumption.
