Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What if you could animate thousands of characters on screen without tanking your performance? Enter Vertex Animation Textures. Unity's Corrie Green joins us to break down what VATs are, why they outperform traditional animation at scale, and how to integrate them with ECS (Entity Component System) to build scenes you didn't think were possible.

🔗ECS/DOTS Learning Samples
github.com/Unity-Technologies/EntityComponentSystemSamples
🔗URP CookBook, VAT Fundamentals Step by Step
youtube.com/watch?v=kcDtiqXRVOc
🔗Free Unity Character Pack
assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/adam-character-pack-adam-guard-lu-74842
🔗VAT Baker Code from today's session
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PhPUeWRhEzUJ_QRVpbeXKNm8GaXKAbwO?usp=sharing

00:00:00 - Stream Start
00:01:13 - Welcome Corrie
00:04:05 - Intro to Vertex Animation Textures (VATs)
00:08:43 - Why VATs?
00:11:46 - VAT baking demo
00:24:50 - How do you create VATs?
01:03:24 - Intro to ECS
01:19:05 - Integrating VATs into ECS demo
01:25:58 - Wrapping up!