Struggled to find a nice easy to use Maya to Unreal Vertex Animated Texture tool, so I ended up making my own. Thought I'd share with the community here, so that anyone can use/improve it further for their own uses. It produces a both a normal map (World Space) and position map (local space - position map relative to the…
Thank you very much for sharing! I'm learning how to use it but the Unreal .uaset files are not being recognized, which version of Unreal were you using 5.3?
I used Unreal 5.3, but that shouldn't really matter. The issue your facing is most likely that you didn't put the .uasset files in the right place. Make sure that the downloaded VAT folder is directly in the content folder of your UE project. So, the file structure should look like content/VAT/... If you attempt to move…
Cheers! I haven't fully explored it myself, but I've seen people taking it further with particle systems and destruction animations. It seems so versatile for what it is.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! We did a lot with this technique for a couple Unity games a few years ago, to greatly improve perf, especially for vfx. Big wins.