====== Rendering Techniques ======

Rendering some massive crowds can be challenging.

Our official [[github>toolworks/Apparatist|Apparatist]] utility kit already contains a Trait Renderer Component, that manages the rendering of the entities with a common Trait through [[ue>API/Runtime/Engine/Components/UInstancedStaticMeshComponent|Instanced Static Meshes]].

===== Animations =====

Check out this video on using [[https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/daE9/unreal-engine-baking-out-vertex-animation-in-editor-with-animtotexture|AnimToTexture]] to turn your skeletal mesh animations into textures to be used within the materials on ISMs:

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Also a somewhat outdated open-source [[github>Rexocrates/Vertex_Anim_Toolset|Vertex Anim Toolset]] plugin is available in order to turn skeletal animations into textures.

A third-party [[https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/vertex-animation-manager|Vertex Animation Manager]] is available for purchase on the Marketplace.