Animation-Instancing reviews and mentions

• Is Unity ECS ready for production?
  1 project | /r/Unity3D | 13 Jun 2023

  that is, unfortunately, true. The "flaw" is that you have 0 support out of the box. In order to get it working you have to bake the animation into textures and switch them through the script. You can use GPU to instantiate them but as you already guessed, the trouble comes when you want to have to blend between multiple animations. Besides the fact that you are increasing the size of the project with each new animation... This is a good starting point: https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/animation-instancing-for-skinnedmeshrenderer or directly the repo: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Animation-Instancing

• Some info about rendering with Unity ECS for mobile game
  1 project | /r/Unity3D | 11 Jan 2022

  A couple of years ago, Unity also released an Animation Instancing library for fast instanced SkinnedMeshRenderers. Animations have to be baked and are stored in a texture. The pose control through manipulating bone transforms per character is lost, but iirc they still included an option to expose transforms that are updated when the animation is updated. So a hand socket for holding weapons might be possible, although I'm not completely sure about the feature. The library had an accompanying blog post and one creator on youtube seems to cover its use.

• [Question] Skinned mesh renderer vs bones-only
  1 project | /r/Unity3D | 25 Nov 2021
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