SKELOT - Instanced Skeletal Mesh Rendering v3.0 (5.7)|SKELOT - Instanced Skeletal Mesh Rendering v3.0 (5.7)

 SKELOT - Instanced Skeletal Mesh Rendering v3.0 (5.7) enables the rendering of tens of thousands of skeletal meshes with minimal CPU usage directly in the Unity Editor, without requiring custom materials. Simply adjust your SkeletalMesh's LODs, create an SkelotAnimCollection DataAsset, and apply the SkelotComponent. Highly optimized and as lightweight as InstancedStaticMeshComponent, it is ideal for TopDown and RTS games. New features include: - Component-less design for easier integration - Virtual Shadow Map Support - Runtime AnimCollection generation - Curve Sampling with caching for material use - Instancing with negative scale - Modular Mesh support, allowing multiple USkeletalMeshes to be attached to a single instance (similar to Leader/Follower poses) - Dynamic transitions generated and cached at runtime, reducing VRAM usage - Dynamic Pose support, enabling instances to switch to a Dynamic Pose and bind to a USkeletalMeshComponent - Fast Recast Functions - Socket Transform support Updates: - Removed bone and influence limits; now supports up to 65,535 bones and 8 skin influences via uint16 indexing - Animation sequences are generated at load time, reducing disk footprint - AnimCollection now uses DerivedDataCache, significantly reducing rebuild time Optimizations: - Only skinned bones are sent to VRAM; skin weights are pulled directly from the SkeletalMesh - Spatial culling with SIMD-optimized code for improved performance