https://medium.com/tech-at-wildlife-studios/texture-animation-techniques-1daecb316657

• Bake vertex of Animation(legacy) to Texture2D
• Bake data of Positions and Normals

• Original GameObject has Animation Component, SkinnedMeshRenderer, Bones.
• Convert Animation-Data to Texture2D.

data of Positions.

data of Normals.

Converted, has only one GameObject.

running.

• C# script(for setup)
• ComputeShader(Texture Generator)
• Shader(Texture Animation Player)

• Assets/ShaderGraph
• Need to edit the mesh at runtime..
  • Vertex index data is being copied to mesh.uv1 by script

horse is from Unity AssetStore. big up