If you are rolling your own system, keep these rules in mind:
Quick practical tip: measure vertex shader arithmetic and memory bandwidth. Often memory fetch cost of deltas dominates, so reducing delta data size yields the largest wins. morph target animation new
Create your geometry with an even distribution of topology (edge loops). If you are rolling your own system, keep
Skeletal skinning rotates and translates vertices around joints, which creates "candy-wrapper" deformation at elbows and knees. Modern systems combine skinning with corrective morphs that trigger based on joint angle. Unreal Engine 5.3's Deformer Graph allows artists to chain a dozen corrective morphs per joint, activating them smoothly as the arm bends from 0 to 120 degrees. The result: biceps that bulge and triceps that flatten—just like anatomy. morph target animation new