keijiro/Skinner

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Skinner is a Unity library of special effects that use the vertices of an animating skinned mesh as emitting points for particle and trail effects. It converts vertex positions into GPU-friendly data via replacement shaders, avoiding extra CPU and memory overhead.

Use cases

• create particle effects that follow an animated character's body
• make motion trails from skinned mesh vertices in Unity
• add GPU-driven VFX to a rigged character
• emit particles from a deforming mesh without CPU readback
• build stylized character dissolve or glitch effects

When to choose

• you use Unity and want vertex-based character VFX with minimal CPU cost
• you need particle or trail effects driven by skinned mesh animation

When to avoid

• you work in a game engine other than Unity
• you need general-purpose CPU-side mesh processing
• you need actively maintained tooling - the last release was in 2019

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

graphics simulation image-processing graphics game-engine cross-platform unity skinned-mesh special-effects shaders compute-shaders particles vfx game-development real-time gpu

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