--- title: How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity description: What if you could animate thousands of characters on screen without tanking your performance? Enter Vertex Animation Textures. Unity's Corrie Green joins us to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vertex-animation-textures-with-ecs-in-unity-irboslxzp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity | daily.dev og:description: What if you could animate thousands of characters on screen without tanking your performance? Enter Vertex Animation Textures. Unity's Corrie Green joins us to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vertex-animation-textures-with-ecs-in-unity-irboslxzp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/irbOSlxzP.png og:image:alt: How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity **[Unity](https://daily.dev/sources/unity)** · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary What if you could animate thousands of characters on screen without tanking your performance? Enter Vertex Animation Textures. Unity's Corrie Green joins us to break down what VATs are, why they outperform traditional animation at scale, and how to integrate them with ECS (Entity Component System) to build scenes you didn't think were possible. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vertex-animation-textures-with-ecs-in-unity-irboslxzp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vertex-animation-textures-with-ecs-in-unity-irboslxzp","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vertex-animation-textures-with-ecs-in-unity-irboslxzp"},"datePublished":"2026-07-16T16:00:15.791Z","dateModified":"2026-07-16T16:00:20.094Z","description":"What if you could animate thousands of characters on screen without tanking your performance? Enter Vertex Animation Textures. Unity's Corrie Green joins us to...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEVp52Y_60Y/sddefault_live.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEVp52Y_60Y/sddefault_live.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Unity","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Unity","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/9afe038cc27e4d95ad581284cea8578d","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/unity"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vertex-animation-textures-with-ecs-in-unity-irboslxzp","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity","description":"What if you could animate thousands of characters on screen without tanking your performance? Enter Vertex Animation Textures. Unity's Corrie Green joins us to...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEVp52Y_60Y/sddefault_live.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-07-16T16:00:15.791Z","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/irbOSlxzP","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/zEVp52Y_60Y"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Unity","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/unity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How to Use Vertex Animation Textures with ECS in Unity"}]} ```