Tutorial - Animations with Rukhanka + VContainer + ECS (10000 Skinned Mesh Renderers)

I've been experimenting with ECS, VContainer and Skinned Mesh Renderer recently, so I created a showcase video featuring 10,000 Skinned Mesh Renderers.

Now I have prepared a tutorial about the process, which I think you'll find fascinating. I used the brilliant Rukhanka Animation System 2 package for the animation, VContainer for communication, and combined the two with power of the ECS with some optimization tricks (LOD, reduce mesh triangles, animations culling, entity transforms optimization, etc).

Feel free to watch, subscribe and comment, I really tried my best to prepare this tutorial, which was definitely not an easy task!

Specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (3.2 GHz)
RAM: DDR4, 32 GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
Windows 11

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Chapters
0:00 - 0:21 - Intro
0:21 - 1:53 - Rukhanka Showcase Scene
1:53 - 2:25 - Assets (Models / Animations)
2:25 - 3:10 - Animator Controller
3:10 - 3:20 - Optimization 1: Cull Completely
3:20 - 4:00 - Optimization 2: Rig Definition Authoring
4:00 - 5:05 - Poly Few asset + optimizations (3: LOD, 4: Reduce Triangles)
5:05 - 5:40 - Optimization 5: Baking Only Entity Authoring
5:40 - 6:01 - Optimization 6: Mobile RP Asset
6:01 - 6:55 - Optimization 7: RukhankaDeformation
6:55 - 7:12 - Time for swim-swim :)
7:12 - 8:46 - Coding Time! Data, data, more data!
8:46 - 12:38 - UnitSpawnerSystem - our core logic
12:38 - 14:15 - UnitAnimationSystem - important, I suppose?
14:15 - 15:42 - Communication with UI (MessagePipe)
15:42 - 18:43 - VContainer - UI - Model, Presenter, Service, Scope
18:43 - 19:08 - Timeline Controller
19:08 - 20:42 - Unity final touches/setup
20:42 - 21:44 - Timeline in Action! A lot of curves (and can be even more...)
21:44 - 22:47 - Finally! A result!
22:47 - 23:13 - Outro

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Documentation:
https://docs.rukhanka.com/

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