UE4 Large Scale Crowd Rendering Demo with Basic AI

The solution I found is hacky, but I’m quite proud of it. I blend and update the animation states in a single “static“ material, using unused values of the Scale transform, taking advantage of the fact that all the characters have uniform scale. Here you can see the vertex animation blending: Here you can see how I revert any scale differences through world position offset: And here is the blend function itself, just doing a lerp on each verte