Houdini Secrets Live, #28, Intro to VAT Part I, Soft Surfaces

One of the most important VFX tools in any artists' toolkit is Vertex Animation! Chris introduces the concept of Vertex Cache Animation with the inclusion of Soft Surface.

[johnyzt]

Hey Chris this is really good! I have a question. This seems like a good solution for background characters and lot of things where u can use all kinds of cool deformers and baked simulations. Is there a way to Lod this though? How would you go about lodding it in unreal? Otherwise isn't it better to just use skeletal mesh?