Smart VAT is a tool for converting 3D FBX and Alembic animations into VAT animations directly from Unity. No longer need to go through a 3D editing app.
Smart VAT saves texture space by excluding vertices that don't move. Increase the "No Move Tolerance" to optimize further by excluding vertices that only ever move slightly.
Smart VAT also detects if overlapping vertices exist. If 2 or more vertices are always within the "Same Pos Tolerance" from each other during every frame of the animation, Smart VAT generates texture Data only once and assigns it to all matches, once again saving on texture space.
Smart VAT can bake multiple meshes into a single one. Ideal for characters that have split parts. The object must be setup to use a single material, so no overlapping UVs. A future update will include options for setting different meshes to use texture arrays for more convenient merging.