Driving character animation by reading bone transforms from a texture in VRAM?

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Say I have managed to extract the bone transforms for a particular character animation.

Say also that I have managed to write these bone transforms to a texture in VRAM.

How to do a procedural animation where you are reading the bone transforms by vertex texture fetch and skinning the character?

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Ehamloptiran pointed me in the right direction. The places in the code to look for are:

GPUSkinVertexFactory.cpp for the actual C++ code.

Then in the shader GpuSkinVertexFactory.usf we have the vertex shader technique for HW skinning.

I am marking my own qn as closed. Thanks Ehamloptiran .