Can I get the vertices of a mesh after applying animations?

Unity Engine
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OK, so previously in Castles - which involves castles growing from the ground up - I’d been using the mesh morpher script to animate the castles. As evidenced by MC’s thread, this method presented a lot more problems than it solved, so we’re using skeletal animation now.

But one thing is missing: I have a “dust emitting” algorithm that compared vertices before and after animating, and emitted dust anywhere that had changed, sort of a “poof! it’s there now!” effect. With MeshMorpher, it would modify the vertices of the mesh on the MeshFilter and I could get the old and new vertices using:
var origVertices : Vector3[ ] = theMeshFilter.mesh.vertices;

However, a skinned mesh doesn’t seem to modify this mesh property. So my question is: where would I look to get the array of vertices after the animation has been applied to them? Is it available?

Thanks,
Ray

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I think you have to access the vertices after the animation is advanced and blended, i.e. in the LateUpdate function and not in the Update function.

Firas.

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That didn’t help. The issue isn’t timing (I’m actually setting the time of the animation manually in betweenthe times i get the two arrays of vertices, so moving it to LateUpdate does nothing to that) - the information as far as I can tell just isn’t visible…