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New Geometry-Driven TensionFX Plugin Supercharges UE5 Character Deformation

TensionFX is a new Unreal Engine plugin that turns mesh deformation into believable skin reactions in real time. By computing stretch and squash on the GPU each frame, it feeds tension data directly into materials, enabling auto-driven wrinkles, blush, roughness, color, and detail normal changes without hand-rigging expressions. Because it’s geometry-based, it responds to skeletal animation, morph targets, ARKit blendshapes, and ML Deformer output....