 Huesos y Riggeado Lo bueno que tiene este método es que puedes hacerlo y no pasar por Unity para meterlo en Decentraland. Sin embargo, Unity te permite comprobar como quedará el modelo en Decetraland, más o menos. Aquí se riggean los modelos en tu software 3D de preferencia, y exportarlo, si decides no pasar por Unity, puedes exportar el modelo en formato .GLTF usando Blender o el plugin de babylon para Maya. Si lo exportas desde Unity, hay que seguir unos pasos si quieres que funciones perfectamente. 1. Exporta el modelo en formato .FBX con los Keyframes que quieres exportar seleccionados, lo recomendable es exportar todos los clips por separado (iddle, caminado...) y entonces importarlos en Unity. 2. Si está importado correctamente aparecerá en el inspector de esta manera:  3. Ahora crearemos un animator, esto es lo que hace que la animación funcione, puede configurarse de varias maneras y programar diferentes clips en una maya, pero en este caso solo vamos a colocar un clip. Para ello arrastramos la animación a la ventana del animator.  4. Finalmente, colocaremos el modelo en la escena y en el padre, pondremos el animator que acabamos de crear y un skinned mesh renderer con el modelo o una parte del mismo. Todo lo demás tiene que ser el hijo de este para funcionar perfectamente.  Resultado final  Lince en Decentraland Animar en Unity El método explicado anteriormente, funciona muy bien cuando queremos animar modelos complejos u orgánicos para crear NPCs o fauna salvaje. Sin embargo para objetos simples prefiero animarlos en Unity, con la ayuda de la ventana de animación. Para hacerlo tenemos que seguir los siguientes pasos: 1. Divide el modelo en las parte que quieras y organízalas (decide quién es el padre e hijos)  2. Prepara el modelo en Unity y pulsa en la pestaña de animación con el padre seleccionado, para crear un animator y una animación.  3. Una vez creada podemos empezar a añadir las claves para crear la animación, clicando en el botón de grabación cualquier transformación que se haga al objeto quedará grabada. En este ejemplo he añadido las propiedades de posición del padre, la rotación para el hijo y la escala para el nieto. Para añadir una propiedad, haz clic derecho en la propiedad y selecciona add key. Después quitaré la animación del padre, porque si la dejara se rompería la animación y movería los objetos a otro lugar de la escena al subirlo a Decentraland.  4. Anima los objetos, con este método no puedes animar las texturas, solo la posición, rotación y la escala.  5. Puedes controlar el ritmo de la animación con las curvas, si quieres que el movimiento sea constante selecciona los puntos, haz clic derecho y haz que las tangentes sean lineales.  6. Exportaremos ahora la animación para Decentraland, como dije antes, quité la animación del padre para evitar problemas.  Precauciones y Advertencias
Conclusión Aunque es un proceso bastante complejo, y puede llegar a ser frustrante cuando comienzas. Pero si se consigue aprender y manejar, se pueden hacer animaciones tan curiosas como las que aparecen en los ascensores del sistema de tránsito en Decentraland.  Ascensor en el tránsito sur (/goto -68,-117)
 Bones and Rigging The good thing about this method, it's that you can do it and don't pass for Unity to put it in Decentraland. However, Unity allows you to check how the model will look in Decentraland, more or less. In this you rigg your models in your prefered 3D software, and export it, if you decide not to use Unity, you can export the GLTF format using Blender or babylon plugin for Maya. If you export it from Unity, there's a few more steps to follow if you want it to work perfectly: 1. Export you model in .FBX format with the selected keyframes you want export the model with. The recomendable thing is to export all the animations separated (iddle, running...) and them import them into Unity. 2. If it's imported correctly it will appear like the image bellow on the inspector.  3. Now we will create an animator, this is what will control that the animation works correctly, it can be configured in several ways and program different clips on one mesh, but in this case we are just going to set one. For that we drag the clip into the animator window.  4. Finally, we put the model into the scene and on the parent, then we add the animator we just created and a skinned mesh renderer with the model or one of the parts of the mesh. Everything else has to be a son of this object to work.  Ending Result  Lynx in Decentraland Animate on Unity The method explained before, I believe it works very well when we want to animate complex models or organic ones to create NPC's or Wild life. However for simpler objects I prefer to animate them in Unity, with the help of the animation window. To do that we have to follow these steps: 1. Divide de model in how many parts you want them, and organize them acordingly (parent, sons...). 2. Set the model in Unity and click on the animation tab with the parent selected, to create an animator and a clip.  3. Once created we can add keys to create the animation, by clicking the red button you activate the recording button and every transform you make to the object will be recorded. In this example we added the properties of position of the parent; rotation for the son and scale for grandson. To add a propertie right click on the property and select add key. Later I'm going to remove the key from the parent because if I left it that would completely break the animation and move it to other places in the scene. 4. Animate your objects, with this method you can't animate textures, only the position, rotation and scale. 5. You can control the flow of the animation with the curves, if you want to make constant select the points, right click and set both tangents in linear. 6. Then click the export button and it should appear correctly, like I said I removed the animation from the parent to avoid problems when you upload it to Decentraland.  Precautions and Warnings
Conclusion Although it's quite a complex process, and can be quite frustrating when you start with it. But if you get to learn how to work with this you can create complex and beautiful animations, such as the ones of the transit system.  elevator on the south transit (/goto -68,-117)
 Primeros pasos En este artículo no vamos a hablar de workflows de modelado, porque no hay necesidad de seguir uno en específico. Pero hay algunos límites a tener en cuenta. Cuando se crea una escena para Decentraland, la primera cosa a tener en cuenta es cuán grande va a ser. El número de parcelas que vayas a usar determina los límites de polígonos, texturas, etc. Por ejemplo, cada parcela que añadas te dará una extra de 10.000 triángulos para usar-. Para ver estos límites sin tener que hacer cuentas, puedes mirar este excel en el siguiente link: Otra cosa importante es crear un terreno que sirva como referencia, donde se van a situar los props. Para ello puedes crear un plano (que sólamente son dos tris). Una parcela es un cuadrado de 16x16 metros así que si quieres construir una escena de 2x12 parcelas, necesitarás crear un plano de 32x192 metros. Por último pero no menos importante, si quieres usar la dimensión de la altura puedes crear un cubo extra con la altura necesaria para usar de referencia. Creando los props Obviamente, los tips que hemos dado previamente sólamente funcionan si tienes un núimero de parcelas a tu disposición en Decentraland. Si lo único que quieres es crear props recomendaríamos crear los assets como si solo tuvieras una parcela. De esa forma puedes crear escenas más complejas más adelante.
Texturas y Materiales Depende del tamaño de tu parcela, también existen límites en el número de texturas y materiales. Es una de las razones por las que en Decentraland predominan los colores planos. Aun así, tienes las texturas tileables y trim textures a tu disposición. Guardando las texturas no reusable para modelos especiales (es decir las únicas: esculturas...) La resolución máxima de las texturas es de 512x512 píxeles y la mínima 1x1 píxeles. Sobre los materiales, ahora mismo en Decentraland puedes usar materiales standard y PBR, y puedes usar:
 El Builder de Decentraland Si quieres comprobar la composición de tu escena o cómo se ven los assets dentro de Decentraland (es igual que en Unity pero con una luz ambiente además del Directional Light) tienes que exportar los modelos en GLTF o GLB, pero es más recomendable usar GLB. Para exportar los modelos, puedes usar Blender o el Plugin babylon en Maya. Si usas el plugin de Maya, recuerda ocultar todos los modelos que no quieras exportar, porque si no lo haces exportará todo junto en el mismo archivo.  Otro punto a tener en cuenta, si quieres crear colliders dentro del software 3d, puedes hacerlo duplicando la mesh y añadíendole "_collider" al final del nombre, y no le asignes ningún material, deja el que Maya le pone por defecto. Si tu escena no contiene animaciones puedes exportar la escena directamente a Decentraland desde aquí.  El Plugin de Unity Si quieres crear escenas más complejas, hay un plugin de Unity que te permite exportar tu escena a Decentralanad directamente. Este plugin es interesante porque te marca los límites de la escena en tiempo real, no como todos las otras opciones. Así que puedes importar animaciones, modelos y textures y crear la escena en Unity.
 First Steps In this article I will not talk about modeling workflows, because there is not need to follow a specific one. But there are certain limits that has to be taken into account. When creating a scene for Decentraland, the first thing you have to do is think how big is going to be. Depending on the number of lands that you are going to use, the limits change. For example for each Land you add, you increase the limit in 10.000 tris. To see how this changes fast and without making calculations, you can check the excel in this link: Another important thing is to create a terrain that serves you as a reference or where the props will be. For this you can create a plane, (since it's only 2 tris). And set it like this; one land is a square of 16x16 meters so if you want to build a scene of 2x12 lands, you will need to create a plane of 32x192 meters. Last but not less important, if you want to use the height parameter create a cube with the same height to use as a reference. Creating the props Obviously, the tips given before only work if you have a number of Lands of your disposition of Decentraland. If you just want to create just the props I will recommend create the assets as if you only have one land. That way you can create later more complex scenes.
Textures and Materials Depending on the size of the land, you also have limits on the number on images and materials. That's one of the reasons why in Decentraland predominate the use of flat colours. However one of the things you can do is create tileable textures, and trim textures that can be reused. Saving the non reusable textures for the special model (AKA the unique ones: sculptures...). The MAX size of the textures is 512x512 and the smallest 1x1. About the materials, at the moment decentraland takes standard materials and PBR, you can add different maps to them, like:
For more information on the materials, and which maps can you use, check: Decentraland Builder If you want to check the composition of the scene or how the assets look in the Decentraland renderer. Important note; is the same of Unity but you can change the lights. So, in order to check it, you have to export the models in GLTF or GLB format. But better if you use GLB. To export the models, you can use Blender or the plugin of Babylon in Maya. If you use the Maya plugin remeber to hide the models that do you not want to export, becasuse if not, it will export everything in a single file.  Another important note, if you want to create the colliders inside your 3D software you can do it, you just have to remember to name it _collider, and don't assign to ANY material, leave the deafult material. If your scene contains no animations you can export the scene directly the scene to Decentraland from here.  Unity Plugin If you want to create more complex scenes, there is a plugin in Unity that directly exports your scene in Decentraland. This plugin is interesting because it marks you the limits of the scene you are creating, not like any other plugins. So you can import your animations, models and textures, creating the scene in Unity.
 Premisa El 20 de Febrero Decentraland abrió sus puertas. Para los que no lo conozcan, Decentraland es un mundo virtual basado en la red de blockchain de Ethereum, donde su comunidad es quien moldea la forma y el propósito de sus tierras (o Lands), creando una relación dinámica e innovativa entre dueños y visitantes. Con esta premisa, el cielo es el límite.
 Antes de empezar... Para este proceso, trabajaremos con el plug-in de Unity que podrás encontrar en GitHub [https://github.com/fairwood/DecentralandUnityPlugin/]. Este plugin te permitirá trabajar de forma nativa desde Unity, componer y crear escenarios sin código de por medio. Todo lo que necesitas es instalar el SDK de Decentraland y usar Node.js para subir escenas locales. https://docs.decentraland.org/getting-started/installation-guide/ #00 Creando el proyecto Descomprime el archivo .zip del pug-in de GitHub y duplica el proyecto llamado "Unity Project" de manera que puedas usarlo como tu propio escenario para Decentraland. Abre el proyecto con la versión de Unity 2018 como mínimo. #01 Creando la ruta de exportación
Ahora vamos a hacer nuestra primera carga. Elige una ruta de proyecto en la opción de exportación standard. Recomiendo crear una carpeta en la ruta del proyecto, antes de la carpeta Assets. De esta manera tus exportaciones se mantendrán con el proyecto y podrás tener todos tus archivos en el mismo lugar. Selecciona "Init Project" para que se inicien las librerías de DCL y espera a que acabe el npm.  Este comando coloca lo básico del SDK, pero no la información ni los archivos de tu escena. Esto se exportará con el comando "Export"  Sabrás que la consola ha terminado la tarea una vez la ventana cambie el nombre a cmd.exe  Ahora que hemos preparado el proyecto, es momento de exportar los archivos GTLF. Presiona el botón Export y espera a que aparezca el Log en la consola de Unity.  Si quieres exportar de forma local, puedes usando el editor de Node.js  Selecciona tu carpeta de exportación y corre el comando "dcl start"  Una vez acabe la consola, una pestaña se abrirá en tu navegador.  Y aquí está! tu primera escena local. Desde aquí, puedes trabajar como si fuese Unity vanila cuando apliques materiales, importes nuevos meshes o hagas tus propias composiciones. Tan solo recuerda usar meshes en vez de grupos vacíos, porque los GTLFs son meshes y no exportarán correctamente tu escena. Premise The 20th of February Decentraland was launched. For the ones who do not know, Decentraland is a virtual world backed by the Ethereum blockchain where its community owns the shape and purpose of their LANDs, creating an innovative and a dynamic relationship between landowners and visitors. With this premise, the sky is the limit.
 Before starting For this workflow, we work with a Unity plug-in that you can find at GitHub [https://github.com/fairwood/DecentralandUnityPlugin/]. This plugin allows you to work natively from Unity, compose and create all the scenarios without heavy coding. Also you need to install the DCL sdk and use Node.js to deploy local scenes. https://docs.decentraland.org/getting-started/installation-guide/ #00 Creating the project Unpack the .zip from the GitHub plugin and duplicate the "Unity Project" in order to use it as your own new scenario for Decentraland. Open the project with Unity minimum 2018 version. #01 Creating an export path
Now it's time to do the first deploy. Choose a DCL Project Path in the Standard Export option. I recommend creating a folder in the root of the project, previous to the Assets folder. This way you will take your exports with the project and keep all the files in the same place. Click "Init Project" to set the basic DCL libraries and wait to the npm to finish. This command places the basic SDK but not the LAND info nor the files of the scene. This will be exported with the command "Export". You will know the command has ended the task once the window changes the name to cmd.exe Now the project export path has been prepared is time to export the GTLF files. Click on the Export button and wait for a Log to rise in the Unity Console. If you want to local deploy your export, you can do it by using the Node.js editor  Locate your export folder and run the command "dcl start"  Wait for the command to finish and a tab should be opened in your browser. And here you are! Your very first local deploy. From this point, you can work as if it was Unity vanila when applying materials, importing new meshes and doing your very own compositions. Just keep in mind to use meshes instead of empty groups because the GTLFs are about meshes and wont export correctly to your scene otherwise.
OVERVIEW
Polygonal Mind has experienced a great change in the last year. We worked with amazing people inside and outside the office, giving us a lot of experience and variety of knowledge that we can apply to our own creations. Here you have some highlights!
Company Growth
This year our team has grown from 3 to 8 employees. We also moved to a bigger, brighter office. We can now have extra space for our 3D printing machines, a whiteboard and, of course, to play VR without breaking anything.
Beat Saber: avatar & environment
The guys at Beat Games reached out to us to create an avatar to their trailer for announcing the Monstercat x Rocket League music pack, so we created an appealing character with all the personality of the game.
Later on the year we also worked on the Green Day music Pack that was announced during the Game Awards.
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
We worked with We're Five Games team for their game Totally Reliable Delivery Service, an open world multiplayer physics game about terrible delivery drivers. We were in charge of the visuals: characters, skins, vehicles, props, environment, etc.
100 Avatars
Yeti Rush
As a studio we always wanted to develop our own game, and this year, we started to develop it. Yeti Rush is a multiplayer racing mobile game, where it's all about yetis sliding through different maps while eating cookies. We developed the entire game, from scratch to what it's now. We got some help with music, effects and 2D designs. The game has billions of yeti variations, so no player will have the same yeti!
Coming early 2020
www.yetirush.com 
Decentraland
We started to develop for Decentraland a year ago and we already have worked in more than 8 projects, for clients and for ourselves. Here are the best ones so far:
Physera
Undeflow
Recluse
This is a prototype made along with Crescent Moon Games, is a Horror / Sci-Fi game placed in the early 80's with CGS inspired graphics.
Free Assets: Office Pack
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program
This is an exchange program that lasts from 1 to 3 months. It's focused for new proactive entrepreneurs, It's a valuable experience and we encourage you to try it out, because it'll help you to reach new contacts, opportunities, experience and skills.
Daniel went to Slovakia during 1 month to learn from a game development studio: Triple Hill, where he helped with some art consultancy and learned a lot about high-end game development.
Simon came from Denmark for 1 month to learn new techniques and workflow methods used inside the studio while teaching us some code optimization.
EVENTS
APPEAR ON MEDIA
A national spanish television (La 2) came to interview us at the office to discuss about what we do.
We also received a visit from our local TV, Aragon Radio, for game-related development we were doing.
The Blockrunner, one of the most important Blockchain and Metaverse podcast had a session with Daniel to have a talk about these topics.
Decentraland had another session featuring Daniel, where he explains how to make optimized Low-Poly 3D art for this platform.
 Rigging our character in Mixamo Mixamo is an automatic rigging website tool that allows you to create quick humanoid for free. As long their shapes are not complicated. If you are already familiar with this tool you can skip to the next part. To log in you can use your Google Account. Upload your character
Bone structure
For a VRChat avatar you want to use at least 3 Chain Fingers because is the minimum that the game needs to detect correctly all the basic movement of your hand. If Mixamo doesn't detect 3 "fingers" it will create less chains and you will have issues later. Once everything is placed correctly just click Next and the autorigger will do his work. If you are satisfied with the result, click Next again. Now you can see the character in different animations to ensure the quality of the rig. Don't trust, test Before downloading your character from Mixamo, we strongly encourage you to run the following animations to test if there is going to be any problem with the avatar beforehand. Some of these problems can be solved after downloading the rig, but others cannot.
Download that avatar!
Having trouble yet? Mixamo's automatic skinning and rigging can work. But more often than not, your characters will encounter different problems that only can be fixed manually using a 3D software. What went wrong? What do I do? These are questions that I made myself while working on these characters and I hope I can answer them here. Not all models are the same. Some have special characteristics and you have to look out for those. These next examples will help you to identify and fix problems that could happen. Bone influences
This is the kind of stuff we should be aware of. For this particular case, removing all the influence of the shoulder bone will be enough to lead to some better results. Removing all the influence sometimes is not the best idea so you can also reduce the amount of influence the shoulder makes on that part of the body for different results. In this pictures you can see how the bone influence should look for both cases.
Visemes issues One particularly annoying problem that I personally found while making visemes for the avatars with Maya LT, was that even when the character was in T pose, if I tried using the blend shapes, the model will return to its original pose before the rigging. You can check what I'm talking about on the gif below. 
Select the old mesh, then the new one. Go to Skin > Copy Skin Weights. You can delete the old mesh, since it has no use. Now all the blend shapes will work perfectly!  Conclusion Like any automatic tool, Mixamo is a great time cutter that provides an easy way to go with decent results, but problems can arise, we covered some of the most annoying ones and hopefully this blog post helped you somehow.  Post by: Pedro @05predoPedro Solans was an intern and now junior animator working at Polygonal Mind's in-house team. Daniel @toxsamDaniel García (aka Toxsam) is the founder and creative director at Polygonal Mind. Premise Back in May Oculus quest was released, it is a standalone device that allows you to use VR without needing to use any PC or wires. Until then you needed a high end computer to run games or experiences on VR so developers and creators didn't had to reduce as much when creating content or avatars for VRChat.
 Before starting During 2018 Q4 Polygonal Mind's team made a challenge of making 100 characters in 100 days, you can check more about it here. Me and my friend Alejandro Peño joined the studio as interns and were tasked with a project where we had to prepare, optimise and upload over 100 characters to VRChat for the Oculus Quest. It was challenging workload but through consistent job, we were able to transform this characters into optimised avatars for VRChat.  Some characters have proven to be more difficult than others, so I will make sure to explain you what problems I faced when fixing non optimal characters and how I managed to solved them. Even though we used Maya in the studio, any of this knowledge is applicable to any 3D modelling software. So I'll recap a series of problem I faced when setting them for VRChat. Lets start optimizing
VRChat team provided the following rules to follow when it comes for Quest avatars:
Step 1 - Reducing Textures This might be the easiest of all steps. All the characters used 2048x2048 textures. So we had to reduce them to the desirable size. In Photoshop, we created a new project with 1024x1024 pixel resolution. And then we imported all textures. Once they were all in and adjusted to the box, we exported each layer as an independent PNG.
Since they already had the appropriated name, we had 100 textures ready to go.  Step 2 - Polycount reduction Most of the models had the right poly count, but some others didn't. Franky's head is a clear example, it had 12572 triangles.
Here are some rules we follow when it comes to reducing polygons:
... wait... What if the maps seams are non optimal? What can you do when there are map seams literally everywhere? That's what happened to the 50th character, Samuela.
We duplicated the model, and started deleting edges without thinking too much about the seams or texture, since we were going to make a new UV layout once the model is reduced.
Once in Zbrush with every mesh and the old texture imported, we took the old Samuela model, subdivided it and made the texture to be poly paint.  Beware, Zbrush applies color to the model's vertex, so you will need to subdivide your model until it reach a million of points so you can keep as much detail as possible of the texture. Time for to project the high model polypaint into the new one by subdividing the number of polys of the new to match the old one and now simply project the old Samuela to the new one. Repeat this part for every subdivision you have until you get enough texture detail on the new model.
Note that projection might not be precise and you might have to improve the texture in Photoshop. Adding mouth and eyes into an existing model for Visemes This part is completely optional. But it really gives your characters life when they are in game.
For a quick turnaround what we did was:
Rig For the rig, we used Mixamo. Mixamo is a web page that rigs and skins automatically given some variables like the position of the wrists, elbows, knees, chin and groin. For the most part, Mixamo did a pretty good job, specially for all the humanoid characters. But for the not-so-human, you had to edit the skin to have a great result. How to fix those is a topic for a different dayone . We'll talk about this deeper in a future post. Materials Like many of you reading this we firstly uploaded the characters to VRChat thinking only for PC users so all the materials were left with the Unity's default shader, but Quest avatars requires a mobile diffuse shader, so we had to change them. If you have followed a good naming convention, this will only take 1 minute. For example we add a mtl_ prefix to all our materials. In Unity type the material prefix to quickly select and change them all at once.   Conclusion 100 characters are a lot. But like I said earlier, with some structure and consistent work after 3 weeks, we made this happen. At Polygonal Mind, we use Notion.so to have all our projects and task organised. With that being said There were a bunch of characters that needed little to no optimisation, but some others that needed almost a full rework. This stuff takes time. Especially if you count them by the hundreds. I hope this guide helped you to optimise your avatar for Quest users, it was a challenging project for us, but the work pays off very quickly once you see players wearing them in game. So sit back, put on some music, and start working. It's been really fun making these and the paid-off of seeing avatars you've been working on being used by other people is a great feeling.  Post by: Pedro @05predoPedro Solans was an intern and now junior animator working at Polygonal Mind's in-house team. Daniel @toxsamDaniel García (aka Toxsam) is the founder and creative director at Polygonal Mind.
First of all, what's a LOD? LOD (Level Of Detail) is a method of game optimization that decreases the complexity of a 3d mesh (or lately even shader, textures, etc.) as it gets further away from the player, and it's usually used in conjunction with other optimization techniques like culling. The most common execution of this method consists of utilizing a secondary mesh, which replaces the original with a lower resolution one at a certain distance to avoid having too much unnecessary detail. The initial mesh can be generated automatically, but you will have to fix stuff manually!  Using MayaLT to create automatic LODs Maya has a built-in tool that lets you create automatic LODs based on either camera distance or % of the total poly count. You can access it in Edit > Hierarchy > LOD (Level of Detail) > Generate LOD Meshes. Click the box right next to this last button to get access to the options instead of the defaults.
General Workflow 1. First, duplicate the mesh we are going to LOD and hide it. This is the equivalent to duplicating the background layer and working in a regular layer in Photoshop, just to make sure we keep the original material in case something went wrong.  2. Then use the tool to create as many LODs as you need.  3. Extract the meshes from the LOD group by unparenting them to examine and fix any problems you could find, individually.  4. Apply the material of the original mesh to the LODded one, so you can see how close to the original mesh's look it is. 5. After that, follow the troubleshooting steps below to fix the problems you caught. 6. Finally, when you're happy with the result, rename everything to your chosen naming convention and export. Troubleshooting
 
Using LODs in Unity 2019 Unity has a built in LOD system. First, you need to have the correct hierarchy for it to work correctly. Import your mesh and the LODs of that mesh to the scene, create a new empty GameObject, put the original mesh and its LODs inside the empty GameObject. Then select the parent > go to the Inspector Panel > Click on Add Component > search for "LOD Group"   You'll then see 4 slots, for different LODs. You can add and delete as many as you want by right clicking over them and selecting "Insert before" or "Delete", respectively.  You can now assign a mesh you have prepared before to every LOD by clicking on the big square "Add" button by having previously clicked on the desired LOD.  Also, by dragging between the transition of the LODs from left to right, you can set up the separation of the different LODs based off the distance. By dragging the camera icon you can preview the system working as it would happen in real time when the player was getting closer or further from the mesh.  The Conclusion As it happens with any tool, if you just leave the results that got automatically generated the result is going to be a lot worse than if you tweak it a bit to fit your needs (for example, just drag and dropping Smart Materials vs actually understanding material layering and utilizing Smart Materials to accelerate your texturing process in Substance Painter or Quixel). The beauty of this is the combination of the automatic process and the human input, generating a faster mesh than doing it all manually, but getting a better result due to the fixes done by the user. Post by: Alex @VontadehAlejandro Bielsa is a junior 3D artist working at Polygonal Mind's in-house team. |
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