A game-ready asset

Level

Advanced

Time

45 min

Version

Shapeaway 4.0

You need

A finished sculpt

You’ll make

A low-poly OBJ with baked maps and hair cards

Files

A finished, painted sculpt on detail meshes

1. Make sure each object that needs fine detail has a detail mesh and is painted. Projected photo colour counts as paint.
2. Select an object and choose Bake maps in its Detail section. Pick a map size: 2048 for props, 4096 for hero characters.
3. Choose a folder. You get name_low.obj and .mtl, a normal map, a colour map and a displacement map.
4. Repeat for each object you want as a separate mesh in the engine (the body, armour, a weapon).
5. For hair, export hair cards: two-sided strips with a strand texture with transparency.
6. In Blender, Unity, Unreal or Godot: import the OBJ, then plug the colour map into base colour and the normal map into normal. Use displacement only where the engine supports it.

Note

The low-poly mesh is an even triangle mesh; there’s no automatic quad retopology. Most engines are happy with it. For animation that needs edge loops, retopologise in a dedicated tool.