October 25, 2016

Introducing Simplygon Connect - Free for All Developers, Ships with UE4 Installer

By Martin Ekdal Simplygon

Simplygon is the gold standard for automated 3D Optimization. All devices have variant graphic performance and all 3D Data is different. With Simplygon you can adapt your 3D assets to run smooth on any platform. Simplygon can be used either as a desktop application or a fully automated pipeline.

Our best-in-class software is now 100% free (no royalties) for all developers

We know your time is valuable, which is why we created Simplygon in the first place: To give you access to powerful automated 3D optimization. The Simplygon team has been working hard to find solutions to support the ongoing revolution in mixed reality.

We’re excited to bring you Simplygon Connect, a free version of our product including our APIs and all integrations. We want to enable you to create the highest 3D experiences possible, for any platform, without limitations. With Simplygon Connect, anyone can bring their creations to life. 

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Simplygon is the gold standard for automated 3D Optimization. All devices have variant graphic performance and all 3D Data is different. With Simplygon you can adapt your 3D assets to run smooth on any platform. Simplygon can be used either as a desktop application or a fully automated pipeline. 

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The technology and workflow from Simplygon empowers producers, artists, developers, and 3D specialists to work together to create the highest-quality 3D experiences possible, for any platform, without manual drudgery or costly code. With automated 3D optimization, the Simplygon product helps digital content creators accelerate processing time to save important resources.

Simplygon is applicable to any medium where 3D art assets are created or utilized, both in gaming and enterprise. In gaming, automating parts of the 3D asset pipeline can free up 25-100+ person months of work.  With automatic interactive visualization, Simplygon enables manufacturers to visualize their products in VR at full scale. Our automatic process ingests CAD data and brings it into real-time VR. By continuing to streamline 3D optimization, we are helping production teams build better mixed reality experiences.

Technical Details

Skeletal mesh LOD: Automatically generate LOD chains for your characters or other skeletal meshes. 

Static mesh LOD: Create perfect LODs for your static meshes with minimal manual labor. 

Actor merging: Use high resolution meshes when kit bashing and have Simplygon generate a cheap representation mesh. This takes away the need to create specific assets for background geometry and allows you to use dense meshes when building mobile games. 

HLOD proxies: Simplygon hooks into the HLOD system and generates cheap representation meshes for your clusters. This not only reduces the draw calls but also drastically cuts down on the amount of polygons in the clusters. 

Level stream LOD: Generate a high quality proxy for a whole level, allowing you to create large worlds while far away geometry is significantly reduced in both draw calls and poly count. 

Intended Platform: Desktop