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The latest 3D Assets coverage curated for game developers.

KASALv2: Fully Automatic 3D Rotational Symmetry Classification and Axis Localization

arXiv cs.GR details KASALv2, a fully automatic way to classify 3D rotational symmetry and localize symmetry axes without manual labels. For pose-estimation pipelines, that means cleaner symmetry priors and less …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 3 days, 4 hours ago
Texture Space Material Diffusion

arXiv cs.GR details a texture-space diffusion pipeline for generating and reconstructing 3D materials with fewer view-consistency headaches. The method fine-tunes a video diffusion transformer for text, image, and multi-view material …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 1 week, 4 days ago
City Kit (Industrial)

Kenney.nl has released City Kit (Industrial), a free CC0 3D asset pack aimed at city builders, factory scenes, and warehouse areas. The bundle ships with 40 files and a 2025 …

Official Kenney.nl · 1 month, 1 week ago
The Teapot Test, Reimagined: From Showing to Making With Tripo AI

Tripo AI is pushing beyond demo-ready 3D generation with production-ready meshes, animation, open-source tooling, and interactive worlds. The SIGGRAPH 2026 showcase frames AI asset creation as a pipeline tool, not …

Blog SIGGRAPH · 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Mini Forest

Kenney has added Mini Forest, a 3D asset pack in its Mini series, giving developers a compact set of forest-themed props to drop into prototypes or stylized scenes. The pack …

Official Kenney.nl · 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Appearance-Preserving Refinement of Generated 3D Assets for Monochromatic Fabrication

For teams shipping 3D assets that will be printed or otherwise made from a single material, this paper tackles a real problem: texture-heavy models lose a lot of their visual …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 3 months, 2 weeks ago
SkelMo: Universal Skeletal Motion Generation for 3D Rigged Shapes

SkelMo tackles a real bottleneck for 4D asset production: generating skeletal motion for rigged 3D shapes without relying on a fixed topology. The paper claims a diffusion model that can …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 months, 1 week ago
Unity AI Open Beta: Create props with the 3D Object Generator

Unity’s AI open beta now includes a 3D Object Generator that turns text prompts or reference images into static mesh prefabs inside the Editor. It’s aimed at fast prototyping of …

Official Unity · 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Functionalization via Structure Completion and Motion Rectification

arXiv cs.GR details a method for turning visually plausible but non-functional 3D assets into usable objects by completing missing structure and fixing motion. The approach targets furniture, where joints, supports, …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Articraft: An Agentic System for Scalable Articulated 3D Asset Generation

Articraft introduces a groundbreaking system for generating articulated 3D assets at scale, addressing a major bottleneck in 3D object understanding. By leveraging large language models, it automates the creation of …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 months, 3 weeks ago
From Visual Synthesis to Interactive Worlds: Toward Production-Ready 3D Asset Generation

The latest research highlights a significant leap in 3D asset generation, addressing the gap between generative modeling and production-ready standards. This is crucial for graphics programmers and artists, as it …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 5 months, 1 week ago
New 3D Asset Bundles for Unreal, Unity and Godot

Three new asset bundles for Unreal, Unity, and Godot are now available, offering developers a significant discount. With the promo code SP60, the price drops to $39, making high-quality assets …

Blog Gamefromscratch · 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Asset Harvester: Extracting 3D Assets from Autonomous Driving Logs for Simulation

Developers can now leverage Asset Harvester, a new pipeline that transforms sparse 3D data from autonomous driving logs into complete, simulation-ready assets. This innovation addresses a critical gap in AV …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Conveyor Kit

The Conveyor Kit from Kenney.nl offers a robust collection of 90 3D assets tailored for industrial environments. This pack is particularly beneficial for artists and designers looking to enhance factory …

Official Kenney.nl · 5 months, 3 weeks ago
AniGen: Unified $S^3$ Fields for Animatable 3D Asset Generation

AniGen introduces a groundbreaking framework for generating animatable 3D assets directly from images, which is a game changer for graphics programmers and artists. By integrating shape, skeleton, and skinning into …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 5 months, 4 weeks ago
MeshTailor: Cutting Seams via Generative Mesh Traversal

For graphics programmers and technical artists, MeshTailor is a mesh-native approach to generating edge-aligned seams on 3D surfaces. It avoids the projection and snapping issues that plague earlier methods by …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 6 months, 1 week ago
SLAT-Phys: Fast Material Property Field Prediction from Structured 3D Latents

SLAT-Phys introduces a groundbreaking method for predicting material properties from a single RGB image, significantly speeding up the process for developers. This innovation allows for accurate material estimation without the …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 6 months, 2 weeks ago
SIMART: Decomposing Monolithic Meshes into Sim-ready Articulated Assets via MLLM

The introduction of SIMART marks a significant advancement in generating articulated 3D assets for AI and simulations. By utilizing a unified MLLM framework, it reduces token counts by 70%, enhancing …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 6 months, 2 weeks ago
ManiTwin: Scaling Data-Generation-Ready Digital Object Dataset to 100K

ManiTwin introduces a groundbreaking dataset of 100K 3D assets, revolutionizing robotic manipulation research. This automated pipeline transforms images into simulation-ready assets, significantly enhancing data diversity and quality for developers in …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Cube Pets

Kenney.nl has released a significant update to Cube Pets, now featuring a complete remake with new animals and animations. This free asset pack is a boon for artists and designers …

Official Kenney.nl · 6 months, 4 weeks ago
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