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Unity

Automated Unity prefab optimizer

In this blog post we'll showcase how to automate LOD creation for Unity prefabs. This allows us to optimize our game with (almost) the click of a button.

Maya

Getting started with quad reduction in Maya

In this blog we will look at how to use the quad reducer in Maya for character optimization. We'll look at both how to use it from the user interface but also from scripting.

Unity

Rendering vegetation imposters

In this blog post we will look at two shading tricks that will increase visual quality of vegetation impostors; fading of orthogonal planes and noising of normals.

Unreal Engine

Aggregate StaticMeshActors in Unreal Engine using the Simplygon Subsystem and Python

In this blog we will have a first look at the new Simplygon Subsystem import and export API for Unreal Engine and how to use it using Python. We will use it to aggregate and remove internal geometry of a collection of Static Mesh Actors.

Unity

Custom texture casting in Unity

In this post we will look at how to cast textures for custom shaders in Unity using compute casters. This is very useful if you have non-standard shaders that use custom texture channels.

Unreal Engine

What's new in Simplygon 10.4

We are proud to present our next major release. Simplygon 10.4 comes with improvements to the quad reducer, small parts remover and tessellated attributes. It also adds support for Unreal Engine 5.5, Maya 2025 and Blender 4.2.