Tools – Ariel Tal

Memory Debugging

Unity3D Tool – Memory Usage – Extended 3rd party plugin to have sorting.

Mesh decimation wrapper

Created one click wrapper for artists to create lower poly assets for low-end devices using DotPeek and reverse engineering some compiled code and private functions. A reduction of 10-30% based on the complexity of assets. Additional visual noise was accepted based on expected screen size and minimum distance to the camera. Foreground asset is the low poly reduction.

UV Preview Tool Extensions

Extended an open source UV preview tool to provide UV grid, texture and provide multi-selection to allow visualization of multiple meshes using an atlas.

VFX Play/Stop controls

Extended internal prefab editor extension to provide particle Play and Stop controls for artists. This allows artists to play/stop all particle systems in the loaded scene even if they are not children.

Image exporting tools

Photoshop Tool – TGA Exporter will flatten and export a PSD to a specific folder with one click.

Photoshop Tool – Per Channel Packing Tool will export R G B photoshop folders into corresponding channels in a TGA.

Vertex Paint Tool

Custom Exporter

Maya exporter that embeds metadata into the generated FBX. This allows the production team to track back changes to the DCC file, whom made it and when it was created.

Toolset increasing artists workflow and optimization of assets. Centralized distribution of tools allowing artists to always have the latest updates for XSI.

Soundworks Collection

Media streaming application for Roku devices. App will load an XLS server file and update the UI with the new videos available. Programmed with BrightScript.

Media streaming application for Roku devices. Programmed with BrightScript.

AssetTracker

Asset Tracking database (Demo’d at GDC 07′) to support the production team allowing them to view and track the relative status of all assets in the production pipeline.

Tape Tracker

Tape tracking app for post houses.