GDN: Gamebryo LightSpeed and Simplygon Integrate

Donya Labs, creators of world-leading 3D-optimization solutions for the games and serious games industry, today announced the availability of a product integration between Emergent Game Technologies’ cutting-edge game development engine Gamebryo LightSpeed and Donya’s state-of-the-art 3D optimization/reduction solution Simplygon.

Developers who license both Simplygon and Emergent’s LightSpeed will be able to speed up production by automating the creation and setup of all Level of Detail (LOD) objects in a game, and also achieve more visually optimal LODs for both static and dynamic objects. Select features in Simplygon include polygon-mesh reduction to specified pixel resolution or absolute distances; preservation of all critical features of the original 3D data for both static and animated objects; generation of decimation history for runtime purposes such as geomorphing; and unique remeshing and repair functions including generation of 2-manifold meshes, topology reduction, and removal of interior objects.

This new integration with LightSpeed allows automatic simplification of meshes for the creation of LODs and the addition of scenegraph nodes for switching between them; the batch optimization of 3D assets; optional settings for control of reduction quality and AutoLOD™ methods.

“Developers now have access to a seamless integration between Simplygon and LightSpeed. This makes it very easy for artists to automatically create and manage Level of Detail directly in their scenes and to rapidly see the results in the editor, while simultaneously giving games built on LightSpeed higher-quality LODs,” said Katie Morgan, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Emergent Game Technologies.

“LightSpeed provides game developers with a solution that saves a lot of time and money, keeping them from reinventing the wheel for every game. We have the same philosophy at Donya; that game developers should focus on creating good games and license in the available tools and middleware that makes sense for them. I believe a lot of developers who use LightSpeed will find Simplygon very useful as well,” said Martin Ekdal, Vice President of Business Development at Donya Labs.

To read more about the integration of Simplygon in Gamebryo LightSpeed, please visit www.emergent.net/partners.