Progressive Meshes and automatic LOD generation

This repository contains examples for progressive mesh loading and automatic LOD generation - a new feature in Needle Engine >= 3.36

Key features:

• Reduced download size for faster loading of your website.
• Improved performance for rendering, physics and raycasting.
• Load highpoly meshes and we make it run smoothly!

The repository contains two example setups. One uses Unity and the other one just uses vite and doesn't require any editor.

1) Vite

The vite project is setup to run locally or build and deploy to glitch using node.

1. Go to ./Progressive Meshes Vite Sample
2. Run npm i && npm start
3. See README for more details

2) Unity

The project uses Unity 2021.3 and Needle Engine 3.36 Beta.

• Live Version / Alternative Version with Postprocessing
• Code

How to use

1. Open the Unity project and the "Scene"
2. Click Play
3. After export and compression the local server opens in the browser

Learn More

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Videos

LODs.preview.mp4

GroundProjection.DOF-1280p.mp4

AR.LOD-yuv420p.mp4