glTFast enables loading glTF™ (GL Transmission Format) asset files in Unity.
It focuses on speed, memory efficiency and a small build footprint.
Two workflows are supported
- Load glTF assets at runtime
- Import glTF assets as prefabs into the asset database at design-time in the Unity Editor
Try the WebGL Demo and check out the demo project.
glTFast supports the full glTF 2.0 specification and many extensions. It works with Universal, High Definition and the Built-In Render Pipelines on all platforms.
See all details at the list of features/extensions.
The easiest way to install is to download and open the Installer Package
It runs a script that installs glTFast via a scoped registry.
Afterwards glTFast and further, optional packages are listed in the Package Manager (under My Registries) and can be installed and updated from there.
- Draco 3D Data Compression Unity Package (provides support for KHR_draco_mesh_compression)
- KTX/Basis Texture Unity Package (in Beta; provides support for KHR_texture_basisu)
Alternative: Install via GIT URL
Add glTFast via Unity's Package Manager ( Window -> Package Manager ). Click the ➕ on the top left and choose Add package from GIT URL.
Enter the following URL:
https://github.com/atteneder/glTFast.git
To add support for Draco mesh compression, repeat the last step and also add the DracoUnity packages using this URL:
https://gitlab.com/atteneder/DracoUnity.git
Note: You have to have a GIT LFS client (large file support) installed on your system. Otherwise you will get an error that the native library file (dll on Windows) is corrupt!
glTFast 2.x requires Unity 2019.3 or newer. For older Unity versions see Legacy Installation.
You can load a glTF asset from an URL or a file path.
Add a GltfAsset component to a GameObject.
var gltf = gameObject.AddComponent<GLTFast.GltfAsset>();
gltf.url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/master/2.0/Duck/glTF/Duck.gltf";See Runtime Loading via Script in the detailed documentation for instructions how to customize the loading behaviour via script.
The loading behavior can be highly customized:
- Customize instantiation
- Load glTF once and instantiate it many times (see example)
- Access data of glTF scene (for example get material; see example)
- Load reports allow reacting and communicating incidents during loading and instantiation
- Tweak and optimize loading performance
See the Documentation for details.
To convert your glTF asset into a native Unity prefab, just move/copy it and all its companioning buffer and texture files into the Assets folder of your Unity project. It'll get imported into the Asset Database automatically. Select it in the Project view to see detailed settings and import reports in the Inspector. Expand it in the Project View to see the components (Scenes, Meshes, Materials, AnimationClips and Textures) that were imported.
❗ IMPORTANT ❗
glTFast uses custom shaders that you have to include in builds in order to make materials work. If materials are fine in the Unity Editor but not in builds, chances are some shaders (or variants) are missing.
Read the section Materials and Shader Variants in the Documentation for details.
Find plans for upcoming changes at the milestones.
- Stay fast, memory efficient and small
- Feature completeness
- Support 100% of the glTF 2.0 specification
- Support all official Khronos extensions
- Support selected vendor extension
- Universally usable…
- …across all popular Unity versions
- …across all platforms and devices
- …across different project setups (all important render pipelines, GameObject or entity component system based, DOTS, Tiny, etc.)
- Allow customization
- glTF Authoring (create optimized glTFs from prefabs)
- glTF Runtime Export
Contributions like ideas, comments, critique, bug reports, pull requests are highly appreciated. Feel free to get in contact if you consider using or improving glTFast.
Thanks to Embibe for sponsoring the development of skin support! ❤️
Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Andreas Atteneder, All Rights Reserved.
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