Day 14 — Trees, Rocks & Asset Automation

Context

Today focused on expanding world variety and building tooling to accelerate asset creation.

Natural Resources

• Added random trees and rocks during initial world generation.

Item Catalog Refactor

• Centralized item definitions to remove scattered Item IDs.

Asset Pipeline

• Set up Python automation to:
  • Generate concept images via OpenAI.
  • Send images to Meshy.AI to create meshes.
  • Download FBX files.
  • Compress textures.

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Summary

What I accomplished:

• Added trees and rocks to world generation.
• Refactored item catalog.
• Built an automated asset generation pipeline.

What I learned:

• AI pipelines are powerful but inconsistent for stylized assets.
• Automated tooling pays off even if early outputs aren’t perfect.