Goal: ship game-ready assets fast without losing creative control.

At a Glance

• Flexible pipeline: tweak prompts and styles at each stage
• Modular generation: create separate parts and assemble in Unity, Blender, or other DCCs
• In-engine iteration: free Unity plugin for generating & editing models inside the Editor
• Animation-ready: export FBX → Mixamo for humanoids; use auto-rig + Blender for complex rigs
• Texture handoff: quickly reapply original textures in Unity/Blender if a rigging tool ignores them
• Performance-aware: pick polycounts that match your platform and asset role

Step-by-Step: AI 3D Workflow

1. Outline style and usage

Decide on style (realistic, stylized, low poly, etc).

Having concept art or reference images help with defining a consistent style across all assets to have a cohesive game world. With Donatell.io, you can upload an image that best defines your game’s style.How will the asset be used? Is it a hero asset, foreground asset, or background asset?
Does this asset need to be animated? Is it a humanoid, animal, or object?

3. Upload/Generate Image

Once you have the rough outline of how each asset should look and be broken down into components, you can generate the whole asset, make edits until it looks right, and then break it down into components if needed. You can experiment with different styles and different prompts until you have the images you want to generate. By clicking the images and pressing 'Continue', you will generate that mesh.

4. Generate Mesh

Now, generate the meshes by setting the mesh quality & number of initial meshes to generate. It is often better to generate 2-4 meshes as our 3D diffusion model may interpret a 2D image in multiple 3D interpretations, but you can always go back to this step to generate more meshes. If you only input the front face of an asset, the back and side profiles will need to be generated, leading to multiple possibilities.

Notes:

• For mobile, go towards the lower end of the ranges.
• For high-end PC/console, you can spend more on heroes, but be sure to profile and use LODs.
• Always validate with on-device performance (frame time, memory).

6. Generate Texture

For the majority of cases, picking the default Normal settings and no additional prompt will work fine. If the texture is very complex, set quality to 'Precise'. You can use the additional prompt to specify materials or other additional info you believe is needed to generate an accurate texture. You can always regenerate the texture until you are satisfied with the results.
Remember, you can always go back to generating/editing meshes if the textured meshes do not turn out well.

7. Export

If you wish to use Mixamo or some other rigging software (i.e., ActorCore AutoRig), .fbx files are the most widely supported. For easy imports in Unity, Unreal, and Godot, .glb files work very well. If you wish to make manual edits to the mesh with Blender, you can export it as a .blend file.You can download as many formats as you want, there is no limit/credit usage in downloading your creation.