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Asset pipelines

From development to production, assets have to be converted from a universally readable format to a compressed binary format (for performance & copyright protection).
Plethora of options:

from compiled programs to scripts in 3D modellers
open source and proprietery solutions.

Most of them require manual operations on software installed on a single local machine...

The web can help

With applications becoming increasingly reliant on networks, asset pipelines can gain some characteristics of a cloud service.
Desired features:

Automated
Simple API
Content agnostic
Modular


Here comes Grunt.js

Grunt.js is the most popular Node-based solution for automating tasks...

Runs (virtually) everywhere Node.js is available
Can operate as a remote service


Match made in heaven

Grunt.js already minifies text, images... why not 3D?
Grunt.js + 3D converters = Grunt 3D


Automated

Compression is not the responsibility of the artist

That is the case for all other media (images, audio, video ...)
Compression is not the responsibility of the web developer

Asking a 3d artist to export in a web ready format is as awkward as asking a web developer to use 3d software...
Compression is the responsibility of a Grunt task...


Simple API

Set and forget configuration that looks up in dirs and outputs the converted files.
grunt.initConfig({
	three_obj: {
		options: {},
		 dist: {
			 src: ['./media/*.obj'],
		 }
	}
});

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-3d');

grunt.registerTask('default', ['three_obj']);

When new models arrive, just execute:
grunt


Content agnostic


OBJ -> Three JSON / Binary working now.
Add your own formats!

Modular

Because hey, it's Node :)

Grunt 3D can be used in any application pipeline.
Local dependencies only include Node.js
Can be setup as a remote service.

Stay in your confort zone

Web developers use their existing web tools
3D Modelers use their existing 3D software
Everyone's happy!!!


Credits

Grunt 3D is open source software, you are free to contribute:
http://github.com/makesites/grunt-3d

Created by Makis Tracend ( @tracend )
Distributed through Makesites.org
Released under the MIT license
All content in this presentation released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License