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Text prompt to in-game 3D asset in 5 minutes

Atlas takes a text prompt and delivers a moderated, performance-optimized 3D asset ready to drop into your game engine in 5–10 minutes.

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Five nodes, five to ten minutes

01

Write your prompt

Describe the asset in plain language — “rusted iron lamppost, Victorian style” or “low-poly desert palm”.

02

Moderation & prompt engineering

An LLM screens the prompt and expands it into an optimized 3D generation prompt: centered framing, neutral lighting, clean silhouette, no background clutter.

03A generated sci-fi blaster concept render, the isolated 2D output before mesh conversion

Concept & isolation

A high-detail 2K concept render is generated, then its background is stripped so no stray artifacts bleed into the mesh.

04The blaster reconstructed as a high-poly 3D mesh, shown shaded and as a wireframe

3D reconstruction

The concept becomes a full 3D mesh, with UV coordinates unwrapped and PBR texture maps generated automatically.

05The same blaster mesh decimated to a game-ready poly count, shaded and wireframe views

Mesh optimization

The raw mesh is retopologized and decimated to a real-time polycount. You set the budget — mobile, console, or PC — Atlas hits it.

Where the time goes

Stage
Manual
Atlas
Modeling
1–3 days
60 seconds
UV + textures
4–8 hours
90 seconds
Engine optimization
2–4 hours
30 seconds
Total time to in-game
2–5 days
5–10 minutes

Common questions

What 3D format does Atlas output?
Export GLB. Drag straight into Unity, UE5, Godot, or a WebGL scene. Materials and basic colliders included.
Are these assets production-final?
Atlas is built for prototyping speed, art-direction iteration, and player-driven content where “good enough fast” beats “perfect slow”.
Can I control the art style?
Yes, three ways — style keywords in the prompt (“stylized hand-painted”, “photorealistic sci-fi”, “retro PSX low-poly”, “dark fantasy”), a system prompt on the LLM node that holds one house style across every asset you generate, or a different engine on the reconstruction node depending on whether you want stylized or hard-surface detail.
What performance budget can I target?
Mobile (~5k tris, 1K textures), console (~20k tris, 2K textures), or PC (~50k tris, 2K textures). Atlas optimizes mesh and textures to hit whichever budget you set.
How does the 5-minute number break down?
Generation runs in ~60 seconds, moderation + optimization add 2–3 minutes, and engine-ready export is instant.
Can players generate assets at runtime?
Yes — Atlas exposes the pipeline via API. Parallel uses it to let players generate assets at runtime, with moderation and style-matching automatic.

Related workflows

Generate 3D game assets with AI →The AI 3D asset pipeline for game production →AI for game art: test 10 art directions in one day →

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Free to start. No credit card. GLB export from minute one.

Try it on Atlas