forge-pipeline-assets

To load and render .fmesh meshes and .fmat materials in an SDL GPU application, use the forge_pipeline library to initialize resources at runtime and process associated texture metadata sidecars for correct rendering.

.meta.json sidecars resolve textures for correct mipmaps and formats during real-time rendering. They accompany pipeline-processed textures to ensure proper level-of-detail handling in the SDL GPU application.

Yes, the SDL GPU asset pipeline supports dual vertex formats. It handles both 48-byte vertex formats with tangents and 32-byte formats without tangents, applying corresponding LOD handling for each.

To apply PBR parameters to models, load the .fmat material sidecars alongside .fmesh binaries. The forge_pipeline library reads these .fmat files to extract texture paths and PBR parameters for the rendering pipeline.

The best way to replace manual asset loading is using the forge_pipeline library to load binary .fmesh and .fmat assets directly. This streamlines the pipeline by bypassing slow parsing and initializing resources at runtime.